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Castro

The story of Fidel Castro has few parallels in contemporary history. None of the outstanding Third World leaders of the twentieth-century played such a prominent and restless part on the international...

From Slave Ship to Harvard

From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique narrative of black struggle and achievement from pain...

Negroland

The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro Am...

Media and the Cold War in the 1980s

The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people-and for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies' ability t...

Guardians of the Valley

This is the first comprehensive history of the Lower Chickasaws in the Savannah River Valley. Edward J. Cashin, the preeminent historian of colonial Georgia history, offers an account of the Lower Chi...

The Bowery Boys

In the decades before the Civil War, the miserable living conditions of New York City's lower east side nurtured the gangs of New York. This book tells the story of the Bowery Boys, one gang that emer...

Thomson and Pollok

The French Revolution and First Empire

1892. With an appendix upon the bibliography of the subject and a course of study by Honorable Andrew D. White. Morris's objective for this sketch is to describe the principal facts of the French Revo...

Knight of the Seven Exp Being the Adventure of Ser Duncan the Tall, and His Squire, Egg

"NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Mar...

Earth, Air, Fire and Custard

'Frantically wacky and wilfully confusing ... gratifyingly clever and very amusing' - Mail on Sunday 'Frothy, fast and funny' - Scotland on Sunday J.W. Wells seemed to be a respectable establish...

The Story of de Stijl

What was De Stijl? This fascinating survey, the most comprehensive book to be published on the subject, seeks to unravel that question and to consider how the theory of De Stijl (Dutch for ''The Style...

Akame ga KILL!, Vol. 11

Syura's Secret Police has captured Tatsumi and Lubbock during their reconnaissance mission! Tatsumi comes face-to-face with Esdeath once more, but will they join forces? And what lies in wait for Tats...