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 | Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828 Product# 460543214 Selling for $29.95 "A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian presents a global interpretation of the history of the United States, in a narrative that offers new details and insights into such topics as the nation's successes and its structures of law, business, and politics. 50,000 first printing." |
 | The Whirlwind of War: Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865 Product# 460678736 Selling for $18.95 "The prize-winning historian continues his extraordinary 'Voices of the Storm' trilogy with this second volume that focuses on the complex, bloody, and destructive Civil War years." |
 | Access New York City Product# 460678760 Selling for $19.95 "Sophisticated and brutal. Exhilarating and oppressive. Earthy and aloof. A thorough description of New York City might exhaust the largest vocabulary. A city of dynamic contrasts, from the sleek granite powerhouses of Wall Street and Midtown to the charming tenements of Brooklyn and the Bronx, from the Bohemian spirit of Greenwich Village to the old-money atmosphere of the Upper Fifth Avenue, and from the avant-garde art galleries of SoHo to the historic churches of Harlem - New York is all of this and more. Following extensive updating and re-writing post-9/11, this 10th edition of 'Access New York City' is comprehensive, fully updated and filled with revised maps, sidebars and points of interest, offering travelers the best of this citys myriad pleasures, guaranteeing that when they've said and done as much as they can, they'll wave good-bye to the Statue of Liberty while humming New York, New York." |
 | America In Modern Times (Since 1890) Product# 460678849 Selling for $62.35 "AMERICA IN MODERN TIMES (since 1890) brings together the strengths of a political historian (Brinkley) and a specialist in intellectual, social and women's history (Fitzpatrick). The book reflects these areas of expertise in its extensive attention to women's history, social developments, the history of ideas, as well as political history and foreign policy." |
 | Nation of Nations w/ Interactive E-Source CD ROM; MP Product# 460679074 Selling for $119.3 "Known for its unsurpassed narrative style and careful blending of social and political history, Nation of Nations is a leader in the movement toward a more balanced approach to teaching the American History survey. The fourth edition of this popular text offers major changes in organization, content, and style, and added pedagogical features throughout make this survey text the most exciting on the market. Packaged with the interactive eSource CD-ROM, which combines print, media, and Web-based study materials into one, easy-to-use resource that accomodates a wide variety of learning styles, Nation of Nations now offers a powerful new resource of multimedia learning tools." |
 | Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Documents in American History, Volume I Product# 460679117 Selling for $19.47 "This is an affordable two-volume anthology for introductory American history courses in which instructors use primary source materials to supplement the main textbook. A balanced collection, it features readings from a variety of fields of history, including economic, political, cultural, and social. Each volume contains approximately 75 pieces, including traditional political treatises, songs, diaries, orations and speeches, and journals. Chapter introductions accompany the selections." |
 | Making a Nation: The United States and Its People, Volume II Product# 460679306 Selling for $111 "Taking political economy as its organizing theme, Making A Nation offers an intellectual focus to history that is sensitive to the recent innovations in women's history and environmental history. The book focuses on the relationships that shape and define human identity—cultural, diplomatic, race, gender, class and sectional relations— and recognizes the importance of such traditional fields as politics and diplomacy. The reference synthesizes the literature in such as way as to allow readers to see the links between the particular and the general, between large and seemingly abstract forces such as globalization and political struggle and the daily struggles of ordinary men and women. Volume II covers U.S. history, including the second World War, the Cold War, the consumer society, the rise and fall of the new liberalism, living with less, the triumph of a new conservatism, and a new America. For historians and others interested in a comprehensive overview of the relationships that shape and define U.S. history." |
 | American Journey, The: Volume I Product# 460679585 Selling for $105.33 "Written in a clear, engaging style with a straightforward chronological organization, 'The American Journey' introduces readers to the key features of American political, social, and economic history. This new edition focuses more closely on the theme of the American journey, showing that our attempt to live up to and with our ideals is an ongoing process that has become ever more inclusive of different groups and ideas. Covering the 1600s to the Civil War, prominent coverage is given to the West and the South, and the book highlights the importance of religion in American history. Hundreds of maps, graphs, and illustrations help readers absorb history and bring it to life. For those interested in a comprehensive study of U.S. history to the Civil War given in a flowing, lively narrative." |
