Life in a Medieval Village
HarperCollins Publishers, December 1990. Hardcover. More
HarperCollins Publishers, December 1990. Hardcover. More
Harper Perennial, September 1981. Trade Paperback. For students, researchers, and history lovers, a look at day-to-day life in a rarely explored era. "About life and death, midwives and funerals, business, books and authors, and town government."-- "Choice" "An excellently written account of what is known of the life of medieval..... More
Touchstone Books, April 1988. Trade Paperback. The reminiscences of Miep Gies, the woman who hid the Frank family in Amsterdam during the Second World War, presents a vivid story of life under Nazi occupation. The true story behind Anne Frank's days in hiding from the Nazis during World War II..... More
Quadrangle Books, January 1972. Cloth. Octavo. In heavily foxing/marginally darkened dustjacket with edgewear and small tears. Front flap is not clipped. Navy blue cloth. Tanned end pages. Previous owner's name inked FFEP. Darkened/dust stained textblock edges. [336 pp.]. More
Thomas Dunne Books, June 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. "New York Times" bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen conclude their inventive trilogy with this remarkable answer to the great "what if" of the American Civil War: Could the South have indeed won? After his great victories at Gettysburg and..... More
Simon & Schuster, August 2018. Trade Paperback. The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg--"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voic. More
Echo Point Books & Media, February 2014. Oversize Softcover. Once upon a time, there was a guy named Max Balchowsky who decided he wanted to beat Ferrari and Jaguar at their own game-road racing. The trouble was, he didn't have the cash for a factory racer. So he built his..... More
Pluto Press (UK), April 2020. Trade Paperback. "Looks back at the history of Posadism to explore why this largely discredited movement has elicited so much recent interest."--Art in America Advocating nuclear war, attempting communication with dolphins, and taking an interest in the paranormal and UFOs, there is perhaps no greater..... More
Little, Brown and Company, April 2021. Hardcover. Dive into this "truly compelling" (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war--from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the..... More
Back Bay Books, June 2022. Trade Paperback. Dive into this "truly compelling" (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war--from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the..... More
Warner Books (NY), September 1999. Hardcover. Even at the dawn of the Age of Reason, humankind sought to discover the arcanum, the secret formula that could transform base metals into gold. But by the early 18th century, porcelain, the precious ceramic made in China for almost 1,000 years, had become..... More
Basic Books, September 2023. Hardcover. The epic rivalry between the ancient world's two great superpowers The Roman empire was like no other. Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and from the Atlantic coast to the Euphrates, it imposed peace and prosperity on an unprecedented scale. Its only..... More
St. Martin's Press, February 2024. Hardcover. A hugely entertaining celebration of one of America's greatest politicians--a source of inspiration for our equally challenging times... Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the twentieth century's most colorful politicians--on the New York and national stage. He was also quintessentially American: the son of Italian..... More
Liveright, September 2015. Paper Back. Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the "the cheapest time-travel machine you'll find" (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an historian who believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2018. Hardcover. From Pulitzer Prize-winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an invaluable guide to the development and exercise of leadership from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The inspiration for the multipart HISTORY Channel series Abraham Lincoln and..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 1995. Reprint. Hardcover. "No Ordinary Time" is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines--..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 1995. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling author of "The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys" and "Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream" comes a compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. Presenting an aspect of American history that has..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2006. Trade Paperback. One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize-winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political..... More
Oxford University Press, October 1978. Trade Paperback. This condensed version of Lawrence Goodwyn's Democratic Promise, the highly-acclaimed study on American Populism which the Civil Liberties Review called "a brilliant, comprehensive study," offers new political language designed to provide a fresh means of assessing both democracy and authoritarianism today. More
Oxford University Press, October 1978. Trade Paperback. This condensed version of Lawrence Goodwyn's Democratic Promise, the highly-acclaimed study on American Populism which the Civil Liberties Review called "a brilliant, comprehensive study," offers new political language designed to provide a fresh means of assessing both democracy and authoritarianism today. Trade paperback..... More
