Scribner Book Company, September 2011. Trade Paperback. The latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brand-name status in the literary world. Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-205). More
Riverhead, January 1995. Hardcover. More
Bottom Dog Press, August 2006. Trade Paperback. "This anthology, Evensong, is a celebration of the rich spiritual tapestry that is contemporary American religious experience. If this book is flawed recall that to be spiritual is to have faith even when one doubts, to see the flaws yet find belief. "When..... More
Milkweed Editions, September 1997. Paper Back. Since its inception in 1977, the Writers Community has been one of the most fruitful forces in contemporary American literature. With over 1,000 graduates, including Allan Gurganus, Jessica Hagedorn, Charles Simic, Michael Cunningham and Ntozake Shange, represented here along with 32 others, this project's..... More
NM Cyprian Publishers, January 2006. Paper Back. More
New Directions, December 1986. Hardcover. Stains to top and bottom of the text block. More
Anchor, October 1987. Paper Back. More
Scottish Poetry Library, 2005. Postcards. More
Random House Value Publishing, August 1985. Hardcover. Stains to the text block. Shelf wear and some small tears to the jacket. Previous owner's inscription inked on first free page. More
Routledge & Kegan Paul, January 1983. Paper Back. More
Oxford Univ Pr, September 1975. Paper Back. Light shelf wear and some stains to the cover. More
Free Press, May 2010. Hardcover. Hirsi Ali tells the stirring story of her search for a new life in America in this vivid philosophical memoir, picking up where INFIDEL left off. Picking up where 'Infidel' leaves off, 'Nomad' tells the stirring story of Ali's search for a new life in..... More
Penguin Books, July 1962. Mass Market PaperBack. This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human..... More
Simon & Schuster, February 1996. Hardcover. "Unduanted Courage" is the story of a heroic and legendary man, and the saga of a great nation creating itself. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson chose Captain Meriwether Lewis to lead the first government-backed exploration of the vast and unknown western territory of what..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 2006. Paper Back. The globe's first true world war comes vividly to life in this rich, cautionary tale (The New York Times Book Review) The French and Indian War -the North American phase of a far larger conflagration, the Seven Years' War-remains one of the most important..... More
Chelsea Green Pub Co, February 1999. Trade Paperback. Of value to business people, environmentalists, and educators alike, "Mid-Course Correction" is a business book about the environment that's written from a personal perspective. With passion and pride, Ray Anderson, founder, Chairman, and CEO of one of the world's largest interior furnishings..... More
Harper & Row, April 1984. Hardcover. Shelf wear to dust jacket. Small stains and closed tears at top of spine and at bottom front of jacket. More
Vintage Books USA, July 1965. Paper Back. The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image; of the nature of children. Aries traces the evolution of the concept of childhood from the end of the Middle Ages, when the..... More
Penguin Classics, May 1971. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Books, October 1976. Mass Market PaperBack. 'His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable' Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the man and his achievements we have. Arrian's own experience as a...... More
Random House, March 2005. Hardcover. Though it is the fastest growing religion in the world, Islam remains shrouded by ignorance and fear. What is the essence of this ancient faith? Is it a religion of peace or war? How does Allah differ from the God of Jews and Christians? Can..... More
Random House, April 1982. Hardcover. Spine of jacket has small closed tears at the top. More
Modern Library, January 2002. Trade Paperback. Jane Austen's first novel, Northanger Abbey--published posthumously in 1818--tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey..... More
Fireside, September 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Doubleday Books, January 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. From the National Book Award-winning author of "Slaves in the Family," a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads. One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge..... More
Bantam Books, January 1972. Mass Market PaperBack. Creasing to spine and stains to text block. More
Soho Pr Inc, April 1996. Hardcover. Shelf wear to jacket. More
Doubleday, May 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. In 'While Europe Slept', Bawer sounded the alarm about the dire impact of Muslim immigration in Europe. Now, he reveals that a combination of fear and political correctness has led politicians and the media to appease radical Islam at the cost of freedom of..... More