| Out of Many: A History of the American People Product# 460679600 Selling for $93 "Focused on the rich cultural and ethnic diversity that characterizes the United States' heritage, this book weaves together the complex interaction of social, political, and historical forces that have shaped the United States and from which the American people have evolved. Joins the separate experiences and perceptions of diverse Americans -- women and men, Native Americans, African Americans, and European Americans, politicians and constituents -- with an explanation of how differences of caste and class have been managed through established social and political channels, or have shaped the social fabric through accommodation, conflict, or rebellion. This book considers the roles of minority peoples including African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asians and Pacific Islanders. Also covers the precolonial past slavery and empire in the Colonial Period, the Civil Rights Movement from the 1940s to the 1960s, and provides full coverage of the post-1970 era including the 1980s and early 1990s." |
 | Frommer's 97 California Product# 460680616 Selling for $19.95 "This detailed, comprehensive, no-holds-barred guide to the Golden State has something for every taste and budget. We've searched out the most inviting places to stay, from beachfront resorts to Wine Country inns, and covered the hottest dining, from cutting-edge California cuisine to authentic, affordable Chinese and Mexican specialties. We've compiled a complete guide to California's best beaches, natural wonders, and national parks -- plus the best golf, nature walks, skiing, biking, and more. And along with dozens of detailed interior maps, we've even thrown in a free four-color fold-out map to make it a cinch to hit the road and see the sights." |
 | Frommer's 97 Chicago Product# 460680617 Selling for $14.95 "Chicago is no longer just a convention city. With a terrific dining scene and legendary nightlife, Chicago is making its mark as a major tourist destination. This brand-new edition of Frommer's Chicago offers candid, thorough reviews of every major hotel and a complete insider's guide to the best shopping in town. We'll take you to an astounding collection of important American architectural landmarks, let you in on our favorite sports bars and blues clubs, and make sure you know how to navigate the El. With its free full-color fold-out map, Frommer's Chicago makes it a snap to get to know the Windy City." |
 | Frommer's 97: New York City Product# 460680624 Selling for $14.95 "Helps New York City travelers save time and money while having fun, offering candid, authoritative dining reviews, a selection of the best hotels in every price range, and a comprehensive sightseeing guide. Original." |
 | Frommer's 98 New York City Product# 460680635 Selling for $14.95 "Tourism to New York City has gone off the charts in the last two years, including huge numbers of visitors from overseas. And Frommer's New York City is not your average guidebook. Written by an opinionated, savvy New Yorker, it's packed with great advice -- from the latest restaurants to the hippest new clubs, from new takes on major tourist sights to wonderful, little-known secret finds and special experiences that only a local would know. With shopping coverage is by Suzy 'Born to Shop' Gershman. Look for an earlier pub month this year to take full advantage of pre-Christmas travel." |
 | Profiles in Courage Product# 460681382 Selling for $22 "''This is a book about that most admirable of human virtues-- courage. 'Grace under pressure, ' Ernest Hemingway defined it. And these are the stories of the pressures experienced by eight United States Senators and the grace with which they endured them.' -- John F. Kennedy During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. Senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, 'Profiles in Courage -- now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new introduction by Caroline Kennedy, as well as Robert Kennedy's foreword written for the memorial edition of the volume in 1964 -- resounds with timeless lessons on the most cherished of virtues and is a powerful reminder of the strength of the human spirit. It is as Robert Kennedy states in the foreword, 'not just stories of the past but a hook of hope and confidence for the future. Wh" |
 | A Scythe of Fire: Through the Civil War With One of Lee's Most Legendary Regiments Product# 460681435 Selling for $13.95 "The men of the Eighth Georgia Infantry Regiment answered the Confederate call to arms in the spring of 1861. They fought hard in most major battles of the war, including Bull Run and Gettysburg, enduring heartbreaking losses and finally, at Appomattox, witnessing their ultimate defeat. 'A Scythe of Fire tells the remarkable story of this regiment, which held together through long years of victory, defeat, and despair. The magnificent product of meticulous research, Warren Wilkinson and Steven E. Woodworth's stirring chronicle brings the conflict alive through the eyes of the courageous men who fought and died on the nation's battlefields. Based on personal accounts, diaries, letters, and other primary sources, 'A Scythe of Fire is the history of the Eighth Georgia as experienced by those who carried its standard into battle: doctors and farmers, landowners and simple folk -- each dedicated to victory, yet proud and unbroken in the face of defeat." |
