David McKay and Company, Inc., January 1974. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Nineth printing, paperback with mild edgewear to cover. Curled cover at fore-edge. Darkening and foxing of textblock edges. [364 pp.]. More
Oxford University Press, USA, April 2019. Hardcover. Eric Hobsbawm's works have had a nearly incalculable effect across generations of readers and students, influencing more than the practice of history but also the perception of it. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, of second-generation British parents, Hobsbawm was orphaned at age fourteen in..... More
Univ Pr of Kansas, June 1993. Hardcover. "This very important book is original, sweeping, and wise about the relation between education and liberal democracy in the United States. The Pangles reconsider superior ideas from the founding period in a way that illuminates any serious thinking on American education, whether policy-oriented..... More
University of Chicago Press, April 2018. Hardcover. Allison Davis (1902-83), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into inequality, Jim Crow America, and the cultural biases of intelligence testing. Davis, one of America's first black anthropologists and the first tenured African..... More
Simon & Schuster, April 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin's number one enemy by exposing Putin's campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill..... More
Harper, 1970, January 1970. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Pages somewhat toned and a bit of minor cover wear, but a very tight, perhaps unread copy of the first printing of the paperback edition. More
Pantheon Books, January 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's name in ink and a stamp on front free endpaper; foxing and toning throughout, especially heavy on edges. A handful of page corners folded. Jacket chipped and generally edgeworn. Binding solid. A good, working copy of an important study. More
Oxford University Press, August 1991. First Thus. Hardcover. Like other great figures of 20th-century American politics, Lyndon Johnson defies easy understanding. An unrivaled master of vote swapping, back room deals, and election-day skulduggery, he was nevertheless an outspoken New Dealer with a genuine commitment to the poor and the underprivileged..... More
The University of Chicago Press, 1968. Reprint. Cloth. Eleventh Impression married to a dustjacket which says; 9th printing. Octavo. In moderately edgeworn DJ with toning. Marginal darkening and stains.Two and one-half inch tear along front fold. Front flap is not clipped. Previous owner's name inked FFEP. Foxing to verso. Cobalt..... More
Woburn Press, April 1994. First Thus. Paper Back. First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Octavo {6' x 9'} Review copy of trade paperback edition, released simultaneously with hardcover. This is not an ARC. Laid in two pieces of emphemera that originally..... More
University of California Press, March 2022. Hardcover. An uncompromising study of the fictions, the failures, and the real man behind the myth of Magellan. With Straits, celebrated historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto subjects the surviving sources to the most meticulous scrutiny ever, providing a timely and engrossing biography of the real Ferdinand..... More
Broadway Books, June 2014. Trade Paperback. The true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history. In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets..... More
Flatiron Books, July 2018. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times Bestseller! The extraordinary true story and basis for the Academy Award winning film BlacKkKlansman, written and directed by Spike Lee, produced by Jordan Peele, and starring John David Washington and Adam Driver. When detective Ron Stallworth, the first black..... More
Broadway, March 2011. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The story of modern medicine and bioethics--and, indeed, race relations--is refracted beautifully, and movingly."--Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO(R) STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE - ONE OF THE "MOST INFLUENTIAL" (CNN), "DEFINING" (LITHUB), AND "BEST"..... More
Harper Perennial, February 2005. Trade Paperback. On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., electrified the nation when he delivered his I Have a Dream speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In The Dream, Drew D. Hansen explores the fascinating and little-known history of King's legendary address. The..... More
Liveright, October 2013. Trade Paperback. Invisible Armies presents an entirely original narrative of warfare, which demonstrates that, far from the exception, loosely organized partisan or guerrilla warfare has been the dominant form of military conflict throughout history. New York Times best-selling author and military historian Max Boot traces guerrilla warfare..... More
Doubleday, September 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION "A Best Book of 2015"--The New York Times, The Washington Post, People Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Kansas City Star, and Kirkus Reviews In a thrilling dramatic narrative, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction..... More
Random House Inc, March 1997. Hardcover. In her first book of poetry since "Why Don't You Sing?" Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind. This memorable collection of..... More
Henry Holt and Co., January 2017. Hardcover. Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The Washington Post's Books to Read in 2017 USA Today, "New and Noteworthy" Read it Forward, Favorite Reads of January 2017 A Parade Magazine Pick This book..... More
Flatiron Books, December 2021. Paper Back. New York Times Bestseller "This dynamic blend of biography and manifesto centers on Louise Little, Alberta King, and Berdis Baldwin . . . Tubbs's book stands against the women's erasure, a monument to their historical importance." --The New Yorker Tubbs' connection to these women..... More
Thames & Hudson, October 2021. Hardcover. The most sensational and intriguing murders from across the United States are reexamined in this disquieting volume, which introduces readers to the most lethal killers from every state. Uncovering homicides from a seminal period of American criminal history, this compendium covers from the end..... More
Simon & Schuster, July 1997. Trade Paperback. From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over..... More
Franklin Library, 1984. First Edition. Leather. Signed by the author on a tipped-in page. Gilt-decorative full leather binding. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and silk ribbon marker. More
Easton Press, 1994. First Edition. Leather. Signed by the author on a tipped-in page. Gilt-decorative full leather binding. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Silk endpapers and ribbon marker. More
Franklin Library, 1981. Leather. Signed by the author on a tipped-in page. Gilt-decorative full leather binding. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Silk endpapers and ribbon marker. More
