Heyday

product_img5
Nancy L. Todd
New York's Historic Armories: An Illustrated History
Chronicles the evolution of the armory as a specific building type in American architectural and military history, and the role these buildings played in the history of America's volunteer militia. Winner of the 2007 Excellence in Historic Preservation Award presented by the Preservation League o...
$34.93
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Scott Joplin
Complete Piano Rags (Dover Classical Piano Music)
Throughout history, few musical crazes have hit with such impact, had such a heyday and lingered so hauntingly as ragtime. Ragtime arrived on the upswing of Tin Pan Alley, when the popularity of pianos in the home was reaching its peak and an endless stream of sheet music flowed out to meet the dema...
$14.95
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Roger Miret
My Riot: Agnostic Front, Grit, Guts & Glory
“Miret’s captivating and harrowing, no-holds-barred account of a life lived in the trenches . . . You don’t have to be a major Agnostic Front fan to get maximum enjoyment out of this book. . . . A compelling read.” — Classic Rock Revisited "Miret’s memorable, affecting stories capture ...
$17.00
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Laurence H. Shoup
Inigo of Rancho Posolmi: The Life and Times of a Mission Indian (Ballena Press Anthropological Papers)
An innovative biography of an Ohlone Indian, who was appointed an alcalde at Mission Santa Clara, was given a sizeable land grant, and managed to retain over 800 acres of it until his death in 1864. Deeply researched, rich in detail, and completely trustworthy in its conclusions, this groundbreaking...
$13.00
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Herbert Schnädelbach
Philosophy in Germany 1831-1933
The hundred years covered by this book, from the death of Hegel to the establishment of the Third Reich, is often regarded as the heyday of German philosophy, of metaphysics in the grand style and of what J. S. Mill characterised as 'the German or a priori view of human knowledge'. Yet apart from se...
$40.00
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Elliott Kaufman
Alphabet Everywhere
Explore the world in a new way and start finding your own alphabet...everywhere! There is a world of letters just waiting to be discovered in the world around us―if we know how to look for it. In this engaging and delightful book, photographer Elliott Kaufman reveals the "secret" life of the alph...
$14.95
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Anthony Slide
"It's the Pictures That Got Small": Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age (Film and Culture Series)
Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Charles Brackett was an extremely observant and perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry during its most exciting years. He is best remembered as the writing partner of director Billy Wilder, who once referred to the pair as "the happiest couple in Hollyw...
$19.67
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Philip Roth
I Married a Communist: American Trilogy (2) (Vintage International)
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral delivers the astonishing story of the rise and fall of an American man whose life is destroyed in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s. "Gripping.... A masterly, often unnerving, blend of tenderness, harshness, insight and wit." — The N...
$15.95
www.amazon.com
product_img5
C. John Sullivan
Waterfowling on the Chesapeake, 1819-1936
Part documentary, part nostalgic history, and part informational catalogue, Waterfowling on the Chesapeake, 1819–1936 explores a century of hunting on the Chesapeake Bay and its major tributaries―from the heyday of gun clubs and market shooting to the rise of conservation law. Drawing on oral ...
$44.95
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Arthur Morrison
The Best Martin Hewitt Detective Stories (Dover Mystery Classics)
During the 1890s, the heyday of Sherlock Holmes, Martin Hewitt ranked among England's most popular fictional detectives. A favorite of readers of The Strand and other magazines, Hewitt returns in this collection of nine of his best cases. Hewitt enters the scene in "The Lenton Croft Robberies," i...
$9.95
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Henryk Hoffmann
Western Film Highlights: The Best of the West, 1914-2001
Westerns may have had their heyday, but they remain popular. The greatest films from 1914, when The Squaw Man and The Virginian were among the genre's best, through 2001, when American Outlaws and Texas Rangers were tops, are the subject of this work. For each year, the author names the outs...
$30.50
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Casey Sherman
Animal: The Bloody Rise and Fall of the Mob’s Most Feared Assassin
From the author of Boston Strong: A City’s Triumph Over Tragedy. “Joseph Barboza is the most dangerous individual known.”—FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, 1965 Joe Barboza knew that there were two requirements for getting inducted into the Mafia. You had to be Sicilian. And you had to commit ...
$19.23
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Janet Greenstein Potter
Great American Railroad Stations
"[S]ociety so often allows masterpieces of architecture...to be destroyed or altered as though real estate ownership supersedes any other value system....The best railroad stations were conceived in the dreams of architects and civil engineers, and then brought to life by talented craftspeople....Th...
$160.55
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Jack Williamson
The Humanoids: A Novel
On the far planet Wing IV, a brilliant scientist creates the humanoids--sleek black androids programmed to serve humanity. But are they perfect servants--or perfect masters? Slowly the humanoids spread throughout the galaxy, threatening to stifle all human endeavor. Only a hidden group of rebels c...
$13.99
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Randy Shaw
Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century
Cesar Chavez is the most prominent Latino in United States history books, and much has been written about Chavez and the United Farm Worker's heyday in the 1960s and '70s. But left untold has been their ongoing impact on 21st century social justice movements. Beyond the Fields unearths this legacy...
$23.95
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Michael J. Lisicky
Filene's: Boston's Great Specialty Store (Images of America)
See how brothers Edward and Lincoln Filene brought fashion and entertainment to generations of Bostonians. It was regarded as the ""World's Largest Specialty Store."" William Filene's Sons Company was founded in 1870 and brothers Edward and Lincoln Filene were revolutionaries who championed employee...
$24.99
www.amazon.com
product_img5
J. R. S. Pitts
Life and Confession of the Noted Outlaw James Copeland (Muscadine Books Series)
Jesse James, John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde―James Copeland (born 1823) was the granddaddy of them all. This is his notorious history as recorded by the sheriff who arrested him in 1857. During the 1830s, '40s, and '50s, Copeland and his gang of outlaws ranged over territory ex...
$25.00
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Hy B. Turner
When Giants Ruled: The Story of Park Row, NY's Great Newspaper Street (Communications and Media Studies)
When Giants Ruled takes the reader behind the scenes of a century of newspaper life. It relates how Benjamin Day, a job printer desperate for more money, started The Sun and inadvertently established the first successful daily for the masses. His main rival was James Gordon Bennett the Elder, whose ...
$30.98
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Deluxe Edition Hardcover: A Novel
A stunning hardcover limited special edition of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s sensational New York Times bestselling novel. A legendary film actress reflects on her relentless rise to the top and the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine. Agi...
$17.49
www.amazon.com
product_img5
Mim Scala
Diary of a Teddy Boy
A JOURNEY THROUGH THE LONG SIXTIES For those of you unfortunates who did not live during the time of The Long Sixties described so eloquently in this memoir, all you need do is read it, and do not doubt that these magical things really did happen. Mim Scala recounts his charmed life, it's inhabitan...
$14.00
www.amazon.com