 | America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines Product# 460681550 Selling for $25.95 "'America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs. Courageous, silly, funny, and heartbreaking, these women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America. Told chronologically through the compelling stories of individual lives that, linked together, provide a complete picture of the American woman's experience, 'America's Women is both a great read and a landmark work of history." |
 | Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis Product# 460681869 Selling for $19.95 "An urban explorer's guide to the lesser-known aspects of the city's boroughs profiles such sites as the original Hall of Fame location and a Staten Island retirement facility that formerly served wealthy residents who had lost their fortunes, in a reference that is complemented by walking tour recommendations. Simultaneous." |
 | Latino History and Culture: The Ultimate Question and Answer Book Product# 460682151 Selling for $15.95 "Documents Latino cultural history in the United States from pre-Colonial times to the present, in a reference that is presented in an accessible question-and-answer format covering a wide range of topics, from immigration and literature to politics and the arts. Original. 35,000 first printing." |
| Access New York City Product# 460682297 Selling for $19.95 "Sophisticated and brutal. Exhilarating and oppressive. Earthy and aloof. A thorough description of New York City might exhaust the largest vocabulary. A city of dynamic contrasts, from the sleek granite powerhouses of Wall Street and Midtown to the charming tenements of Brooklyn and the Bronx, from the Bohemian spirit of Greenwich Village to the old-money atmosphere of the Upper Fifth Avenue, and from the avant-garde art galleries of SoHo to the historic churches of Harlem - New York is all of this and more. Following extensive updating and re-writing post-9/11, this 10th edition of 'Access New York City' is comprehensive, fully updated and filled with revised maps, sidebars and points of interest, offering travelers the best of this citys myriad pleasures, guaranteeing that when they've said and done as much as they can, they'll wave good-bye to the Statue of Liberty while humming New York, New York." |
 | Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution Product# 460682584 Selling for $39.95 "An oversized, lavishly illustrated volume for history buffs traces the 1865 military trial of eight people accused of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Lincoln and other high officials. By the author of Manhunt. 50,000 first printing." |
| Nation of Nations w/ Interactive E-Source CD ROM; MP Product# 460683746 Selling for $119.3 "Known for its unsurpassed narrative style and careful blending of social and political history, Nation of Nations is a leader in the movement toward a more balanced approach to teaching the American History survey. The fourth edition of this popular text offers major changes in organization, content, and style, and added pedagogical features throughout make this survey text the most exciting on the market. Packaged with the interactive eSource CD-ROM, which combines print, media, and Web-based study materials into one, easy-to-use resource that accomodates a wide variety of learning styles, Nation of Nations now offers a powerful new resource of multimedia learning tools." |
 | Nation of Nations Concise Volume I w/ After the Fact Interactive Salem Witch Trials, MP Product# 460683757 Selling for $49.7 "Nation of Nations Concise stands apart from the crowd as a brief American Survey Text that has not sacrificed the strength of its narrative to achieve brevity. The Nation of Nations concise version strikes unique balances for a brief text: providing enough contextual detail for the reader to grasp the story and maintaining a balance between narrative and thematic structure. Clear and lively prose, numerous vivid stories, and concrete historical examples all illustrate points of and themes in history. As a result, the original Nation of Nations author team retains the detail of story in a brief package." |
 | Nation of Nations Concise Volume II with After the Fact Interactive USDA; MP Product# 460683758 Selling for $49.7 "Nation of Nations Concise stands apart from the crowd as a brief American Survey Text that has not sacrificed the strength of its narrative to achieve brevity. The Nation of Nations concise version strikes unique balances for a brief text: providing enough contextual detail for the reader to grasp the story and maintaining a balance between narrative and thematic structure. Clear and lively prose, numerous vivid stories, and concrete historical examples all illustrate points of and themes in history. As a result, the original Nation of Nations author team retains the detail of story in a brief package." |
