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Henry James Letters: Volume I, 1843–1875
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew windows into a literary genius are as intimate or as revealing as a collection of personal correspondence, and Henry James Letters:...
King O'Malley: 'The American Bounder'
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: minor stain on book block. Few figures in Australian political history are as colourful, contradictory, and captivating as King O'Malley...
Goldfields Reminiscences: Castlemaine's Golden Era
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the sun-scorched hills of Victoria's goldfields, a community was forged in sweat, ambition, and the glittering promise...
San Diego County Place-Names: Yesterday's People ... Today's Geography
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat's in a name? In San Diego County, the answer is an entire tapestry of human...
The Illustrated War News 81-84; 86-90
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Good for age, vol 85 missing - tears; spine splitting, a few rusted staples. February 23, 1916...
Sister Carrie
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the twentieth century, a young woman steps off a train in Chicago with little...
The Executioner's Song
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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the desolate flatlands of the American...
Inside The Green Berets: The First Thirty Years: A History Of The U.S. Army Special Forces
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the jungles of Southeast Asia to the frozen mountain passes of Afghanistan, the U.S. Army Special Forces — better...
Pioneer Merchant: The Letters Of James Graham 1839-54
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the raw and restless years of colonial Australia, one man's correspondence offers an intimate and vivid window into a...
Threshold Of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt And American Entry Into World War Ii
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the pivot point of the twentieth century, one man's decisions would alter the course of history forever — Threshold of War by Waldo Heinrichs...
Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis (SIGNED)
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Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedWhen the King of Rock 'n' Roll died on August 16, 1977, the world mourned — but none felt the loss more...
In The Field: The Language Of The Vietnam War
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodTo understand a war, one must first understand its language — and no conflict in modern American history generated a...
Corporate Power In America
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time when boardrooms wielded more power than ballot boxes, Corporate Power in America stands as a...
The Exploding Metropolis
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a moment when American cities were straining under the pressures of rapid postwar growth, suburban flight, and...
The Living And The Dead: A Study Of The Symbolic Life Of Americans
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Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of ritual, myth, and everyday life stands W. Lloyd Warner's landmark study, The Living and...
An Introduction To 50 American Novels
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor any reader seeking to navigate the vast and storied landscape of American literature, Ian Ousby's An Introduction...
Russia And America: Dangers And Prospects
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, when the fate of the world balanced on a...
The Last Hero: Charles A. Lindbergh
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn an age when aviation was synonymous with daring and death, one man rose above the...
Remember Pearl Harbor!: Revised Edition
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOn the morning of December 7, 1941, the United States was forever changed when Japanese forces launched a...
The Life Of Abraham Lincoln
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in American history have captured the imagination of the world quite like Abraham Lincoln, and Stefan...
The Rich And The Super-Rich
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWho really owns America, and how do they keep it? Ferdinand Lundberg's The Rich and the Super-Rich tears...
Blind Ambition: The Real Story Behind Washington's Closed Doors
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew political memoirs have shaken Washington to its foundations quite like Blind Ambition, the searing firsthand account by...
The Land Boomers
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the feverish decades of Melbourne's great land boom of the 1880s, a cast of audacious speculators, crooked financiers, and...
Eastern Front: The Soviet-German War 1941-45
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the frozen wastelands and scorched plains stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, the most devastating conflict in...
E.J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits: Photographs From The New Orleans Red-Light District, Circa 1912
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. worn edges - creased corners; internally sound.At the dawn of the twentieth century, in the shadowy quarters...
The Candy Bombers: The Berlin Airlift 1948/49 The Technical Conditions And Their Successful Transformation
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the shadow of a divided world, The Candy Bombers chronicles one of the most audacious humanitarian and...
World War Ii
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew conflicts have reshaped the modern world as profoundly as the Second World War, and Brigadier Peter Young's World War II stands as a commanding...
Yankee City Series: The Social Life Of A Modern Community; The Status System Of A Modern Community; The Social Systems Of American Ethnic Groups; The Social System Of The Modern Factory
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew sociological projects in American history have proven as ambitious or as enduring as the...
American Scoundrel: The Life Of The Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
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Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in American history embodied contradiction as magnificently as Daniel Edgar Sickles — congressman, adulterer, killer, and one-legged Civil...
Confederates: A Novel (SIGNED)
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Light foxing on book block. In the blood-soaked fields of Virginia, where glory and...
Hollywood And After: The Changing Face Of American Cinema
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the golden age of the studio system to the seismic cultural upheavals of the 1960s and beyond, Hollywood and After: The Changing Face...
The United States And Japan
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of two great civilizations stands one of the most consequential diplomatic relationships of the modern...
Shane
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the dusty plains of Wyoming's frontier emerges a lone, mysterious gunfighter — and in Jack Schaefer's Shane,...
American Capitalism: The Concept Of Countervailing Power
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most consequential works of twentieth-century economic thought, John Kenneth Galbraith dismantles the classical myth...
The Aspirin Age: 1919-1941
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBetween the shell-shocked aftermath of the First World War and the dawning catastrophe of the Second lies one...
The Lonely Crowd: A Study Of The Changing American Character
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to be an American — and how has that identity been quietly, systematically reshaped...
The Best Of I. F. Stone's Weekly
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time when the American press was dominated by establishment voices and Cold War conformity, one fearless...
Stardom: The Hollywood Phenomenon
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the golden age of Hollywood, a select few transcended mere acting to become living myths — and...
A History Of Latin America
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the ancient civilisations of the Aztecs and Incas to the turbulent revolutions and political upheavals of the...
The Making Of Modern Britain: Life And Work From George Iii To Elizabeth Ii
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersFrom the turbulent reign of George III to the modern era of Elizabeth II, The Making...
Wild Men Of Sydney
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the raucous, mud-soaked colony of nineteenth-century Sydney, a cast of extraordinary rogues, radicals, and rabble-rousers shaped the destiny of...
An Empire Of Their Own: How The Jews Invented Hollywood
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Edition: First Edition Thus Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of the American dream factory lies a story that has never been fully told —...
You Know Me Al: A Busher's Letters
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBefore there was Babe Ruth's legend or Field of Dreams' romanticism, there was Jack Keefe — the swaggering, semi-literate rookie...
American Sociology: Worldly Rejections Of Religion And Their Directions
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of faith and secular modernity, American Sociology: Worldly Rejections of Religion and Their...
Chicago And The American Literary Imagination 1880-1920
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turn of the twentieth century, no American city captured the literary imagination quite like Chicago —...
Urban America: The Expert Looks At The City
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a pivotal moment in American civic life, Urban America: The Expert Looks at the City assembles some...
Streetcar Suburbs: The Process Of Growth In Boston, 1870-1900
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the decades following the Civil War, Boston underwent a dramatic transformation — one powered not...
Manila 1900-1941: Social Change In A Late Colonial Metropolis
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turn of the twentieth century, Manila stood at a remarkable crossroads — a city...