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"No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature," writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put...

Millions have sat under the "big top," watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories behind the men whose creativity, ingenuity, and determination created one of our country's most beloved pastimes.In Battle...

In the first three decades of the twentieth century, two groups of radical political theorists - one British and one American - were bound together in a unique ideological relationship. Progressives, Pluralists, and the Problems of the State provides the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596294387Author Ed MorrisFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 127mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540202666Author Jeffrey H BeerworthFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint History Press Library EditionsPublisher History Press Library...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805074109Author Richard BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Times BooksPublisher Times BooksWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732121089Author Evan PonstingleFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Rivershore PressPublisher Rivershore PressWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541758544Author Jeremi SuriFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 160mm * 29mm

As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space station was conceived as the logical successor to the Apollo moon program. But between conception and execution stood the vastness of space itself, to say...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593535783Author Robert KaganFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 301g

This groundbreaking new book challenges the notion that covert operations are a twentieth-century phenomenon, recounting a wide array of operations sanctioned by America's Founding Fathers. These include George Washington's plan to kidnap King George...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935487180Author Joseph P. FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g

In 1792, Spanish naval officer and explorer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra sailed from San Blas, Mexico, to Nootka Sound, on the west coast of present-day Vancouver Island. For nearly three years, he had been immersed in the aftermath of the...

Late in life, writing his memoirs, John Bell Hood wrote, ""no man is justly entitled to be considered a great General, unless he has won his spurs."" Hood did not explain how an officer earned his spurs, but he didn't need to. One may assume that such an...

Intimate apparel, a term in use by 1921, has played a crucial role in the development of the 'naughty but nice' feminine ideal that emerged in the twentieth century. Jill Fields' engaging, imaginative, and sophisticated history of twentieth-century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609499136Author Denise White ParkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Between 1865 and 1937, Pinkerton's National Detective Agency was at the center of countless conflicts between capital and labor, bandits and railroads, and strikers and state power. Some believed that the detectives were protecting society from dangerous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708619Author William H. RehnquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467151733Author Paul C ClericiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

Throughout history the British Atlantic has often been depicted as a series of well-ordered colonial ports that functioned as nodes of Atlantic shipping, where orderliness reflected the effectiveness of the regulatory apparatus constructed to contain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806317748Author Martha W. McCartneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 834Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing...

In this groundbreaking book - for the first time in paperback and fully-updated with all the latest legal information - outspoken freethinker Jesse Ventura lays out his philosophy. Now more than ever before, our country needs full legalization of...

What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Jeremi Suri offers a thought-provoking, interpretive study of one of the...

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces you to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. This collection serves as the primary anthology for the...

A large number of volunteers came to Texas in the 1830s: some for the promise of free land; a few for the cause of constitutional freedoms; many came for the adventure and a good fight. Such a group came to Texas in 1835. As a unit, they were born in a...

Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a protest poster of a pink triangle with the words "Silence = Death." The graphic and the slogan still resonate...

This book shows how slavery ended within a single generation at the end of the eighteenth century in the important colony/state of Pennsylvania. The authors have made a study of the slaveholders themselves in order to understand the process by which most...

Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry became the prototype for a new kind of movie cop-an antihero in pursuit of his own vision of justice. The Dirty Harry series helped cement Eastwood and his character, Harry Callahan, as central figures in 1970s and 1980s...

Empire's Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu...

Russell Shorto's work has been praised as "first-rate intellectual history" (Wall Street Journal), "literary alchemy" (Chicago Tribune) and simply "astonishing" (New York Times). In his epic new book, Russell Shorto takes us back to the founding of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618930538Author The Editors of TimeFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Time Inc Home EntertaimentPublisher Time Inc Home EntertaimentWeight(grams)...

With his third book, To the North Anna River, Gordon Rhea resumes his spectacular narrative of the initial campaign between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in the spring of 1864. May 13 to 25, a phase oddly ignored by historians, was critical in the...

Drawn from intimate interviews with 14 modern-day "steel rail nomads," One More Train to Ride provides a revealing picture of today's American hobo. Interspersed with their stories are original poems and songs echoing the ancient lyricism and loneliness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781118014011Author Deborah DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Exploring the central themes in modern American cultural studies and discussing how these themes can be interpreted, American Cultural Studies offers a wide-ranging overview of different aspects of American cultural life such as religion, gender and...

Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls and Southern California business interests formed to revitalize a factionalized Republican Party. Coming together were stars such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143125099Author Thomas L. DyjaFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

The Market Revolution offers a sweeping, comprehensive overview of the Jacksonian period in a synthesis of political, social, economic, and cultural history. This book examines the tensions between democracy and capitalism that arose during this period...

Made famous in the 1976 documentary Harlan County USA, this pocket of Appalachian coal country has been home to generations of miners-and to some of the most bitter labor battles of the 20th century. It has also produced a rich tradition of protest songs...

While the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly forgotten dynamo instrumental to the development of the park - fast-talking Texan C. V. Wood. Three Years in Wonderland presents the never-before-told,...