| Making a Nation: The United States and Its People, Volume II Product# 460684642 Selling for $111 "Taking political economy as its organizing theme, Making A Nation offers an intellectual focus to history that is sensitive to the recent innovations in women's history and environmental history. The book focuses on the relationships that shape and define human identity—cultural, diplomatic, race, gender, class and sectional relations— and recognizes the importance of such traditional fields as politics and diplomacy. The reference synthesizes the literature in such as way as to allow readers to see the links between the particular and the general, between large and seemingly abstract forces such as globalization and political struggle and the daily struggles of ordinary men and women. Volume II covers U.S. history, including the second World War, the Cold War, the consumer society, the rise and fall of the new liberalism, living with less, the triumph of a new conservatism, and a new America. For historians and others interested in a comprehensive overview of the relationships that shape and define U.S. history." |
 | The American Journey: A History of the United States Product# 460685060 Selling for $112 THE CONTENTS OF THIS PACKAGE INCLUDES: 0130882437 > AMERICAN JOURNEY COMB 0130896276 > ACCESS CODE HIS AMER JRN 0130913685 > MAPPG AMER HIST CD AMER 0130647179 > VALPK MAPPING CD STICKER |
| American Journey, The: Volume I Product# 460685956 Selling for $105.33 "Written in a clear, engaging style with a straightforward chronological organization, 'The American Journey' introduces readers to the key features of American political, social, and economic history. This new edition focuses more closely on the theme of the American journey, showing that our attempt to live up to and with our ideals is an ongoing process that has become ever more inclusive of different groups and ideas. Covering the 1600s to the Civil War, prominent coverage is given to the West and the South, and the book highlights the importance of religion in American history. Hundreds of maps, graphs, and illustrations help readers absorb history and bring it to life. For those interested in a comprehensive study of U.S. history to the Civil War given in a flowing, lively narrative." |
 | How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History Product# 460686533 Selling for $15 "An acclaimed environmental writer and firefighter in the Grand Canyon for fifteen years presents an informed, brief geological, political, cultural, and economic history of the canyon, complete with photographs, maps, and charts. Reprint." |
 | Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital Product# 460686855 Selling for $15 "The final days of Confederacy are chronicled in this richly rendered portrait of the buring of Richmond, with vivid scenes depicting the destruction of this proud Southern city and close-up profiles of the individuals who played a key role. Reprint." |
 | A Ruined Land: The End of the Civil War Product# 460688013 Selling for $21.95 "'This fascinating social history, through Golay?ÇÖs expert use of sources, brings to life a time in America?ÇÖs past that promised so much but delivered so little, expecially to former slaves.'?ÇôPublishers Weekly 'A tautly woven narrative history.?ǪLively and readable.'?ÇôKirkus Reviews In a fascinating approach that allows the voices of those touched by the Civil War to speak for themselves, gifted writer Michael Golay shows the impact of victory and defeat on the ordinary Americans who both influenced events and were caught up in them. Using illuminating new material, much of it previously unpublished, Golay takes a unique perspective by interweaving personal histories of soldiers and civilians with the larger events of the Civil War. Among the events of this bitter conflict, Golay illuminates the impact of Sherman?ÇÖs march through Georgia and the Carolinas, the despair caused by the assassination of Lincoln, the first bitter weeks of armistice, the immediate postwar life in a devastated, chaotic South, and the promise of freedom for African American slaves. Through the letters, diaries, and other literary remains of those who experienced the war, we gain a vivid, panoramic look at the effects of a bitter struggle and at the efforts of both sides to work toward a solution to problems where effective answers were elusive." |
 | Crucible of Liberty Product# 460765385 Selling for $17 "The adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791 marked the creation of a uniquely innovative mechanism for constitutional change by which Americans have continued to renew and redefine their governance over a two-hundred-year period. Now, in time for the bicentennial celebration of this great document, seven distinguished scholars combine their expertise to explore the history and contemporary meaning of these first ten amendments to the Constitution." |
 | Nation of Nations Concise w/ After the Fact Interactive Vols. I & II; MP Product# 460765534 Selling for $65.35 "Nation of Nations Concise stands apart from the crowd as a brief American Survey Text that has not sacrificed the strength of its narrative to achieve brevity. The Nation of Nations concise version strikes unique balances for a brief text: providing enough contextual detail for the reader to grasp the story and maintaining a balance between narrative and thematic structure. Clear and lively prose, numerous vivid stories, and concrete historical examples all illustrate points of and themes in history. As a result, the original Nation of Nations author team retains the detail of story in a brief package." |
