Atlantic Monthly Press, April 1990. Hardcover. Charles Glass resigned his position as Chief Middle East Correspondent of ABC News in February of 1987 to begin work on a book chronicling the land, people, and culture of the Levant. On June 18, 1987, he was kidnapped by pro-Iranian terrorists in a...... More
Henry Holt & Company, April 1999. Hardcover. Since the Turks first shattered the glory of the French crusaders in 1396, the Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds. For six hundred years, the Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, in three centuries it..... More
Olympic Marketing Corp, September 1985. Hardcover. Shelf wear to jacket. More
Pomegranate Communications Inc, January 1998. Postcards. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 1988. Hardcover. Light yellowing and shelf wear on the jacket. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), September 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Houghton Mifflin, February 1991. Hardcover. From the author of the acclaimed travel adventure Stranger in the Forest an exotic ten-year journey through the remote country of Yemen. A rich tape stry of ancient customs, contemporary politics, and dazzling landscapes is described in this compelling search for buried meaning in distant..... More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, February 1988. Hardcover. Shelf wear and some fading to the jacket. More
Anchor Books, October 2004. Paper Back. The effects of war refuse to remain local: they persist through the centuries, sometimes in unlikely ways far removed from the military arena. In Ripples of Battle, the acclaimed historian Victor Davis Hanson weaves wide-ranging military and cultural history with his unparalleled gift for..... More
Henry Holt & Co, February 1987. Hardcover. Fading to dust jacket. More
Oxford University Press, March 1985. Paper Back. Spine of cover is slightly shelf worn. More
Penguin Books, September 1982. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Books, May 2003. Paper Back. In 1824, two years into a whaling expedition out of Nantucket, Samuel Comstock--think Captain Ahab meets Hannibal Lecter (Time)--organized a vicious mutiny, butchering the officers of the Globe in cold blood. With horrors and heroes, murder and mayhem, Mutiny on the Globe brings to..... More
Grand Central Publishing, November 1989. Paper Back. More
Knopf, September 1996. Hardcover. 4 cassettes / 4 hours Read by the author, Paul Hendrickson A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism "Meticulous in detail, epic in scope, psychologically sophisticated and spiritually rich, it ranks with The Best..... More
New Millennium (GB), February 2004. Hardcover. More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2009. Hardcover. Celebrated, controversial, condemned, Galileo Galilei is a seminal figure in the history of science. Both Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein credit him as the first modern scientist. His 1633 trial before the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the prime drama in..... More
Grand Central Publishing, December 1994. Paper Back. The best-selling author of The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore, and Barcelona here delivers a withering polemic aimed at the heart of recent American politics and culture. Culture of Complaint is a call for the reknitting of a fragmented and over-tribalized..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2012. Trade Paperback. After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their overworked mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence. Nearby, his father, an eminent author, taught on a...... More
Puffin, July 1986. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Classics, October 1963. Mass Market PaperBack. Two famous, firsthand accounts of the holy war in the Middle Ages translated by Margaret R. B. Shaw Originally composed in Old French, the two chronicles brought together here offer some of the most vivid and reliable accounts of the Crusades from a...... More
Knopf Publishing Group, April 2008. Hardcover. Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. Nation-states remain as strong as ever, as do the old, explosive forces of ambitious..... More
Xs Books, December 1987. Paper Back. Shelf wear to cover and spine is sun-faded. More
Viking Books, November 1999. Hardcover. From Thucydides' classic account of ancient Greek phalanx warfare to a blow-by-blow description of ground-fighting against the Iraqi forces during the Gulf War, The Book of War presents the face of battle over the course of more than 2,000 years. Acclaimed historian John Keegan brings..... More
Viking Adult, November 1987. First American. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Top edge of the boards lightly sunned. More
