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

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

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

George Lane, January 1841. Hardcover. Hinges weak. Foxing. Ownership name/date (1841) in ink. Otherwise, solid. More

Podzun-Pallas, January 1987. Hardcover. Clean & solid without markings in dust jacket. In German. 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

Israel Information Services, July 1967. Paper Back. Stapled Pamphlet. More

Cleage Group Publications, 1990. Stapled Soft Cover. 34 pages. More

Barnes & Noble Inc, July 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear on the 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

Siam Society, January 2004. Trade Paperback. More

Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Two corners bumped. Otherwise unmarked. 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

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

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

Ethics. Pamphlet. Heavy underlining, highlighting, and marginal notes throughout. 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

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

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

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

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

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

Anchor, January 2013. Trade Paperback. 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

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

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

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, 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

Penguin Books, October 1987. Trade Paperback. 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

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

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

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

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

Paper Back. More

Vintage, August 1974. Trade Paperback. 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

Harpercollins, June 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate shelf wear and a 5mm closed tear on the jacket. 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

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

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