Category: History
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Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Ballantine Books:
Seller ID: 9780345383044
ISBN: 0345383044
Condition: GOOD
Jihad vs. McWorld is a groundbreaking work, an elegant and illuminating analysis of the central conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus religious and tribal fundamentalism. These diametrically opposed but strangely intertwined forces are tearing apart--and bringing together--the world as we know it, undermining democracy and the nation-state on which it depends. On the one hand, consumer capitalism on the global level is rapidly dissolving the social and economic barriers between nations, transforming the world's diverse populations into a blandly uniform market. On the other ... View more info
Danmark 1940-1945
By: "Barford, Jorgen H. (Frihedsmuseet, photos)"
Price: $8.95
Publisher: "Copenhagen, Denmark", Frihedsmuseets Forlag: 1984
Seller ID: 4-DY014
ISBN: 8788214060
Condition: VERY GOOD-
"Danish, English, German & French text (in side-by-side columns). Tight, bright, clean and square but has chipping along edge of front cover. 80 pages with 55 black and white photos" View more info
The Fighting Ghettos (Original title: Seifer Milchamot Hagetaot)
By: "Barkai, Meyer (ed. & trans.)"
Price: $12.49
Publisher: "Philadelphia, PA", J. B. Lippincott Company: 1962
Edition: (1st English edition)
Seller ID: 4-8H007
Condition: VERY GOOD-/Good- dj
"Tight, clean interior, faint foxing to exterior page edges, light age soil to cover edges, square. Map covers and endpapers. Slight softening and rubbing to spine ends. Owners name inside front cover. Dust jacket is present but soiled with a few tiny rips along edges. Originally publish in Hebrew in Tel Aviv in 1954 by the Ghetto Fighters House and Kibbutz Hammeuchad. ""Firsthand account of Jewish resistance to the Germans - Within the Ghetto Walls, In the Concentration Camps, In the Forests""" View more info
Torpedo Bomber! - The story of the R.A.F. torpedo bombers
By: "Barker, Ralph"
Price: $10.50
Publisher: NY, Ballantine (#U6084): 1968
Edition: (2nd American edition)
Seller ID: 19P015
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." View more info
"Dancing with the Devil: Sex, Espionage, and the U.S. Marines: The Clayton Lonetree Story"
By: "Barker, Rodney"
Price: $9.95
Publisher: NY, Ivy Books: 1996
Edition: (1st thus)
Seller ID: 85P014
ISBN: 0804115699
Condition: VERY GOOD-
"Tight, bright, clean, slight curl. 1 folded page corner. 1 page with repaired rip on edge. Slight shelfwear. ""this sex-for-secrets scandal was one of the most notorious espionage cases in Cold War history.""" View more info
America: What Went Wrong?
By: "Barlett, Donald L., B., James Steele"
Price: $3.50
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing:
Seller ID: 9780836270013
ISBN: 0836270010
Condition: GOOD
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Harper Perennial:
Seller ID: 9780060928834
ISBN: 0060928832
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's R... View more info
la lucha por la hegemonia en mexico 1968-1980
Price: $8.95
Publisher: Mexico, Siglo xxi: 1985
Edition: (4a ed.
Seller ID: 5-5T010
ISBN: 9682310628
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. " View more info
The Yoruba (Case studies in cultural anthropology)
By: "Bascom, R.H."
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Holt McDougal:
Seller ID: 9780030812491
ISBN: 0030812496
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
Condition: very good
Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas
Price: $8.50
Publisher: Vintage:
Seller ID: 9780394700601
ISBN: 0394700600
Condition: GOOD
"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
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""" View more info
"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
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""" View more info
"Last Emperor, The"
By: "Behr, Edward"
Price: $3.50
Seller ID: 9780708834398
ISBN: 0708834396
Condition: GOOD
"Last Emperor,the"
By: "Behr, Edward"
Price: $4.95
Publisher: Bantam:
Seller ID: 9780553344745
ISBN: 0553344749
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
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""." View more info
Around the World in New York
Price: $20.21
Publisher: NY, Century: 1924
Seller ID: 4NH033
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." View more info
Hitler's naval war
Price: $1.35
Publisher: Macdonald:
Seller ID: 9780356045085
ISBN: 0356045080
Condition: GOOD
France Under Napoleon
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Princeton University Press:
Seller ID: 9780691007892
ISBN: 0691007896
Condition: GOOD
The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession
Price: $8.45
Publisher: Wiley:
Seller ID: 9780471003786
ISBN: 0471003786
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... View more info