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Robert W. Cherny
San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958
Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday of the 1930s. Robert Cherny uses the lives and careers of more than fifty members to tell the story of the city’s CP from its founding through 1958. Cherny dr...
$30.00
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Mr Peter Charles Whitehead
The Rise of Antisocialism: Understand this and you will understand everything
A sweeping cascade of ideas, charting the ascendancy of the corporation and the attendant rise of individualism, materialism and antisocial behaviour, alongside the demise of socialism and the social contract.Focusing on the UK and western economies, retired Financial Times journalist Peter Whitehea...
$12.29
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Ted Osborne
Silly Symphonies Collector's Box Set
A new Disney slipcase box set featuring the classic 1930s comics that made Donald Duck a star, plus the Big Bad Wolf’s huff-and-puff howls―and Bucky Bug’s wild adventures in a microscopic world! The 1930s were the heyday of Disney’s second-ever newspaper comics feature: the full-color weekl...
$55.34
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Stanislas M. Yassukovich
Summertime and Short Stories
". . . writes beautifully yet sparingly, never letting his deep knowledge of the detail get in the way of the story. It's a compelling read." -Ivan Fallon, bestselling author of Billionaire The novella Summertime is set in the "old money" crowd of Long Island and describes an affair between a GP...
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Sigrid Nunez
The Last of Her Kind: A Novel
The Last of Her Kind introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Columbia campus in 1968. Georgette George does not know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate, Ann Drayton, and her obsessive disdain for the ruling class into which she was born. She is mortified by Ann's romanticiz...
$15.88
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Tony Nourmand
The Rat Pack: Limited Edition
The most luxurious book ever made on the Rat Pack, this exquisite, 448-page tome is a deluxe, limited edition. Over 80 percent of the images have never been published before and are reproduced for the first time here in breathtaking quality. Frank Sinatra's legendary clique defined life in the fast ...
$950.00
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Leila Meacham
Crowning Design
A tender, classic love story about the secrets that linger in our hearts and the choices that set us free?Ķ Some people aren't meant for happily-ever-after. And Deborah Standridge is one of them. When she called off her wedding to the perfect man to pursue her passion as an architect, she didn...
$13.23
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Leanne Hinton
Flutes of Fire: An Introduction to Native California Languages Revised and Updated
An essential book on California’s Indigenous languages, updated for the first time in over 25 years. Before outsiders arrived, about one hundred distinct Indigenous languages were spoken in California, and many of them are in use today. Since its original publication in 1994, Flutes of Fire has ...
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Olaf Goubitz
Purses in Pieces: Archaeological Finds of Late Medieval and 16th-Century Leather Purses, Pouches, Bags and Cases in the Netherlands
The use of purses, pouches, bags, sheaths and other containers saw its heyday in the Middle Ages. The purse became a fashion item and was an essential part of a persons outfit. This book provides a typology for all types of purse-like artifacts, in some cases inventing new terminology to describe th...
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Dino Pavlou
Eleven Days to the Promised Land: A timely realization of the past and the present: An Autobiography
Eleven Days to the Promised Land is a timely realization of past and present times, a fascinating tale of how an impoverished boy from a civil war-torn and lawless country could find and appreciate tranquility, love, and success in America. He plunges into New York City in 1952 carrying along bad m...
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Tony Park
Vendetta
Captain Sannie van Rensburg and safari guide Mia Greenaway are caught in the crossfires of a decades-old feud between five veterans of South Africa's apartheid-era Border War. Haunted by the deadly mission that shaped their lives forever, the ex-paratroopers must finally confront their demons, an...
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Ben MacIntyre
The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief
Profiles the most famous safe cracker, bank robber, and art thief of the Victorian Age and the model for Professor Moriarty in the Sherlock Holmes mysteries Arthur Conan Doyle fictionalized him as the superhuman Professor Moriarty, and the popular press luridly chronicled his daring heists, though t...
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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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Robert Justin Goldstein
American Blacklist: The Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations
Resonating with disturbing implications for the present, American Blacklist is the only full-length study of the so-called Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations (AGLOSO) and its critical role in the post-World War II Red Scare. Although earlier versions of AGLOSO date back as far as 1...
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Jerry Langton
Dead Biker: A Novel
Sometimes, you make bad choices. Sometimes, bad choices are made for you. In Biker , the first book of the trilogy, Ned “Crash” Aiken thought he had made a clean break. He had turned on his biker brothers in the Sons of Satan and entered the FBI’s witness protection program, only to end up in...
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Nick Gevers
New Worlds [Trade Paperback]
ABOUT THE BOOK In the 1960s and 1970s, New Worlds magazine, edited by Michael Moorcock, became famous for its avant garde approach to SF, energising the genre’s New Wave with exciting innovations in style, content, and presentation. Here J G Ballard and Brian Aldiss shared pages with Samuel R D...
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Storm Jameson
Journey from the North: A Memoir (Pushkin Press Classics)
ONE OF THE 20th CENTURY'S FINEST MEMOIRS: the sweeping, candidly told story of a life in writing and politics, with an introduction by Vivian Gornick, who referred to the book as “literary gold” “Stops you in your tracks. I would like to persuade everyone to read it” — Sunday Times A c...
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Daniel E Lutz
A Black & White Version of the History of Winburne-Lanse-Forest PA: A View of Life in Central Pennsylvania
This is the Black and White Paperback version. Please note that some of the text and tables are not differentiated as well in black and white as they are in the color versions. Winburne-Lanse-Forest are three small towns off the beaten path in Central Pennsylvania. First settled by farmers in the 18...
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T. Percy Lewis
The Victorian Book of Cakes: Treasury of Recipes, techniques and decorations from the golden age of cake-making: a classic Victorian book reissued for
A treasure from the past, this book was originally published at the turn of the last century, during the heyday of cake-making, designed to be the standard work on cakes and confectionery. There are recipes for all kinds of of traditional Victorian cakes, biscuits and cookies, petits fours, shortbre...
$25.00
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