Vintage, April 2005. Trade Paperback. In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history. Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we..... More
Crown, November 1997. Hardcover. "I think the audio version brings a human touch..It permits me to communicate in a much more intimate fashion." --President Jimmy Carter For decades, President Jimmy Carter has been an avid student and teacher of the Bible. In recent years, the adult Sunday school classes he..... More
B&H Books, August 2017. Hardcover. Thomas Johnson and Charles Spurgeon lived worlds apart. Johnson, an American slave, born into captivity and longing for freedom--- Spurgeon, an Englishman born into relative ease and comfort, but, longing too for a freedom of his own. Their respective journeys led to an unlikely meeting..... More
Abingdon Press, January 1971. Hardcover. Octavo in tattered, edgeworn dustjacket with small tears and one not so small, two-inch rough tear at top of front panel. Textured black paper covered boards with dust stains and silver lettering. End pages have maps printed in black ink on salmon pink paper showing..... More
Inner Traditions International, June 1986. First Thus. Trade Paperback. A collection of sacred Gnostic texts, believed by many scholars to surpass the Dead Sea Scrolls in importance, discovered in the late 1940s after being concealed for sixteen centuries. Includes the famous Gospel According to Thomas. Grubby octavo with soiling/dust stains..... More
George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, November 2018. Trade Paperback. The scandalous true story of the duchess who became her beloved queen's blackmailer, published in a new and updated edition to coincide with the Oscar nominated film starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz. Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was as..... More
PublicAffairs, March 2022. Hardcover. A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable. The relationship between the US and China, the world's two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault--of cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance, and ideological incompatibility..... More
Simon & Schuster, June 2022. Paper Back. The "superb" (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. They say that history is written by the victors. But not..... More
Knopf, January 2022. Hardcover. How does a nation recover from fascism and turn toward a free society once more? This internationally acclaimed revelatory history--filled with first-person accounts from articles and diaries (The New York Times)--of the transformational decade that followed World War II illustrates how Germany raised itself out of..... More
Fordham Univ Pr, January 1987. Oversized Hardcover. More
Faber & Faber, Limited, January 2010. Trade Paperback. More
Inner Traditions International, November 1981. Reprint. Paper Back. This book contains the first published results of Schwaller's 12 years of research at the temple of Luxor and its implications for interpreting the symbolic and mathematical processes of the Egyptians through their sacred architecture. This book contains the first published results..... More
Dover Publications, June 1973. Paper Back. Volume 2 of the most comprehensive, scholarly work on Osiris. Includes translations of numerous texts, reproductions of classical Egyptian art -- iconography, the Heaven of Osiris, liturgy, shrines and mysteries, funeral and burial practices, human sacrifice, judge of the dead, links between Osiris worship..... More
Vintage Books USA, January 1991. Trade Paperback. More
University Of Chicago Press, December 1992. Trade Paperback. To write this history of the imagination, Le Goff has recreated the mental structures of medieval men and women by analyzing the images of man as microcosm and the Church as mystical body; the symbols of power such as flags and oriflammes;..... More
Element Books, June 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Kessinger Publishing, LLC, January 2005. Trade Paperback. Just a few stray inked marks; minimal shelf wear. More
Penguin Press, May 2022. Hardcover. "This is rich, florid, funny history, with undertones of human grief . . . Knight is shrewd and perceptive . . . [he] pushes his material into neurobiology, into the nature of placebos and expectations and self-fulfilling prophecies . . . Knight's book is crisp."..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, June 2022. Paper Back. The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time. FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR(R) AWARD - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF..... More
E. P. Dutton, July 1981. First Thus. Paper Back. Quarto. First paperback edition. Complete number string. Light user wear. A bit dog-eared top corner. [90 pages]. More
Bantam Books (Mm), October 1982. Reprint. Cloth. Jacket is quite chipped. and edge worn. Book is clean and solid. Signed by Jimmy Carter on title page. More
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, November 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" "You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have." So begins..... More
Mariner Books, June 2022. Hardcover. Fast-paced and highly absorbing. --Wall Street Journal A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the..... More
Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co, October 1981. Reprint. Paper Back. This best-selling book is a look at Minnesota's history as told through the letters, diaries and photographs of people who lived it. You'll find actual letters, journal entries, photos and more woven into a marvelous documentary of Minnesota. Discover what..... More
