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Great Plains
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001; US$ 16.99National Bestseller With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains . A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull?s... more...
Act of Congress
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 27.95An eye-opening account of how Congress today really works?and doesn?t?that follows the dramatic journey of the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008. The founding fathers expected Congress to be the most important branch of government and gave it the most power. When Congress is broken?as its justifiably dismal... more...
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
Temple University Press 2009; US$ 29.95In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produces unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites while imposing impediments to asset accumulation,... more...
Behind the Scenes
Penguin Group US 2005; US$ 14.00Originally published in 1868?when it was attacked as an ?indecent book? authored by a ?traitorous eavesdropper?? Behind the Scenes is the story of Elizabeth Keckley, who began her life as a slave and became a privileged witness to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Keckley bought her freedom at the age of thirty-seven and set up a successful dressmaking... more...
Game Change
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 13.99?It?s one of the best books on politics of any kind I?ve read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22 .? ? The Financial Times ?It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true?.More interesting is what we learn about the candidates themselves: their frailties, egos and... more...
Japanese American Internment during World War II
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 73.00The internment of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II is one of the most shameful episodes in American history. This history and reference guide will help students and other interested readers to understand the history of this action and its reinterpretation in recent years, but it will also help readers to understand the Japanese American... more...
A Victorian Gentleman and Ethiopian Nationalist
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 95.00This is the first full biography of 'Hakim' Wärqenäh Eshäté (Dr Charles Martin), a man of overlapping identities as a world citizen, a citizen of the British empire and an Ethiopian nationalist. He was a major progressive force in Ethiopia, played a significant role as a spokesman for the African diaspora during the 1930s,... more...
The Rise And Fall Of Apartheid
Jonathan Ball Publishers 2010; US$ 30.63On his way into Parliament on 2 February 1990 FW de Klerk turned to his wife Marike and said, referring to his forthcoming speech: 'South Africa will never be the same again after this.' Did white South Africa crack, or did its leadership yield sufficiently and just in time to avert a revolution? The transformation has been called a miracle, belying... more...
M60 vs T-62
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 15.95Step onto the battlefield and immerse yourself in the experience of real historic combat. Designed for the battlefields of Europe at the height of the Cold War, the M60 and T-62 were the premier combat tanks of their day. However, it was in the deserts of the Middle East that they finally met in battle. This new Duel title examines the design and development... more...
The Freedom Line
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 11.99The romance of Casablanca ... the gripping narrative of Eye of the Needle ... both come together in this enthralling true story of World War II resistance fighters and the airmen they saved. As war raged against Hitler's Germany, an increasing number of Allied fliers were shot down onmissions against Nazi targets in occupied Europe. Many fliers parachuted... more...