 | American Issues: A Primary Source Reader in United States History : To 1877 Product# 460765696 Selling for $35 "This book forms an anthology of primary documents, letters, articles, etc. in which participants and contemporary observers express their opinions, make their observations, and reach their conclusions about events and issues of their own day that affected the nation and the American society. It offers a diverse array of selections that span the American past and deal with political questions, social, cultural, economic, and gender problems/issues." |
 | Growing Old in America; The Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University Product# 460765885 Selling for $29 "A history of aging in America surveys and compares actualities and attitudes in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries and suggests practical improvements on the current inadequate system of pensions, social security, medicare, and other programs" |
 | The Turbulent Era; Riot and Disorder in Jacksonian America Product# 460765887 Selling for $29.95 "Using the Philadelphia Native American Riots of 1844 as his model, Professor Feldberg analyzes and contrasts the varieties of collective violence--ethnic, religious, racial, economic, political, vigilante--that beset American cities during the first half of the nineteenth century. In focusing on specific historical events that have much broader significance, Professor Feldberg provides a succinct, readable book that will be of interest to students of American history and criminal justice. A bibliographical essay is included." |
 | Civilities and Civil Rights; Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom Product# 460765888 Selling for $18.95 The 'sit-ins' at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro launched the passive resistance phase of the civil rights revolution. This book tells the story of what happened in Greensboro; it also tells the story in microcosm of America's effort to come to grips with our most abiding national dilemma--racism. |
 | Freedom from Fear; The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 Product# 460765892 Selling for $45 "The newest volume in the award-winning Oxford History of the United States--a brilliant narrative spanning the Great Depression, FDR's New Deal, and the Second World War. 58 illustrations." |
 | A Rage for Order; Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation Product# 460765896 Selling for $30 "Traces the history of race relations, examines changing public attitudes, and tells the stories of those involved in Civil Rights movement" |
 | Bloody Dawn; The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North Product# 460765898 Selling for $53 "A compelling analysis of racial violence in pre-Civil War America as seen through the prism of the September 1851 riot in Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania....Slaughter...is a very good storyteller....He neatly weaves together the threads of local, regional, and national crises to offer a persuasive account of the importance of the Christiana Riot in the coming Civil War...An eloquent and insightful story that is respectful of the past, yet speaks to our present concerns with clarity and conviction." |
 | The Craft Apprentice; From Franklin to the Machine Age in America Product# 460765901 Selling for $53 "This book tells what it was like to be a craft apprentice in America before, during, and after the early Industrial Revolution. The story begins in colonial America, when apprenticeship served several important functions." |
 | The Road to Disunion; Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 Product# 460765907 Selling for $29.95 "In the first volume of his long-awaited, monumental study of the South's road to disunion, eminent historian William W. Freehling offers a sweeping political and social history of the antebellum South from 1776-1854." |
 | Beyond 1492; Encounters in Colonial North America Product# 460765914 Selling for $45 "In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time---one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history." |
 | Warpaths; Invasions of North America Product# 460765915 Selling for $34.95 A history of the numerous attempts of European invaders to conquer North America details the successful efforts of the Native American peoples to repel these invasions |
 | The Promise of the New South; Life after Reconstruction Product# 460765917 Selling for $18.95 "Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts--a time of progess and repression, of new industries and old ways. Finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize. Winner of the Prize for Best Book on American Race Relations. Photos and line drawings." |
 | Under Western Skies; Nature and History in the American West Product# 460765921 Selling for $18.95 "ns explore our environmental history, uncover the role of nature and the land in the western past, and examine the West as the world's first multicultural society." |
 | Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 Product# 460765923 Selling for $35 "In this book, Muncy explains the continuity of white, middle-class, American female reform activity between the Progressive era and the New Deal." |
 | Into the Quagmire; Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War Product# 460765929 Selling for $42 "Into the Quagmire presents a closely rendered, almost day-by-day account of America's deepening involvement in Vietnam during those crucial nine months." |
