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IB History of the Americas
Oxford University Press 2011; US$ 41.61Designed for IB Higher Level History option 3, this book will provide students with in-depth material for 7 of the 12 units that make up the option (1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 12). Written by five experienced IB teachers, examiners, workshop leaders and curriculum writers. more...
American Cultural Studies
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 41.95Praise for previous editions: 'Something of a godsend ... as a teaching resource this book is second to none ... achieves levels of multiplicity rarely, if ever, reached by others.' - Borderlines: Studies in American Culture This third edition of American Cultural Studies has been updated throughout to take into account the developments of... more...
No Easy Day
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableNo Easy Day by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer is the first-person account of Bin Laden's execution. For the first time anywhere, a first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from inside the US Navy SEAL team who carried out the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind. No Easy Day puts... more...
Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2013 Edition
Random House Information Group 2012; US$ 18.99If you need to know it, it?s in this book. Cracking the AP U.S. History, 2013 Edition has been optimized for e-reader viewing with cross-linked questions, answers, and explanations, and includes: ? 2 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations ? In-depth history review of key and terms and concepts organized by time period, ... more...
Killing Kennedy
Pan Macmillan 2012; US$ 16.62More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of non-fiction about the shocking assassination that changed the course of American history. Now the anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts in gripping detail the brutal muder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy - and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon... more...
The American Dream
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 19.99This work discusses the reality of the ambiguous but galvanizing concept of the American Dream, a concept that for better and worse has proven to be amazingly elastic and durable for hundreds of years and across racial, class, and other demographic lines. more...
Parting the Waters
Simon & Schuster 2007; US$ 22.00Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a... more...
Byronic Hero
University of Minnesota Press 1962; US$ 67.50The Byronic Hero was first published in 1962. This study of the origins and development of the Romantic hero through its apogee in the works of Byron critically examines the major Romantic heroes of comparative literature and places them in the wider perspective of history. Professor Thorslev devotes the first part of his discussion to the cultural... more...
Out of the House of Bondage
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 22.00Glymph challenges popular depictions of mistresses as 'friends' and 'allies' of slaves in the plantation household. more...
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis
The University of North Carolina Press 2006; US$ 35.95Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans both white and black, northern and southern, and includes commentary from Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Canada. Though the Christians on all sides agreed that the Bible was authoritative, their... more...









