Grosset & Dunlap, 1981. Hardcover. Frank Abagnale wrote $2.5 million in bad checks, practiced law without a license, practiced medicine with no medical training, co-piloted a Pan Am jet with a fake license, taught at a college though he was actually a high-school dropout, and managed to outwit and outrage..... More
Harper Perennial, September 2015. Trade Paperback. "Not for nothing has Abbott been called a 'pioneer of sizzle history.' Here she creates a gripping page-turner that moves at a breathtaking clip through the dramatic events of the Civil War." -- Los Angeles Times Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author..... More
Faith Books and More, June 2010. Hardcover. Since the mid-1980s, Sudan has been involved in civil war fueled by religious, ethnic, and regional strife. Thousands of children have experienced horrors and intense hardships beyond the scale of human understanding. They have been dubbed the Lost Boys of Sudan. Many, orphaned..... More
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Texas at Austin, January 1989. Trade Paperback. Offering a fictional treatment to a Muslim woman's life, here, a personal and family crisis impells the heroine to reexamine traditional cultural attitudes toward women. Both obstacles and support systems change as she actively participates..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 1991. Hardcover. An unflinching portrait of the man, his presidency, his accomplishments, his thwarted ambitions, and the tragic consequences--by the man who served as his closest domestic advisor. Califano has written a book that will stand as one of the great backstage stories in American politics..... More
Coward McCann, January 1967. First Edition. Cloth. First American Edition in heavily edgeworn, tattered, torn DJ with darkening and foxing & fingerprint stains to verso. Front flap is not clipped. Red end pages. Spine is leaning. Previous owner's address sticker affixed FFEP upper right corner. Slate blue cloth covered boards..... More
Grove Press, March 2021. Trade Paperback. A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story--Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln's historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil War By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000..... More
W. W. Norton, September 2008. Trade Paperback. After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal cages. With animal names for these guests, and human names for the animals, it's no..... More
Harry N. Abrams, May 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. In Queer City, the acclaimed Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way-through the complete history and experiences of its gay and lesbian population. In Roman Londinium, the city was dotted with lupanaria ("wolf dens" or public pleasure houses), fornices..... More
Taewon Publishing Company, January 1974. Cloth. Quarto in good jacket with mild edgewear & rubbing. Green cloth with gold lettering. 40 color photographs on 16 color plates plus one tipped-in color plate of 'Yi Dynasty Map of Seoul' on page opposite title page. Total of 40 color photos. 2nd edition..... More
Modern Library, May 1999. Trade Paperback. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time 'I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams, ' said Gore Vidal. 'He was remarkably prescient about the coming horrors.' His political ideals shaped by..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1959. Reprint. Paper Back. Mass market paperback with dust stains, soiling & a few stray scuff marks. Spine mildly darkened. [381 pages]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. {6 & 1/4' x 9 1/2'] First edition. Complete number line. In heavily edgeworn DJ with tears small & medium, chipping & creasing. Burgundy cloth covered spine with gold lettering and tan paper covered boards. Previou reader's name in ink..... More
Deep Cover Books, 1982. Paper Back. Octavo. Mild wear. Lightly sunned spine. 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
University of Chicago Press, April 2010. Trade Paperback. Engineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the "technological life." Here, Ken Alder rewrites the history of the eighteenth century as the total..... More
Ashantilly Press, January 1962. Limited. Hardcover. Jacket has seperated at the front edge of the spine, it bears tears at the front cover, the lettering on its spine has faded to near-invisibility, and is quite brittle; however, nearly all the portions of the jacket are still present. The book's condition..... More
Abrams Press, November 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. A based-on source for the Warner Bros. film Richard Jewell, starring Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde, and Paul Walter Hauser? "Meticulously reported, bracingly written, full of memorable and bizarre characters, the book casts a wary eye on the worlds of..... More
New Press, The, November 2012. Trade Paperback. Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as brave and..... More
Bloomsbury UK, December 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist From historian Stephen Alford, author of The Watchers, the dramatic story of the dazzling growth of London in the sixteenth century. For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII..... More
Oxford University Press, April 2014. Paper Back. The classical world and the masterpieces of its literature continue to fascinate readers and audiences throughout the media- from popular histories to the reworking of classical subject matters by contemporary poets, dramatists, and novelists. In this Very Short Introduction, William Allan explores what..... More
Yale University Press, January 1992. Trade Paperback. A history of the American military command structure, this book analyzes the tension between the joint teamwork demanded by modern combat and the traditions of service autonomy reinforced by competing ideas about land, sea and air warfare. More
Penguin Books, November 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1993. Hardcover. The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline..... More
Free Press, October 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. To be a rabble-rouser for peace may seem to be a contradiction in terms. And yet it is the perfect description for Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate and spiritual father of a democratic South Africa. Tutu understood that justice -- a genuine regard for..... More