 | Hardboiled; An Anthology of American Crime Stories Product# 460765935 Selling for $29.95 "Compellingly and compulsively readable, this collection includes 36 superbly suspenseful stories which chronicle the evolution of this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest beginnings in the 1920s to the arrival of the tough digest formats in the 1950s to the present-day hard-boiled stories by such writers as James Ellroy. Contributors include Ed Gorman, Jim Thompson, Evan Hunter (better known as Ed McBain), and others." |
| Crucible of Liberty Product# 460766031 Selling for $17 "The adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791 marked the creation of a uniquely innovative mechanism for constitutional change by which Americans have continued to renew and redefine their governance over a two-hundred-year period. Now, in time for the bicentennial celebration of this great document, seven distinguished scholars combine their expertise to explore the history and contemporary meaning of these first ten amendments to the Constitution." |
 | The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South Product# 460766163 Selling for $13.95 "From National Book Award winner Edward Ball comes 'The Sweet Hell Inside, the story of the fascinating Harleston family of South Carolina, the progeny of a Southern gentleman and his slave, who cast off their blemished roots and prospered despite racial barriers. Enhanced by recollections from the family's archivist, eighty-four-year-old Edwina Harleston Whitlock -- whose bloodline the author shares.' The Sweet Hell Inside features a celebrated portrait artist whose subjects included industrialist Pierre du Pont; a black classical composer in the Lost Generation of 1920s Paris; and an orphanage founder who created the famous Jenkins Orphanage Band, a definitive force in the development of ragtime and jazz. With evocative and engrossing storytelling, Edward Ball introduces a cast of historical characters rarely seen before: cultured, vain, imperfect, rich, and black -- a family of eccentrics who defied social convention and flourished." |
 | 1812: The War That Forged a Nation Product# 460766197 Selling for $25.95 "A narrative history documents the importance of the conflict to the United States's subsequent development and expansion, tracing the expansiveness of the war, its role in furthering American independence, and the colorful personalities that contributed to its outcome. 30,000 first printing." |
 | Grant And Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War Product# 460766379 Selling for $29.95 "The first book to explore the important relationship between Generals Grant and Sherman discusses their pre-war failures, their subsequent career revivals during the Civil War, and most significantly, their relationship, which the author credits with saving the Union. Simultaneous." |
 | The Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California: Golden Gate to Ensenada, Mexico, Including the Offshore Islands Product# 460766719 Selling for $29.95 "Comprehensive and authoritative, this guide combines and updates two smaller, long-trusted regional books to provide seamless coverage of the entire California coast from just outside the Golden Gate Bridge to Mexico, with special attention given to the popular offshore islands between Point Conception and San Diego. Brian Fagan draws upon more than three decades of experience sailing those waters under all conditions to offer the definitive cruising guide for both sailors and powerboaters." |
 | The Wreck of the William Brown Product# 460766792 Selling for $12.95 "''More than a horrifying tale . . . also a penetrating examination of causes.' '--Denis Wood, author, The Power of Maps ''Tom Koch's gripping re-creation of a notorious 19th century case of shipwreck and murder on the high seas makes absorbing reading.' '--Michael Phillips, maritime historian, Plymouth (England) Naval Base Museum" |
 | Ordeal by Fire: Volume 2, The Civil War Product# 460766839 Selling for $71.4 "Written by a leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, this text describes the social, economic, political, and ideological conflicts that led to a unique, tragic, and transitional event in American history. The third edition incorporates recent scholarship and addresses renewed areas of interest in the Civil War/Reconstruction era including the motivations and experiences of common soldiers and the role of women in the war effort." |
| Growing Old in America; The Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University Product# 460768035 Selling for $29 "A history of aging in America surveys and compares actualities and attitudes in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries and suggests practical improvements on the current inadequate system of pensions, social security, medicare, and other programs" |
| The Turbulent Era; Riot and Disorder in Jacksonian America Product# 460768041 Selling for $29.95 "Using the Philadelphia Native American Riots of 1844 as his model, Professor Feldberg analyzes and contrasts the varieties of collective violence--ethnic, religious, racial, economic, political, vigilante--that beset American cities during the first half of the nineteenth century. In focusing on specific historical events that have much broader significance, Professor Feldberg provides a succinct, readable book that will be of interest to students of American history and criminal justice. A bibliographical essay is included." |
