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The Day Rommel Was Stopped: The Battle of Ruweisat Ridge, 2 July 1942 (PB) (2022)
$22.95George VI's biographer, Sir John Wheeler Bennett wrote "The actual turning of the tide in the 2nd World War may be accurately determined as the first week of July 1942." This book argues that it is possible to be even more exact: the tide turned at about...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$22.95Subtotal: -
Rio de Janeiro: Extreme City (PB) (2017)
$17.95A book as rich and sprawling as the seductive metropolis it evokes, Rio de Janeiro builds a kaleidoscopic portrait of this city of extremes, and its history of conflict and corruption. Luiz Eduardo Soares tells the story of Rio through the everyday lives...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$17.95Subtotal: -
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Courtly Love: The Path of Sexual Initiation (PB) (2000)
$16.95A comprehensive examination of the rituals and philosophies that created and sustained medieval troubadour culture - Debunks the myth of the platonic nature of courtly love, showing the many sexual similarities to the Tantric practices of India - Reveals...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$16.95Subtotal: -
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (PB) (2010)
$15.99"A style that is verve itself." -- New York Times "A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism." -- Chicago Daily Tribune From Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor-in-chief of Harper's magazine, comes a classic history of 1920s... -
Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found (PB) (2019)
$17.00NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an... -
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History (HC) (2018)
$27.95Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a national mythology" (New York Times) around the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement has become...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$27.95Subtotal: -
A Crime So Monstrous: Face-To-Face with Modern-Day Slavery (PB) (2009)
$17.99To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told -- and heard... -
We Fought the Road (PB) (2017)
$19.95We Fought the Road is the story of the building of the Alaska-Canada Highway during World War II. More than one third of the 10,607 builders were black; thought to be incapable of performing on a war front by many of their white commanding officers... -
Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City (HC) (2014)
$32.95In the 1970s, when the South Bronx burned and the promise of New Deal New York and postwar America gave way to despair, the people of Washington Heights at the northern tip of Manhattan were increasingly vulnerable. The Heights had long been a...