Thunder Bay Press, October 2012. Hardcover. There's no denying the charm of San Francisco, a city perched on rolling hills, where little cable cars climb half-way to the stars. With dramatic vistas at every turn, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Bay to the east, its cityscape is..... More
Touchstone, March 2014. Trade Paperback. The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback--an incredible true story of the top-secret World War II town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the young women brought there unknowingly to help build the atomic bomb. "The best kind of nonf. More
Continental Heritage Press. Oversized Hardcover. Light sunning to blue cloth binding. Jacket chipped but wrapped for further protection. More
New American Library, October 1978. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Dover Publications, May 1994. Trade Paperback. "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, " wrote W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influential works in American literature. First published in 1903, this eloquent collection of essays..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, September 2026. Hardcover. A #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - An essential guide to the making of the modern Middle East from 1900 to the present: a spellbinding history by the New York Times bestselling author of Jerusalem and The Romanovs Renowned historian Simon Sebag Montefiore wades into..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, September 1987. Reprint. Hardcover. More
Scribner Book Company, August 2026. Hardcover. The spectacular rise and dramatic fall of super-assassin Carlos the Jackal--one of history's most infamous terrorist masterminds and the inspiration for numerous celebrated works of pop culture--told with new revelations from the Jackal himself, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags. A black-bereted..... More
Stanford University Press, April 1992. Hardcover. A Stanford University Press classic. Presumed first printing; Some general wear present; Soldi binding; Clean text; Mild edge-wear/rubbing to jacket; A handsome copy overall. More
Princeton University Press, February 1973. Paper Back. The description for this book, Ancient Near East, Volume 1: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures, will be forthcoming. More
Princeton Univ Pr, January 1992. Hardcover. Covering the time span from the Paleolithic period to the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C., the eminent Egyptologist Donald Redford explores three thousand years of uninterrupted contact between Egypt and Western Asia across the Sinai land-bridge. In the vivid and lucid style that..... More
Scribner Book Company, December 1976. Hardcover. More
University of Chicago Press, February 1974. Paper Back. More
BIB DES ARTS, November 2001. Oversized Hardcover. More
University Books. Hardcover. More
Bookthrift Co. Hardcover. More
Crown Publishing Group (NY), September 2026. Hardcover. The definitive account of how a discarded strand of hair found in Thomas Jefferson's Bible led to a sweeping, multi-year genomic investigation, drawing on technological advances in DNA to finally resolve a 200-year national controversy. Features an introduction by Smithsonian secretary Lonnie G...... More
Viking, September 2026. Hardcover. "Narrative history at its best." --Air Mail The gripping, definitive history of the Hindenburg disaster, the rise of the Nazis, and the road to World War II as never before told On the evening of May 6, 1937, the majestic German zeppelin Hindenburg arrived before cheering..... More
Weatherhill, October 1992. Paper Back. Nakae Chomin's Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government offers a captivating glimpse into a nation grappling with modernization and the adoption of Western-style governance. Through the spirited discussions of three distinct characters--the Gentleman of Western Learning, the Champion of the East, and the enigmatic Master..... More
University of Chicago Press, November 2025. Hardcover. An illustrated story of the relationship between mapping and secrecy, charting the role maps played in concealing and revealing knowledge across centuries. Is there anything more intriguing than a secret map? One that reveals clandestine information or meanings, or a map that is..... More
University of Chicago Press, May 2026. Hardcover. The incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she's talking all things classics. Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why--for better or (sometimes) worse--antiquity continues to exert such a powerful hold on the contemporary imagination. Recalling a...... More
Reaktion Books, July 2026. Hardcover. A fresh look at medieval wellness that echoes modern healthy living concerns. We often think of medieval medicine as strange, unhygienic, and unscientific, but The Medieval Guide to Healthy Living reveals a far richer story. Long before modern wellness trends, people in the Middle Ages..... More
University of Chicago Press, May 2026. Paper Back. An essential collection of Dwight Macdonald's prophetic essays on politics, art, and violence in twentieth-century America. What does extreme violence do to human values? Does the concept of collective guilt make sense in assessing responsibility for genocide? Has modern mechanized society forever..... More
Penguin Books, 1938. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. First Pelican printing; Moderate wear to covers and spine; Mild underlining to dedication only, else clean text; Some toning to pages; A Good copy overall. More
Harper Perennial, September 1995. Paper Back. With the same quirky brilliance that drew fans to his previous work, Ian Frazier narrates the history of his family from early colonial days to the present. He reconstructs two hundred years of middle-class life, visiting small towns his ancestors lived in, reading the..... More
