Chronological Period/1950-1999
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Bart: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
$30.00 Add to cartIn the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider’s account of the rapid transit system’s inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operation… [more below]
- Author: Healy, Michael C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1597143707
- Language: English
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Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
$17.00 Add to cartA landmark history of post-punk, the basis of the documentary film directed by Nikolaos Katranis
Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division,- Author: Reynolds, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143036726
- Language: English
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Once Anillos/ Eleven Rings
$12.95 Read moreDurante su exitosa carrera como entrenador de los Chicago Bulls y Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson conquistó más campeonatos que ningún otro entrenador en la historia profesional del deporte.
Jackso… [more below]- Author: Jackson, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 30 2016
- ISBN10: 8416240574
- Language: Spanish
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Korea: The Impossible Country: South Korea’s Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon
$16.99 Add to cart“Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story of Korea today.” –Martin Uden, Former British Amba… [more below]
- Author: Tudor, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0804846391
- Language: English
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
$18.95 Add to cartWhat began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defian
- Author: Hinton, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092009
- Language: English
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Elon Musk
$19.95 Add to cartNew York Times and International Bestseller Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Audible and Amazon More than 1 million copies sold In the spirit of Steve Jobs and … [more below]
- Author: Vance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: February 12 2018
- ISBN10: 6077473677
- Language: Spanish
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The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
$23.99 Add to cart“This is the history of the gay and lesbian movement that we’ve been waiting for.” —The Washington Post
The sweeping story of the struggle for gay and lesbian rights–based on amazing interviews wit- Author: Faderman, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1451694121
- Language: English
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Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis
$22.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of the military’s decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon’s Brain and international bestseller Area … [more below]
- Author: Jacobsen, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0316349356
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine
$27.95 Add to cartGershon Baskin’s memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family. Baskin joined Young Judaea back in … [more below]
- Author: Baskin, Gershon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0826521819
- Language: English
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New Media in Art
$29.95 Add to cartFollowing innovative ideas about representation and the free use of materials in cubism, futurism, and surrealism–particularly in the work of Duchamp–artists abandoned strict adherence to traditiona… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Rush, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0500203784
- Language: English
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Paris Journal, 1956-65
$17.99 Add to cartThis portrait of a city and an era is drawn from the the author’s celebrated “Letter from Paris,” a series that appeared in The New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature “Gen黎.” Edited by Will… [more below]
- Series: Paris Journal #2
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 28 1988
- ISBN10: 015670949X
- Language: English
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All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s
$25.00 Add to cartIn the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and War on Poverty promised an array of federal programs to assist working-class families. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan declared the GOP the party of “famil
- Author: Self, Robert O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0809026740
- Language: English
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One Yard Short: Turning Your Defeats Into Victories
$18.99 Add to cartCoach Les Steckel understands that life is difficult. It’s marked by disappointments and defeats. But what’s important is what you do with those defeats. One Yard Short is the amazing story of Les Ste
- Author: Steckel, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2008
- ISBN10: 0849929075
- Language: English
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The Diana Chronicles
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. This “insanely readable and improbably profound” biography (Chicago Tribune) reveals the truth as only famed jou… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Tina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 20 2008
- ISBN10: 076792309X
- Language: English
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Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances
$16.99 Add to cartIn this revelatory and moving memoir, a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver shares his personal journey from the gridiron to the stars, examining the intersecting roles of community, persevera
- Author: Melvin, Leland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0062496735
- Language: English
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Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner
$35.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and
- Author: Smith, Patti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 006621131X
- Language: English
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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
$25.00 Add to cart“An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one.” –Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post
“The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully writte- Author: Menand, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 125082964X
- Language: English
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Poet Warrior: A Memoir
$25.00 Add to cartJoy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her “poet-warrior” road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, an
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0393248526
- Language: English
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K2, The Savage Mountain: The Classic True Story Of Disaster And Survival On The World’s Second-Highest Mountain
$19.95 Add to cartThe 1953 American expedition to the second highest peak in the world.
- Author: Houston, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1493050249
- Language: English
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The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
$21.99 Add to cart“An impressive, meticulously reported postmortem. . . . The Wizard of Lies is the definitive book on what Madoff did and how he did it.” –Bloomberg Businessweek
Who was Bernie Madoff, and how did he- Author: Henriques, Diana B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1250007437
- Language: English
