HISTORY OF IRELAND 1798-1924--Volume I
George H Doran Co, 1926. Cloth. Octavo with heavily worn edges and a few spot of discoloration and a scuff mark or two. Tanned end pages. Volume one only. No dustjacket. [304 pages]. More
George H Doran Co, 1926. Cloth. Octavo with heavily worn edges and a few spot of discoloration and a scuff mark or two. Tanned end pages. Volume one only. No dustjacket. [304 pages]. More
Dell, July 1973. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean, sound mass market paperback. Previous reader's name written in ink on verso of front cover panel. Textblock edge tinted a somewhat faded & dust stained teal. 'A Laurel Leaf Library original'. Third printing, Includes contributions by a motley crew including Kurt Vonnegut..... More
Pocket Books, January 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean, sound, mass market paperback edition with slightly darkened margin. Rubber stamped names of previous owner's top right of title page. Textblock edges tinted rose red. Abridged Pocket edition/Memorial edition. Note in blue ink last page of textblock upper left at edge of..... More
St. Martin's Press, February 2023. Hardcover. An evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor's Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution. In..... More
William Morrow, April 2023. Hardcover. CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic provides an urgent and inside look at the history-making era in the Supreme Court during the Trump and post-Trump years, from its seismic shift to the Right to its controversial decisions, including its reversal of Roe v. Wade..... More
Princeton University Press, March 2018. Oversize Softcover. Objects of Translation offers a nuanced approach to the entanglements of medieval elites in the regions that today comprise Afghanistan, Pakistan, and north India. The book--which ranges in time from the early eighth to the early thirteenth centuries--challenges existing narratives that cast the..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2023. Paper Back. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2023. Hardcover. The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I--and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers. When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship..... 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
Simon & Schuster, April 2023. Hardcover. A riveting, kaleidoscopic account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela's protégé by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa's democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war. Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three..... More
Little, Brown and Company, February 2023. Hardcover. NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Welcome and necessary...illuminating and revelatory." - The New Yorker The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an "extraordinary"* story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative. (*Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author..... More