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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628726503Author Michael RosenthalFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

This is the classic story of the life and times of I. F. "Izzy" Stone. Robert Cottrell weaves together material from interviews, letters, archival materials, and government documents, and Stone's own writings to tell the tale of one of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988824840Author James H MarshFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Durvile PublicationsPublisher Durvile PublicationsWeight(grams) 4849g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933372976Author Daniele MastrogiacomoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Europa EditionsPublisher Europa Editions

Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later after a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work as a freelance journalist. When she first moved to Sanaa in 2009, she was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598511185Author Michael RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Gray & Company PublishersPublisher Gray & Company PublishersWeight(grams)...

Barry Bingham, Sr., was one of this country's most influential journalists. Under his half-century of leadership, the Louisville Courier-Journal became one of America's leading newspapers, as attested by six Pulitzer Prizes. In this illuminating oral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771620833Author Mark BulgutchFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreWeight(grams) 652g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788498017229Author Gary RaymondFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint BlumePublisher BlumeWeight(grams) 635g

Towering above printers of his time and their successors for many years afterward was the figure of Robert Estienne, the great French lexicographer of the sixteenth century, whose contribution to knowledge and its dissemination is the subject of this...

This is a follow-on volume to the author's highly successful "Baghdad, Yesterday" (Ibis Editions, Jerusalem, 2007), which told of Sasson Somekh's boyhood in the city of his birth and the circumstances under which his family decided to forsake Iraq, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921497360Author David St John ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Exisle PublishingPublisher Exisle Publishing

In the days before mobile phones, the internet and 24-hour news channels, the easiest way for a British foreign correspondent to find out what was going on in the world was to phone the local office of Reuters news agency and ask: 'Is anything...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525088Author Calvin TrillinFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

The story of Kurt Vonnegut and his beloved masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five, a novel born in the destruction of Dresden in World War II and written during the tumultuous days of Vietnam During the Vietnam War, Kurt Vonnegut, after surviving the horrors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062021007Author Detmar BlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598533088Author H. L. MenckenFormat HardbackPage Count 750Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593081914Author Robert A. CaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156032186Author Roger AngellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams)...

Betsy Prioleau's biography of Gilded Age female tycoon Miriam Leslie is "an appropriately twisty tale of someone trying to outrun her origins. . . . Her story sparkles, as intoxicating as a champagne fountain that somebody else is paying for" (New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198286Author James H. BarronFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400083039Author Rob SheffieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Call it a miracle, fate, pure luck, or just another day in the city where nothing is usual, but in 1991 Jimmy Breslin narrowly escaped death - which inspired him to write this book about his life. Two years ago, Breslin was having trouble getting his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618439201Author Adam HochschildFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 139mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610160353Author Albert Jay NockFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Ludwig Von Mises InstitutePublisher Ludwig Von Mises InstituteWeight(grams)...

For decades, Walter Cronkite was known as the most trusted man in America. Millions across the nation welcomed him into their homes, first as a print reporter for the United Press on the front lines of World War II, and later, in the emerging medium of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805089639Author Philip CaputoFormat PaperbackPage Count 379Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770411548Author Bill ApterFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 493g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812980561Author Jeff HimmelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609806613Author Francesca BorriFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 274g

Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written memoir by a "black first" looks back with searing insight on the decades of struggle, friendship, courage, humor and savvy that secured what seems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312354114Author Mary MapesFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint St. Martins Press-3plPublisher St. Martins Press-3plWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955823800Author Ian SkidmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Revel BarkerPublisher Revel BarkerWeight(grams) 317g

Zero Dark Thirty meets 127 Hours - a riveting war journal from photographer Paul Conroy, who accompanied Marie Colvin (called by her peers &ldquothe greatest war correspondent of her generation") during her ill-fated final assignment in...

Imagine a life of adventure, set in the world of second-hand books: finding a valuable first edition gathering dust on a Parisian pub shelf, opening bookshops in Montpellier, Paris, Bangor, trading books with a holidaying Ian McEwan or Alan Sillitoe, and...

On October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his own-he made his skin black and traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of discovery was captured in journal entries, arguably the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683964179Author Bill SchellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

From the bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape and Turn Around Bright Eyes, "a funny, insightful look at the sublime torture of adolescence."-Entertainment Weekly The 1980s meant MTV and John Hughes movies, big dreams and bigger shoulder pads, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805076967Author Caroline MooreheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 465Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805076967Author Caroline MooreheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 465Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...