Kenneth Stampp

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Revised Edition

The Causes of the Civil War

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Mark Atwood Lawrence

A Concise International History

Hailed as a "pithy and compelling account of an intensely relevant topic" (Kirkus Reviews), this wide-ranging volume offers a superb account of a key moment in modern U.S. and world history. Drawing upon the latest research in archives in China, Russia, and Vietnam, Mark Lawrence creates an extraordinary, panoramic view of all sides of the war. His narrative begins well before American forces set foot in Vietnam, delving into French colonialism's contribution to the 1945 Vietnamese revolution, and revealing how the Cold War concerns of the 1950s led the United States to back the French. The heart of the book covers the "American war," ranging from the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem and the impact of the Tet Offensive to Nixon's expansion of the war into Cambodia and Laos, and the final peace agreement of 1973. Finally, Lawrence examines the aftermath of the war, from the momentous liberalization--"Doi Moi"--in Vietnam to the enduring legacy of this infamous war in American books, films, and political debate.

The Vietnam War

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Edward L. Ayers

Little happened in 1859 that would have told Americans there were on the precipice of a continent-wide war and the end of the most powerful slave society in the world. Yet, within eighteen months of the end of 1859 conflict descended on the nation and familiar characters were playing unfamiliar roles. Robert E. Lee was in command of troops at Harpers Ferry. Tom Jackson was a math professor at VMI, though he will lead cadets to ensure order at the hanging of John Brown at the very end of the year. Sam Grant was a bill collector in St. Louis, and "Cump" Sherman was heading a military school in Louisiana. Jefferson Davis was a senator, and Abraham Lincoln was a successful lawyer and failed senatorial candidate.

America on the Eve of the Civil War

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James Dashner

Book One

Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.

The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, Book One)

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Linda Jones

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Over 50 Beautiful Projects and Variations Using Wire and Beads

Packed with designs for daytime, ethnic-inspired necklaces, fun projects for kids, pretty pieces for special occasions, and items suitable for beginners, keen crafters will never need to buy another jewelry book again. You will learn how to combine beads with simple and intricate chain designs, and how to create elegant finishing touches by bringing in tiny shells, leather, and delicate ribbon. Why not try the stunning birthstone bracelet, or make impressive costume jewelry such as the spiral choker and the striking wedding tiara? You donâ€™t need expensive tools and materials, nor any previous experience, as the step-by-step instructions, techniques, and tips will help you to create professional-looking pieces that you will be proud to wear yourself or give as a gift. And if youâ€™re already a jewelry aficionado, youâ€™ll find plenty of ideas and project variations to inspire you to create more designs of your own.

The Complete Guide to Wire and Beaded Jewelry

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Sara Dutton

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Silver metal clay is a fun and easy-to-use medium that can be shaped and manipulated like clay but fires to become 99.9% metal. This book shows the reader how to create beautiful pieces of jewellery without the need for an anvil or years of training.

Metal Clay Magic

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Sara Gruen

A Novel

Water for Elephants

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Tim Pilcher

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Over 35 Tasty Recipes for Meals, Munchies, and More

This innovative cookbook brings a remarkable design to the joy of cooking and baking with cannabis. Featuring stimulating recipes and lush color photography, it approaches cannabis as yet another fine ingredient to be studied and savored, like a great wine, premium cigar, gourmet chocolate, or single malt scotch. The Cannabis Cookbook divulges all you need to know to culinarily enjoy the herb that's used by over 25 million Americans. It includes the history of cannabis in cooking, biochemical properties and effects, the best “vineyards,” and over 35 step-by-step recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, baked goods, and other essentials. The recipes and treats presented in this book are so delicious that nothing will get wasted. Well, almost nothing. Includes bonus section on hemp skincare products.

The Cannabis Cookbook

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Eva Fogelman

Book in good condition. Some pencil marking (pictures) throughout book. 

Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust

In this brilliantly researched and insightful book, psychologist Eva Fogelman presents compelling stories of rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust--and offers a revealing analysis of their motivations. Based on her extensive experience as a therapist treating Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and those who helped them, Fogelman delves into the psychology of altruism, illuminating why these rescuers chose to act while others simply stood by. While analyzing motivations, Conscience And Courage tells the stories of such little-known individuals as Stefnaia Podgorska Burzminska, a Polish teenager who hid thirteen Jews in her home; Alexander Roslan, a dealer in the black market who kept uprooting his family to shelter three Jewish children in his care, as well as more heralded individuals such as Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg, and Miep Gies. Speaking to the same audience that flocked to Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-winning movie, Schindler's List, Conscience And Courage is the first book to go beyond the stories to answer the question: Why did they help?

