Origins of the Medieval World (A 190)
Anchor Doubleday, 1960. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkened spine & margins. Wear to edges. (224 pages). More
Anchor Doubleday, 1960. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkened spine & margins. Wear to edges. (224 pages). More
Rowman and Littlefield, January 1979. First Edition. Cloth. First US edition. Octavo married to UK edition -- Westbridge Books; -- dustjacket. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Magenta end papers. [254 pages]. More
Basil Blackwell, 1957. Hardcover. More
HarperOne, January 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. This riveting history explores the annihilation of more than seven million women of spirit and intelligence under the guise of the 'witch hunts' of Europe and traces the current backlash against women to its European origins. Illus. First printing w/ full number line; Tight..... More
The Folio Society, 1984. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd printing. In tan paper wrapped slipcase with dust staining. and tanning. Octavo. (6' x 8 & 3/4'} Lithographical printed feincanvas cloth bound boards with brown lettering upon spine. End pages, front and rear, show sepia illustration of what I presume to be Delhi..... More
Greybull Press, October 2002. First Edition. Cloth. In 1968, FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover vilified the Black Panthers as "the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States." That same year photographers Pirkle Jones and wife, Ruth-Marion Baruch, documented the Black Panthers for an exhibition at the De..... More
Knopf, October 2023. Hardcover. ACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR'S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST - 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER - 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES - BEST BOOKS BY THE ECONOMIST, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, AND AIR MAIL - 10 ESSENTIAL BOOKS..... More
Houghton Mifflin, February 1990. Hardcover. More
Cambridge University Press, August 1979. Trade Paperback. 'The Whiteman' is one of the most powerful and pervasive symbols in contemporary American Indian cultures. Portraits of 'the Whiteman': linguistic play and cultural symbols among the Western Apache investigates a complex form of joking in which Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of..... More
A Spectrum Book / Prentice-all, 1968. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Sun bleached spine. Foxing & dust staining of textblock edges, as well as interior pages. [214 pages]. More
Edmonston Pub, January 2003. Hardcover. More
The Devin-Adair Company, 1925. Cloth. Octavo in umber cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine & front board. Worn board edges. Tanned end pages. Previous owner's name pencilled ffep. Darkened top edge. [373 pages]. More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2008. Trade Paperback. In the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by..... More
Liveright, October 2023. Hardcover. In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman history, Beard..... More
Cornell University Press, January 1973. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in DJ with moderate wear to edges, most prominately at corners. Previous owner's name in ink to front jacket panel top right corner and same corner of front free end page. DJ front flap is clipped. Jacket verso tanned at spine..... More
PublicAffairs, October 1998. Trade Paperback. Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post, when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 came the closing of the border and..... More
Palgrave Macmillan, January 1985. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo. Clean, sound, without markings. [232 pages]. More
Published by Grahame Hardy, January 1951. Reprint. Cloth. Quarto in heavily worn jacket with large chips, some scuff marks & tears. There is triangular cut out from DJ front flap. Brown cloth covered boards with edgewear with white lettering along spine. Likewise white stamped illustration front board lower right corner..... More
Pocket Books, January 1968. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean, sound, mass market paperback edition with slightly darkened margin. Rubber stamped names of previous owner's top right of title page. Textblock edges tinted rose red. Abridged Pocket edition/Memorial edition. Note in blue ink last page of textblock upper left at edge of..... More
William Morrow & Co, January 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Foxing on the edges of the print block. More
Harvard University Press, March 2011. Trade Paperback. "Are you an American, or are you not?" This was the question Harry Wheeler, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, used to choose his targets in one of the most remarkable vigilante actions ever carried out on U.S. soil. And this is the question..... More
Orion Publishing Group, November 2001. Hardcover. More
Simon & Schuster, August 2021. Hardcover. The world's leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign policy for the 21st century, and whose ideological heirs we continue to battle today. In The Rise and..... More
Rutgers University Press, December 1987. Trade Paperback. Winner of the American Book Award, 1990. Could Greek philosophy be rooted in Egyptian thought? Is it possible that the Pythagorean theory was conceived on the shores of the Nile and the Euphrates rather than in ancient Greece? Could it be that Western..... More
Harper Perennial, January 2003. Trade Paperback. For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement -- the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief..... More
Pelican / Penguin, January 1970. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Marginal darkening and dust staining to cover. Large green rubber stamped previous bookseller advertisement on verso of front cover: 'The Bargain Bookshelf:... of ....'Decatur, GA'. Previous owner's name & other markings inked front cover and half title page. Scattered about within..... More
