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Barnes & Noble Books, January 2007. Trade Paperback. More
Barnes & Noble Books, January 2007. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Books, September 2000. Trade Paperback. Charles Freeman's The Greek Achievement traces the entire course of ancient Greek history across thousands of years--from the Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations of the Bronze Age through the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. This brilliant account celebrates the incredible range of Greek achievement..... More
Harper, May 2022. Hardcover. SOUTHERN INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS ALLIANCE BESTSELLER "The Movement Made Us takes literature to a momentous Southern Black space to which I honestly never thought a book could take us. This is literally the Movement that made us and both Davids love us whole here with a creation..... More
Penguin Books, May 2022. Paper Back. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of NPR's Books We Love of 2021 Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Christopher Award "Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and..... More
Harper Perennial, June 2008. Trade Paperback. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation's most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers and the moving stories of individual citizens who through their brave perseverance helped establish..... More
Random House Trade, June 2013. Trade Paperback. A SWEEPING TALE OF TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AMERICA AND THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCES THAT BROUGHT TWO MEN TOGETHER ONE FATEFUL DAY In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassin's bullet shattered the nation's confidence. The shocking murder of..... More
Basic Books (AZ), October 2009. Trade Paperback. No two people were more important to American conservatism in the postwar era than William F. Buckley Jr. and Ronald Reagan. Buckley's writings provided the intellectual underpinnings, while Reagan brought the conservative movement into the White House. They met in 1961 when Reagan..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 1998. Trade Paperback. In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller "D-Day". Ambrose again follows the individual characters of this noble, brutal, and tragic war, from the high command down to the ordinary soldier, drawing on hundreds of..... More
Vintage, April 1992. Trade Paperback. This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate--one that remains as critical as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile's passion (he is Palestinian by birth), Edward W...... More
Houghton Mifflin, September 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Boris Berezovsky's business career has been meteoric. In just six years he managed to seize control of Russia's largest auto manufacturer, largest TV network, national airline, and one of the world's biggest oil companies. When Moscow's gangster families battled one another in the..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 2022. Paper Back. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a "deeply layered and insightful" (The Washington Post) testament to people who..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 2021. Hardcover. The "captivating" (The New York Times), definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, detailing the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful--and elusive--woman in the world. Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor's daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she..... More
Perennial, August 1993. Trade Paperback. More
University of Texas Press, June 1968. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket with edgewear and chip at top front corner with surface tear extending from top two inches down. Several small tears. Dust jacket spine is mildly tanned. Front flap is clipped. Sky blue cloth covered boards wth silver lettering in dark..... More
Grove Press, 1965. Reprint. Cloth. 4th printing. Octavo in heavily edgeworn, chipped & torn dustjacket. Especially worn at top & bottom of spine. Darkened at jacket folds. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with light dust staining. Fading lettering along spine. Mild darkening to textblock top &..... More
Saturday Review Press, June 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. {6 & 1/2' x 10'} In heavily edgeworn, chipped & torn dustjacket wit some tape removal residue on verso and one browned, formerly clear tape 'reinforcement' at head of spine. Tanning to jacket verso. Front flap is not clipped. Half cloth: burgundy..... More
Norton*(ww Norton Co, August 1985. Trade Paperback. More
Harrington Associates, July 1996. Trade Paperback. More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2022. Paper Back. The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic..... More
Little Brown and Company, January 2022. Trade Paperback. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since..... More
Modern Library, August 2004. Trade Paperback. Jefferson Davis is one of the most complex and controversial figures in American political history (and the man whom Oscar Wilde wanted to meet more than anyone when he made his tour of the United States). Elected president of the Confederacy and later accused..... More
Penguin Books, October 2007. Trade Paperback. One of the greatest historians writing today gives us a defining portrait of the incomparable Winston Churchill In his landmark biography of Winston Churchill, acclaimed historian John Keegan offers a very human portrait of one of the twentieth century's enduring symbols of heroic defiance..... More
Halo Books, October 1991. Trade Paperback. This story begins in the Paris of the 1930s, when artists and writers stood at the center of the world stage. In the decade that saw the rise of the Nazis, much of the thinking world sought guidance from this extraordinary group of intellectuals..... More
Harvest Books, April 1988. Trade Paperback. In 1925 Janet Flanner began dispatching her famous New Yorker "Letter from Paris, " from which most of the pieces in this collection are drawn. Together, they give an incomparable view of French political, social, and cultural life in the years between the electrifying..... More
Viking Books, May 2005. Hardcover. Paris has been the center of French culture and politics, the great stage of kings, poets, and revolutionaries, the inspiration of artists, and the prize of armies since the Middle Ages. More distinguished than London, more central to world events than Rome, Paris has long..... More