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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888306000Author Jacob AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943737239Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 526g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513220123Author Elizabeth KeckleyFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Mint EdPublisher Mint EdWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888306017Author Jacob AbbottFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 349g

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Be inspired by this grassroots civil rights lawyer's quest for democracy, equality, and justice Born in 1947 and raised in rural South Carolina, Lewis Pitts grew up oblivious to the civil rights revolution underway across the country. A directionless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638640059Author Jeff BurnsideFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Basalt BooksPublisher Basalt Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639457861Author R Lee MaheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Writers Branding LLCPublisher Writers Branding LLCWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822948223Author Liann TsoukasFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh Press

Tokyo Rose / An American Patriot explores the parallel lives of World War II legend Tokyo Rose and a Japanese American woman named Iva Toguri. Trapped in Tokyo during the war and forced to broadcast on Japanese radio, Toguri nonetheless refused to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416541707Author Ann KirschnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 161mm * 20mm

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) achieved a multidimensional career as a successful novelist, historian, and politician. He published widely and represented his district in the Maryland legislature before being elected to Congress several times and...

Connecting the classical world and the Renaissance, the Middle Ages stand alone as a remarkable period for religion, politics, science and art. This biographical dictionary provides insight into the men and women great and small who distinguished this...

Almost unknown when in 1945 he purchased the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and its famous race, the Indianapolis 500, Tony Hulman soon became a household name in auto racing circles. He is credited with not only saving the Indianapolis Motor Speedway -...

He was one of the most embattled heads of state in American history. Charged with building a new nation while waging a war for its very independence, he accepted his responsibilities reluctantly but carried them out with a fierce dedication to his ideals...

Is there anything new to be read about Jack the Ripper, whose identity has been sought by countless "Ripperologists" for more than 120 years? This book answers an emphatic "yes!" Drawing on recently discovered sources, the author argues that the Ripper's...

Major General George Owen Squier was a remarkable man. During the 1920s and 30s, he was one of the most famous men in America and abroad, as a scientist, soldier, military strategist, electrical communications expert and inventor, aeronautical pioneer,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563680731Author Albert BallinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Publisher Gallaudet University Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

This volume collects together lectures by distinguished scholars. Julia Smith examines medieval religious relics, focusing on what they actually comprised and asking how these paltry items came to be so highly valued. Gruffydd Aled Williams takes the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395929742Author Charles Bracelen FloodFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307744128Author Debby ApplegateFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 561gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385497534Author Alice ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316360678Author Seymour M. HershFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & Company

Moederland is a courageous and modern appraisal of what it means to be descended from the people who created the ultraracist apartheid system in South Africa. Illuminating its turbulent history through the lives of her female ancestors, it is a history...

Louis Lowy (1920-1991), an international social worker and gerontologist, rarely spoke publicly about the Holocaust. During the last months of his life, however, he recorded an oral narrative that explores his activities during the Holocaust as the...

Few Holocaust survivors have gained the recognition and honour as Elie Wiesel has as an author, journalist and lecturer. In this latest biography Ellen Stern chronicles the remarkable life of Elie Wiesel.Book InformationISBN 9780827606166Author Ellen...

Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's Secretary of War during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983818557Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 175g

Charles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry - an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher.Goodnight's story is now re-examined by William T. Hagan in this brief, authoritative account that considers the role of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385502900Author Garry WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Image BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061337604Author Barbara LeamingFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 205mm...

Widely regarded as one of the most readable, humorous and poignant autobiographies available today. Goodbye, Twentieth Century incorporates his acclaimed first volume of autobiography, A Poet in the Family, and in this new edition from the Library of...

At the height of his fame as a composer, Edward Elgar publicly admitted that his success was owing to the influence of his mother. Copiously illustrated, this is the story of thatinspirational mother, Ann Greening, who gave her son love, security and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897476796Author Lisa BirnieFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Simply Read BooksPublisher Simply Read BooksWeight(grams) 364g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538197615Author Mar�a Bel�n Rabad�n VegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984822246Author Kreis BeallFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345478009Author Daniel Mark EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874224221Author Candace A. WellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Washington State University PressPublisher Washington State University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950354580Author Jan BrokkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Scribe UsPublisher Scribe UsWeight(grams) 499g

The Anti-Federalist Luther Martin of Maryland is known to us-if he is known at all-as the wild man of the Constitutional Convention: a verbose, frequently drunken radical who annoyed the hell out of James Madison, George Washington, Gouverneur Morris,...