21st Century

A biography of Washington's most famous apartment complex -- the buildings with a thousand stories of the notables who have lived there From the day The Watergate officially opened in October 1965, living there meant being at the epicenter of...

Vasily Konovalenko's unique, dynamic, and theatrical sculptures stand alone in the gem-carving world-bawdy but not salacious, political but not diplomatic, boisterous and exuberant yet occasionally sensitive. Stories in Stone offers the first...

Our 2002 edition of Letters from Mississippi has become a staple in studies of the civil rights movement. (The original publication of 1965 recorded the letters of the volunteers in the Mississippi Summer Voting Project of 1964 -- "Freedom Summer" -- and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813068473Author Wesley C. HoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948742733Author Elizabeth CatteFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Belt PublishingPublisher Belt PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 188mm *...

Every American remembers exactly how it unfolded and where they were and what they were doing on that terrible morning of September 11. And like any other unprecedented historic jolt, September 11 continues to roil our collective mind. We still ponder...

In 1854 an assistant surgeon named Albert J. Myer entered the Union Army and created a system of transmitting information that would revolutionize military communications. His flag-and-torch system led to the formation of the U.S. Army Signal Corps...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948814270Author Jacqueline KeelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Torrey House PressPublisher Torrey House PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Moral values dominated the post-election headlines in 2004. Analysts pointed to exit polls, strong turnout among evangelicals, and controversy over gay marriage as evidence that the election had been decided along religious lines. Soon, however, this...

George W. Bush has been branded the worst president in history and forced to endure accusations that he abused his power while presiding over a "lawless" administration. Stephen Knott, however, contends that Bush has been treated unfairly,...

A history of U.S. public health emergencies and how we can turn the tide. Despite enormous advances in medical science and public health education over the last century, access to health care remains a dominant issue in American life. U.S. health care...

Today, transparency is a widely heralded value, and the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is often held up as one of the transparency movement's canonical achievements. Yet while many view the law as a powerful tool for journalists, activists, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781477535097Author Min XieFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456312213Author Will G Merrill JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307461360Author Ronald KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a general sense that the world was different - that nothing would ever be the same - settled upon a grieving nation; and the events of that day were received as cataclysmic disruptions of an ordered...

White women are one of the most influential demographics in America-we are the largest voting bloc, with purchasing power that exceeds anybody else's, and when we unify to demand change, we are a force to be reckoned with. Yet, so many of us sit idly...

How hundreds of lawyers mobilized to challenge the illegal treatment of prisoners captured in the war on terror and helped force an end to the US government's most odious policies. In The War in Court, sociologist Lisa Hajjar traces the fight against...

The first sweeping, legacy-defining history of the entire Obama presidency.Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Biography & Autobiography by the Association of American PublishersIn The Black President, the first interpretative, grand-narrative...

Since the dawn of the Atomic Age, nuclear experts have labored to imagine the unimaginable and prevent it. They confronted a deceptively simple question: When is a reactor "safe enough" to adequately protect the public from catastrophe? Some experts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115397Author Philip GourevitchFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982176532Author Chris WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...

This is a necessary and urgent read for anyone concerned about the United States' endless wars. Investigating multiple genres of popular culture alongside contemporary U.S. foreign policy and political economy, Imperial Benevolence shows that American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668009512Author Robert. P JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Published for the tenth anniversary of 9/11, this new edition of the authorized report is limited to the Commission's riveting account-which was a finalist for the National Book Award-of the attack and its background, examining both the attackers and the...

The saga of Jonestown didn't end on the day in November 1978 when more than nine hundred Americans died in a mass murder-suicide in the Guyanese jungle. While only a handful of people present at the agricultural project survived that day in Jonestown,...

Gunfight is a timely work examining America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative history, Adam Winkler reveals how guns-not abortion, race, or religion-are at the heart of...

This is a work of 11 self-contained chapters, one for each day of September before the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, each containing one woman's story. The chapters reflect the broadest spectrum of women in order to reflect, by their...

From Bible Belt to Sun Belt tells the dramatic and largely unknown story of "plain-folk" religious migrants: hardworking men and women from Oklahoma, Texas, and Arkansas who fled the Depression and came to California for military jobs during World War II...

Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was the impetus behind the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and...

In this insightful biography, Burton I. Kaufman explores how the political career of Barack Obama was marked by conservative tendencies that frustrated his progressive supporters and gave the lie to socialist fearmongering on the right. Obama's was a...

Propelled by its mythology, America pursues its dream relentlessly. Here, the authors expose the dark side of that fantasy: death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the...

The Truth Behind the Stories They Don't Want You to Know America's Secret History presents an undistorted picture of the history of the United States beginning from the enactment of the Constitution. Never in one volume have so many unknown facts that...

The Lives They Saved is the story in artifacts and oral histories of the 300,000 New Yorkers who were evacuated from Manhattan on 9/11…by boat. It is a story that has not yet been written about or told. It includes hundreds of oral histories and many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143121374Author Colleen Morton BuschFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Jefferson Cup (Young Adults) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780809057399Author Sid JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill &...

The Presidency of George W. Bush brings together some of today's top American historians to offer the first in-depth look at one of the most controversial U.S. presidencies. Emotions surrounding the Bush presidency continue to run high--conservatives...

They said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They said this country was too divided, too disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose. But on this January night, at this defining moment in history, you have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Connecticut Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780767905343Author Kevin PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Broadway Books (A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501182204Author Garrett M GraffFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...