Doubleday, May 2009. Hardcover. In 'While Europe Slept', Bawer sounded the alarm about the dire impact of Muslim immigration in Europe. Now, he reveals that a combination of fear and political correctness has led politicians and the media to appease radical Islam at the cost of freedom of speech. More
Pantheon, January 2007. Hardcover. In 1791, Saint Domingue was both the richest and cruelest colony in the Western Hemisphere; more than a third of African slaves died within a few years of their arrival there. Thirteen years later, Haitian rebels declared independence from France after the first--and only--successful slave revolution..... More
Crosswind Publications Ltd., December 2006. Trade Paperback. More
Free Press, January 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED since the shocking attacks on the World Trade Center, and after seven years of conflict, the last U.S. combat troops left Iraq--only to move into Afghanistan, where the ten-year-old fight continues: the war on terror rages with no clear..... More
John Wiley & Sons, September 2000. Hardcover. In this exciting new book, Peter L. Bernstein, who chronicled the evolution of risk in his recent bestseller, Against the Gods, tells the story of history's most coveted, celebrated, and inglorious asset: gold. From the ancient fascinations of Moses and Midas through the..... More
Kodansha Amer Inc, January 1997. Hardcover. Niagara Falls has always been more than just a natural wonder. The sublime beauty and awesome power of the great cataract have made it a magnet for statesmen and stuntmen, poets and poseurs, ordinary sightseers and exceptional visionaries. This book traces the history of..... More
Pantheon, May 1992. Hardcover. More
Goodyear Pub. Co, January 1978. Trade Paperback. More
Prometheus Books, August 2012. Hardcover. God's war crimes, Aristotle's sneaky tricks, Einstein's pajamas, information theory's blind spot, Stephen Wolfram's new kind of science, and six monkeys at six typewriters getting it wrong. What do these have to do with the birth of a universe and with your need for meaning..... More
Puffin, May 1988. Trade Paperback. More
Atlantic Monthly Press, March 2013. Hardcover. The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli is widely regarded as the single most influential book on politics--and in particular on the the politics of power--ever written. In this groundbreaking book, Philip Bobbitt explores this often..... More
Vintage, March 1964. Paper Back. Winner of the Bancroft Prize In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present. Winner of the Bancroft Prize. 'A superb panorama of life in America from the first settlements on through the white hot..... More
HarperCollins Publishers, October 1987. Hardcover. In thirty stimulating and related essays, an eminent Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Daniel Boorstin, explores the hidden history of America and the secret pitfalls and virtues of our extraordinary democracy. Some creasing and small tears at top of jacket. Previous owner's inscription on dedication page. More
Viking, September 1989. Hardcover. Black marker to the bottom of the text block. More
Knopf : distributed by Random House, January 1980. Hardcover. Shelf wear to jacket. Small tear at bottom corner of jacket. More
Henry Holt & Company, April 1999. Hardcover. In The Wild Darkness, Brodkey, who died of AIDS on January 26, 1996, examines his his passage from the ranks of the living to the fraternity of the dying with the same irony and lucidity he brought to his association with his acclaimed..... More
Scribner Book Company, March 1995. Hardcover. Napoleon and Josephine Bonaparte are two of history's most intriguing, flamboyant, and commanding figures. This compelling dual portrait focuses on their personal relationship and highlights the social and cultural context in which they lived. 32 pages of illustrations. Jacket is shelf worn with a...... More
Harper & Row, January 1971. Mass Market PaperBack. Top of back cover torn. More
Farrar, 1982, January 1982. Trade Paperback. More
Lyons Press, May 2015. Hardcover. Savvy political and historical analysis with narrative punch, this debut of a new commentator on the American political scene looks at pivotal moments in our history when political outliers moved to the center, getting support from the general populace and those in power. From the..... More
Harmony, November 2005. Hardcover. From the straight boulevards that smashed their way through rambling old Paris to create the city we know today to the televised implosion of Las Vegas casinos to make room for America's ever grander desert of dreams, demolition has long played an ambiguous role in our..... More
Simon & Schuster, April 1991. Hardcover. Washington Post White House correspondent for the eight years of Ronald Reagan's presidency and the only writer to cover Reagan throughout his entire political career, Lou Cannon now offers the authoritative account of the most significant presidency since Franklin D. Roosevelt's. Includes an index..... More
Penguin Classics, November 1980. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Fairfax Press, December 1984. Hardcover. Fading/discoloration to the spine of the dust jacket. More
