University of Georgia Press, September 2003. Trade Paperback. More

Riverhead, January 1995. Hardcover. More

University of Georgia Press, October 1992. Trade Paperback. Since the early nineteenth century, Georgia has produced an impressive number of distinguished fiction writers, from Joel Chandler Harris, Sidney Lanier, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson McCullers to such present-day voices as Alice Walker, James Dickey, and Pat Conroy. Containing thirty-nine stories and..... 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

New Directions, December 1986. Hardcover. Stains to top and bottom of the text block. More

Scottish Poetry Library, 2005. Postcards. More

Dell, January 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. More

Vintage, January 1967. Mass Market PaperBack. Shelf wear and fading to the cover. More

Oxford Univ Pr, September 1975. Paper Back. Light shelf wear and some stains to the cover. 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

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

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

Penguin Classics, May 1971. Trade Paperback. 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

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

Ballantine, 1974. Mass Market PaperBack. Cover is worn and creased. Text block stained. Previous owner's name inked inside cover. More

Dell, January 1966. Mass Market PaperBack. Previous owner's name inked on first page. 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

Bedford/St. Martin's, January 2008. Trade Paperback. More

Soho Pr Inc, April 1996. Hardcover. Shelf wear to jacket. 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

Pantheon Books, December 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship, and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the tepee of their leader, Little Crow. Knowing the strength and resilience of the young American nation, Little..... 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

Pantheon, May 1992. Hardcover. 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

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

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

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

Doubleday, October 2013. Hardcover. A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book A GoodReads Reader's Choice In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life. The summer of 1927 began with one of the signature..... 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

Penguin Classics, November 1980. Mass Market PaperBack. More

Fairfax Press, December 1984. Hardcover. Fading/discoloration to the spine of the 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

BkMk Press, December 2013. Paper Back. 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

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

Harper Perennial, February 1991. Trade Paperback. In the 1430's, an elderly British woman named Margery Kempe dictated her memoirs to hired scribes. The result is considered the first autobiography written in English, and is also the tale of a remarkable woman who was not afraid to violate the social mores..... More

North Point Pr, September 1984. Hardcover. More

Avon Books, June 1982. Paper Back. Creasing and fading to the cover. 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

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

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

Smithsonian Books (DC), May 2010. Hardcover. In this follow-up to 'America's Hidden History,' a 'New York Times'-bestselling author explores the gritty first half of the 19th century, one of the most tumultuous but overlooked periods in the nation's early history. More

Harvard University Press, August 1984. Trade Paperback. The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered into the French courtroom, denounced du Tilh, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. This book, by the..... More

Houghton Mifflin, September 2006. Hardcover. More

William Morrow & Co, May 1987. Paper Back. Spine is creased. More