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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865262874Author Katherine Mellen CharronFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint North Carolina Office of Archives & HistoryPublisher North Carolina...

Has any major thinker been more poorly understood than Karl Marx? Over the last 150 years, his name has been invoked in connection with everything from unemployment insurance to Hollywood to guerrilla wars. Any number of international movements have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853458234Author Benjamin PimentelFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853035114Author Thelma GruenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247816Author Ken CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 71Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 142g

Katharine Tekakwitha is the first Native American to be declared a Blessed. This book introduces the cause for her beatification and canonization.Book InformationISBN 9780823218998Author Sacred Congregation of RitesFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint...

Despite his military achievements and his association with many of the great names of American history, Godfrey Weitzel (1835-1884) is perhaps the least known of all the Union generals. After graduating from West Point, Weitzel, a German immigrant from...

The era following the American War of Independence was one of enormous conflict for the Allegany Senecas. As the most influential Seneca leader of his time, Cornplanter led his people in war and along an often troubled path to peace. This incisive...

For biographers and fans of Dolley Payne Todd Madison, Mary Cutts's memoir of her famous aunt has been indispensable. Because Madison left behind no account of her life, the common assumption has been that Cutts's account is the closest we have to...

In The Rest of the Dream, Lyman Johnson, grassroots civil rights leader, tells his own story. All four of Johnson's grandparents were slaves in Tennessee. Yet his father was a college graduate, principal of a black school, and the inspiration for his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795701238Author Rrekgetsi ChimeloaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Kwela BooksPublisher Kwela BooksWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795708466Author Nomvuyo NgcelwaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Kwela BooksPublisher Kwela BooksWeight(grams) 130g

One happy result of the success of publishing "Sea Crossings" in 2011 is that Commander Huib van Hoeven has been persuaded to reveal this fascinating inside story of his childhood in the Netherlands. In "Sea Callings" he presents not...

Long before "The Perfect Storm," the 1935 August Gale roared northeast. The surf raged along the New York and New Jersey shores as the gale whirled toward Newfoundland. Waves as tall as three-story houses swamped ships; monster combers broke...

We Are Charleston not only recounts the events of that terrible day but also offers a history lesson that reveals a deeper look at the suffering, triumph, and even the ongoing rage of the people who formed Mother Emanuel A.M.E. church and the wider...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714529554Author Julien GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 243Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714528120Author Federico Garcia LorcaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

James McCosh played a leading role in the effort to reconcile two powerful intellectual and social forces of the nineteenth century: evolution and evangelicalism. In the first modern biography of this philosopher, religious leader, and educator, J. David...

To probe the nature of Woodrow Wilson's intellectual development, this book focuses on the relationship between his religious thought and other areas of his life, from his years as a student and professor through those of his presidency of Princeton...

Arnold Brecht witnessed and participated in the course of German history from the late 19th century to the present. Serving under seven Reich chancellors, he became acting Secretary of State, and was finally removed from office by Hitler in 1933. This...

Sarah Bernhardt, London, his own acting--Edwin Booth commented on these and hundreds of other subjects in letters to William Winter, friend of twenty years and drama critic for the New York Tribune. Since he wrote neither autobiography nor diary, the...

A loyal servant of the Ottoman Empire in his early career, Sati' al-Husri (1880-1968) became one of Arab nationalism's most articulate and influential spokesmen. His shift from Ottomanism, based on religion and the multi-national empire, to Arabism,...

In a period of active scientific innovation and technological change, Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736-1806) made major contributions to the development of physics in the areas of torsion and electricity and magnetism; as one of the great engineering...

William Penn is justly famous for his part in the political development of colonial America. Yet he was also one of the leading Quaker theologians of the seventeenth century and the most important translator of Quaker religious thought into social and...

An absorbing portrait of an extraordinary man, an analysis of the work of a great Russian poet, and the evocation of a crucial period in Russian cultural history--all are combined in Edward J. Brown's literary biography of Vladimir Mayakovsky. It is the...

This book is the first complete study of Chen Duxiu, the controversial founder and first secretary-general of the Chinese Communist party. Disputing many conventional views of the New Culture movement and the early history of the party, Lee Feigon...

Originally written as three complete books, this one-volume edition includes A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, and The Middle Years. Begun when James was sixty-eight years old, it was written at a time when his great critical mind was...

The three-volume life-story of the Egyptian intellectual Tahah Husayn (1889-1973) is a landmark in modern autobiography, in Arabic letters, and in the literature of blindness. This justly celebrated text, however, has never been subjected to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670089093Author C. N. R. RaoFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Viking (India)Publisher Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620512602Author Dr Sam MotsuenyaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint KMM Review PublishingPublisher KMM Review PublishingWeight(grams) 345g

The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate covers the period 1901-1929, the period in which the Parliament operated from Melbourne. This first volume provides short articles on Australia's Senators during the first thirty years of the Federal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780343864682Author William Harbutt DawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Franklin Classics Trade PressPublisher Franklin Classics Trade...

Composer, performer, instrument builder, teacher, and writer Gordon Mumma has left an indelible mark on the American contemporary music scene. A prolific composer and innovative French horn player, Mumma is recognized for integrating advanced electronic...

Collector of sexual folklore. Cataloger of erotica. Tireless social critic. Gershon Legman's singular, disreputable resume made him a counter-cultural touchstone during his forty-year exile in France. Despite his obscurity today, Legman's prescient work...

As the acclaimed author of And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts became the country's most recognized voice on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. His success emerged from a relentless work ethic and strong belief in the power of journalism to help mainstream society...

After Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, William H. Herndon began work on a brief, "subjective" biography of his former law partner, but his research turned up such unexpected and often startling information that it became a lifelong...

David W. Zang played junior high school basketball in a drained swimming pool. He wore a rubber suit to bed to make weight for a wrestling meet. He kept a log as an obsessive runner (not a jogger). In short, he soldiered through the life of an ordinary...

This book is the first full biography of George Szell, one of the greatest orchestra and opera conductors of the twentieth century. From child prodigy pianist and composer to world-renowned conductor, Szell's career spanned seven decades, and he led most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143028710Author Subhadra BhutaliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

The extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life in espionage A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A finalist for the William E. Colby Military Writers' Award "IMPORTANT" (Wall Street Journal) - "FASCINATING" (New...