W. W. Norton & Company, April 1992. Hardcover. This volume is a showcase of current writing in the field of military history ranging from theories about the origins of warfare to the ways in which the recent Gulf crisis has altered its unwritten (but binding) rules. In many essays, Experience..... More
Context Books, January 2003. Trade Paperback. Deftly separating truth from propaganda, Target Iraq is a hard-hitting expose of the harsh realities and consequences of the pending war and the media's failure to present the full spectrum of issues to the public. Target Iraq will figure prominently in the national debate..... More
Penguin USA, May 1974. Trade Paperback. The story of Heloise and Abelard remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs." More
Random House, March 2021. Hardcover. A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of Go Ahead in the Rain "Whether heralding unsung entertainers or reexamining legends, Hanif Abdurraqib weaves together gorgeous essays that reveal the resilience, heartbreak, and joy within Black performance. I...... More
HarperCollins, 1989. Hardcover. Later printing. More
Department of Corrections Press, 1987. Trade Paperback. 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
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, November 2020. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" "You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have." So begins Emmanuel Acho..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild wear to cover. Previous owner's name inked top right corner half title page. Vertical crease on front cover at spine is tender. (455 pages plus six pages of Anchor titles available.). More
Bloomsbury, 2012. Trade Paperback. In 1914, Joe Hill, the prolific songwriter for the Industrial Workers of the World (also known as the Wobblies), was convicted of murder in Utah and sentenced to death by firing squad, igniting international controversy. In the first major biography of the radical historical icon, William..... More
Ethics. Pamphlet. Heavy underlining, highlighting, and marginal notes throughout. 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
Viking Books, September 2003. Hardcover. - The Endurance was a New York Times bestseller for 18 weeks and has sold more than 750,000 hardcover copies. In giving the 'Bounty' mutiny its historical due, Alexander has chosen to frame her narrative by focusing on the court-martial of the ten mutineers who..... More
Knopf, November 1998. Hardcover. In August 1914, days before the outbreak of World War I, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the..... More
New Press, January 2020. Paper Back. Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher Education' Literary Hub, Book Riot' and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller--one of the most influential books of the past 20 years, according..... 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
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
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
Casemate, March 2008. Hardcover. A Mighty Fortress is the personal account of the Captain and crew of a lead bomber in the enormous formation raids made by the 8th Airforce during the last few months of the Second World War. It is an extraordinary tale of heroism and bravery on..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 1989. Book Club. Hardcover. Shelf wear; otherwise, very good. More
Simon & Schuster, November 2001. Trade Paperback. Nothing Like It in the World gives the account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage. It is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad--the investors who risked their businesses and money; the enlightened politicians who understood its..... More
Bloomsbury USA, June 2017. Paper Back. National Book Critics Circle Award Winner New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of..... More
Mercer Univ Pr, June 1986. Trade Paperback. More
John Murray, 1830. Leather. Printed by William Clowes, (Stamford Street, London). (Four-inch x Six-inch) Duodecimo, Half bound: diced boards; spine has fleur-de-lys gold design & gold lettering on black title plate; polished calf at spine & corners. Marbled end pages. The 18 British doctors are British doctors: Linacre, Caius, Harvey..... More
The Great Fidelity Press, January 1976. Paper Back. Softcover quarto. Spine cracked & repaired with tape, heavy & darkening with age, sloppy but effective. There is also darkened tape and/or tape residue at bottom edge of front cover and first inside page. Previous owner's name & address top of same..... More
Penguin, July 1978. Paper Back. Heavily foxed. Soiled. Sunned spine. Darkened throughout. Well worn, not pretty. Non-authorial gift inscription. Reading copy with no underlining. More
New Press, The, April 2004. Paper Back. The Other Israel is an urgent and passionate intervention by Israeli citizens challenging the continued occupation of Palestinian territory and the failed policies of Ariel Sharon's government. Against a backdrop of increasing violence on both sides, the book presents a broad range of..... More
ORIENT LONG MAN, January 0001. Hardcover. A bit of underlining in one spot. More
Texas A&M University, January 1989. Hardcover. Egeworn dustjacket with darkening of jacket verso at spine. Quarter bound: maroon cloth spine with gold lettering and red paper covered boards. 527 pages. More
Thames & Hudson Ltd, April 1986. Hardcover. Shelf wear, chips and small closed tears on the jacket. Some creasing on the bottom corner of the print block. More
Harper, November 2017. Hardcover. This is the story of two men, and the two decisions, that transformed world history in a single tumultuous year, 1917: Wilson's entry into World War One and Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution. In April 1917 Woodrow Wilson, champion of American democracy but also segregation; advocate for free..... More
Africa World Press, August 1988. Trade Paperback. A pathbreaking effort, this book offers a philosophical inquiry into the future of the Afrocentric perspective. More
Mariner Books, August 2008. Trade Paperback. Asim traces the roots and meanings behind the racial slur and argues that using the word keeps blacks at the bottom of America's socioeconomic ladder. He also proves there is a place for this word in the mouths and on the pens of those..... More
University of Chicago Press, March 1995. Hardcover. Encamped within the limits of experience and authenticity, critics today stake out their positions according to race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, and vigilantly guard against any incursions into their privileged territory. In this book, Michael Awkward raids the borders of contemporary criticism..... More