Random House Inc, July 1985. Hardcover. Fading, shelf wear to dust jacket. More
William Morrow & Company, October 1988. Hardcover. In 1984, Thurston Clarke set out to see the equator first hand. His expedition spanned three continents, countless interviews, and some of the hardest traveling imaginable. Three years later, he had completed one of the last great adventures on earth. More
Penguin Classics, June 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832, it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of..... More
BkMk Press, December 2013. Paper Back. Poetry. BEAUTY MARK, a poetry collection by Suzanne Cleary, was chosen by Kevin Prufer for the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. BEAUTY MARK uses images and subjects drawn from American popular culture to find transcendent meanings in the natures of beauty, time, and especially..... More
HarperTorch, January 2009. Hardcover. "This engaging, wonderfully written narrative provides fresh insight into this complex woman. It is a triumph." --Doris Kearns Goodwin Catherine Clinton, author of the award-winning Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, returns with Mrs. Lincoln, the first new biography in almost 20 years of Mary Todd..... More
Atlantic Monthly Press, February 1988. Hardcover. In a compelling account that tracks the behind-the-scenes dealings of this wide-ranging cast of characters, Cockburn details how mercenaries were recruited and trained by the CIA; how money was obtained; and weapons were procured and sent to the contras. More
Atlantic Monthly Pr, January 1986. Hardcover. Some shelf wear to the jacket. More
Pantheon Books, January 2003. Hardcover. Britain's pursuit of empire seems an inexorable march across continents toward its ultimate--if temporary---global hegemony. But, as Linda Colley shows in this masterfully written book, Britain's overseas enterprises were always constrained by its own limitations in size, population, and armed forces, and by divisions among..... More
University of New Mexico Press, May 1970. Trade Paperback. A Hopi Indian will tell you that a kachina is a supernatural being who is impersonated by a man wearing a mask. Small wooden dolls carved in the likenesses of the various kachinas are used to help teach Hopi children the..... More
North Point Pr, September 1984. Hardcover. More
Little Brown & Company, October 1980. Hardcover. More
Avon Books, June 1982. Paper Back. Creasing and fading to the cover. More
Harvard Univ Press, October 1983. First Edition. Cloth. Some small closed tears, chipping and rubbed corners on the jacket. Two bumped corners on the boards. More
Taylor Trade Publishing, January 1955. Hardcover. Vincent Coppola traces today's radical militia movement to its source: virulent right-wing extremism that emerged in the mid-'80s, most dramatically with the murder of talk radio's Alan Berg and a string of other spectacular crimes by neo-Nazis--the story that became Oliver Stone's 'Talk Radio..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 2001. Trade Paperback. Joe DiMaggio was, at every turn, one man we could look at who made us feel good. In the hard-knuckled thirties, he was the immigrant boy who made it big--and spurred the New York Yankees to a new era of dynasty. He was..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, January 1983. Paper Back. The downfall of the Habsburg monarchy was more than just the end of a great and powerful dynasty. It meant the destruction of the old European order and marked a turning point in world history. Edward Crankshaw's distinguished study offers a compelling..... More
Berkley Books, March 2010. Hardcover. Another fascinating foray into medical history from the author of "The American Plague" In 1918, a world war was raging, and a lethal strain of influenza was circling the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known..... More
Wilderness House Press, June 2012. Paper Back. This modernized straight-forward translation of Sophocles' Ajax highlights the nature of man's potential nobility as he faces outward enemies and inner demons. Fresh insights into current issues of post-traumatic stress syndrome and the maltreatment of enemy bodies on the battlefield are dealt with..... More
Henry Holt & Co (P), July 1988. Paper Back. More
Smithsonian Books (DC), May 2010. Hardcover. "History in Davis's hands is loud, coarse, painful, funny, irreverent--and memorable." -- San Francisco Chronicle Following on his New York Times bestsellers America's Hidden History and Don't Know Much About History, Ken Davis explores the next chapter in the country's hidden history: the gritty..... More
Houghton Mifflin, September 2006. Hardcover. More
William Morrow & Co, May 1987. Paper Back. Spine is creased. More
Simon & Schuster, November 2003. Hardcover. ""We Are Lincoln Men"" examines the significance of friendship in Abraham Lincoln's life and the role it played in his presidency. Though Lincoln had hundreds of acquaintances and dozens of admirers, he had almost no intimate friends. Behind his mask of affability and endless..... More
