Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America
Harper, April 2008. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear. Contains bookplate signed by Charlotte Waisman and Jill Tietjen. More
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Africatown: America's Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
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
Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam
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
Somalia: The New Barbary?: Piracy and Islam in the Horn of Africa
Columbia University Press, September 2010. Hardcover. More
The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940
Pocket Books, July 1971. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Pocket mass market edition. Not abridged. Mild shelfwear. Slightly bowed spine. [1116 pages]. More
The New Central Asia: The Creation of Nations
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
Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World
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
Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
Penguin Books, March 2014. Paper Back. "The new American way of war is here, but the debate about it has only just begun. In The Way of the Knife, Mr Mazzetti has made a valuable contribution to it." --The Economist A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's riveting account of the transformation of..... More
Causes of War
Simon & Schuster, October 1988. Trade Paperback. The third edition of Geoffery Blainey's highly acclaimed study on the causes of war has been expanded and updated to include a complete discussion of World War II and the road towards nuclear war. Analyzing all international wars since 1700, Causes of War..... More
The ISIS Hostage
Atlantic Books. Paper Back. More
Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan-African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle and Liberation
Africa World Pr, February 2000. Paper Back. More
Warring Souls: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-Revolution Iran
Duke University Press, May 2006. Paper Back. With the first Fulbright grant for research in Iran to be awarded since the Iranian revolution in 1979, Roxanne Varzi returned to the country her family left before the Iran-Iraq war. Drawing on ethnographic research she conducted in Tehran between 1991 and 2000..... More
The Passenger: India
The Passenger, March 2021. Paper Back. Shortlisted for the 2022 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards, Illustrated Travel Book Of The Year Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Caste: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by Arundhati Roy?The Invention of..... More
The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition
Riverhead Trade, February 2006. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a...... More
Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2023. Hardcover. What good are the arts? Why should we care about the past? For millennia, humanity has sought to understand and transmit to future generations not just the "know-how" of life, but the "know-why"--the meaning and purpose of our existence, as expressed in..... More
The Russian Revolution: The Overthrow of Tzarism and the Triumph of the Soviets -- A 170
Doubleday Anchor Books, 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with shelfwear, superficial creases along spine and quarter-inch tear top edge of front panel. Originally published as The History of the Russian Revolution (Simon & Schuster, 1932). Textblock edges dust stains & soiling. [554 pages plus three page list of..... More
Their Eyes Were Watching God (P.S.)
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, January 2006. Trade Paperback. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick "A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." --Zadie..... More
The Virtues of Aging (Library of Contemporary Thought)
Ballantine Books, October 1998. Soft Cover. 'As we've grown older, the results have been surprisingly good, ' writes former President Jimmy Carter in this wise, deeply personal meditation on the new experiences that come to us with age. Now in his 70s, President Carter has never enjoyed more prestige or..... More
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
Penguin Press HC, The, September 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. In his major bestseller, "Race Matters," philosopher Cornel West burst onto the national scene with his searing analysis of the scars of racism in American democracy. "Race Matters" has become a contemporary classic, still in print after ten years, having sold..... More
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea : Why the Greeks Matter
Random House Inc, July 2004. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on a journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. "A triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal in tone, amusing, wide..... More
Seaworthy: Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting
Crown Publishing Group (NY), June 2006. Hardcover. Welcome to the daring, thrilling, and downright strange adventures of William Willis, one of the world's original extreme sportsmen. Driven by an unfettered appetite for personal challenge and a yen for the path of most resistance, Willis mounted a single-handed and wholly unlikely..... More
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 2023. Paper Back. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - "An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of..... More
Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
Knopf, February 2023. Hardcover. A wonderfully entertaining, often surprising history of presidential taste, from the grim meals eaten by Washington and his starving troops at Valley Forge to Trump's fast-food burgers and Biden's ice cream--what they ate, why they ate it, and what it tells us about the state of..... More
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
Basic Books, February 2023. Trade Paperback. "A beautifully written evocation of Ukraine's brutal past and its shaky efforts to construct a better future."--Financial Times Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world's energy policies and security architecture. As..... More
Stayed On Freedom: The Long History of Black Power through One Family’s Journey
Basic Books, January 2023. Hardcover. A new history of Black Liberation, told through the intertwined story?of two grassroots organizers? ? The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never been told. Stayed On Freedom brings..... More
