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Torpedo Bomber! - The story of the R.A.F. torpedo bombers

By: "Barker, Ralph"

Price: $10.50

Publisher: NY, Ballantine (#U6084): 1968

Seller ID: 19P015

Binding: Paperback

Condition: NEAR FINE

"As new except for faint age tanning. ""the story of the daring R.A.F. pilots who flew low-level attacks against German battleships in World War II."" 285 indexed pages with black & white photo insert section."
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America: What Went Wrong?

By: "Barlett, Donald L., B., James Steele"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing:

Seller ID: 9780836270013

ISBN: 0836270010

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present

By: "Barzun, Jacques"

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial:

Seller ID: 9780060928834

ISBN: 0060928832

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500.

In this account, Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaisance and Reformation down to the present in the double light of its own time and our pressing concerns. He introduces characters and incidents with his unusual literary style and grace, bringing to the fore those that have "Puritans as Democrats," "The Monarch...
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la lucha por la hegemonia en mexico 1968-1980

By: "basanez, miguel1"

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Mexico, Siglo xxi: 1985

Seller ID: 5-5T010

ISBN: 9682310628

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD-

"Tight, faintest age tanning to covers and pages, light age soil to top edge of front cover, square. Neatly ruled underlining in the Introduction and sections on ""Un Estado Neutral"" and ""La Economia Antes de 1970"". Su preocupacion se centra, en los ultimos doce anos de vida politica en Mexico, en los tres sectores sociales que luchan por ganar la hegemonia: el publico, el privado y la disidencia. 243 indexed, annotated pages including Bibliographia. "
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The Yoruba (Case studies in cultural anthropology)

By: "Bascom, R.H."

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Holt McDougal:

Seller ID: 9780030812491

ISBN: 0030812496

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Bunyoro: An African Kingdom (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

By: "Beattie, John"

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers:

Seller ID: 9780030047855

ISBN: 0030047854

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas

By: "Becker, Carl L."

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Vintage:

Seller ID: 9780394700601

ISBN: 0394700600

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The Declaration of Independence

Carl L. Becker's important study is an analysis of the concepts expressed in the Declaration. Here is a lucid explanation of what the Declaration really is, what views it sets forth, where those views arose, and how they have been accepted or modified by succeeding generations. A book that every American should read.
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"Melville on Nantucket, Historic Nantucket, Fall 1991, Volume 39 No.3"

By: "Beegel, Heffernan & Bercaw(Ed., Diane Ucci)"

Price: $10.95

Publisher: "Nantucket, MA", Nantucket Historical Association: 1991

Seller ID: 8-NY010

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD

"Tight, bright, clean and square but has a few tiny spots on cover. Address sticker on back cover, 8.5x11x.25"" (21.5x28x.5cm) 21 illustrated pages. ""Herman Melville: Nantucket's First Tourist"", ""Moby-Dick and Nantucket's Moby-Dick: The Attack on the Essex:, "" 'A Fine Boisterous Something': Nantucket in Moby-Dick"""
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"African-American History on Nantucket, Historic Nantucket, Fall, 1992, Volume 40 No.3"

By: "Beegel, Philbrick & White(Diane Ucci, Ed.)"

Price: $10.95

Publisher: "Nantucket, MA", Nantucket Historical Association: 1992

Seller ID: 8-NY012

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD

"Tight, bright, clean and square. Faint surface creasing. Address sticker on back cover, 8.5x11x.25"" (21.5x28x.5cm). 22 illustrated pages. ""The Brotherhood of Thieves Riot of 1842"", ""I Will Take to the Water: Frederick Douglass, the Sea, and the Nantucket Whale Fishery"", ""The Integration of Nantucket Public Schools"""
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"Last Emperor, The"

By: "Behr, Edward"

Price: $3.50

Seller ID: 9780708834398

ISBN: 0708834396

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

"Last Emperor,the"

By: "Behr, Edward"

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Bantam:

Seller ID: 9780553344745

ISBN: 0553344749

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

"1997 Annual Report, Historic Nantucket, Spring 1998, Volume 47 No.2"

By: "Beman, Slavitz,& Karttunen"

