United States

From his noble childhood in the kingdom of Borno to being kidnapped into slavery, the inspiring life-story of Nicholas Said is an epic journey that takes him from Africa and the Ottoman Empire through Czarist Russia and, finally, to heroic acclaim in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523004386Author Thom HartmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537031Author W.E.B. Du BoisFormat HardbackPage Count 1100Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America

In her investigation of the social history of the common British soldier in the era of the American Revolution, Sylvia Frey has extensively surveyed recruiting records, contemporary training manuals, statutes, and memoirs in an attempt to provide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101912171Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm...

In August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiveness and hostility to organized labor. As Joseph A...

The definitive biography of Ronald Reagan, featuring never-before-seen documents and sources from the Reagan Presidential Library. New York Times #1 bestselling author Larry Schweikart, armed with previously unseen sources from Ronald Reagan's...

From the voyage of the Argonauts to the Tailhook scandal, seafaring has long been one of the most glaringly male-dominated occupations. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Margaret Creighton, Lisa Norling, and their co-authors explore the...

How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588340788Author Milton O. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060933913Author Associate Professor Eric MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 1975 and Bancroft Prize 1975.Book InformationISBN 9780394716527Author Eugene D. GenoveseFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Random...

An important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bombIn The Nuclear Borderlands, Joseph Masco offers an in-depth look at the long-term consequences of the Manhattan Project. Masco examines how diverse groups in and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809058280Author Alan TrachtenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 273Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528997Author Lucy SanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

". . . Ann Braude still speaks powerfully to unique issues of women's creativity-spiritual as well as political-in a superb account of the controversial nineteenth-century Spiritualist movement." -Jon Butler"Radical Spirits is a vitally important book . ...

Now in paperback! "From the first page to the last, Klein's prose retains its powers of enchantment and illumination. It is one of the best boxing books ever penned." -Boston Globe "[A] muscular, relentlessly detailed book." -Wall Street Journal ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578501703Author Bill HighFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint SignatryPublisher SignatryWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm

The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers. Worship of entrepreneurial freedom has complicated the task of distinguishing aggressive salesmanship from unacceptable deceit, especially on the...

This book collects together early maps of Lincoln, and demonstrates their importance in describing the changing geography of this historic city, and also the development of cartography and its increasing application of scientifictechniques for improved...

This classic collection of nonfiction essays about life in New Mexico by the great Tony Hillerman remains a must read for anyone looking to understand the state's unique charm. The engaging pieces in The Great Taos Bank Robbery unveil the life and magic...

In the late 1980s, gangsta rap music emerged in urban America, giving voice to-and making money for-a social group widely considered to be in crisis: young, poor, black men. From its local origins, gangsta rap went on to flood the mainstream, generating...

The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author. In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies...

A revolutionary classic of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell's From Reverence to Rape remains as insightful, searing, and relevant as it was the day it was first published. Ranging across time and genres from the golden age of Hollywood to films...

Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States and Saudi Arabia have built a close but often troubled alliance. In this critical history, Victor McFarland reveals the deep ties binding the leaders of the two nations. Connecting foreign relations and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918222848Author Dwight B HeathFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Applewood BooksPublisher Applewood BooksWeight(grams) 147g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316200608Author Stacy SchiffFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm)...

Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher's salary in a nondescript building on the East Side of New York City. On a hot afternoon in the autumn of 1950, a trusted colleague knocked at their door, held up a finger for...

If you were beginning to believe that "lone nut" Lee Harvey Oswald did kill President Kennedy all by himself, this could be the book to convince you, that there was indeed a conspiracy and a cover-up. The contributors worked independently at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467152778Author Jim CasadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 157mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618127498Author James AgeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 763g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262037419Author David E. NyeFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

When General Alexander M. Haig Jr. returned to the White House on May 3, 1973, he found the Nixon administration in worse shape than he had imagined. President Richard Nixon, reelected in an overwhelming landslide just six months earlier, had accepted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671747459Author Jeffry D. WertFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363g

First edition, Winner of the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize, American Public Health Association With an emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation explores the long and unsettled history of eugenics in the United States. This expanded second edition...

From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by the 1850s, the population of enslaved Americans had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594634000Author Masha GessenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

From Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck and Matt Drudge, Americans are accustomed to thinking of right-wing media as integral to contemporary conservatism. But today's well-known personalities make up the second generation of broadcasting and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553372120Author Todd GitlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories...