Lee's Ferry (The Pruett Series)
WestWinds Press, December 1981. First Thus. Paper Back. First paperbak edition; First printing; Covers moderately worn from handling; Spine length creased from use; Text free of markings; A great reading copy. More
WestWinds Press, December 1981. First Thus. Paper Back. First paperbak edition; First printing; Covers moderately worn from handling; Spine length creased from use; Text free of markings; A great reading copy. More
Valley Publishers, January 1974. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handing, some scuffing present at front cover and spine; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; Front fold-out present and completely intact; An excellent copy. More
Doubleday, January 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. In the powerful travel-writing tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski and V.S. Naipaul, a haunting memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in one of the world's unhappiest countries. First printing; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Dust jacket near fine;..... More
Houghton Mifflin, March 2004. Hardcover. At a family reunion in Wales several years ago, the prize-winning poet Owen Sheers stumbled across the mesmerizing story of his great-great-uncle Arthur Cripps, a mysterious figure who turned from poetry to missionary work in Africa and ultimately became a shamanlike figure, ministering to the..... More
St. Martin's Press, March 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. In an era when women were supposed to be disciplined and obedient, Anna proved to be neither. Defying 16th-century social mores, she was the frequent subject of gossip because of her immodest dress and flirtatious behavior. When her wealthy father discovered that..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2022. Hardcover. Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls "a defining idea of the twentieth century." Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America..... More
Back Bay Books, June 2022. Trade Paperback. A "truly compelling" (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war--from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of..... More
Basic Books, December 2022. Paper Back. A "gripping and poignant" (Wall Street Journal) account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands..... More
Back Bay Books, June 2022. Trade Paperback. A "truly compelling" (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war--from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of..... More
Pantheon, February 2023. Hardcover. Every day, thousands of new secrets are created by the United States government. What is all this secrecy really for? And whom does it benefit? "Connelly has defined an existential crisis: the suppression of American history. . . . [He] makes the case that the culture..... More
OR Books, 2016. Trade Paperback. More
Picador, April 2009. Trade Paperback. A Voyage Long and Strange is a rich mixture of scholarship and modern-day adventure that brings the forgotten first chapter of America's history vividly to life. What happened in North America between Columbus's sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims' arrival in 1620? On a visit..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1958. Reprint. Paper Back. Wel worn and darkened marginally and along the spine. One-quarter inch tear at top edge of front panel near spine. Dust stains & foxing. Reprinted from the Vanguard Press, 1956 edition, and translated from the orginal French L'Adventure Inca. [231 pages]. More
Penguin Classics, January 2023. Paper Back. The most influential work by "the father of Black history", reflecting the long-standing tradition of antiracist teaching pioneered by Black educators A Penguin Classic The Mis-education of the Negro (1933) is Woodson's most popular classic work of Black social criticism, drawing on history, theory..... More
One World, November 2021. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER - A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE - ONE..... More
Pegasus Crime, February 2023. Hardcover. This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the reader from a free-love community in upstate New York to the shocking assassination of President James Garfield. It was heaven on earth--and, some whispered, the devil's garden. Thousands came by trains..... More
Doubleday Anchor Book, 1968. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Dust stained & soiling to covers. Spine slightly bowed & slanted. Textblock edges foxing with dark spots. [577 pages plus five page list of Anchor titles available.]. More
Citadel, February 2023. Hardcover. The first-ever biography of Anna Marie Rosenberg, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant with only a high school education who went on to be dubbed by Life Magazine "the most important woman in the American government." Her life ran parallel to the front lines of history yet her..... More
Harper, April 2008. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear. Contains bookplate signed by Charlotte Waisman and Jill Tietjen. 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
Brookings Institution Press, March 2013. Hardcover. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States declared war on terrorism. More than ten years later, the results are decidedly mixed. Here world-renowned author, diplomat, and scholar Akbar Ahmed reveals an important yet largely ignored result of this war: in many..... More
Columbia University Press, September 2010. Hardcover. More
Pocket Books, July 1971. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Pocket mass market edition. Not abridged. Mild shelfwear. Slightly bowed spine. [1116 pages]. More
NYU Press, October 2000. Paper Back. Praise for The Failure of Political Islam: During the anti-Gorbachev coup in August 1991 most communist leaders from Soviet central Asia backed the plotters. Within weeks of the coup's collapse, those same leaders--now transformed into ardent nationalists--proclaimed the independence of their nations, adopted new..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, January 2016. Hardcover. Natural resources like oil and minerals are the largest source of unaccountable power in the world. Petrocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend resource money on weapons and oppression; militants in Iraq and in the Congo spend resource money on radicalization and ammunition..... More