Atlantic Monthly Press, February 1988. Hardcover. In a compelling account that tracks the behind-the-scenes dealings of this wide-ranging cast of characters, Cockburn details how mercenaries were recruited and trained by the CIA; how money was obtained; and weapons were procured and sent to the contras. More
Atlantic Monthly Pr, January 1986. Hardcover. Some shelf wear to the jacket. More
Pantheon Books, January 2003. Hardcover. Britain's pursuit of empire seems an inexorable march across continents toward its ultimate--if temporary---global hegemony. But, as Linda Colley shows in this masterfully written book, Britain's overseas enterprises were always constrained by its own limitations in size, population, and armed forces, and by divisions among..... More
University of New Mexico Press, May 1970. Trade Paperback. A Hopi Indian will tell you that a kachina is a supernatural being who is impersonated by a man wearing a mask. Small wooden dolls carved in the likenesses of the various kachinas are used to help teach Hopi children the..... More
North Point Pr, September 1984. Hardcover. More
Little Brown & Company, October 1980. Hardcover. More
Avon Books, June 1982. Paper Back. Creasing and fading to the cover. More
Harvard Univ Press, October 1983. First Edition. Cloth. Some small closed tears, chipping and rubbed corners on the jacket. Two bumped corners on the boards. More
Taylor Trade Publishing, January 1955. Hardcover. Vincent Coppola traces today's radical militia movement to its source: virulent right-wing extremism that emerged in the mid-'80s, most dramatically with the murder of talk radio's Alan Berg and a string of other spectacular crimes by neo-Nazis--the story that became Oliver Stone's 'Talk Radio..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 2001. Trade Paperback. Joe DiMaggio was, at every turn, one man we could look at who made us feel good. In the hard-knuckled thirties, he was the immigrant boy who made it big--and spurred the New York Yankees to a new era of dynasty. He was..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, January 1983. Paper Back. The downfall of the Habsburg monarchy was more than just the end of a great and powerful dynasty. It meant the destruction of the old European order and marked a turning point in world history. Edward Crankshaw's distinguished study offers a compelling..... More
Berkley Books, March 2010. Hardcover. Another fascinating foray into medical history from the author of "The American Plague" In 1918, a world war was raging, and a lethal strain of influenza was circling the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known..... More
Wilderness House Press, June 2012. Paper Back. This modernized straight-forward translation of Sophocles' Ajax highlights the nature of man's potential nobility as he faces outward enemies and inner demons. Fresh insights into current issues of post-traumatic stress syndrome and the maltreatment of enemy bodies on the battlefield are dealt with..... More
Henry Holt & Co (P), July 1988. Paper Back. More
William Morrow & Co, May 1987. Paper Back. Spine is creased. More
Simon & Schuster, November 2003. Hardcover. ""We Are Lincoln Men"" examines the significance of friendship in Abraham Lincoln's life and the role it played in his presidency. Though Lincoln had hundreds of acquaintances and dozens of admirers, he had almost no intimate friends. Behind his mask of affability and endless..... More
Pantheon, April 1987. Paper Back. This book draws on American, English and Japanese songs, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports and official documents to show exactly what role racism played in the war. 20 pages of illustrations. Light shelf wear to cover and spine is sun-faded. More
Bedford/St. Martin's, December 2007. Trade Paperback. Much has changed since the first edition of Lisa Ede's "Work in Progress"; students need more rigorous help working with sources, creating effective arguments, and addressing the greater demands of academic writing in a digital age. Refocused on the kinds of academic writing students..... More
Metropolitan Books, October 2009. Hardcover. A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism Americans are a "positive" people--cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), June 1995. Trade Paperback. "Before electricity carved its blue path toward me, before the negative charge shot down from cloud to ground...before air expanded and contracted producing loud pressure pulses I could not hear because I was already dead, I had been walking." So opens Gretel Ehrlich's absorbing..... More
Penguin Classics, July 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich..... More
Vintage, March 1998. Trade Paperback. Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the slaveholding libertarian who was capable of decrying mescegenation while maintaing an intimate relationship with his..... More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1978. Trade Paperback. More
