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From the front DJ flap: "But though centered on the United States the book offers a global perspective spanning four continents. It is the only study of American slavery that reaches back to ancient foundations, discussing the classical and biblical justifications for chattel bondage, and also traces the long evolution of antiblack racism.... Equally important, it combines the subjects of slavery and abolitionism as very few book do..."

Book - Fine condition. Black paper over boards. Very light edge wear on top of front cover. Otherwise, very, very minimal edge/corner wear. Clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Fine condition. Very minimal wear of any kind.
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440 pages including Index.

From the front dust jacket flap: "Inside the Third Reich is the memoirs of Albert Speer, a key member of Hitler's Nazi Germany. As Minister of Armaments and War Production, Speer had an active, far-reaching role in keeping the Nazi war machine well oiled and in motion. A strong supporter of Hitler, as well as his friend, Speer faced a searing moral crisis at the end of World War II when he learned the true enormity of the war crimes of the Nazi party. Inside the Third Reich is Speer's honest and thoughtful attempt to understand how intelligent, well-educated, decent people became a willing part of the Third Reich."There are two sections of black & white photos.Book - Very Good- condition. Previous owner's name in ink on endpaper. Pages are tanned with darker edges. Pages are free of marks, binding is good.Dust Jacket - Very Good- condition. Jacket is enclosed in clear protective cover, but there is slight soiling, rubbing, and a tiny bit of edge wear.Please use photos as part of the description.527… Leer más

From back cover: "Almost anyone growing up in rural America will be able to identify with the characters described in this book."
Quote from back cover: "The Lutefisk Ghetto hits this reader zero to the bone because its author carefully dissects the folkways and mores of a little town." - Dave Wood, Solumnist, Minneapolis Tribune
Book - Very Good+ condition. Very minimal light bumping to front cover. Very minimal edge/corner wear - except - back cover has small soft bend at bottom corner. Spine is not creased. Clean and tight.
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203 pages.

From the back cover: "...to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying new history of the Pilgrims, the story of Plymouth Colony was a fifty-five year epic that began in peril and ended in war. New England erupted into a bloody conflict that nearly wiped out the English colonists and natives alike. These events shaped the existing communities and the country that would grow from them."

Very Good- condition. Front cover has embossed title and author's name, light bumping and soft crease at bottom corner. Hardly any edge wear. Spine is not creased. Back cover has light bumping except for a small piece of the cover photo that has been torn? off. It is in the bottom third next to the spine. There are also small soft bends at the corners. There is a red remainder mark on the bottom. Text is clean and binding is tight.

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From the back dust jacket: "Men of Color to Arms! is not only the most complete study ever written of the important service black soldiers rendered during the Indian wars of the American West, but it also offers in clear and finely crafted prose new insight into the role their service played in the larger context of the struggle of blacks for equal rights in the decades following the Civil War."

Book - Fine condition. Clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Fine condition. Very, very minimal edge/corner wear. There is a small "dent" in the dust jacket on the front near the top of the spine.
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315 pages including Index.

According to "British Literature Wiki" Middlemarch is "...a fictional representation of provincial life during the Victorian era. It is a novel that encapsulates all aspects of Victorian life and its social classes where the working class, middle class and country gentry live and interact in a communtiy."
New Edition - Complete in One Volume
Published by John Wurtele Lovell, Publisher 1881
Fair condition. The covers are a kind of "rust" color - a cross between brown and red. Cloth over boards and have ablack and gold decorative design and text on both the front and spine. There is much edge and corner wear specially around the spine. The spine is also a little faded and had a bumped area. The closed book page edges have some soiling and the bottom has a black area that did not easily wipe off. At both front and back the brittle brown end papers have cracked. In the front, the first 3 pages have come loose including the title page - they have hard creases, tears, and chips. On the back sid of the brown… Leer más

Quote from back of dust jacket: " Improbably gripping and often deeply moving, On Hallowed Ground chronicles both the evolution of our national cemetery and the profound ways in which treatment of the war dead reflects a nation's soul. Readers interested in political, social, or military history from the Civil War on will want to read this book." - Caroline Alexander, Author
Black and white photo section in center of book.
Book - Very Good+ condition. Black paper over boards with gold gilt text on spine. Beautiful book with very minimal wear, but it does have a black remainder dot on the bottom. Clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Near Fine condition. Very minimal wear.
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352 pages including Index.