Pantheon, April 1987. Paper Back. This book draws on American, English and Japanese songs, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports and official documents to show exactly what role racism played in the war. 20 pages of illustrations. Light shelf wear to cover and spine is sun-faded. More
Bedford/St. Martin's, December 2007. Trade Paperback. Much has changed since the first edition of Lisa Ede's "Work in Progress"; students need more rigorous help working with sources, creating effective arguments, and addressing the greater demands of academic writing in a digital age. Refocused on the kinds of academic writing students..... More
Metropolitan Books, October 2009. Hardcover. A sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism Americans are a "positive" people--cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), June 1995. Trade Paperback. "Before electricity carved its blue path toward me, before the negative charge shot down from cloud to ground...before air expanded and contracted producing loud pressure pulses I could not hear because I was already dead, I had been walking." So opens Gretel Ehrlich's absorbing..... More
Penguin Classics, July 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich..... More
Vintage, March 1998. Trade Paperback. Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the slaveholding libertarian who was capable of decrying mescegenation while maintaing an intimate relationship with his..... More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1978. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Group USA Inc, September 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including History, Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, and The Poet;..... More
Penguin Classics, April 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. Fifteen of Emerson's most significant writings provide important information on the society in which Emerson lived during his formative years. More
Collins Publishers, February 2009. Hardcover. Epstein presents a fresh angle on Abraham Lincoln as seen by his three young private secretaries--the men who knew him better than anyone outside his immediate family. More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2008. Paper Back. In his eighth collection of poems, MartÃn Espada celebrates the power of poetry itself. The Republic of Poetry is a place of odes and elegies, collective memory and hidden history, miraculous happenings and redemptive justice. Here poets return from the dead..... More
Simon & Schuster, June 1984. Hardcover. More
Metropolitan Books, October 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of "Backlash"--an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9/11 In this most original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks on that..... More
Free Press, March 2005. Hardcover. On December 15, 1811, two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews murdered a slave in cold blood and put his body parts into a roaring fire. The evidence would have been destroyed but for a rare act of God -- or, as some believed, of the Indian..... More
Palgrave MacMillan, October 2007. Hardcover. In 1856 a struggling young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln entered the national limelight through his involvement in the Anderson case in Springfield, Illinois. Julie Fenster's narrative describes how the case revealed Lincoln's potential. More
Atlantic Monthly Press, April 1994. Trade Paperback. James Fenton is the right man in the wrong place in dangerous times. This journalist, poet, and critic is almost always at the center of a revolution. Fenton was one of the last journalists in Saigon, and his reporting from the abandoned American..... More
Scribner Book Company, October 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Boldly conceived and dazzlingly executed, this breathtaking work offers a unique retrospective on the last 1,000 years of world history. Epoch-making as well as epoch marking, Millennium is history on a grand scale--big but fluent, solid but exciting, scholarly and demanding but..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1979. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Knopf, September 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures, in stunning vignettes, snapshots, and episodes, the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins's work in Iraq was hailed by..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons, c. 1970. Trade Paperback. Shelf wear and creasing to the cover. More
St. Martin's Press, January 1996. Hardcover. Argues that the world's leaders should adopt an engineering mindset in designing solutions to moral and social problems that fit within the constraints of time, materials, and money. The author of the classic The Existential Pleasures of Engineering now offers an exciting look at..... More
Routledge and Paul, January 1978. Hardcover. More
Penguin Group USA Inc, March 1978. Mass Market PaperBack. One of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of Edward II to the downfall of Richard II, Froissart powerfully portrays the deeds of knights in battle at Sluys..... More