Vintage, February 2010. Trade Paperback. In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of..... More
W.W. Norton, January 1965. Reprint. Paper Back. {5' x 7 & 1/2'} Third Revised Edition. Clean & sound. [312 pages]. More
Liveright, May 2021. Hardcover. Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from..... More
Liveright, May 2021. Reprint. Hardcover. Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since..... More
University of Virginia Press, March 1998. Trade Paperback. When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of Jefferson's renowned life, it was perhaps the most hotly contested topic. The publication of..... More
Dalton Watson Fine Books, January 1994. Oversized Hardcover. Jacket has shelf wear and a one inch closed tear. Mylar wrapped. Orange cloth bound book has some minor edge rubbing. More
Fsg Adult, February 2015. Trade Paperback. In 1962, James Meredith became a civil rights hero when he enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Four years later, he would make the news again when he reentered Mississippi, on foot. His plan was to walk from..... More
Picador USA, April 2023. Paper Back. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our..... More
University of Chicago Press, August 2015. Trade Paperback. It was a story so bizarre it defied belief: in April 1974, twenty-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst robbed a San Francisco bank in the company of members of the Symbionese Liberation Army--who had kidnapped her a mere nine weeks earlier. But the..... More
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, November 2023. Hardcover. "One of the rare books on the topic that manages to be both entertaining and factually grounded." --Wall Street Journal From Garrett M. Graff, New York Times bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Pulitzer..... More
Yale University Press, February 1993. First Edition. Cloth. The Vatican Library contains the richest collection of western manuscripts and early printed books in the world, and its holdings have both reflected and helped to shape the intellectual development of Europe. One of the central institutions of Italian Renaissance culture, it..... More
Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover. Rear free endpaper stuck to rear pastedown. More
Vintage, October 2023. Paper Back. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE - A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z "A shocking whodunit...What more could..... More
Vintage, January 2010. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction "with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller"(The New York Times) that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the..... More
Doubleday, April 2023. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager..... More
Scribner, September 1989. First American. Hardcover. Light shelf wear and edge wear on the jacket. Mylar wrapped. More
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. Trade Paperback. More
M Evans & Co, October 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear and one lightly rubbed corner on the jacket. More
M Evans & Co, October 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. First US edition in dustjacket. Black cloth covered spine and black paper covered boards. Complete number line. Slightly leaning spine. Tight binding. Clean interiors. Mild foxing top textblock edge. [175 pp.]. More
Scribner, March 1993. Book Club. Hardcover. Previous owner's name. More
Scribner Book Company, December 1990. Hardcover. More
Penguin USA, September 1990. Hardcover. Twenty years after Appomattox, stricken by cancer and facing financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his Personal Memoirs to secure his family's future. in doing so, the Civil War's greatest general won himself a unique place in American letters. His character, intelligence, sense of purpose..... More
About Comics, August 2018. Trade Paperback. Facsimilie. Acrisp clean copy. More
Twelve Tables Press, January 2009. Trade Paperback. More
Random House, 1970. Paper Back. Octavo [184 pages]. More
Liveright, February 2024. Paper Back. Sarah and Angelina Grimke--the Grimke sisters--are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most influential of the antebellum era, are still read today..... More
HarperOne, February 2024. Hardcover. "Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain's past. Philippa Gregory has produced something rare and wonderful: a genuinely new history of [Britain], with women at its beating heart." --Dan Jones..... More
Little Brown, May 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. {6 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'} In dustjacket with mild edgewear with small tears/chips. Flap not clipped. Blue cloth covered spine with stamped gold lettering. Red paper covered boards. Red end pages. Slightly foxed fore-edge. [498 pp.]. More
Ballantine Books, October 2002. Trade Paperback. In his barracks, Walter Burke is trying to write a letter to the parents of a fallen soldier, an Alabama man who died in a muddy rice paddy. But all he can think of is his childhood friend Lamar, the friend with whom he..... More
Hoover Institution Press, January 1981. Hardcover. More
University of Tennessee Press, April 2005. Oversize Softcover. Winner of the 2006 James Mooney Award Dating from their earliest habitation in North America, people of African descent have used visual and material means to express their ethical values and their beliefs about the intersecting worlds of matter and spirit. In..... More