Price: $10.95

Publisher: "Nantucket, MA", Nantucket Historical Association: 1998

Seller ID: 8-DY010

Binding: Oversize Paperback

Condition: VERY GOOD

"Tight, bright, clean and square. Long crease on bottom corner and small crease on top corner of front cover. Address sticker on back cover, 8.5x11x.25"" (21.5x28x.5cm). 44 illustrated pages. Full Annual Report including Acquisitions, Members and Donors List + "" Log of the Bark Houqua"", ""More Than Just a Summer Job"", ""Creating Lasting Memories"", ""Speaking African Nantucketers' Names Once More""."
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Around the World in New York

By: "Bercovici, Konrad"

Price: $20.21

Publisher: NY, Century: 1924

Seller ID: 4NH033

Binding: Hardbound

Condition: GOOD

"Starting to loosen, pages yellowed, light soil, square. Spine ends fraying. Inscription. A tour of NY's ethnic neighborhoods in the 1920s.: The Syrian Quarter; Greece; One the East Side; China; Little Italy; The American Quarter: Greenwich Village; The Gypsy Quarters; Africa; In the Balkan Countries; Spain; France; Germany; Hungary; Czechoslovakia; Scattered Nations."
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Hitler's naval war

By: "Berenbrok, Hans Dieter"

Price: $1.35

Publisher: Macdonald:

Seller ID: 9780356045085

ISBN: 0356045080

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

France Under Napoleon

By: "Bergeron, Louis"

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press:

Seller ID: 9780691007892

ISBN: 0691007896

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Presented here is an English translation of a study that was part of a distinguished French series on the country's post-Revolution history. Unlike much Napoleonic literature that features the personality and foreign policy of the Emperor, it describes the condition of France and the French people during the fifteen years immediately following their great revolution. The translator, R. R. Palmer, is a distinguished historian who has written and translated many books in French history, including The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre (Princeton).

Applying t...
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The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession

By: "Bernstein, Peter L."

Price: $8.45

Publisher: Wiley:

Seller ID: 9780471003786

ISBN: 0471003786

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: very good

In this exciting new book, Peter L. Bernstein, who chronicled the evolution of risk in his recent bestseller, Against the Gods, tells the story of history's most coveted, celebrated, and inglorious asset: gold. From the ancient fascinations of Moses and Midas through the modern convulsions caused by the gold standard and its aftermath, gold has led many of its most eager and proud possessors to a bad end. Gold had them, rather than the other way around. And while the same cycle of obsession and desperation may reverberate in today's fast-moving, electronically-driven stock markets, the role of...
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At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War

By: "Beschloss, Michael R., Talbott, Strobe"

Price: $12.45

Publisher: Little Brown & Co (T):

Seller ID: 9780316092814

ISBN: 0316092819

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

The Kings & Queens of England

By: "Best, Nicholas"

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson:

Seller ID: 9780297834878

ISBN: 0297834878

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

A beautifully illustrated companion to the Royal family throughout history

Spanning ten dynasties of England's monarchs, The Kings and Queens of England presents portraits and potted biographies of England's monarchs. Spanning from the Normans through to the House of Windsor, this exquisite little book captures the personalities behind the crowns and records the landmarks, traditions and events of each reign.

Colonial Brazil (Cambridge History of Latin America)

By: "Bethell,"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Cambridge University Press:

Seller ID: 9780521349253

ISBN: 0521349257

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Colonial Brazil is a selection of chapters from the Cambridge History of Latin America volumes 1 and 2 brought together to provide a continous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginning of the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The chapters cover early Portuguese settlement, political and economic structures, plantations and slavery, the gold rushes, the impact of colonial rule on Indian societies, imperial reorganization in the eighteenth century, and demographic and economic change during the final decades of the empire.
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"Impact: The Historical Account of the Italian Immigrants of Ridgefield, Connecticut"

By: "Biagiotti, Aldo P. "

Price: $11.95

Publisher: "Ridgefield, CT", Romald Press: 1990

Seller ID: 9-0H001

ISBN: 0962727806

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: GOOD

"READING COPY As new except that part of the cloth covering the boards has been torn away and there is an extensive gift inscription written on flyleaf by a Ridgefield former member of CT State legislature and judge. Damage is primarily cosmetic. Crisp, clean interior pages. 6.25x9.25x1"" History of Italian immigrants to Ridgefield, CT from 1900 to 1945, most from the provinces of Ancona and Pesaro. Includes information on the Branchville enclave and immigrants who worked at the Port of Missing Men. Has short biographical sketches and photos of many immigrants from area. 345 index...
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