From back cover: "The Power to Harm is a profound and original book. In his account of a 1989 killing spree and the subsequent trial of the drug company Eli Lilly, John Cornwell has written several books in one: a vivid courtroom drama; a sociological study of the American workplace; a survey of the rapidly changing fields of neuroscience and psychopharmacology; and a searching, complex investigation into the most fundamental question of human identity - do we have a soul, a sovereign will, or are we simply the sum of our molecules? The contest between these two visions of humanity is the real issue of his book, and Cornwell has rendered it with passion, erudition, and humanity." - Tobias Wolff
Book - Very Good+ condition. Only flaw is about 1" of rubbed area on the cloth near spine at the top of the front cover. Clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Near Fine condition. Very slight bumping to back cover.
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321 pages.

From back DJ cover: "Features more than one thousand alphabetically arranged entries covering the critical events, issues, and individuals that have shaped American history. Encompasses political, economic, social, and cultural history. Offers...essays, and...thematic articles.... Written by nearly four hundred eminent scholars, biographers, and journalists. Includes maps and tables, bibliographies, thorough cross-references, and an extensive index."

Book - Very Good condition. Navy paper over boards with gold gilt on front and spine. The paper on the back side of the covers has discolored - probably due to the glue used. Very minimal edge/corner wear to boards: however, there is light soiling to the bottom of the closed book pages. Otherwise, clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Good condition. There are both closed tears and small chips. A larger tear/chip on the top front has been taped.

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1,226 pages including Index.

Per title page, this book is: "Suitable for Use in Schools, All Temperance Organizations, Reform Clubs, Lodges, Divisions, Etc., And Also Adapted For Public and Private Readings."From the Preface: "The public mind needs to be aroused and a public sentiment educated upon every aspect of the drink question."Good condition. Brown cloth covers with black border design. Title text is in gold gilt on spine. Ends of spine and edges of book cover are worn. Corners are bent. Previous owners name and inscription: "Purchased...Temperance Assembly Camp Ground August 16, 1888 Silver Lake..." Pages are light tan and have a few spots. Text is clean and binding is good. A few pages in the last half of the book have tiny edge chips. Please use photos as part of the description.96 pages.

From front DJ flap: "Few biologists in the history of natural science have been as groundbreaking, controversial, and productive as Edward Osborne Wilson, long hailed as 'Darwin's successor'."
Wilson focused on the insect society, then extended his research from social insects through the animal kingdom to human society. He is known for Sociobiology, published in 1975and demonstrated how Darwinian evolution shapes all animal behavior. In the 1990s he recognized the increasing destruction of wilderness and became a leading voice on the crucial importance of biodiversity and conservation.
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Book - Fine condition. Red rust paper over boards with gold gilt on spine. Very minimal wear. Clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Fine condition. Very minimal wear. Looks like new.
268 pages including Index.

From the Author's Preface to the American Edition: "It is too easy to dodge the question by saying, ironically and mockingly, that according to my teachings, everybody is a little crazy, and consequently it is hardly worth the while to trouble oneself to make distinctions." Basically the book discusses the3 replies that a magistrate, assisted by the physician, may make regarding how a criminal should be treated.Fair condition. Green cloth covers with gold gilt text. Light edge, corner, and spine wear; however, there is a bumped spot on the front crease of the spine. The front cover and end papers have separated from the spine, but the remainder of the binding is good. Closed book edges have some soiling. Page text is clean; however there may be some soiling or stains. Please use photos as part of the description.415 pages. 415 pages including Index.

From the Publishers' Note on the Fifth Printing: "In the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that a wholesome approach to sex education is gradually replacing the pruriency that used to be prevalent. It is gratifying to observe this trend. The publishers hope that this book, now in its fifth printing, will continue to be of use to those seeking reliable sex information.Fair condition. Stapled booklet with orange card stock covers with black text. Covers show much soiling, tears, holes, and chips. The back cover has shifted toward the stapled spine so it no longer lays quite right. First page has inscription in ink. Front and back pages have age spotting, maybe from the covers. Surprisingly the rest of the pages (except the stapled center pages) are very clean and the stapled booklet is intact.Please use photos as part of the description.61 pages.

