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A leading African American Communist, lawyer William L. Patterson (1891-1980) was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the defeat of Jim Crowby virtue of his leadership of the Scottsboro campaign in the 1930s. In this watershed biography, historian...

With her superb coloratura soprano, passion for the world of opera, and down-to-earth personality, Beverly Sills made high art accessible to millions from the time of her meteoric rise to stardom in 1966 until her death in 2007. An unlikely pop culture...

Shouting Down the Silence presents the first complete biography of Stanley Elkin, a preeminent novelist who consistently won high marks from critics but whose complexities of style seemed destined to elude the popular acclaim he hoped to attain. From the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143428268Author Sonia MehtaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374514655Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux

It's midnight and there are fists pounding on the door. Authoritative voices shouting, "We're coming in! Get on the floor!" A few terrorized minutes later a family member is dragged out by armed men, disappearing into the night. This scenario...

For most of his life, Robert Kennedy stood in the shadow cast by his older brother, John; only after President Kennedy's assassination did the public gain a complete sense of Robert (/u0022Bobby,/u0022 we called him) as a committed advocate for social...

Paradoxes of Peace continues the meditation of Mosley's Time at War, at the end of which he wrote that humans find themselves at home in war because they feel they know what they have to do, whereas in peace they have to discover this. But what should...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528989909Author Stephen MackelprangFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528983198Author Anita LinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Nik Wallenda, 'King of the High Wire' ,doesn't know fear. As a seventh generation of the legendary Great Wallendas, he grew up performing, entertaining, and pushing the boundaries of gravity and balance. When Nik was four years old, he watched a video...

THE LITTLE WAY OF RUTHIE LEMING follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie's death. When the author's little sister was diagnosed at age 40 with...

When Allan Johnson asked his dying father where he wanted his ashes to be placed, his father replied-without hesitation-that it made no difference to him at all. In his poignant, powerful memoir, Not from Here, Johnson embarks on an extraordinary,...

Originally published in 1993, Worlds Ago is not only about the politics of the times, but also about the world into which Walter Laqueur was born and raised and the world that shaped him: pre-war Germany in 1921, where he witnessed the rise of the Nazi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982167110Author Laura CleryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

Charles Ives Reconsidered reexamines a number of critical assumptions about the life and works of this significant American composer, drawing on many new sources to explore Ives's creative activities within broader historical, social, cultural, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528989299Author David W MarpoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800163607Author Terry Fergusson-HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Stunning visuals and poetic text combine to tell the inspiring story of Lewis Hine (1874-1940), a teacher and photographer who employed his art as a tool for social reform. Working for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Hine traveled the United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354420221Author Ramin JahanbeglooFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd

For Principles of Microeconomics courses. For a complete multimedia book tour of Economics: Principles, Applications, & Tools, 8e Click Here. For a look at the Supply & Demand Chapter of this title, Click Here. Questions that drive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304842Author Ronald P LoftusFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034223Author Tim ShortridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Herbert Eugene Bolton's classic of southwestern history, first published in 1949, delivers the epic account of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado's sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire. Leaving Mexico City in 1540...

Frank Tannenbaum and the Making of a Convict Criminologist is a historical biography about Columbia University professor Frank Tannenbaum and his contribution to American criminology. Tannenbaum was a major figure in criminology in the early twentieth...

Jay Neugeboren and his brother, Robert, grew up in Brooklyn in the years following World War II. Both brothers-smart, talented, and popular-seemed well on the way to successful lives when, for reasons that remain ultimately mysterious to this day, Robert...

A study and assessment of the career of Frederic Le Play (1806-1882), now recognised as a founder of modern sociology. The main theme consists of a detailed and impartial analysis of Le Play's thoughts on the relationship between society and technology...

The study of the U.S. Navy's air group and air wing commanders is a study of carrier aviation itself. This detailed volume presents a history of the establishment of the carrier air group commander billet and the attendant formal air groups. The book is...

Courtney McWilliams takes the reader on an amazing journey through the collectibles and history of the Beatles. Over 575 color photographs illustrate a wide range of collectible Beatles items from yesterday and today. Among the collectibles covered are...

When he was a kid, Quentin Kenihan loved Superman. Ironic, really. Quentin didn't need kryptonite to reveal his weakness - born with a rare bone disorder, osteogenesis imperfecta, his bones broke all on their own. When Quentin was seven, Mike Willesee...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062315502Author Sally QuinnFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 625gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of San Diego Book Awards (Memoir) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780061543661Author Lac SuFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins...

Spanning over 1,000 separate performances, The Music of Bill Monroe presents a complete chronological list of all of Bill Monroe's commercially released sound and visual recordings. Each chapter begins with a narrative describing Monroe's life and career...

A group of Central European communists, most of them Hungarians, in the interwar period served the world communist movement as international cadres of the Comintern, the Moscow-based Communist International. As an important member of this cohort, Jozsef...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925495607Author Lenore LaymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 368g

Gail Ashton's Not the Sky - a memoir up-ends a West Midlands working-class childhood and chaotic family to re-imagine the present. -- Welsh Books CouncilAbout the AuthorGail Ashton is a freelance writer and editor of poetry, short stories, and academic...

A quiet chat with Casanova turns into a catalogue of racy encounters set in 18th-century Venice and other cities ... and we can even ask questions! You'll find out just how he got himself both in and out of some extremely sticky situations, from debt and...

This unique book celebrates a long-term, interracial relationship and details the everyday struggles of a surviving partner trying to carry on in a radically changed world. A Season of Grief chronicles the author's emotional descent after the violent...

Edwin Sutherland is the acknowledged father of American criminology. This is the first full-length analysis of his work and his person. Unlike the European schools of criminology, which sought to locate deviant behavior within the deep structures of the...

As the last presumptive founder of American sociology, Edward Alsworth Ross (1866u1951) was the first to secure its place in public discourse. Originally an economist who strongly criticized monopolies, Ross sought answers to the larger social issues of...