| Civilities and Civil Rights; Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom Product# 460768044 Selling for $18.95 The 'sit-ins' at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro launched the passive resistance phase of the civil rights revolution. This book tells the story of what happened in Greensboro; it also tells the story in microcosm of America's effort to come to grips with our most abiding national dilemma--racism. |
| Freedom from Fear; The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 Product# 460768063 Selling for $45 "The newest volume in the award-winning Oxford History of the United States--a brilliant narrative spanning the Great Depression, FDR's New Deal, and the Second World War. 58 illustrations." |
 | Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism; A Family History Product# 460768071 Selling for $98 "Mary Moody Emerson has been cast by generations of scholars as the 'eccentric aunt' of Ralph Waldo - a quickly, deeply religious woman who though the cherished epistolary partner of her nephew is herself worthy of no sustained critical attention. This biography suggests otherwise. This narrative rethinks both the extent of Mary's influence on her nephew and Mary's own historical standing as writer, thinker, spiritual seeker, and self-reliant, self-creating woman. Biographer Phyllis Cole, who discovered Mary's 'Almanack' in the Emerson family papers in 1981, introduces a self-taught, strikingly independent woman, a bold and philosophically gifted writer and fierce reader who chose solitude in nature over married life and other conventions. Her thought and language honored and discretely assimilated by Waldo from youth through old age, Mary not only connected Waldo to a rich ancestral and cultural past but she also formed the matrix in which Waldo developed his essential philosophic and aesthetic themes. It is through brilliant soul-making conversation between aunt and nephew, Cole demonstrates, rather than through typically cited sources such as Boston Unitarianism and English Romanticism, that Ralph Waldo Emerson's Miltonic mode of poetry and indeed his Transcendentalism took root and shape. Sifting Mary's private and published writing, previously unexplored ancestral texts and family lore, new letters to Waldo in dialogue with his long-familiar letters to her, and major and minor Emersonian writings, Cole tells a captivating story of intellectual and spiritual enthusiasm within a distinctive family and culture, a story that begins with the zealous generations preceding Mary's own andconcludes with her death in 1863 at the age of 88. Cole's pioneering focus on a life Waldo deemed 'purely original' unlocks a variety of new perspectives on late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New England life and thought, and gives voice to a woman with much to say but from whom till now so little has been heard." |
| A Rage for Order; Black-White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation Product# 460768073 Selling for $30 "Traces the history of race relations, examines changing public attitudes, and tells the stories of those involved in Civil Rights movement" |
| Bloody Dawn; The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North Product# 460768089 Selling for $53 "A compelling analysis of racial violence in pre-Civil War America as seen through the prism of the September 1851 riot in Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania....Slaughter...is a very good storyteller....He neatly weaves together the threads of local, regional, and national crises to offer a persuasive account of the importance of the Christiana Riot in the coming Civil War...An eloquent and insightful story that is respectful of the past, yet speaks to our present concerns with clarity and conviction." |
| The Craft Apprentice; From Franklin to the Machine Age in America Product# 460768100 Selling for $53 "This book tells what it was like to be a craft apprentice in America before, during, and after the early Industrial Revolution. The story begins in colonial America, when apprenticeship served several important functions." |
 | Trial and Error; The American Controversy Over Creation and Evolution Product# 460768125 Selling for $30 "The debate over teaching evolution in the public schools remains one of the most emotionally-charged controversies in 20th-century America. Now available in a revised and updated edition, Edward J. Larson's highly acclaimed study--which ranges from before the Scopes trial of 1925 to the creationism disputes of the 1980s--offers the first comprehensive account of the educational and legal battles erupting from this persistent confrontation. This edition contains a new chapter that treats the ramifications of the controversy in the 1980s." |
 | Altered States; The United States and Japan Since the Occupation Product# 460768164 Selling for $55 "Here is an eye-opening history of U.S.-Japan relations from the end of World War II to the present, revealing startling complexities. Acclaimed political history writer Michael Schaller reveals that most of what we criticize today in Japan's behavior stems directly from U.S. occupation policy of the 1950s." |
 | Principles and Parameters of Syntactic Saturation Product# 460768171 Selling for $68 "A linguistics instructor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides a restrictive theory of parameters on the nature and limits of syntactic variation. 'This study is a very important contribution to both German (and Germanic) syntax and to linguistic theory.'--Jindrich Toman, University of Michigan." |