Carroll & Graf Publishers, May 1998. Trade Paperback. Narrates the events which preceded the gold rush of 1897, the growth and decline of Dawson, and the fates of some of the thousands who left their homes in search of fortune. More
Oxford University Press, USA, May 2003. Trade Paperback. One of the glorious triumvirate of World War II and founder of the strong Anglo-American friendship that is still apparent today, Winston Churchill stands out in history as a man who led his country through one of its most difficult times, with..... More
PublicAffairs, October 2023. Hardcover. The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as..... More
PublicAffairs, October 2023. Hardcover. The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as..... More
White Orchid Press, January 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Hyperion Books, March 2009. Trade Paperback. Sin City. Bright lights, high stakes, and no sleep. Home to some of the world's grandest, flashiest, and most lucrative casino resorts, Las Vegas, with its multitude of attractions, draws some forty million tourists from around the world every year. But Vegas hasn't always..... More
Vintage, May 2006. Trade Paperback. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER - "A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures."--Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of..... More
Verso, February 2024. Hardcover. "Tremendously impressive, the result of a lifetime of learning. Historical writing at its best." --Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship A history of 19th century slavery in the US, Brazil and Cuba from a critically acclaimed historian of slavery in the Americas The Reckoning offers..... More
Anchor, January 2009. Trade Paperback. This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in "The Age of Neoslavery." By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this..... More
Chronicle Books, March 2020. Hardcover. I Know This to Be True is the basis for the Netflix documentary series Live to Lead created and directed by Geoff Blackwell and executive produced by The Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Featuring heartwarming advice from celebrated figures, this stirring series helps readers discover..... More
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
Berkley Publishing Group, August 1995. First Thus. Paper Back. In a novel of uncompromising depth and power, Blake recreates the life of John Wesley Hardin, from his youth to his final days. An ingenious reconstruction.--Dale L. Walker, Rocky Mountain News. In a novel of uncompromising depth and power, Blake recreates..... More
Little, Brown and Company, January 2024. Hardcover. The "mesmerizing and inspirational" (Judy Batalion) true story of two Holocaust survivors who fell in love in Auschwitz, only to be separated upon liberation and lead remarkable lives apart following the war--and then find each other again more than 70 years later. Zippi..... More
Penguin Press, January 2024. Hardcover. "Extraordinary . . . a profound reflection on one of the great paradoxes of American life--and a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit." --Patrick Radden Keefe "A searing, gut-wrenching, and masterfully reported account." --Jill Lepore An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history..... More
Crown, September 2008. Hardcover. A masterpiece of narrative history that vividly brings to life the original crime of the century, American Lightning shows the lasting impact the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times offices had on three remarkable individuals and, through them, the country itself. b&w photo insert. More
Columbia University, January 1962. Oversized Hardcover. {9' x 12'} Slipcased quarto in jacket. Heavily edgeworn dustjacket with tears and chipping. Clear laminate covering of DJ. Flap is not clipped. White cloth covered boards with stamped gold lettering. Gold titling on spine within burgundy rectangle field. Likewise tooled gold illustration on..... More
Arcadia Pub, March 1999. Trade Paperback. Very minor shelf wear on the cover. More
Bloomsbury Press, June 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. A groundbreaking account of how Robert F. Kennedy transformed horror into hope between 1963 and 1966. On November 22nd, 1963, Bobby Kennedy received a phone call that altered his life forever. The president, his brother, had been shot. JFK would not survive. In..... More
Harry N. Abrams, March 2020. Trade Paperback. From award-winning author Tonya Bolden comes the fascinating story of one of America's most influential African American voices Teacher. Self-emancipator. Orator. Author. Man. Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is one of the most important African American figures in US history, best known, perhaps, for his..... More
Vintage, August 1974. Trade Paperback. More
Dept. of the Army, December 2008. First Edition. Trade Paperback. This first edition has some very minor shelf wear on the cover. It is signed and dedicated by the author, Colonel Donald Boose Jr. to another U.S. Colonel. More
Amistad. Trade Paperback. More
Yale University Press, April 2011. Hardcover. An accomplished Italianist looks beyond Rome's storied facades to offer insight into the many histories of one of the world's best-loved cities In Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud claimed that Rome must be comprehended as "not a human dwelling place but a mental..... More
Grove Press, June 2013. Trade Paperback. From Mark Bowden, the preeminent chronicler of our military and special forces, comes The Finish, a gripping account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. With access to key sources, Bowden takes us inside the rooms where decisions were made and on the ground..... More
