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Ben Yagoda
About Town: The New Yorker and The World It Made (First Edition)
Offers a critical and cultural history of "The New Yorker" from its founding in 1919 through 1987, discussing the evolution of the magazine's content over the years and its role in American cultural life " The New Yorker will be the magazine which is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque." This n...
$27.31
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Jeffrey Hammond
Little Big World: Collecting Louis Marx and the American Fifties (Sightline Books)
Jeffrey Hammond’s Little Big World: Collecting Louis Marx and the American Fifties is the story of a middle-aged man’s sudden compulsion to collect the toys of his childhood: specifically themed playsets produced by the Louis Marx Toy Company. Hammond never made a conscious decision to become ...
$22.95
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Bernard Porter
The Lion's Share: A History of British Imperialism 1850 to the Present
Updated to incorporate a substantial new epilogue considering Brexit and its ‘imperial’ implications, the sixth edition of The Lion’s Share remains an essential introduction to British imperialism from its Victorian heyday to the present. Well-known for its vigorous and readable style, this ...
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Dorothy Fitch Peniston
An Island In Time
A warm and radiant memoir of growing up in the Twenties and Thirties set against the backgrounds of New York, the booming Florida Gold Coast, and Southern California in the heyday of its cinematic glory.Dorothy Peniston was a free spirit in the best sense of the word - plucky, always eager for new a...
$12.26
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Ron Guidry
Gator: My Life in Pinstripes
Legendary New York Yankees pitcher Ron Guidry recounts his years playing for one of the most storied and celebrated teams in sports history--the world champion New York Yankees during their heyday in the Bronx Zoo years, with manic manager Billy Martin, headline loving owner George Steinbrenner, and...
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Olivia Remie Constable
Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900–1500 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought:
This volume surveys Iberian international trade from the tenth to the fifteenth century, with particular emphasis on commerce in the Muslim period and on changes brought by Christian conquest of much of Muslim Spain in the thirteenth century. From the tenth to the thirteenth century, markets in the ...
$54.00
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John F. Kasson
Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century)
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing soc...
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Ramona Reeves
It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories (Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 31)
Winner, 2023 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters | Winner of the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Happiness and connection prove fickle in this debut collection of eleven linked stories introducing Babbie and Donnie. She is a thrice-divorced former call ...
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Fred Litwin
I Was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak
Fred Litwin recounts how he became a JFK conspiracy freak at eighteen, and then slowly moved to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. I Was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak demonstrates how the left and right have used the JFK assassination to drive home myths about power in Americ...
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Dan Ding
Leftover Dreams of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival (Chinese Edition)
This book shows the painter Zhang Zeduan and the creation of the scroll to the world for the first time and concentrates the splendid culture of the Song Dynasty heyday in the lines. The vivid characters in the book make us feel that the historical figures are not far from us and they live in the wo...
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Jeff Kisseloff
You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II
Jeff Kisseloff brings together 137 New Yorkers who witnessed daily life in Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II. Dividing the city into ten neighborhoods and devoting a chapter and about a dozen voices to each, Kisseloff offers a brief historical introduction, then lets the eyewitnesses speak fo...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Last Tycoon: An Unfinished Novel (Scribner Classic)
*With a new introduction by bestselling and iconic novelist Haruki Murakami* This edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final unfinished novel is now restored to the original 1941 text, with updates by Fitzgerald scholar James L. W. West III. When F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940, he left behind ...
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Joseph A. Comm
Rock Springs Park (Images of America)
Once described as "a place where God and man went fifty-fifty to produce perfection," Rock Springs Park remained a landmark along the Lincoln Highway in Chester until 1970. In its heyday, this panhandle playground captivated 20,000 visitors daily with attractions including the World's Greatest Sceni...
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Edward Gammage
Crip Chronicles: Untold Truths and Perspectives
From the mind of Akili, the concrete jungle of urban Los Angeles has always been a survival task, but one that he honorably calls home, a place he has found worthy of his constructive insight. Inspired by the nobility, rage and redemption of Mr. Stanley “Tookie” Williams, Akili has transformed h...
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Susan Sorek
The Emperors' Needles: Egyptian Obelisks and Rome
Obelisks, originally associated with the sun cult, had their heyday between 2000 and 1500 BC, when they adorned the Nile’s banks and proclaimed the splendour of the pharaohs. Today, only twenty-seven Egyptian obelisks remain standing and they are scattered in various locations throughout the world...
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Amy Shojai
Dog Life: Celebrating the History, Culture & Love of the Dog
Filled with beautiful color photographs of these furry friends, this book reveals virtually everything needed to appreciate this joyous, lovable companion. "No other animal has shared as much with humanity as Canis familiaris, the domestic dog. Indeed, for at least 32,000 years, this creature, but o...
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Craig Riley
Sellin' Out: True Stories From the White Van Speaker Scam
Ever bought $2,000 speakers out of a van in a Hooters parking lot for $300 cash? No? Good. Yes? Even better. Either way, buckle up. Sellin’ Out: True Stories From the White Van Speaker Scam is your all-access pass into one of the wildest underground hustles of the last 45 years. You cannot make...
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Katharine Cockin
Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art
This new biography explores the extraordinary life of Edith Craig (1869-1947), her prolific work in the theatre and her political endeavours for women's suffrage and socialism. At London's Lyceum Theatre in its heyday she worked alongside her mother, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Bram Stoker, and ga...
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Lou Hart
Drag Racing Funny Cars: Factory Flyers to Flip-top Fuelers (A Photo Gallery)
Since the early 1960s, dealer-sponsored Super Stockers battled for supremacy on the quarter-mile and in the dealer showrooms. Evolving into the Factory Experimental class, these wild steel bodied, altered–wheelbase monsters were stuffed with massive fuel injected and supercharged engines that attr...
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Lumsden
Social Justice Journalism (AEJMC - Peter Lang Scholarsourcing Series)
Social Justice Journalism: A Cultural History of Social Movement Media from Abolition to #womensmarch argues that to better understand the evolution, impact, and future of digital social justice media we need to understand their connections to a venerable print culture of dissent. This cultural his...
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