Lawrence Hill Books, May 2020. Hardcover. In 1950, before Montgomery, Alabama, knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger, before the city's famous bus boycott, a Negro man named Hilliard Brooks was shot and killed by a white police officer in..... More
Scribner Book Company, February 2000. Hardcover. Published to coincide with The New Yorker's 75th anniversary, this major work of cultural history draws on never-before-seen archives and offers a comprehensive look at this revered magazine's fascinating evolution. 40 cartoons. 40 photos. Published to coincide with 'The New Yorker's' 75th anniversary, this..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, November 1997. First Edition. Cloth. The name Italy evokes history and splendor. Toga-clad Romans, sweeping vistas of vineyards and olive groves, the majesty of a Papal mass, Dante's Comedia, and Leonardo's haunting Mona Lisa. Few nations can boast as rich an artistic and cultural legacy, and..... More
Penguin Press HC, The, November 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography (2015 LONGLIST) -[A] shimmering and rather wonderful biography.---The Guardian (UK) When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was a mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the..... More
Mariner Books, February 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. A great Belgian historian recounts the economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-fifteenth century. Translated by I. E. Clegg. More
Harper Paperbacks, January 2001. Trade Paperback. A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause..... More
Harper, November 2022. Hardcover. New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon..... More
Siland Press, August 2022. Paper Back. According to the mainstream Western narrative, Vladimir Putin is an insatiable, Hitler-like expansionist who invaded Ukraine in an unprovoked land grab. That story is incorrect. In reality, the United States and NATO bear much of the responsibility for the Ukraine crisis. Through a series..... More
Doubleday Books, November 1997. Hardcover. The best kind of knowledge is uncommon knowledge--and here's a fantastically illustrated compendium of the strange, the absurd, the delightful, and the hidden. Did you know that in the original Goldilocks, the bears torture and kill their impolite visitor? And that Pope Leo XIII appeared..... More
Ecco, January 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South--and thus of America--by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration."..... More
Penguin Books, July 1980. Paper Back. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
The Johns Hopkins University Press, March 1994. Hardcover. This authoritative history of Latin literature offers a comprehensive survey of the thousand-year period from the origins of Latin as a written language to the early Middle Ages. At once a reference work, a bibliographic guide, a literary study, and a reader's..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 1999. Book Club. Hardcover. From his illegitimate birth in a small Austrian village to his fiery death in a bunker under the Reich chancellery in Berlin, Adolf Hitler left a murky trail, strewn with contradictory tales and overgrown with self-created myths. One truth prevails..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2003. Hardcover. The Nineteenth Century saw greater changes than any previous era: in the ways nations and societies were organized; in scientific knowledge; in nonreligious intellectual development; and in capital and its consequences. The crucial players in this drama were the British, who invented..... More
Prentice Hall, January 1987. Book Club. Hardcover. Octavo in dustjacket. Dark brown cloth covered spine with gold lettering. Pale yellow paper covered boards. [308 pages]. More
About Comics, August 2018. Reprint. Paper Back. Facsimile edition published by About Comics. Curled cover. Mild soiling. Clean interiors. [84 pages]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2022. Paper Back. On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by..... More
Thames & Hudson, October 2020. Hardcover. Elegant period maps and compelling crime analysis illuminate this disquieting volume, which reexamines the most captivating and intriguing homicides of the nineteenth century. Organized geographically, the elements of each murder--from the prior movements of both killer and victim to the eventual location of the..... More
Basic Books, October 2022. Hardcover. A sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world When people think of Irish emigration, they often think of the Great Famine of the 1840s, which caused many to flee Ireland for the United States. But the real..... More
Countryman Press, October 2016. Hardcover. Midcentury America was a wonderland of department stores, suburban cul-de-sacs, and Tupperware parties. Every kid on the block had to have the latest cool toy, be it an Easy Bake Oven for pretend baking, a rocket ship for pretend space travel, or a Slinky, just..... More
Liveright, November 2022. Hardcover. 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. Yet..... More
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Simon & Schuster, January 1963. Book Club. Hardcover. Eleven volumes in dust jackets, all with at least some sunning and chipping. Overall, a nice, clean set. More
Gallery Books, November 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Andersen comes a vivid and unsparing yet sympathetic portrait of one of the most complex and enigmatic figures of our time: Charles, who has taken his place on the throne after being the oldest and..... More
Liveright, September 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the..... More
Penguin Books, November 2022. Paper Back. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize - One of The Economist's top history books of the year From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of Independence--the ultimate worldwide liberal cause célèbre of the age of Byron, Europe's..... More
