Random House, March 2021. First Edition. 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..... 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

Vintage, 1955. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Edgeworn cover and corners of spine. Foxing/darkening. Spotted textblock edges. (310 pages.). 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

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

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

Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2018. Trade Paperback. A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia--from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post - The..... 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

Simon & Schuster, October 1989. Book Club. Hardcover. Shelf wear; otherwise, very good. 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

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

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

Anchor, January 2013. Trade Paperback. 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

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

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

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

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

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

Sterling Pub Co Inc, April 2002. Trade Paperback. How did average Romans live out each year, conduct their family life, rear and educate their children? What about slaves in the household? How did people enjoy themselves--did they travel or go to the theater? And, how were those famed gladiators trained..... 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

Anchor Doubleday, 1960. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkened spine & margins. Wear to edges. (224 pages). 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

Penguin (Non-Classics), October 2005. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times bestseller "Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history."--Bill Gates Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale.--Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in..... 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

Penguin Group USA Inc, May 1999. Trade Paperback. The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem. In August 1942, Hitler's huge..... 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

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

PublicAffairs, April 2021. Trade Paperback. The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States. In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning..... 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

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

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

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

Redstone Press, October 2019. Paper Back. How W.E.B. Du Bois combined photographs and infographics to communicate the everyday realities of Black lives and the inequities of race in America At the 1900 Paris Exposition the pioneering sociologist and activist W.E.B. Du Bois presented an exhibit representing the progress of African..... More

Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2009. Trade Paperback. In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he..... More

Stackpole Books, February 2007. Oversize Softcover. Filled with fine-scale drawings of Germany's late war armored vehicles including: Pz. Kpfw. V Panther TankPz. Kpfw. VI Tiger I and IIPz. Jager Elephant Tank DestroyerSd.Kfz. 234/2 "Puma" Armored CarJagdtiger with Henschel suspensionAnd dozens more. More

HarperCollins, December 1975. Trade Paperback. More

Ravan, January 1984. Paper Back. Previous owner's address stamp inside half title page. 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

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

Beacon Press, February 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 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..... More

Grove Press, May 2016. Trade Paperback. Jim Nicholson earned the nickname "Batman" early in his spy career with the CIA. A talented case officer with a Rolex watch and hand-tailored suits, Jim's elan and fierce patriotic streak shot him to stardom. He played cat-and-mouse with the KGB during Cold War..... More

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), March 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. A bit of dampstain to rear panel of jacket, affecting top edge of rear endpapers and last few pages; not affecting text. More

Random House, April 2021. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame resilience. Contributions by..... More

Beacon Press, February 2004. Trade Paperback. A Good Morning America 2021 Top Summer Read Pick The visionary author's masterpiece pulls us--along with her Black female hero--through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. Dana, a modern black..... More

Doubeday Anchor Original, January 1958. Mass Market PaperBack. Moderate wear to edges & corners of cover. Cover is also showing toning and tiny scarring upper right corner of front. A previous owner's name inked in blue ballpoint top right corner of half title page. Else interior is unmarked without underlining..... More

Anchor, March 1996. Trade Paperback. A book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great..... More