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By: N/A
Price: $4.69
Publisher: New York, Norton: 2004
Seller ID: 1428
In November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission. This independent, bipartisan panel was directed to examine the facts and circumstances surrounding the September 11 attacks, identify lessons learned, and provide recommendations to safeguard against future acts of terrorism. View more info
By: Adams, James
Price: $13.99
Publisher: Charleston, SC, Arcadia Publishing: 2000
Seller ID: 1314
Tybee Island is a tiny piece of land, only-two-and-a-half miles long and two-thirds of a mile wide; however, its strategic location near the mouth of the Savannah River assigned to it an important role in the birth and history of the state of Georgia. Over this coastal community five flags have flown, representing Spain, France, England, the Confederate States of America, and the United States of America. Using numerous vintage photographs from the archives of the Tyb... View more info
By: Aron, Raymond
Price: $16.50
Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Praeger: 1966
Seller ID: 704
Translated from the French by Richard Howard and Annette Baker Fox"This is the mot intellectually ambitious work that has ever been written about international relations. Aron is a great teacher because he brings to his critical task not only a formidable analytical talent but also a piercing common sense - the art of going straight to the heart of an issue... At the same time, he manages to see all sides of every problem." - Stanley Hoffmann in The New Replublic. ... View more info
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Charlottesville, Va., Howell Press: c1994.
Seller ID: 680
With watercolors extracted from food can labels and paint brushes made from their own hair, downed WWII American flyers recreated their recollections of combat and experiences as prisoners of war in blank books provided by the YMCA. A WARTIME LOG compiles selections from some of these original books. 82 color paintings, 112 b&w photos and illustrations. View more info
By: Ben-Ami, Shlomo
Price: $5.99
Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2006
Seller ID: 1836
Ex-Library; An Oxford-trained historian who became Israeli Foreign Minister, Shlomo Ben-Ami was a key figure in the Camp David negotiations and many other rounds of peace talks, public and secret, with Palestinian and Arab officials. He offers here an unflinching account of the Arab-Israeli conflict, informed by his firsthand knowledge of the major characters and events. Clear-eyed and unsparing, Ben-Ami traces the twists and turns of the Middle East conflict and the ... View more info
By: Berendt, John
Price: $6.99
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1994
Seller ID: 1159
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-... View more info
Price: $6.48
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books: 2001
Seller ID: 499
Inscription in front: "Happy Birthday to Brad from Mom & Dad 06-10-02"; The West is dying. Collapsing birth rates in Europe and the U. S. , coupled with population explosions in Africa, Asia and Latin America are set to cause cataclysmic shifts in world power, as unchecked immigration swamps and polarizes every Western society and nation. Drawing on U. N. Population projections, recent U. S. Census figures, and expert policy studies, prominent conservative Pat Buchanan t... View more info
By: Cahill, Thomas
Price: $7.48
Publisher: Anchor: 2004
Seller ID: 80
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press: 1939
Seller ID: 694
The Inter-American Historical Series; An adaptation of the Portuguese text A Formacao historiçã do Brasil. A readable volume which gives and excellent idea of the forces that have made Brazilian history and of the evolution of the people of Brazil into a nation. View more info
By: Clarke, Peter
Price: $4.99
Publisher: London, Allen Lane: 2007
Seller ID: 1452
Peter Clarke's book is the first to analyse in detail the losing hand that Britain was dealt in the last year of World War Two, and then to see how that hand was played over the next two years by Churchill's successors. It makes superb use of the copious letters and diaries now available of the major participants and many involved observers, to show how decisions were taken and received. Not least, it analyses dispassionately the role of the USA: how Roosevelt and his su... View more info
Price: $7.99
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 2004
Seller ID: 81
The ebbing support for Israel among Western Governments is a major landmark in the history of the last decade and is, without a doubt, an issue that has already influenced many international events. Richard Ben Cramer, who has a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Middle East, now presents readers with HOW ISRAEL LOST, a definitive study of the once-triumphant country that has failed in the eyes of the world. Cramer gets to the core of what is troubling so many Wester... View more info
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks: 1998
Seller ID: 249
Area 51, Dreamland, Groom Lake, Paradise Ranch, Watertown Strip, the Box: all refer to the top-secret research installation, located a hundred miles north of Las Vegas, which, for many, has come to stand for all that is shadowy and nefarious about the military-industrial-intelligence complex. Built under the direction of the CIA in the 1950s, the base served as the original test site for the U-2 spy plane and F-117 stealth fighter jet. In more recent years, Area 51 has s... View more info
By: Foner, Eric
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, USA: 1971
Seller ID: 503
Since its publication twenty five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern American historians, it remains the only full-scale evaluation of the ideas of the early Republican party. Now with a new introduction, Eric Foner puts his argument into the context of contemporary... View more info
By: Gunther, Justin
Price: $10.49
Publisher: Charleston, SC, Arcadia: 2004
Seller ID: 1712
Images of America; From the cotton boom after the Civil War to Savannah's economic decline around the middle of the 20th century, the city's streetscapes were crowded with signs. In a time before strict sign regulations, business owners embellished building facades and and rooftops with extensive signage to catch the eye of pedestrians and motorists. The abundance of advertising was symbolic of Savannah's rapid growth and prosperity, but the majority of these signs were ... View more info
By: Hamilton, Claire & Steve Eddy
Price: $4.95
Publisher: New York, Metro Books: 2008
Seller ID: 852
A beautifully illustrated volume that reveals the ancient traditions of the Celts and how their influence has survived into the present day. It investigates the Celts' relationship with the natural world, their sense of community, their myths, and their art, music and poetry. View more info
By: Hayslip, Le Ly with Jay Wurts
Price: $2.99
Publisher: New York, Plume: 1990
Seller ID: 1595
A memoir of the Vietnam war from a woman's point of view - seen through the eyes of a child who survived the horror. Le Ly Hayslip, the inspiration for the musical "Miss Saigon", tells the story of a young peasant girl's struggle to survive. Pressed into service at the age of 12 by the Vietcong, Le Ly Hayslip was captured and tortured by government forces. She found sanctuary at last with an American soldier and after affairs with several GIs, she fled to America to esca... View more info
Price: $8.99
Publisher: New York, Random House: 2010
Seller ID: 1232
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, ... View more info
Price: $9.33
Publisher: New York, Random House: 2010
Seller ID: 1508
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War. The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, ... View more info
By: Hine, Robert V.
Price: $9.50
Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press: 1985
Seller ID: 292
Still in plastic wrap; Still in shrink-wrap. A study of the frontier settlements - the isolated farms and small towns, the ethnic colonies (Germans, Scandanavians, African-Americans) and the co-operative utopias, colonies based on religion like the Mormons and the Huttites, and the expanded family lifesyle of the Mexican ranchero and its adaptation in the American Southwest. Illustrated with many photographs, extensive bibliography. View more info
By: Holland, Barbara
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Harcourt: 1999
Seller ID: 109
Liquor cabinets, suntans, clotheslines, childhood, world wars, pianos . . . What do these things have in common? They are all headed the way of the dinosaurs. Children are opting out of childhood, liquor cabinets and pianos have vanished from homes, and unimpressive mini wars are the norm. In Wasn't the Grass Greener?, Barbara Holland shares her sentiments on this deplorable but inevitable outcome, as she moans and groans, wistfully remembers, and sarcastically decries t... View more info