Third World Press, February 2009. First Edition. Trade Paperback. White supremacy and its troubling endurance in American life is debated in these personal essays by two veteran political activists. Arguing that white supremacy has been the dominant political system in the United States since its earliest days--and that it is..... More
Basic Books, October 2021. Hardcover. This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West. The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the?Islamic, Asian?antithesis of the?Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached..... More
Osprey Publishing (UK), September 2005. Hardcover. No American military unit can claim as colorful and volatile a history as the Rangers, who have led the way in America's wars for well over 300 years. This book traces the Rangers from the time of Robert Rogers during the French-Indian War of..... More
Knopf, January 2015. Hardcover. From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays that reflects a lifetime of erudition and accomplishments in history. The past has always been elusive: How can we understand people whose worlds were utterly..... More
Graywolf Press, August 2018. Hardcover. A sumptuous biographical saga, both intimate and epic, about the waning of the British Empire in India John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalaya. Michael Spender was the first to draw a detailed map of the North Face of Mount Everest. While their..... More
Penguin Books, July 2021. Paper Back. "Staggeringly good." --Counterpunch A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about the modern Freedom of Information Act--FOIA--and the horrifying, decades-old government misdeeds that it is unable to demystify, from one of America's most celebrated writers Eight years ago, while investigating..... More
Random House, January 1971. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in clean, bright jacket with slight edgewear & tiny one-half inch closed tear bottom edge front panel. NOT price clipped; original price of $8.95 on flap. 3 unfortunate markings in red ballpoint & black marker by previous owner on front free end..... More
Vintage, December 1992. Trade Paperback. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences..... More
Beacon Press, October 2012. Paper Back. #26 on The Guardian's list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African..... More
Modern Library, May 1995. Hardcover. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences..... More
Monthly Review Press, January 1969. First Edition. Trade Paperback. More
University Press of Mississippi, February 2008. Hardcover. By the spring of 1969, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had reached its zenith as the largest, most radical movement of white youth in American history-a genuine New Left. Yet less than a year later, SDS splintered into warring factions and ceased..... More
Monthly Review Press, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Clean, without markings. More
Anchor Doubleday, 1960. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkened spine & margins. Wear to edges. (224 pages). More
Crown, August 2021. Paper Back. LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST - NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE - A "powerful and devastating" (The Washington Post) call to free those buried alive by America's legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity--from a gifted young lawyer and important..... More
Simon & Schuster, December 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. This electrifying portrait by the acclaimed author of Waiting for the Sun recounts the story of the psychedelic culture that galvanized the Bay Area during that mythic time when The Haight emerged as the mecca of the counterculture. 150 illustrations, many in..... More
Ian Randle Publishers, January 2006. Trade Paperback. In this thought provoking collection of essays, anthropologist Barry Chevannes carefully exposes the underlying ideas and values that have given and are giving shape to social life in Jamaica and the Caribbean Region in general. In so doing, he goes beyond a mere..... More
Readers Digest, April 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Light yellowing on the jacket spine. Mylar wrapped. 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
Amistad Press, April 2021. Hardcover. From the author of Queen Sugar--now a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernay--comes a beautiful exploration and celebration of black farming in America. In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black..... More
William Morrow, April 2021. Hardcover. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists. One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a...... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2021. Paper Back. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the strongman playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin--enabling her to predict with uncanny accuracy the recent experience in America. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the..... More
Easton Press, January 1976. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Silk ribbon page marker. Previous owner's book plate affixed to front pastedown. More
Bedford/St. Martin's, April 2003. Trade Paperback. This second edition of Franklin's famous autobiography is accompanied by a portfolio of illustrations and an introduction that provides background for students and invites them to think about the work's lasting impact on American society and culture. More
The Legal Classics Library, 1986. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Silk page marker. Bookplate affixed to inside cover. Pamplet 'Notes from the Editors' included. 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
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
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
Custom House, March 2021. Hardcover. FASCINATING. ... Dramatic and timely. -New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Columbus reveals the singular adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I...... More
Harper Perennial, November 2004. Trade Paperback. The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan's historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage "Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner."-- New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring..... 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
