Chronological Period/21st Century
-
Victorian City
$39.00 Add to cartThe nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London, which, in only a few decades, grew from a compact Regency town into the largest city the worl
- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 1250068266
- Language: English
-
La Vida Loca (Always Running): El Testimonio de Un Pandillero En Los Angeles
$19.99 Add to cart“A los doce años, Luis RodrÃguez ya era un veterano de la guerra entre las pandillas de East Los Angeles. AtraÃdo por una cultura pandillera aparentemente insuperable, fue testigo de un sinfÃn de … [more below]
- Author: Rodriguez, Luis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0743281551
- Language: Spanish
-
Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror
$16.00 Add to cartTHE EXPLOSIVE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
With all-new excerpts from Richard Clarke’s dramatic public testimony, and revealing corroboration from The 9/11 Commission Report
From the 9/11 Commission Rep… [more below]- Author: Clarke, Richard A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 21 2004
- ISBN10: 0743260457
- Language: English
-
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American Is Tearing Us Apart
$18.99 Add to cartThe award-winning journalist reveals the untold story of why America is so culturally and politically divided in this groundbreaking book.
Armed with startling demographic data, Bill Bishop demonstrate
- Author: Bishop, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0547237723
- Language: English
-
The Prize
$19.99 Add to cart“One of the most important books on education to come along in years.” — New York Times Book Review
A New York Times Notable Book – A Best Book of the Year, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, The Ne- Author: Russakoff, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0544810902
- Language: English
-
Agent Garbo
$15.95 Add to cartThe little-known World War II espionage story of Spaniard Juan Pujol, who convinced Hitler’s Abwehr that he had a ring of spies in Britain, only to pull off one of the greatest feats of any double age… [more below]
- Author: Talty, Stephan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0544035011
- Language: English
-
The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest
$40.00 Add to cartIs there any chapter in American history more dramatic than that of the Northwest from the time of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877? Heroic – and not so heroic -characters
- Series: American Heritage Library
- Author: Josephy, Alvin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0395850118
- Language: English
-
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
$16.99 Add to cartIn November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission. This… [more below]
- Author: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 567
- Publish Date: July 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0393326713
- Language: English
-
On the Edge of Survival: A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author whose beloved books inspired the hit television show, The Deadliest Catch, a thrilling, true adventure tale in the Alaskan seas.
In 2004, during a brutal storm, a Malaysian c- Author: Walker, Spike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0312604599
- Language: English
-
American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation
$22.00 Add to cartONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE
The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from- Author: Kazin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0307279197
- Language: English
-
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic
$40.99 Add to cartIn Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axworthy guides us through recent Iranian history from shortly before the 1979 Islamic revolution through the summer of 2009, when Iranians poured into the streets of Te… [more below]
- Author: Axworthy, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199322260
- Language: English
-
Paris Journal, 1944-1955
$17.99 Add to cartHere is a continuation of selections from Flanner’s celebrated “Letter from Paris,” a series that appeared in the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature ” Gen黎.” With clarity and authority,… [more below]
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: July 28 1988
- ISBN10: 0156709481
- Language: English
-
The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America’s Urban Heartland
$19.99 Add to cart“Thompson-Hern ndez’s portrayal of Compton’s black cowboys broadens our perception of Compton’s young black residents, and connects the Compton Cowboys to the historical legacy of African Americans in
- Author: Thompson-Hernandez, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0062910612
- Language: English
-
Movement Makers: How Young Activists Upended the Politics of Climate Change
$16.99 Add to cartSchool strikes for the climate. A bold campaign for a Green New Deal. Fossil fuel divestment. Over the last few years, these and other youth-driven climate initiatives have grabbed the public’s attent… [more below]
- Author: Engelfried, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: November 09 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986958408
- Language: English
-
Barefoot Lawyer
$25.99 Add to cart” Chen’s] story is a reminder that the desire for basic human rights . . . arises from the deep well of the human spirit.”–The New York Times Book Review
It was like a scene out of a thriller: One ni- Author: Guangcheng, Chen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1250081599
- Language: English
-
Warrior Police
$25.00 Add to cartFor the first time ever, author Gordon Cucullu gives readers an explosive inside look at modern military police units and their role in defending our freedom.
America has been at war on several fronts- Author: Cucullu, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 1250013135
- Language: English
-
Forward Together: A Moral Message for the Nation
$19.99 Add to cartNorth Carolina’s Moral Monday protests have drawn tens of thousands of protestors in what has been called the new Civil Rights Movement. Forward Together: A Moral Message for the Nation shares the the… [more below]
- Author: Barber II, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0827244940
- Language: English
-
Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen
$26.95 Add to cart“Takes readers on a head-shaking romp through a south Florida that they won’t find in any tourist brochure. . . . Hiaasen’s writing is fearless and the targets endless: politicians, municipal employee… [more below]
- Author: Hiaasen, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0813034280
- Language: English
-
In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat
$26.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Rick Atkinson (Liberation Trilogy) comes an eyewitness account of the war against Iraq and a vivid portrait of a remarkable group of soldiers.
“A bea- Author: Atkinson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0805077731
- Language: English
-
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
$20.00 Read moreNew York Times Bestseller
Los Angeles Times Bestseller
Washington Post Bestseller
Stress Test is the story of Tim Geithner’s education in financial crises.
As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of N- Author: Geithner, Timothy F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0804138613
- Language: English