Vintage / Random House, February 1977. Paper Back. Octavo. Previous owner's name inked first inside page. Heavy darkening of interior margins and gutters. [343 pages plus XVII pagessupplemental material & six page list of Vintage title then available.]. More
Oxford University Press, USA, October 2013. Paper Back. The monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. John Guy presents a compelling and fascinating exploration of the Tudors in the new edition of this Very Short Introduction. Looking at all aspects of..... More
Harper, October 2023. Hardcover. "A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumstance and politics combined to accelerate Anne's triumph and tragedy." --Tina Brown, New York Times Book Review A groundbreaking, freshly-researched examination of one of the most dramatic and consequential marriages in history..... More
Scribner Book Company, October 2020. Paper Back. From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes "a masterwork of history" (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, epic account of the last year of the Civil War.The fourth..... More
Cornell University Press, January 2003. Hardcover. In this fascinating account of the battle tanks that saw combat in the European Theater of World War II, Mary R. Habeck traces the strategies developed between the wars for the use of armored vehicles in battle. Only in Germany and the Soviet Union..... More
Western Reserve Historical Society, January 1979. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling w/ mild foxing present; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Doubleday / Anchor, January 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. Mostly mild wear, marginal darkening to cover. Edges worn. Spine creased, seemingly likewise mild, but is starting to split at hinge pages 126 & 127, though still intact and sound. There is a rubber stamped name & address of previous owner top..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2024. Hardcover. A storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob violence led many to recoil, thinking "That's not us." But..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2024. Hardcover. A storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob violence led many to recoil, thinking "That's not us." But..... More
Grove Press, September 2011. Hardcover. On the evening of September 17, 1992, eight leading members of the Iranian and Kurdish opposition had gathered at a little-known restaurant in Berlin when two darkly-clad men burst through the entrance. Within moments, the roar of a machine gun filled the air. Two rounds..... More
Random House Inc., New York, September 1972. Hardcover. An account of American power and politics in the 1950s and 1960s highlights the political and military figures who shaped domestic and foreign policy and who orchestrated America's involvement in Vietnam. More
Random House, March 1998. Hardcover. The Children is David Halberstam's brilliant and moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people--the Children--who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution. Magisterial in scope, with a strong..... More
Hyperion, September 2007. Hardcover. "In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home." --The New York Times David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his..... More
Knopf, April 1979. Hardcover. significant damage to dust jacket, but it is still intact. More
Vintage Books, January 1994. Trade Paperback. Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence Fishburne Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was..... More
Da Capo Press, May 2016. Trade Paperback. Based off of the bestselling author's family history, this novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the United States where he and his descendants live through major historic events. When Roots was first published forty years ago..... More
Ballantine Books, February 1992. Trade Paperback. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here..... More
Ballantine Books, February 1992. Trade Paperback. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. But while Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her younger sisters chose vastly different lives. Seeking their fortunes in the North, Grace..... More
Liveright, September 2023. Paper Back. There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing "New World" as possible. Though Indigenous..... More
Columbia University Press, January 1974. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. In heavily foxed, discolored with edgewear and chipping. Front flap not clipped. Previous owner's name inked front DJ panel top right corner. Red cloth covered boards with black lettering upon spine. Foxing/dust stains top textblock edge. Some moderate staining to fore-edge. Previous..... More
New American Library. Mass Market PaperBack. Mentor Book edition in fair condition. Covers are lightly creased, with wear on both edges. Spine is creased. A good reading copy. More
Trade Paperback. More
Sourcebooks, March 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Discover the secret method used to build the world... For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting crops, building skyscrapers, developing photographs, or designing the first microchip, all creators follow the same steps to engineer progress. But this..... More
Princeton University Press, April 1990. Paper Back. "Han Minzhu" and her assistant editor, "Hua Sheng, " both writing under pseudonyms to protect their identities, present a rich collection of translations of original writings and speeches from the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement--flyers, "big-character" posters, "small-character" posters, handbills, poems, articles from nonofficial..... More