Conscience and Courage

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Michael Herr

Some wear and tear. A few pages dog-eared. Some pen and pencil markings (shown in pictures) throughout book

A documentation of the day-to-day realities of the war in Vietnam experienced by men on patrol, under siege at Khe Sanh, strapped into helicopters, and faced with continuing nightmares after their return to the United States

Dispatches

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Melvyn P. Leffler

A concise history of the origins of the Cold War and the evolution of U.S.-Soviet relations, from the Bolshevik revolution to the death of Stalin

History

The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953

The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. The Specter of Communism is a concise history of the origins of the Cold War and the evolution of U.S.-Soviet relations, from the Bolshevik revolution to the death of Stalin. Using not only American documents but also those from newly opened archives in Russia, China, and Eastern Europe, Leffler shows how the ideological animosity that existed from Lenin's seizure of power onward turned into dangerous confrontation. By focusing on American political culture and American anxieties about the Soviet political and economic threat, Leffler suggests new ways of understanding the global struggle staged by the two great powers of the postwar era.

The Specter of Communism

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Harvard Sitkoff

John Hope Franklin

"The Struggle for Black Equality is an arresting history of the civil-rights movement from the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision through the growth of strife and conflict in the 1960s to the major issues of today. Harvard Sitkoff offers not only a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations -- SNCC, CORE, NAACP, SCLC, and the others -- but also a compelling study of the problems that continued to plague the African-American population at the close of the twentieth century: while Jim Crow had gone, poverty, big-city slums, white backlash, politically and socially conservative policies and prolonged recession made economic progress for the vast majority of blacks an elusive, perhaps ever more distant goal"--Back cover.

The Struggle for Black Equality

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John Grogan

Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

Follows the life story of an exuberant Labrador retriever who gets into perpetual trouble and experiences a range of adventures, from shutting down an entire beach to guarding a seventeen-year-old neighbor after a stabbing attack.

Marley and Me Tie-In

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Charlaine Harris

Some worn edges. Small crease on cover’s corner

When a vampire enlists the aid of cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic talents to find a missing vampire in Dallas, she agrees to the deal if the vampires promise to behave and to let the humans go unharmed. Original.

Living Dead in Dallas

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William Shakespeare

This Norton Critical Edition of Hamlet features a newly edited text based on the Second Quarto (1604-05). It is accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations and appendices providing important passages from both the First Quarto Hamlet (1603) and the Folio Hamlet (1623). Robert S. Miola's thought-provoking introduction, "Imagining Hamlet," considers this tragedy as it has taken shape in the theater, in criticism, and in various cultures.

"The Actors' Gallery" presents famous actors and actresses--among them Sarah Bernhardt, Ellen Terry, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, Kenneth Branagh, and Jude Law--reflecting on their roles in major productions of Hamlet for stage and screen.

"Contexts" includes generous selections from the Bible, Greek (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides) and Roman (Seneca) tragedies, Saxo Grammaticus, Dante, Thomas More, and Thomas Kyd.

"Criticism" reprints a wide range of historical and scholarly commentary including English critics (John Dryden, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Johnson), European and Russian writers (Voltaire, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Leo Tolstoy), and Americans (John Quincy Adams, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln). Recent scholarly writing takes various approaches to Hamlet--mythic (Gilbert Murray), psychoanalytic (Ernest Jones), comparativist (Harry Levin), feminist (Elaine Showalter), and New Historicist (Stephen Greenblatt), among others.

An engaging selection of Hamlet's "Afterlives" includes the seventeenth-century Der Bestrafte Brudermord; David Garrick's altered stage version; comic reflections by Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Tom Stoppard; and selections from Heinrich Muller's postmodern nightmare (Hamletmachine), Jawad al Assadi's cynical Arab adaptation (Forget Hamlet), and John Updike's haunting novel (Gertrude and Claudius).

A Selected Bibliography is also included.

Hamlet

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Upton Sinclair

Barry Sears

"I wrote with tears and anguish, pouring into the pages all the pain that life had meant to me."--Upton Sinclair

Ranking alongside Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin as a novel that has galvanized public opinion, The Jungle tells the story of Jurgis Rudkus, a young immigrant who came to the New World to find a better life. Instead, he is confronted with the horrors of the slaughterhouses, barbarous working conditions, crushing poverty, disease, and despair.

Upton Sinclair vividly depicted factory life in Chicago in the first years of the twentieth century, and the harrowing scenes he related aroused the indignation of the public and forced a government investigation that led to the passage of pure food laws. A hundred years later, The Jungle continues to pack the same emotional power it did when it was first published.

 

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America on the Eve of the Civil War

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The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, Book One)

Linda Jones

The Complete Guide to Wire and Beaded Jewelry

Sara Dutton

Metal Clay Magic

Sara Gruen

Water for Elephants

Tim Pilcher

The Cannabis Cookbook

Eva Fogelman

Conscience and Courage

Michael Herr

Dispatches

Melvyn P. Leffler

The Specter of Communism

Harvard Sitkoff; John Hope Franklin

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John Grogan

Marley and Me Tie-In

Charlaine Harris

Living Dead in Dallas

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