As new except for faint tilt."a detailed, accurate, and modern guide to touring these national historic treasures?describes 1353 historic houses, farms, bridges, fields, monuments, cemeteries, and museums covering 22 campaigns and approximately 40 separate battles...41 maps describe features of interest on each field, split between national park areas, state park areas, and private land holdings... More than 100 photographs...122 indexed. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
Here is the shocking true saga of the Irish American mob. In Paddy Whacked, bestselling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsterism, which spawned such unforgettable characters as Mike King Mike McDonald, Chicago's subterranean godfather; Big Bill Dwyer, New York's most notorious rumrunner during Prohibition; Mickey Featherstone, troubled Vietnam vet turned Westies gang leader; and James Whitey Bulger, the ruthless and untouchable Southie legend. Stretching from the earliest New York and New Orleans street wars through decad... View More...
Tight, bright, clean, faintest tilt to spine. Softening of spine ends and corners. Light soil to exterior page edges. Blue cloth, gilt lettering and design, map endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket is present but UGLY - age soiled with large stain on back, rubbed and creased, tattered edges, rips stabilized with clear tape on inside. "deals mainly with occurrences in the Western and Central Canadian Arctic during (the author's) expedition of 1930-31, which was a period of violent transition. The impact of civilization upon Stone Age natives and the changes it has wrought in the Far North..." 227 ... View More...
Tom Fitzmorris covers the New Orleans food scene like powdered sugar covers a beignet. For more than thirty-five years he's written a weekly restaurant review, but he's best known for a long-running, daily radio talk show devoted to New Orleans restaurants and cooking. In Tom Fitzmorris's Hungry Town, Fitzmorris movingly describes the disappearance of New Orleans's food culture in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and its triumphant comeback--an essential element in the city's recovery. He leads up to it with a recent history of New Orleans dining before the hurricane, from the Creole craze o... View More...
From Miracle to Miracle: A Story of Survival documents the true-life drama of a young Polish woman's story of survival during the Holocaust. Each chapter is narrated through the lens of her daughter, whose life was deeply impacted by her mother's experiences. This is the gripping account of a young Polish-Jewish woman and her determination to live through the horrors of the Holocaust. This narrative is told through the perspective of the survivor's daughter, whose childhood in America was impacted by her mother's stories, revealed in fragments at unexpected moments. As an adult, Alicia Fleissi... View More...
Martin Fletcher doesn't claim to be a hero. Yet he didn't flinch, either. During three decades covering wars, revolutions, and natural disasters, Fletcher worked his way from news agency cameraman to top network correspondent, facing down his own fears while facing up to mass killers, warlords, and murderers. With humor and elegance, Fletcher describes his growth from clueless adventurer to grizzled veteran of the world's battlefields. His working philosophy of "Get in, get close, get out, get a drink," put him repeatedly in harm's way, but he never lost sight of why he did it. In a world obse... View More...
Staying Power is recognised as the definitive history of black people in Britain, an epic story that begins with the Roman conquest and continues to this day. In a comprehensive account, Peter Fryer reveals how Africans, Asians and their descendants, previously hidden from history, have profoundly influenced and shaped events in Britain over the course of the last two thousand years. View More...
In the spirit of Barbarians at the Gate and Liar's Poker comes The Sellout, the definitive book on the recent collapse of Wall Street, one of the most dramatic and anxiety-ridden era in national socioeconomic history. In this powerful business narrative, Charles Gasparino, the author of Blood on the Floor and King of the Club, captures how avarice, arrogance, and sheer stupidity eroded Wall Street's dominance, made many of our country's most fabled financial institutions vulnerable to significant new foreign control, and profoundly weakened the financial security of millions of poor and middle... View More...
Ex-library with expected markings. Tight, bright, clean with faintest tilt to spine. Red cloth with gilt lettering and trim on spine and black Series imprint on front cover. A few pages with pencil marks. No DJ. "First book of 'A Series planned by the Civil War Centennial Commission' devoted to many different facets of wartime development: challenge and response, retardation and growth, sort-term influence and long term impact..(ranging from) constitutional and statutory law to poverty, crime and charities, from business organization to medicine and surgery. 383 annotated pages plus 13 pag... View More...
"A fascinating 'herstory' to mark the hundredth anniversary of the admission of the first female students to McGill University in 1884." As new but has inscription and bookstore stamp. View More...
Las Vegas, 1970s--a golden age of Glitter Gulch corruption. Dennis Gomes--the youngest division chief in Gaming Control Board history--whipped a ragtag group of auditors into hardened, gun-slinging investigators, and shattered clich s about milquetoast accountant cops. Coming within a hair's breadth of death more than once, Gomes capped off his tenure with the famous bust of the Stardust skim, portrayed in the book and movie Casino. In Hit Me , there's action to fill a dozen Scorsese films--midnight raids, heart-rending showgirl romances, and deadly double-crosses. And the cast of characters r... View More...
One of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century, Ho Chi Minh was founder of the Indochina Communist Party and its successor, the Viet-Minh, and was president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam provides a window into traditions and culture that influenced the American war in Vietnam, while highlighting the importance of nationalism in determining the war's outcome. As depicted by Halberstam, Ho is first and foremost a nationalist and a patriot. He wa... View More...
With a rich history of great beaches, a two-mile-long boardwalk, and thrilling amusement piers, Wildwood, New Jersey, has been a popular summer seashore resort for vacationers for nearly a century. Fun Pier was created in 1957 by Joe Barnes on the former site of Wildwood s original Convention Hall. Barnes transformed the pier, once dominated by kiddie rides, by building custom rides that were unique to the Wildwood boardwalk, such as the Sky Tower, the Monorail, and the Ski Ride. Fun Pier became famous for its unconventional, carnival-like atmosphere. After two fires sealed the pier s fate, it... View More...
Staple bound. Light shelf wear to edges and corners. 1" surface crease on front cover. Band of sun fading on back cover. Light age soil to exterior page edges. 28 pages profusely illustrated with full color photos on high quality paper. 5.75x8.25x0.1" (15x21x0.3cm). Pounamu is the Maori term for various types of greenstones including nephrite jade and bowenite, which is a type of serpentine. Full color, glossy photos depict various types and uses of New Zealand pounamu. Includes a bibliography. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in store pickup View More...
Solid binding. Several short creases on cover. Small brown piece of tape on spine. Wear along edges. Letter B written on page edges on bottom. Clean interior pages a bit tanned due to age. 239 pages including index. 4.25" X 7" 11cm X 18cm True history of the Dalton Gang, who were pursued by the Pinkertons, US marshals, local police, and private detectives from three different railroads. Their crime spree was so notorious, it almost kept Oklahoma out of the Union. View More...
