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Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
$22.00PaperbackRead moreWinner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History
Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for cent- Author: Fenn, Elizabeth A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 17, 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535116
- Language: English
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By: Hughes, Langston
I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
$21.00PaperbackAdd to cartIn I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.
His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia- Series: American Century
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0809015501
- Language: English
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Masters of Empire
$28.99PaperbackAdd to cartA radical reinterpretation of early American history from a native point of view
In Masters of Empire, the historian Michael A. McDonnell reveals the vital role played by the native peoples of the Gre- Author: McDonnell, Michael a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0809068001
- Language: English
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By: Wilson, Lanford
Burn This: A Play
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cartCommissioned by the Circle Repertory Company, Burn This first appeared at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 1987 to near-universal praise. Set in the bohemian art world of downtown New York, this
- Author: Wilson, Lanford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: May 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0809030578
- Language: English
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By: Self, Robert O.
All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s
$25.00PaperbackAdd 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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By: White, Richard
The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River
$17.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.
In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the- Series: Hill and Wang Critical Issues
- Author: White, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 31 1996
- ISBN10: 0809015838
- Language: English
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By: Sheriff, Carol
The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartRediscover the Gems of Antiquity in The Artificial River
Woven from a rich tapestry of research, The Artificial River is more than just a historical account of the Erie Canal–it encapsulates a pivota- Author: Sheriff, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 12 1997
- ISBN10: 809016052
- Language: English
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By: Silbey, David J.
A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartFirst-rate military history, A War of Frontier and Empire retells an often forgotten chapter in America’s past, infusing it with commanding contemporary relevance.
It has been termed an insurgency, a r- Author: Silbey, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0809096617
- Language: English
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By: Griswold, Eliza
I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartAfghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk couplet-a landay, an ancient oral and anonymous form created by and for mos
- Author: Griswold, Eliza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535183
- Language: English
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By: Hosler, Jay
Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartAn accessible graphic introduction to evolution for the most science-phobic reader
Illustrated by the brilliant duo Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon, this volume is written by the noted comic author and- Author: Hosler, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0809043114
- Language: English
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By: Ariely, Dan
Amazing Decisions: The Illustrated Guide to Improving Business Deals and Family Meals
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartDan Ariely, the New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational, and illustrator Matt R. Trower present a playful graphic novel guide to better decision-making, based on the author’s groun
- Author: Ariely, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0374536740
- Language: English
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By: Barthes, Roland
Roland Barthes
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cartFirst published in 1977, Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes is the great literary theorist’s most original work–a brilliant and playful text, gracefully combining the personal and the theoretical to re
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0374251460
- Language: English
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By: Hughes, Langston
The Short Stories of Langston Hughes
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe Short Stories of Langston Hughes
This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963–the most comprehensive available–showcases Langston Hughes’s literary blossoming and the dev- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 321
- Publish Date: August 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0809016036
- Language: English
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By: Brecht, Bertolt
Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
$25.99PaperbackAdd to cartThis volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht’s groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arranged in chronological order, are essays from 1918 to 1956, in which Brecht explores his definition o
- Author: Brecht, Bertolt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 1964
- ISBN10: 0809005425
- Language: English
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By: Barthes, Roland
Writing Degree Zero
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cartIs there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These are the questions Roland Barthes addresses in Writing Degree Zero, his first published book and
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0374532354
- Language: English
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By: Wallace, Anthony
The Long, Bitter Trail
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.
This account of Congress’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 focuses on the p- Series: Hill and Wang Critical Issues
- Author: Wallace, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0809015528
- Language: English
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By: Barthes, Roland
Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977 – September 15, 1979
$19.00PaperbackRead more“In the sentence ‘She’s no longer suffering, ‘ to what, to whom does ‘she’ refer? What does that present tense mean?” –Roland Barthes, from his diary
The day after his mother’s death in October 1977,- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533113
- Language: English
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Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
$20.00PaperbackRead moreIn 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein’s. T
- Author: Poundstone, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0809045990
- Language: English
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By: Klein, Grady
The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Volume II: Macroeconomics
$20.00PaperbackRead moreNeed to understand today’s economy? This is the book for you. The Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Volume Two: Macroeconomics is the most accessible, intelligible, and humorous introduction to unemp
- Series: Cartoon Introduction to Economics
- Author: Klein, Grady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0809033615
- Language: English
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By: Fuller, Charles
A Soldier’s Play
$17.00PaperbackAdd to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1982
A black sergeant cries out in the night, “They still hate you,” then is shot twice and falls dead. Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army camp in Loui- Series: Dramabook
- Author: Fuller, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374521484
- Language: English
