Grove Press, March 2024. Paper Back. "A gripping ground-level narrative...a marvel of reporting: tightly wound... but also panoramic."--Washington Post "A lean, fast-paced and important account of the chaotic final weeks."--New York TimesIn The Steal, veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague offer a week-by week, state-by-state account of the effort..... More
Grove Press, March 2024. Paper Back. "A gripping ground-level narrative...a marvel of reporting: tightly wound... but also panoramic."--Washington Post "A lean, fast-paced and important account of the chaotic final weeks."--New York TimesIn The Steal, veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague offer a week-by week, state-by-state account of the effort..... More
Arcadia Publishing, July 2006. Trade Paperback. What was once home to the native tribe known as the Ohlone, and functioning as guardian of the San Francisco Bay under Spanish, Mexican, and American flags, the Presidio has served as outpost as well as cultural barometer of the vast changes this country..... More
PM Press, May 2023. Paper Back. Portland, Oregon, 1988: the brutal murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by racist skinheads shocked the city. In response disparate groups quickly came together to organize against white nationalist violence and right-wing organizing throughout the Rose City and the Pacific Northwest. It Did Happen..... More
Doubleday Books, October 2003. Hardcover. Many regard basketball and hip hop to be the only viable options in a society where many other opportunities continue to be closed off. This book discusses how both forms of culture have gone from being dismissed, reviled, and rejected by the mainstream, to being..... More
Henry Holt & Company, September 2004. Hardcover. An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the..... More
William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. First Edition. Cloth. Green cloth cover with mildly rubbed gold lettering on spine. Gold illustration of tiger with elephant & rider in background between gold lettered title & author's name on front board. Slight brush of wear to edges and raised lip at spine. Beautiful..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2007. Trade Paperback. At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch's magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War, recognized universally as the definitive account and ultimate recognition of Martin Luther..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 'At Canaan's Edge' chronicles dramatic campaigns in Mississippi and Alabama, King's tormented alliance with Lyndon Johnson, his painful break with Stokey Carmichael over black power, and persecution by Hoover's FBI. This book brings the decades of the Civil Rights struggle alive and..... More
Simon & Schuster, November 1988. Hardcover. More
Simon & Schuster, January 1999. Trade Paperback. In "Pillar of Fire," the second volume of his "America in the King Years" trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, "Parting the Waters," won the Pulitzer Prize for History. "Pillar of Fire" covers the far-flung..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 1998. Hardcover. In "Pillar of Fire", the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, "Parting the Waters", won the Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a monumental chronicle of a...... More
Simon & Schuster, January 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. In "Pillar of Fire", the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, "Parting the Waters", won the Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a monumental chronicle..... More
Anchor, September 2009. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A brilliant evocation of one of the greatest presidents in American history by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War "It may well be the best general biography of Franklin Roosevelt we will see for..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2023. Hardcover. "It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2023. Hardcover. "It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents, students condemned teachers, and as many as two million people died for their..... More
Free Press, November 1999. Hardcover. Who is Slobodan Milosevic? Is he the next Saddam Hussein, the leader of a renegade nation who will continue to torment the United States for years to come? Or is he the next Moammar Qaddafi, an international outcast silenced for good by a resolute American..... More
Johns Hopkins University Press, March 1979. Paper Back. "In this concise book... Braudel summarizes the broad themes of his three-volume Civilisation materielle et capitalisme, 1400-1800 and offers his reflections on the historian's craft and on the nature of the historical imagination... Taken as a whole, the book is provocative and..... More
Grand Central Publishing, January 2024. Hardcover. A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of Silicon Valley. "It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era..... More
Knopf : distributed by Random House, January 1980. Hardcover. Shelf wear to jacket. Small tear at bottom corner of jacket. More
Ravan, January 1984. Paper Back. Previous owner's address stamp inside half title page. More
Oxford University Press, June 1968. Trade Paperback. More
George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, Ltd., April 1995. Oversized Hardcover. Ranging widely over time and place, Asa Briggs highlights continuities and changes in society in England from prehistory to the present day. Literature, art and politics are investigated as aspects and gauges of human experience, research in related disciplines is discussed..... More
Touchstone, October 1997. Paper Back. The Best American Erotica 1997 is the ideal collection for all lovers of first-rate erotic literature. Edited by Susie Bright, whom the Utne Reader calls "one of the leading thinkers and visionaries of our time", this fifth annual edition of a bestselling series brings together..... More
