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The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was
"A tour de force...prepare to be amazed." --John C. Bogle, Founder and Former CEO, The Vanguard Group Why didn't the Florentines invent the steam engines and flying machines that Da...
The Power of Gold
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Diamonds & Demons: The Joseph Gutnick Story
All but wiped out in the 1987 stockmarket crash, Joseph Gutnick marshalled all his skills to regain his position as one of the New World's wealthiest men. While his radical...
Lola Bensky
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Auguste Blanqui And The Art Of Insurrection
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew figures in the turbulent landscape of nineteenth-century radical politics burned as defiantly as Louis Auguste Blanqui —...
The Last Chairlift
John Irving, one of the world's greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years - a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics. In...
The Irving Judgment
"Denying the Holocaust" by Deborah Lipstadt was originally published in the US in 1993 by The Free Press. It was published in paperback in the UK by Penguin books in...
Thurber: A Biography
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. Behind the gentle whimsy and celebrated cartoons of James Thurber lay a...
Ravelstein
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The Lean Years: A History Of The American Worker 1920-1933
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the New Deal reshaped the American social contract, there was a decade of hardship, broken promises, and...
Washington Irving: History, Tales And Sketches
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingFew writers shaped the early literary identity of America with such wit, elegance, and imaginative daring as...
The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving
The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to...
Past-Present: Essays On Historicism In Art From Donatello To Picasso
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Author: Irving LavinBinding: HardbackPublished: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1993Condition:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: binding bent on coverThis scholarly volume presents a profound analysis of historicism within...
The Passions Of The Mind: A Novel Of Sigmund Freud
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the turn of the twentieth century, a young Viennese physician named Sigmund Freud dared to peer into the darkest...
Being Bernard Berenson: A Biography
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Author: Meryle SecrestBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsMeryle Secrest's Being Bernard Berenson: A Biography chronicles the extraordinary life of the influential...
Being Bernard Berenson: A Biography
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Author: Meryle SecrestBinding: HardbackPublished: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: rubbing and tanning of dust jacket; some rubbing to hard cover edges; pages...