Riverhead, January 1995. Hardcover. 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

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

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, April 1982. Hardcover. Spine of jacket has small closed tears at the top. More

Fireside, September 1990. Trade Paperback. More

Bantam Books, January 1972. Mass Market PaperBack. Creasing to spine and stains to text block. 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

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

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

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

Goodyear Pub. Co, January 1978. Trade Paperback. More

Puffin, May 1988. Trade Paperback. 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

Knopf : distributed by Random House, January 1980. Hardcover. Shelf wear to jacket. Small tear at bottom corner of jacket. 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

Farrar, 1982, January 1982. Trade Paperback. 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

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. 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

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

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

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

Mariner Books, April 2007. Paper Back. More

Bantam, March 1992. Hardcover. Small tear to the back of the jacket. Fading to spine of jacket. 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 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

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1978. Trade Paperback. 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

W. W. Norton & Company, April 2008. Paper Back. In his eighth collection of poems, Martín 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

W. W. Norton & Company, January 1999. Trade Paperback. The Victorians in this richly peopled narrative maneuvered through decades marked by frequent shifts in taste, some seeking safety in traditional styles, others drawn to the avant-garde of artists, composers, and writers. Peter Gay's panoramic survey offers a fresh view of..... More

Penguin Books, February 1996. Paper Back. Turn-of-the-century East Texas. A world that offers no home for Reuben Sweetbitter, a young half-Choctaw, half-white man. Left as a child to fend for himself after the death of his mother, he finds his uneasy way through the world, searching always for a place..... More

Atlantic Monthly Press, April 1990. Hardcover. Charles Glass resigned his position as Chief Middle East Correspondent of ABC News in February of 1987 to begin work on a book chronicling the land, people, and culture of the Levant. On June 18, 1987, he was kidnapped by pro-Iranian terrorists in a...... More

Knopf, March 1996. Hardcover. This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly. Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the..... More