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South African Institute of Race Relations, January 1990. Paper Back. More
South African Institute of Race Relations, January 1990. Paper Back. More
University Press of Mississippi, November 1995. Trade Paperback. The late African American novelist Chester Himes (1909-1984) is well known both in America and Europe for his moving depictions of black men destroyed by a pervasive racism and for darkly humorous stories of Harlem's underworld. His novels and stories are all..... More
University of Tennessee Press, April 2004. Hardcover. In the second half of 1845 the focus of Polk s correspondence shifted from those issues relating to the formation of his administration and distribution of part patronage to those that would give shape and consequence to his presidency: the admission of Texas..... More
Louisiana State Univ Pr, May 2009. Hardcover. For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. She bore him four children, only one of whom survived past early childhood. When Sam died shortly after the Civil..... More
University of South Carolina Press, June 2017. First Edition. Cloth. In Days of Destruction, editors W. Eric Emerson and Karen Stokes chronicle the events of the siege of Charleston, South Carolina, through a collection of letters written by Augustine Thomas Smythe, a well-educated young man from a prominent Charleston family..... More
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, May 2007. Trade Paperback. What and where and who is Europe? This unique collection contends that Europe cannot be defined as simply a particular geographic location or a group of citizens who inhabit the same place and share a culture. Instead, Europe is a question to..... More
William Morrow & Company, September 2013. Trade Paperback. An engrossing compendium of high-seas military disasters From the days of the Spanish Armada to the modern age of aircraft carriers, battles have been bungled just as badly on water as they have been on land. Some blunders were the result of..... More
George Lane, January 1841. Hardcover. Hinges weak. Foxing. Ownership name/date (1841) in ink. Otherwise, solid. More
MerwinAsia, August 2015. Trade Paperback. This is a collection of memoirs by more than fifty Chinese who as young people during the rule of Mao Zedong were rusticated to Hainan Island to clear the jungle for rubber plantations. The stories tell of suffering, hardship and disillusionment, but also of joys..... More
Oxford University Press-India, January 1990. Trade Paperback. Light edge wear and shelf wear on the cover. Binding tight. Text clean and clear. More
Oxford University Press, July 2015. Hardcover. This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete. In exile on the island of Saint-Helena, the deposed Emperor of the French mused about a great treatise on the art of war, but in the end..... More
Stackpole Books, October 1999. First American. Cloth. From 1799 to 1819 more than 1,000 pages of British naval news and views were published every year in The Naval Chronicle, including action reports, intelligence of foreign naval matters, and biographies of officers. In short, it was the most important original account..... More
Israel Information Services, July 1967. Paper Back. Stapled Pamphlet. More
Thames & Hudson, September 2020. Hardcover. Whether it's because their rhetoric--"liberty, fraternity, equality"--articulates those ideals to which we most aspire, or because we are shocked by the destructive forces that are unleashed when social conventions break down, revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. And while all revolutions..... More
Cleage Group Publications, 1990. Stapled Soft Cover. 34 pages. More
Monthly Review Press, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Clean, without markings. More
Barnes & Noble Inc, July 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
Modern Library, January 1959. Cloth. In mildly edgeworn dust jacket. More
World Bank Publications, January 2008. Trade Paperback. Brazil is a country of sharp disparities. The gap between the richest and the poorest citizens is one of the largest in the world. Inequality in Brazil is well-known, but its low mobility is not. Until now, few studies have sought to investigate..... More
Mouton De Gruyter, December 1968. Soft Cover. Covers chipped. More
Siam Society, January 2004. Trade Paperback. More
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Trade Paperback. More
Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Two corners bumped. Otherwise unmarked. More
Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, January 2011. Hardcover. More
Louisiana State University Press, April 1988. Hardcover. Examines President Carter's relationship with Congress, discusses his antipolitical approach to reform, and assesses the accomplishment of his administration. Light shelf wear and edge wear on the jacket. Small water stain on one corner of the back board. More
Knopf, January 1964. Cloth. In discolored jacket with two-inch tear at front fold and marginal wear. Previous owner's name & a decorative rubber stamp & an inked note on front free end page. 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
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
Addison Wesley Publishing Company, June 1995. Hardcover. Awaiting execution for the murder of a Philadelphia policeman, the author describes the brutality and humiliation of prison life and argues that the justice system is racist and ruled by political expediency. Minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
Ethics. Pamphlet. Heavy underlining, highlighting, and marginal notes throughout. More
Seven Stories Press, January 2007. Paper Back. In this lucid political memoir, veteran anti-capitalist activist Michael Albert offers an ardent defense of the project to transform global inequality. Albert, a uniquely visionary figure, recounts a life of uncompromising commitment to creating change one step at a time. Whether chronicling the..... 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
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, The, January 2010. Cloth. 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 bold,"..... 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