Bulfinch Press, April 1996. Hardcover. Did you know that Henry I pushed a man from the top of Rouen Castle for breaking an oath of allegiance? That Henry VI was terrified of girls? Or that George II died in the lavatory? Spanning ten dynasties and more than nine centuries, this..... More
Arcadia Publishing (SC), October 2000. Hardcover. The last Nazis - SS Werewolf Guerrilla Resistance in Europe 1944-47. More
Knopf, November 1990. Hardcover. An exploration of the darkest heart of the man who greeted the explorer David Livingstone with the phrase, Dr. Livingstone, I presume? John Bierman, with the help of the newly discovered Stanley letters, leads readers into the interior of both the man and the Africa he..... More
St Martins Pr, November 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Chronicle Books, May 2010. Hardcover. Cycling is exploding in a good way. Urbanites everywhere, from ironic hipsters to earth-conscious commuters, are taking to the bike like aquatic mammals to water. BikeSnobNYC cycling's most prolific, well-known, hilarious, and anonymous blogger brings a fresh and humorous perspective to the most important vehicle..... More
Basic Books, September 1980. First Edition. Cloth. This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will..... More
George Allen & Unwin/Barnes, January 1979. Hardcover. Shelf wear to dust jacket and small closed tear at bottom of spine. More
Universe, September 2006. First American. Oversize Softcover. Taking its collective name from the wartime "underground press" of Europe's anti-Nazi resistance, the publications examined here were all members of the Underground Press Syndicate (later renamed the Alternative Press Syndicate), founded in 1967 so that member papers could freely share and reprint..... More
Penguin Books, May 2021. Paper Back. [A] joyously peculiar book. -- The New York Times 'Bjarnason's intriguing book might be about a cold place, but it's tailor-made to be read on the beach.' -New Statesman The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has..... 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
Harper, January 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Editor's Choice From journalist and New York Times bestselling author Charles Blow comes a powerful manifesto and call to action, a must-read in the effort to dismantle deep-seated poisons of systemic racism and white supremacy..... More
Paper Back. More
Pantheon, September 2021. Hardcover. Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization. Boccaletti, of The Nature Conservancy, "tackles the most important story of our time: our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity" (Kelly McEvers, NPR..... More
New York Review Books, August 2021. Paper Back. A provocative argument for a new way of seeing Israel, Zionism, and the two-state solution. Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel is an urgent wake-up call. The philosopher Omri Boehm argues that it is long past time to recognize that there..... More
Bantam Books, January 1974. Mass Market PaperBack. Spine & corners creased; else, very good, tight. More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2021. Trade Paperback. Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent "barbarians" who destroyed "civilization," at least in the conventional story of Rome's collapse. But a slight shift of perspective brings their history, and ours, shockingly alive. Alaric grew..... 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
Oxford University Press, USA, August 2003. Paper Back. In 1945, disguised in German greatcoat and helmet, Mussolini attempted to escape from the advancing Allied armies. Unfortunately for him, the convoy of which he was part was stopped by partisans and his features, made so familiar by Fascist propaganda, gave him..... More
Scribner, February 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Remainder mark on the bottom edge of the print block. Non authorial dedication on the front free endpaper. A clean, tight copy, mylar wrapped to preserve. More
Bold Type Books, September 2021. Hardcover. A Cold Civil War has engulfed the nation. After a deadly pandemic, shocking incidents of police brutality, a racial justice crisis, and the fall of a dangerous demagogue, America remains more divided than at any time in decades. At the heart of this national..... 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
St. Martins Press-3pl, September 2000. Trade Paperback. War has been the inspiration of such great novels as The Red Badge of Courage and A Farewell to Arms, and daring feats of courage and tragic mistakes have been the foundation for such classic works. Now, for the first time ever, the..... More
Crecy Publishing, November 2009. Trade Paperback. The art of successful night fighting was not something that could be easily learned. Pilot and navigator had to work together as a team, to think and move as one man. Lewis Brandon, a navigator throughout WW2, recounts his experiences. More
HarperCollins, December 1975. Trade Paperback. More
Harper & Row, New York, January 1973. Hardcover. Handsome 2-volume set, with minor shelfwear, toning, and remainder marks in very lightly worn jackets. More
Readers Union/Hamish Hamilton, 1958. Hardcover. More
Ravan, January 1984. Paper Back. Previous owner's address stamp inside half title page. More
Oxford University Press, June 1968. Trade Paperback. More
Routledge, May 2014. Hardcover. This book explores the communicative practices of the Italian radical group Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse, or BR), the relationship the group established with the Italian press, and the specific social historical context in which the BR developed both its own self-understanding and its complex dialectical connection..... More
Liveright, July 2021. Hardcover. "Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Their IQ scores, added together, totaled just 81. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs of the times, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that..... More
Arcade, October 2021. Paper Back. An honest and courageous examination of what it means to navigate the in-between Cole has heard it all before--token, bougie, oreo, Blackish--the things we call the kids like him. Black kids who grow up in white spaces, living at an intersection of race and class..... More
Viking, May 2021. Hardcover. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism... Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown's ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual..... More