Quote from back: "There's nothing artificial about Ann. She has a vision of the Constitution and the government's rightful role in our lives that is much different from the mainstream, and much different from mine, but she represents a significant constituency." - Geraldo Rivera
Book - Very Good condition. White and black paper over boards with gold gilt on spine. Very minimal edge/corner wear. Clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Very Good condition. Bump on back cover. Very minimal edge/corner wear.
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256 pages including Index.

From the DJ back cover: "Two hundred and forty years after the Declaration of Independence, the story behind the birth of the United States is as significant today as it was when the ink was still wet on the document. Retold with the help of eyewitness accounts, biographies of key figures, and photographs of contemporary artifacts, this compelling visual guide to the military and political events of the 1770s and 1780s brings the drama of North America's Revolutionary War to life."

This book covers before, during, and after. It covers Events, People, Eyewitness, Weapons and Uniforms, and Connections.

Book - Fine condition. Very minimal edge/corner wear. Clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Fine condition. Very minimal edge/corner wear BUT it does have a soft "wrinkle" to both top and bottom. No tears or chips.
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360 pages including Index. This is a large, heavy, "coffee table" size book.

From back cover: "A Profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the war between the states."
"The Civil War was not only a war of armies but also a war of ideas, in which Union and Confederacy alike each identified itself as a moral nation with God on its side."
This book measures the gap between those claims and draws on a wealth of contemporary documents. Stout explores the lethal mix of propaganda and ideology that came to justify slaughter on and off the battlefield.
Book - Good condition. I would have called this a "very good" but the back cover has rubbing and bumping including a couple small gouges. There is also some corner wear and there is a red remainder mark on the bottom. Text is clean and binding is very good. The spine is not cracked.
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552 pages including Index.

From the front dust jacket flap: "For all its scholarship, this is no historian's source book, no dry text. The excitement inherent in the story of a lusty young nation would itself ensure engrossing reading. But every talent has been pressed into revealing that story as the gripping and meaningful one it really was. The wealth of pictures includes famous painting, as well as photographs and drawings from all the periods covered."This would be a great book for a young adult or adult to read - it might even spark an interest in our history or government!Book - Good condition. Coated cloth with image of the Capitol over boards, has some bumping and some edge and corner wear. Printed end papers. Clean Text. Tight binding.Dust Jacket - Fair condition. Color is good, but there are many small tears, some small chips, some creases, some bumping and general edge/corner wear. the inside has age spots/stains. Please use the photos as part of the description.143 pages including Index.

From the front dust jacket flap: "More than 440 illustrations = 362 in full color - enrich this vivid account of the American Indian's beliefs, customs, crafts, and accomplishments."Book - Near Fine condition. Bright, colorful, clean Indian print cloth over boards w black leather? spine. Gold gilt text on spine. Orange end papers. One end paper has an imprint seal for CGB and also 4 light spots under it. Text is clean. Binding is tight.Dust Jacket - Good condition. Very colorful, but there are some tiny tears and chips on edges and corners. I noted one closed tear at top about 1/2" long. There is also some bumping and a few small stains.Please use photos as part of the description.399 pages including Index. This is a heavy book, but the additional postage is included in the price.

From front Dust Jacket flap:"...an enlightening and illuminating look at why we like the things we like, why we hate the things we hate, and what our preferences reveal about us." "With a voracious curiosity, Vanderbilt stalks the elusive beast of taste, probing research in psychology, marketing, and neuroscience to answer myriad complex and fascinating questions. Comprehensively researched and singularly insightful, You May Also Like is a joyous intellectual journey that helps us better understand how we perceive, judge, and appreciate the world around us.New book. Book and Dust Jacket in excellent condition. Please use photos as part of the description.NOTE: This book has a BLUE dust jacket. I also have the same book on a separate listing with a RED dust jacket.305 pages.

From front Dust Jacket flap:"...an enlightening and illuminating look at why we like the things we like, why we hate the things we hate, and what our preferences reveal about us." "With a voracious curiosity, Vanderbilt stalks the elusive beast of taste, probing research in psychology, marketing, and neuroscience to answer myriad complex and fascinating questions. Comprehensively researched and singularly insightful, You May Also Like is a joyous intellectual journey that helps us better understand how we perceive, judge, and appreciate the world around us.New book. Book and Dust Jacket in excellent condition. Please use photos as part of the description.NOTE: This book has a RED dust jacket. I also have the same book on a separate listing with a BLUE dust jacket.305 pages.