Bantam Classics, April 2000. Mass Market PaperBack. From America's call for a free press to its embrace of the capitalist system, Democracy in America--first published in 1835--enlightens, entertains, and endures as a brilliant study of our national government and character. Philosopher John Stuart Mill called it "among the most remarkable..... More
Da Capo Pr, March 1994. Trade Paperback. 2 volume set. 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
University Press of Florida, June 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. The Cuban Revolution of 1959 not only brought Fidel Castro to power, it transformed Cuban cultural identity, with a new notion of "Cubanness" for men and women that Che Guevara defined as the "New Man." In Serra's examination of political speeches..... 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
Writers & Readers Publishing, March 1996. Trade Paperback. Clean, without markings. 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
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
HarperCollins, September 1983. Trade Paperback. More
Anchor, January 2013. Trade Paperback. More
White Lotus, January 1994. Hardcover. Quarto in dust jacket. 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
Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1975. Hardcover. Quarto in edgeworn jacket with several tears between one-quarter inch & one inch. Jacket stains (mostly) at bottom of spine & a few small spatters backside of jacket along spine likewise toward bottom. Frayed edge along fold of rear flap. Sixth printing. 2 large full..... 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
Hill & Wang, November 1995. First American. Hardcover. Winner of the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize for History In this study of the fateful encounters between Europe and Asia on the shores of a legendary sea, Neal Ascherson explores the disputed meaning of community, nationhood, history, and culture in a...... More
Replica Books, June 1963. Trade Paperback. Captain B. H. Liddell Hart is the foremost authority on World War I. In "The Real War," the author has fused exhaustive research and creative brilliance with brevity and precision. Thus we have in one volume the war transformed into literature - an understandable..... More
Other Press, October 2020. Hardcover. In these impassioned, powerful essays, an award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be Black in Trump's America. South Carolina-based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of complex, divisive topics--from police brutality and Confederate symbols to respectability politics and white..... More
Other Press, October 2020. Hardcover. In these impassioned, powerful essays, an award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be Black in Trump's America. South Carolina-based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of complex, divisive topics--from police brutality and Confederate symbols to respectability politics and white..... 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
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
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
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
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
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, GatesNotes.com "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."--Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why..... 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, GatesNotes.com "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."--Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why..... More
Basic Books, November 2020. Hardcover. A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the..... More
Cambridge University Press, November 2010. Hardcover. Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial new account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the..... More
Penguin Books, October 1987. Trade Paperback. 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
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
North Point Press, May 1983. Trade Paperback. "West with the Night" is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s. More
Grub Street Publishing, July 2011. Trade Paperback. Twenty-five thousand feet above Malta - that is where the Spitfires intercepted the Messerschmitts, Macchis and Reggianes as they swept eastwards in their droves, screening the big Junkers with their bomb loads as they pummeled the island beneath - the most bombed patch..... 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
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
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
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
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Hakluyt Society, January 1988. Hardcover. In 1845 Sir John Franklin's expedition left England, searching for a northwest passage, and vanished into the Arctic forever. Three years later HMS Plover's was the first departure of 21 expeditions searching for Franklin. Although most of the analyses of the Franklin Search have focused..... More
Vintage, August 1974. Trade Paperback. 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
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
Harpercollins, March 1977. Trade Paperback. More
Harpercollins, June 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate shelf wear and a 5mm closed tear on the 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
Convergent Books, April 2018. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK 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..... More
Convergent Books, April 2018. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK 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..... More
Convergent Books, April 2018. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK 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..... 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
Franklin Library, 1977. Leather. Signed/limited edition privately printed. Green leather with gold gilt. Gold edge. Ribbon marker. More
Dover Publications, March 1982. Trade Paperback. "An illuminating and convincing account of the enormous change in the whole conception of morals and human personality which took place during the centuries covered by Homer, the early lyric poets, the dramatists, and Socrates." -- The Times (London) Literary Supplement. European thinking began..... More