Harper, November 2022. Hardcover. New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon..... More
Harper, November 2022. Hardcover. New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon..... More
Presidio Press, September 1997. Hardcover. When war came, Irene Brion, like many other young Americans, male and female, was eager to do her part. Enlisting as a recruit in the Womens Auxiliary Army Corps, the forerunner of the more familiar Womens Army Corps (WAC). From her home in the small..... More
Chronicle Books, March 1986. Oversize Softcover. More
University of California Press, October 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Roy L. Brooks reframes one of the most important, controversial, and misunderstood issues of our time in this far-reaching reassessment of the growing debate on black reparation. Atonement and Forgiveness shifts the focus of the issue from the backward-looking question of..... More
Simon & Schuster, May 2023. Paper Back. Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another "explosive and compulsive" (Stephen Fry) thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin's number one enemy by exposing Putin's campaign to steal and launder hundreds of millions of dollars and..... More
Times Books, December 1982. Hardcover. Jacket clipped and chipped. More
Convergent Books, April 2018. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK - From a leading voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America's love affair with "diversity" so often falls short of its ideals. "Austin Channing..... More
Signet, 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Owl Books, March 1991. Trade Paperback. "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national best-seller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it..... More
Houghton Mifflin, February 2003. Trade Paperback. Through the story of a thirteen-year-old black boy condemned to life in prison, Elaine Brown exposes the 'New Age' racism that effectively condemns millions of poor African-Americans to a third world life. The story of 'Little B' is riveting, a stunning example of the..... More
Claitors Publishing, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. In very good dustjacket with mild wear. Damp staining across bottom. Flap not clipped. Tear to back panel of DJ next to spine bottom: one inch. Black cloth covered boards with white lettering. Slightly leaning spine. [174 pp.]. More
Doubleday Books, July 2007. Hardcover. "Intensely well researched and an un-put-down-able read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocaded velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical document and a psychological examination, written..... More
Harper Perennial, February 2017. Trade Paperback. "A remarkable--and singularly chilling--glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust."--Newsweek Christopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews--now..... More
Atria Books, September 2023. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I--this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of..... More
WW Norton & Co. Hardcover. Some edgewear. Text block clean. More
Anchor, June 2014. Trade Paperback. A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book A GoodReads Reader's Choice The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on the home run record. In Newark, New Jersey, Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly sat atop a flagpole for twelve days..... More
Unicorn Publishing Group, August 2018. Oversize Softcover. As much as any major figure of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill is associated with the places he lived--particularly Blenheim Palace, where he was born and grew up, and Chartwell, in Kent, where he lived for more than forty years before and after..... More
NYU Press, July 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. When the images of desperate, hungry, thirsty, sick, mostly black people circulated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became apparent to the whole country that race did indeed matter when it came to government assistance. In The Wrong Complexion for Protection, Robert..... More
Windsor Publications, 1974. Cloth. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Quarto. In edgeworn dustjacket, marginally darkened & darkened spine. Flap is not clipped. Off white cloth covered spine with red lettering upon spine & red torch design centered front board. Heavy foxing & dust stained. Grey end pages. [302 pp.]. More
Liberty Fund, March 1999. Trade Paperback. This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Volume 1, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and The Two Speeches on America, contains Burke's brilliant defense of the American..... More
Barnes & Noble Inc, June 1992. Hardcover. More
Easton Press, January 1989. Leather. Gilt-decorative brown leather binding with raised spine bands. Silk endapers and ribbon marker. All edges gilt. Unread; near flawless. More
Vintage, April 2012. Trade Paperback. A spellbinding account of the real facts of the Central Park jogger case that powerfully reexamines one of New York City's most notorious crimes and its aftermath. - A must-read after watching Ava DuVernay's When They See Us On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered..... More
HarperOne, December 2003. Hardcover. More than a biography, To the Mountaintop is the history of a turbulent epoch that changed the course of American and world history. Moral warrior and nonviolent apostle; man of God rocked by fury, fear, and guilt; rational thinker driven by emotional and spiritual truth --..... More
Penguin Books, July 2004. Hardcover. Acclaimed "Vanity Fair" contributor Bryan Burrough brings to life the most spectacular crime wave in American history: the two-year battle between J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In 1933, police jurisdictions ended..... More