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In what remains the only full-length biography of Owen Wister (1860-1938), Darwin Payne details the life of the man who created the popular image of the cowboy that dominated American culture from the early 1900s to the 1960s. Payne follows Wister from...

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Set in what remains some of the wildest country in the United States, ""Sound Wormy"" (a term used in grading hardwood) recalls a time when regulations were few and resources were abundant for the southern lumber industry. In 1901,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692919101Author Sharon Smith BowenFormat HardbackPage Count 514Imprint Sharon BowenPublisher Sharon BowenWeight(grams) 1256g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671792299Author John K SinglaubFormat PaperbackPage Count 580Imprint Summit Books,U.S.Publisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 841gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This book contains 19 studies by leading experts in the field of Hungarian political, cultural, economic, and literary history to honor Steven Bela Vardy, America's leading historiographer of Hungary and an internationally renowned scholar of Hungarian...

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Discover Benjamin Franklin -- scientist, inventor, writer, and politician -- through the words of the elder statesman himself and the perceptions of his friends and family.With writings from Franklin's wife and son -- as well as his own essays and...

For thousands of years we have recorded real lives--the lives of others, and of ourselves. For what purpose and for whom has this universal and timeless pursuit endured? What obstacles have lain in the path of biographers in the past, and what continues...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648351917Author Tony MalliarasFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Thorpe-BowkerPublisher Thorpe-BowkerWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618267323Author Mary SoamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 621Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 953g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615560281Author Chong-Sik LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Khu PressPublisher Khu PressWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

Interest in Robinson Crusoe has been on the rise during the past year, now that survival in the wilderness has become a staple of prime time. Explorer Takahashi's book examines the life and adventures of Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, the real-life...

Parker Pillsbury-one of the most important and least examined antislavery activists of the nineteenth century-was a man of intense contradictions. Was he a disruptive eccentric who lashed out at authority (proclaiming Lincoln the worst president in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544310223Author Mary Churchill SoamesFormat HardbackImprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 1197g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524463Author Guillermo Cabrena InfanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544310964Author Esther ForbesFormat HardbackImprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 816g

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The founders of the American republic were ardently concerned with the judgment of posterity. Had they known what a fickle muse Clio would prove to be, they might have been more anxious. The making of myths and legends, complete with a hagiology and...

No one knows more about modern terrorism - its impetus, its technology, its secrets, its inevitable tragedy - than Bassam Abu-Sharif, a former Palestinian guerrilla, and Uzi Mahnaimi, a former Israeli spymaster. These two men, whose personal histories...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863514958Author Lynette SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Sally Milner Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Sally Milner Publishing Pty Ltd

The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt. Emily Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and...

Hall has made the first detailed investigation of Polly Baker. It leads through the exciting world of eighteenth-century journalism, literature, and statecraft. Ben Franklin occupies a position in the story second only to Polly Baker herself. Evident...

Moses Brown carried on a wide range of business activities, seeking profit as capital for humanitarian purposes. He became a reluctant participant and eventually a leader in many reform movements--crusades against slavery and war; efforts to provide...

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Edited by the late Philip L. Barbour, acknowledged as the leading authority on Captain John Smith, this annotated three-volume work is the only modern edition of the works of the legendary figure who captured the interest of scholars and general readers...

Pickens (1807-69) was the first Civil War governor of South Carolina, the most difficult governorship in the nation's history. He led that state during the secession, prepared for and went to war, urged sister southern states to secede, and embarked on a...

The first volume of Jehuda Reinharz's definitive biography of Chaim Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Zionist Leader, met with widespread acclaim and won five major prizes. President Chaim Herzog of Israel praised it for being "rich in...

This is a drama of revolution in which Karl Marx assumes the roles of both the historian and playwright. It provides a useful analysis of a social and political crisis, so much so that it has been taken up and developed by theorists, notably Lenin and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990497714Author Teresa LynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Tranquility PressPublisher Tranquility PressWeight(grams) 440g

Characterized by precision of statement and clarity of detail, W.W. Blackford's memoir of his service in the Civil War is one of the most valuable to come out of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. It also provides a critically important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560726722Author Frank ColumbusFormat HardbackPage Count 231Imprint Nova BiomedicalPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743400671Author Sir Edmund HillaryFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156709903Author Janet FlannerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper Perennial

At one gilded moment in history, his fame was so great that he was known the world over by his nickname alone: Rubi. Pop songs were written about him. Women whom he had never met offered to leave their husbands for him. He had an eye for feminine beauty,...