 | A Time for War; The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 Product# 460768175 Selling for $35 "The first full-length history of the Vietnam War based on primary sources, this reference spans three decades, from the first rumblings against the French to the American intervention and ultimate withdrawal. 'A Time for War' paints a brilliant political, diplomatic, and social portrait of the times. 10 illustrations." |
| The Road to Disunion; Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 Product# 460768180 Selling for $29.95 "In the first volume of his long-awaited, monumental study of the South's road to disunion, eminent historian William W. Freehling offers a sweeping political and social history of the antebellum South from 1776-1854." |
 | Congressional Anecdotes Product# 460768210 Selling for $19.95 "A professional historian and author of the bestselling Presidential Anecdotes, Boller again shows his gift for lively--and revealing--stories. In this collection he provides a fascinating view of the history of our Congress, a history that reflects the life and character of the nation in often surprising ways." |
| Beyond 1492; Encounters in Colonial North America Product# 460768218 Selling for $45 "In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time---one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history." |
| Warpaths; Invasions of North America Product# 460768225 Selling for $34.95 A history of the numerous attempts of European invaders to conquer North America details the successful efforts of the Native American peoples to repel these invasions |
 | Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations; Theory and Cases Product# 460768241 Selling for $76.45 "Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations applies powerful concepts of strategic management developed originally in the for-profit sector to the management of nonprofits. It describes the preparation of a strategic plan consistent with the resources available, analyzes the operational tasks in executing the plan, and describes the ways in which nonprofits need to change in order to remain competitive. Drawing on literature in the fields of economics, management, accounting, and organizational theory, Sharon Oster explores a wide range of topics including a discussion of the role and mission of the nonprofit - from fund-raising to accounting and from evaluation to the treatment of volunteers and the board of directors. Examples are taken from all parts of the nonprofit arena including the arts, health care, education, social services, foundations, and economic development. This is the first book to bring modern strategic management concepts to the problems of managing nonprofit organizations. It draws clear distinctions between the different industries and offers practical solutions to the challenges confronting managers of nonprofits." |
| The Promise of the New South; Life after Reconstruction Product# 460768242 Selling for $18.95 "Ranging from the Georgia coast to the Tennessee mountains, from the power brokers to tenant farmers, Ayers depicts a land of startling contrasts--a time of progess and repression, of new industries and old ways. Finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize. Winner of the Prize for Best Book on American Race Relations. Photos and line drawings." |
 | The Most Southern Place on Earth; The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity Product# 460768262 Selling for $19.95 "In this comprehensive account, Cobb offers new insight into 'the most southern place on earth, ' untangling the enigma of the grinding poor but prolifically creative Mississippi Delta." |
| Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 Product# 460768263 Selling for $35 "In this book, Muncy explains the continuity of white, middle-class, American female reform activity between the Progressive era and the New Deal." |
| Into the Quagmire; Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War Product# 460768297 Selling for $42 "Into the Quagmire presents a closely rendered, almost day-by-day account of America's deepening involvement in Vietnam during those crucial nine months." |
 | A New Significance; Re-Envisioning the History of the American West Product# 460768312 Selling for $53 "Gathering the best of essays produced at a conference at Utah State University, this collections aims to produce compelling assessment of the newest Western historiography." |
| Hardboiled; An Anthology of American Crime Stories Product# 460768328 Selling for $29.95 "Compellingly and compulsively readable, this collection includes 36 superbly suspenseful stories which chronicle the evolution of this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest beginnings in the 1920s to the arrival of the tough digest formats in the 1950s to the present-day hard-boiled stories by such writers as James Ellroy. Contributors include Ed Gorman, Jim Thompson, Evan Hunter (better known as Ed McBain), and others." |
 | The Bill of Rights; A History in Documents Product# 460768329 Selling for $39.95 "Uses contemporary documents to explore the history of the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the British traditions on which they were based, and their impact on American society." |
 | Privacy, Intimacy, and Isolation Product# 460768335 Selling for $53 "Julie C. Inness suggests that intimacy is the core of privacy, including privacy appeals in tort and constitutional law." |