Da Capo Press
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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
$18.99 Add to cartA book for lovers of all things Italian — an homage to the city of Trieste.
This history-drenched city on the Adriatic has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and changeability. After vi- Author: Morris, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0306811804
- Language: English
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The Back Pain Helpbook
$19.99 Add to cartAn estimated 8 million Americans require medical care or time off from work because of back pain each year. Despite advances in modern medicine, there is no cure for back pain and the most commonly pr
- Author: Moore, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 09, 1999
- ISBN10: 073820112X
- Language: English
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
$35.99 Add to cartIstanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact.
From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names–Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanb- Author: Hughes, Bettany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0306921995
- Language: English
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Comfortably Numb
$21.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed, definitive biography of Pink Floyd, from their iconic beginnings in psychedelic, Swinging London to their historic reunion at the Live8 concert (“The most complete, insightful, and curr… [more below]
- Author: Blake, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0306817527
- Language: English
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What Do We Know: Poems and Prose Poems
$18.99 Add to cartForty poems by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver
“Mary Oliver’s poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing,” wrote Stanley Kunitz. For the many admirers of Mary Oliver’s dazzling poetry- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0306812061
- Language: English
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The Rommel Papers
$26.00 Add to cartAn essential collection of the wartime writings and diary of World War II German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, edited with commentary by one of the great military theorists of our time
When Erwin Rommel- Author: Hart, B. H. Liddell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 22 1982
- ISBN10: 0306801574
- Language: English
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To Live’s to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt
$21.99 Add to cartAt last, the authorized biography of Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997), who wrote such unforgettable songs as “Pancho & Lefty” and “If I Needed You.” Born to a wealthy oil family in Ft. Worth, Texas, hound… [more below]
- Author: Kruth, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0306816040
- Language: English
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Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past
$18.99 Add to cartAn ingeniously constructed teaching memoir from the author of the bestselling On Writing Well — “You learn without knowing it.” (Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes)
Written with elegance, warmth,… [more below]- Author: Zinsser, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 28 2005
- ISBN10: 1569243794
- Language: English
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Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War’s Greatest Untold Story — The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company
$19.99 Add to cartAn epic story of valor and sacrifice by a legendary Marine company in the Korean War brought to gripping, cinematic light by an acclaimed historian (“Gives the brave Marines of George Company long ove… [more below]
- Author: O’Donnell, Patrick K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0306820447
- Language: English
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Why Does E=mc2?: (And Why Should We Care?)
$18.99 Add to cartThe international bestseller: an introduction to the theory of relativity by the eminent physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
What does E=mc2 actually mean? Dr. Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw- Author: Cox, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 13 2010
- ISBN10: 0306818760
- Language: English
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Slugfest: Inside the Epic, 50-Year Battle Between Marvel and DC
$37.00 Add to cartThe first in-depth, behind-the-scenes book treatment of the rivalry between the two comic book giants.
THEY ARE THE TWO TITANS OF THE COMIC BOOK INDUSTRY–the Coke and Pepsi of superheroes–and for m- Author: Tucker, Reed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825465
- Language: English
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Lonely Crusade
$24.99 Add to cartA classic of African-American fiction, Chester Himes’s tale of a young black man who becomes a union organizer during WWII examines major problems in American life: racism, anti-Semitism, labor strife… [more below]
- Series: Himes, Chester
- Author: Himes, Chester
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: November 19 2007
- ISBN10: 1560251425
- Language: English
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Walt Whitman’s Civil War
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1863 Walt Whitman first proposed to the publisher John Redpath a book about his Civil War experiences. It was never published. But in a draft prospectus Whitman described “a new book . . . with its… [more below]
- Author: Lowenfels, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306803550
- Language: English
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Chelsea Horror Hotel
$16.99 Add to cartDee Dee Ramone doesn’t quite know what he’s getting himself into when he and his wife Barbara move into the Chelsea Hotel with their dog Banfield. The room he’s staying in might be the very room where… [more below]
- Author: Ramone, Dee Dee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0306825007
- Language: English
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Semi-Tough
$21.99 Add to cart“Dan Jenkins is a comic genius.” — Don Imus
Made into a hilarious and timeless film starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh, and recently named number seven on Sports Illustra- Author: Jenkins, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1560258594
- Language: English
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Sea Is My Brother: The Lost Novel (Deluxe, Expanded)
$24.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it T… [more below]
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 030682180X
- Language: English
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The Black Death: A Personal History
$19.99 Add to cartIn this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a mid-fourteenth century rural English village.
By focusi… [more below]- Author: Hatcher, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0306817926
- Language: English
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Cool Hand Luke
$18.99 Add to cart“An impressive novel . . . the most brutal and authentic account of a road gang that we have had.”–New York Times
Out of his experiences working on a chain gang, Donn Pearce created Cool Hand Luke, t- Author: Pearce, Donn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 18 1999
- ISBN10: 1560252286
- Language: English
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Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out
$24.00 Add to cartGritty, moving, funny, and always fascinating, Bill Graham Presents is the inside story of the explosive and unforgettable man who created the business of rock.
As a child, Bill Graham fled Europe to- Author: Graham, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0306813491
- Language: English
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Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye
$21.99 Add to cart“A biography as dramatic as any to come out of the pop field . . . told with sympathy and unflinching candor.”–San Francisco Chronicle
In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz pro- Author: Ritz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 08 2003
- ISBN10: 030681191X
- Language: English
