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
Knopf, May 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. In jacket. Front flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered spine with gold stamped lettering along spine and on front panel., Dark grey paper covered boards. Previous owner's name inked ffep. Tightly bound, Textblock topstained pale rose red. Red remainder mark. [[422 pages]..... More
Crown, February 2023. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The "addictively readable" (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal family's battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years--only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises "Frothy and forthright, a kind of Keeping Up with the Windsors with sprinkles..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, July 2015. Paper Back. The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, November 2021. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations..... More
Passenger, August 2020. Trade Paperback. A new series from Europa Editions, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Ghosts of the Tsumani by Richard Lloyd Parry?Living in Shimokitazawa by Yoshimoto Banana?Why Japan Is Populist-Free? by Ian Buruma?plus: a Shinto..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2023. Hardcover. Before the First World War, enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height. International travel, migration, trade, and progressive projects on matters ranging from women's rights to world peace reached a crescendo. Yet in the same breath, an undercurrent of reaction was..... More
Liveright, January 2023. Hardcover. The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasize about escaping our screens. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a world with..... More
Indiana University Press, April 1994. First Edition. Cloth. {6' x 9 & 1/2'} In dustjacket with mild edgewear. Likewise slight curl of jacket edge. Black cloth covered boards with stamped silver lettering along spine. Previous owner's name & web address in black ink upper right corner of fep. Underlining in..... More
Doubleday Anchor Books, January 1953. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Third edition, third printing of mass market paper. Darkening/dust stains. [320 pages]. More
University of North Carolina Press, April 2001. Hardcover. The Allied victory at Omaha Beach was a costly one. A direct infantry assault against a defense that was years in the making, undertaken in daylight following a mere thirty-minute bombardment, the attack had neither the advantage of tactical surprise nor that..... More
Scribner Book Company, January 1997. Hardcover. He is the highest ranking American spy directly and personally involved in espionage, war, counterterrorism, and intrigue to make public his life. Dashing and flamboyant, with mettle akin to the granite for which his home state of New Hampshire is known, Duane "Dewey" Clarridge..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, August 2001. Hardcover. From the Trojan War to World War II and beyond, The Oxford Companion to Military History brings together an international team of more than 150 experts who illuminate war's bloody past. Ranging from the Alamo and Amphibious Operations to Marshal Zhukov and the..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 2023. Hardcover. The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything. Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2023. Hardcover. New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slavery or a landmark in the antislavery movement? Leaders of the founding who..... More
Simon & Schuster, February 2023. Hardcover. Journalist and author Mark Whitaker explores the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black identity expressed in the slogan "Black Power" challenged the nonviolent philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis. In gripping, novelistic detail..... More
Back Bay Books, September 2011. Trade Paperback. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else..... More
Yale University Press, December 2010. Oversized Hardcover. A newly updated, expanded edition of the most comprehensive one-volume reference work on New York City ever compiled Covering an exhaustive range of information about Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City..... More
D. McKay Co, January 1978. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Oxford University Press, USA, May 1992. Trade Paperback. James McPherson has emerged as one of America's finest historians. Battle Cry of Freedom, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times Book Review, called "history writing of the highest..... More
Routledge, September 1994. Hardcover. The most up-to-date history of Greek literature from its Homeric origins to the age of Augustus. Greek literary production throughout this period of some eight centuries is embedded in its historical and social context, and Professor Dihle sees this literature as a historical phenomenon, a particular..... More
Henry Holt & Company, April 2001. Hardcover. A harrowing, adrenaline-charged account of America's worst naval disaster -- and of the heroism of the men who, against all odds, survived. On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men..... More
Viking / Studio, July 1966. First Edition. Cloth. {7 & 1/4' X 9 & 1/2'} In edgeworn jacket with tears & foxing to verso. Brick red coth covered spine with stamped gold lettering along spine. Top corners bumped. Front flap is not clipped. Tight binding. Stamped star on front pastedown..... More
Random House Value Publishing, August 1987. First Thus. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Previous owner inscription present at front free-end page, pages/text otherwise free of markings; Dust jacket shows extrememly mild edge-wear, now housed in protective mylar for further preservation. More
Harper, July 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Douglas Brinkley brings to this magnificent story of Theodore Roosevelt's crusade on behalf of America's national parks the same qualities that made TR so fascinating a figure--an astonishing range of knowledge, a superb narrative skill, a wonderfully vivid writing style and an inexhaustible energy..... More
