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As long as humans have existed, theyAEve worked and competed with plants to shape their surroundings. As cities developed and expanded, their diverse spaces were covered with and colored by weeds. In Weeds, Zachary J. S. Falck presents a comprehensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760112Author Thomas PaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 282g

American Stories follows the evolution of our founding stories and myths and how they spread far and wide throughout our history. The story of the cherry tree, for example, tells us nothing about George Washington's actual childhood, but surely it tells...

Breaking History books offer a front row seat to history as it broke (like "breaking news") and give the blow-by-blow of historical discovery-what we learned, when we learned it, who made the discovery, and how. Lost America is an illustrated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307474322Author Scott Reynolds NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306g

Children's full-color book with each illustration portraying several elements indigenous to Montana that begin with the accompanying letter.Book InformationISBN 9780937959329Author Gayle Corbett ShirleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Falcon Press...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882926930Author Russell KirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint ISI BooksPublisher Regnery Publishing Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595230782Author Larry SchweikartFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint SentinelPublisher Sentinel

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197531266Author Michael SchallerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USAWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197619124Author C Donald JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 664Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

It has become impossible to imagine our culture without advertising. But how and why did advertising become a determiner of our self-image? "Advertising the American Dream" looks carefully at the two decades when advertising discovered striking new ways...

In the summer of 1947, Crossfire, a controversial thriller exposing American anti-Semitism, was a critical and box-office hit, and RKO producer Adrian Scott was at the pinnacle of his career. Within several months, however, Scott became infamous as a...

No nation in modern history has had a more powerful sense of its own distinctiveness than the United States. In this introduction to the study of American history, Wilfred M. McClay invites us to experience the perennial freshness and vitality of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780819171474Author Peter CollierFormat HardbackPage Count 271Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press of AmericaWeight(grams) 603g

Selected from the increasingly popular Montana History Conference session--Jerks in Montana History--this collection of Montana Hall of Shame members includes Lewis and Clark's infamous guide Toussaint Charbonneau, Helena's notorious newspaper editor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190057060Author Professor of History Joel M SipressFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451497437Author Michael MedvedFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Crown ForumPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565848269Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint New PressPublisher New PressWeight(grams) 865g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399537530Author Owen J. HurdFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

American explorers have played a significant and exciting role in some of the greatest discoveries on Earth. From the exploration of the North American "wild west," to the discovery of the North Pole, explorers from America are some of our most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595310071Author Christopher AngusFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint North Country BooksPublisher North Country BooksWeight(grams) 372g

With all eyes on their Presidential bosses, the Vice Presidents of the United States have often been relegated to the background. But they are an intriguing group, and now—in this unprecedented and meticulously researched volume—the forty-seven men who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487586911Author Stephen LeacockFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press

Business is woven into the very fabric of American life yet rarely surfaces in the nation's literary history. Even in novels about business, it proves an elusive motif that fails to mirror actual business organizations. This book argues that literary...

The horrendous events of September 11, 2001, heightened awareness of terrorism unlike all but a handful of major catastrophes in American history. Like the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and President Kennedy’s assassination on...

The story of the relationship of Franklin Delano Roosevelt with Tammany Hall of New York has never been completely told. FDR's dealings with the New York machine have received piecemeal treatment in numerous monographs and histories that record his life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197530894Author Michael SchallerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USAWeight(grams) 340g

Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth...

More than 350 years of American history filtered through the Jewish experience based on the authentic family records of generations of American Jews.Book InformationISBN 9780874414219Author Behrman HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 1Imprint Behrman House...

A Great and Good Man presents a lively collection of contemporary letters, poems, addresses, and newspaper reports that demonstrate the remarkable esteem in which Washington was held. Washington would become, after his death, a true symbol of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933272528Author Dan MarcouFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Thunder Bay Press MichiganPublisher Thunder Bay Press MichiganWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568330273Author Bob ArnebeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 701Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560983842Author Robert W. RydellFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian Books

The long, dark history of political violence in the United StatesViolence has been employed to achieve political objectives throughout history. Taking the life of a perceived enemy is as old as mankind. Antiquity is filled with examples of political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628727678Author Max LernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 572g

In a stunning repudiation of the Democratic machine, John V. Lindsay (1921-2000) captured the New York mayoralty in 1965 by promising to rid the city of apathy and corruption and make New York governable again. Over the next eight years, Lindsay presided...

How and why have American labor unions grown in the century and a half since the industrial revolution? In this concise and illuminating history of the labor movement, Daniel Nelson traces the ebb and flow of union activity since the early nineteenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595230799Author Larry SchweikartFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint SentinelPublisher Sentinel

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226794617Author Margot CanadayFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 152g

For over two hundred years hotels have played a significant role in American history. The modern hotel is even an American invention. In five case studies of iconic New York hotels, this book presents the hotel experience of the white upper class,...