Hill & Wang
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American Transcendentalism
$27.00 Add to cartAmerican Transcendentalism is a sweeping narrative history of America’s first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in t
- Author: Gura, Philip F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0809016443
- Language: English
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The Other Civil War
$21.00 Add to cartA lively, comprehensive account of the struggle for women’s rights at a vital time in our national history.
The American women who worked for our country’s indepence in 1776 hoped the new Republic wou- Author: Clinton, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: April 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0809016222
- Language: English
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Short Eyes: A Play
$16.00 Add to cartWinner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award
This powerful drama of prison life is set in a house of detention where a group of young convicts-predominantly black and Puerto Rican-taunt, fight, i- Series: Mermaid Dramabook
- Author: Pinero, Migu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0374521476
- Language: English
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Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
$19.99 Add to cart“Who Owns History? testifies to Eric Foner’s lifelong personal commitment to writing histories that advance the struggle for racial equality and economic justice.” –David Glassberg, The Sunday Star-L
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0809097052
- Language: English
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Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News
$25.99 Add to cartOn the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcer
- Author: Schwartz, A. Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0809031647
- Language: English
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Naming Names: With a New Afterword by the Author
$36.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Award
An astonishing work concerning personal honor and dishonor, shame and shamelessness. A book of stunning insights and suspense. –Studs Terkel Half a century later, th- Author: Navasky, Victor S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0809001837
- Language: English
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A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War
$21.99 Add to cartAn unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history
In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of rac- Author: Ash, V. Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0809068303
- Language: English
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The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China: A History
$21.99 Add to cartA concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powers.
The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The B- Author: Silbey, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0809030756
- Language: English
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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Series
$19.00 Add to cartCamilla Townsend’s stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were–in th
- Series: American Portraits
- Author: Townsend, Camilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0809077388
- Language: English
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1831: Year of Eclipse
$20.00 Add to cart1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years meant to American history. But wars and economic disasters are not our only pivotal events, and other years have, in a quieter wa
- Author: Masur, Louis P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0809041197
- Language: English
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The Cartoon Introduction to Calculus
$20.00 Add to cartThe internationally bestselling authors of The Cartoon Introduction to Economics return to make calculus fun
The award-winning illustrator Grady Klein has teamed up once again with the world’s only st- Author: Klein, Grady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 16 2019
- ISBN10: 0809033690
- Language: English
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Americans: A Collision of Histories
$23.99 Add to cartIn this social history, Edward Countryman shows how interactions among America’s different ethnic groups have contributed to our sense of nationality. From the earliest settlements along the Atlantic
- Author: Countryman, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: December 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0809015986
- Language: English
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In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheim
$16.00 Add to cart- Series: Mermaid Dramabook
- Author: Kipphardt, Heinar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 03 2003
- ISBN10: 0809012154
- Language: English
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Adam’s Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
$21.99 Add to cartHow language evolved has been called the hardest problem in science. In Adam’s Tongue, Derek Bickerton–long a leading authority in this field–shows how and why previous attempts to solve that proble
- Author: Bickerton, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0809016478
- Language: English
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To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells
$18.00 Add to cartBorn to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women’s rights advocate, and journalist. Wells’s refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be la
- Author: Bay, Mia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 080901646X
- Language: English
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
$19.00 Add to cartReaders of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a clearer, more quantitative way of looking at their world.
Why do even well- Author: Paulos, John Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0809058405
- Language: English
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First Generations
$20.00 Add to cartCarol Berkin’s multicultural history reconstructs the lives of American women in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-women from European, African, and Native backgrounds-and examines their varied
- Author: Berkin, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0809016060
- Language: English
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The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
$24.00 Add to cartA classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century
Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in t- Author: Trachtenberg, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0809058286
- Language: English
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Liberty and Power
$23.99 Add to cartAs an engaging and persuasive survey of American public life from 1816 to 1848, Harry L. Watson’s Liberty and Power remains a landmark achievement. Now updated to address twenty-five years of new scho
- Author: Watson, Harry L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0809065479
- Language: English
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
$28.99 Add to cart“… imaginatively written and meticulously researched biography.” –Elizabeth Sherman, The Boston Sunday Globe
Her rallying cry was famous: “Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.” A c- Author: Gorn, Elliott J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0809070944
- Language: English