Grosset's Universal Library / Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Well worn, especially top & bottom of spine. Dust staining. Darkening & dust stains to textblock edges. Interior text not marked. Gutter prior to half title page is split and bound in place only by threads. At top..... More
Random House Inc, September 1995. Hardcover. When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically..... More
Cameron Books, December 1989. First Edition. Cloth. With beautiful laser scanner duotones and 365 previously unpublished photographs, this is a fascinating study of the great quake in San Francisco in 1906--and of the likelihood of a similar quake today. Folio in very good dustjacket. Heavy foxing to verso of DJ..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Small stain on the edge of the print block. More
Vintage, January 2017. Trade Paperback. A true story of murder and conspiracy that points directly to Vladimir Putin, by The Guardian's former Moscow bureau chief. On November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died twenty-two days later. The cause of death? Polonium--a rare..... More
Dey Street Books, September 2023. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * AMAZON'S TOP 20 HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 * B&N BEST OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORY * THE ROOT'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 From acclaimed columnist and political commentator..... More
Back Bay Books, March 2024. Paper Back. Named One of the Year's Best Books by VULTURE - THE NEW REPUBLIC - DAZED - WIRED - BLOOMBERG - ESQUIRE - SALON - THE NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an "extraordinary" story of..... More
Eneas Africanus Press, 1974. Paper Back. Tanned at margins. Inscribed by, illustrator, Nelle Edward Smith. Discolored/tanned edges and rear wrapper. More
Da Capo Press, March 1989. Trade Paperback. T. E. Shaw, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, was one of the most romantic, heroic, and enigmatic figures of his day. The subject of myth and hagiography, he was equally accomplished in several fields -- as archaeologist, diplomat, writer, and soldier --..... More
Plume Books, August 2002. Trade Paperback. For centuries, diamonds have symbolized wealth, prestige and love; however, behind those symbols lies a world of deceit, monopoly and war. Hart follows the diamond trail around the globe, from the basement room where Gabi Tolkowsky, the world's greatest diamond cutter, faced the 599-carat..... More
Pegasus Books, January 2009. Hardcover. On July 1, 1916, the British Army launched the "Big Push" that was supposed to bring an end to the horrific stalemate on the Western Front between British, French and German forces. What resulted was one of the greatest single human catastrophes in twentieth century..... More
Viking, June 2023. Hardcover. New York Times Book Review's "100 Notable Books of 2023" "Absolutely gripping... a perfectly splendid read--I highly, highly recommend it" -- Douglas Preston, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news..... More
Tarcher, December 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Profiles some 200 lesser-known figures from the heyday of the American sideshow, tracing the lives of such individuals as legless acrobat Eli Bowen, four-legged woman Myrtle Corbin, and human torso Prince Randian, in an account of the rise and fall of sideshows and how..... More
Greenhill Books, October 1995. Hardcover. More
Palgrave MacMillan, September 2011. Hardcover. Charles de Gaulle once stated, "France has no friends, only interests," and it was this strength of mind and love of country that took the region from an occupied territory during World War II to a leader in the Allied cause. Convinced that his personal..... More
Harper, October 2022. Hardcover. Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history--the Cuban Missile Crisis--providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct of Russians, Cubans, Americans, and a terrified world that followed each moment as..... More
Knopf, November 2004. Hardcover. "Armageddon" is the epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by Max Hastings-one of Britain's most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as worthy "to stand with that of the best journalists and..... More
Crown, November 2023. Hardcover. The "fascinating" (The New York Times) true story of a filmmaker whose investigation of her film's subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. "A compelling real-life thriller."--The Telegraph (UK) Independent filmmaker Mary..... More
Harvard University Press, March 2015. Hardcover. India celebrates itself as a nation of unity in diversity, but where does that sense of unity come from? One important source is a widely-accepted narrative called the "bhakti movement." Bhakti is the religion of the heart, of song, of common participation, of inner..... More
Burke, January 1929. Hardcover. Very good condition. Protected in mylar. More
University of Chicago Press, 1966. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. 10th printing. Mild user wear. [210 pages]. More
The University of Chicago Press, 1968. Reprint. Cloth. Eleventh Impression married to a dustjacket which says; 9th printing. Octavo. In moderately edgeworn DJ with toning. Marginal darkening and stains.Two and one-half inch tear along front fold. Front flap is not clipped. Previous owner's name inked FFEP. Foxing to verso. Cobalt..... More