Viking New York: 2005. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. Weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture on Easter Island to the formerly flourishing Native American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya the doomed medieval Viking colony on Greenland and finally to the modern world Diamond traces a fundamental pattern of catastrophe spelling out what happens when we squander our resources when we ignore the signals our environment gives us and when we reproduce too fast or cut down too many trees. Includes an Index. "This sweeping story shows how our whole earth is now treating our environment the way many failed societires treated their environments in the past. It also gives us reason for hope."-Bill Lewis director emeritus of the McKinsey Global Institute and author of The Power of Productivity. Viking, New York: 2005 hardcover
Dafina. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. Dafina unknown
Bookseller reference : GRP79950571 ISBN : 0758292511 9780758292513
Black Rose. Used - Like New. Very Good. Paperback. 1990. This edition is out of print. May contain remainder mark. Otherwise like new. Black Rose paperback
Bookseller reference : W82153 ISBN : 0921689640 9780921689645
Fairchild Books 2002-04-01. Hardcover. Like New. New Inside & Out. Clean & Crisp! Very minimal markings. You will be pleased. Excellent book! z1s39 Fairchild Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : SKU1003057 ISBN : 1563671808 9781563671807
Scribner New York: 2005. Softcover. Very good condition. Brings to life the remarkable resilient women and former slaves of a New England town two hundred years ago. ISBN: 0743225732. Scribner, New York: 2005 paperback
Bookseller reference : 80956X1 ISBN : 0743225732 9780743225731
Picador USA New York: 1997. Softcover. Good condition. Combines rich storytelling with a valuable contribution to modern fiction. Retells the story of the Genesis character of Dinah from a vibrant new perspective. "An intense vivid novel . . . It is tempting to say that The Red Tent is what the Bible would be like if it had been written by women but only Diamant could have givenit such sweep and grace." -- The Boston Globe ISBN: 0312195516. Picador USA, New York: 1997 paperback
Bookseller reference : 30268X3 ISBN : 0312195516 9780312195519
University Press of Kansas: . Softcover. Brand new book. Before 1954 both law and custom mandated strict racial segregation throughout much of the nation. That began to change with Brown v. Board of Education the landmark decision that overturned the pernicious "separate but equal" doctrine. In declaring that legally mandated school segregation was unconstitutional the Supreme Court played a critical role in helping to dismantle America's own version of apartheid Jim Crow. This new study of Brown�the title for a group of cases drawn from Kansas Virginia South Carolina Delaware and the District of Columbia�offers an insightful and original overview designed expressly for students and general readers. It is concise up-to-date highly readable and very teachable. The authors all recognized authorities on legal history and civil rights law do an admirable job of examining the fight for legal equality in its broad cultural and historical context. They convincingly show that Brown cannot be understood apart from the history of caste and exclusion in American society. That history antedated the very founding of the country and was supported by the nation's highest institutions including the Supreme Court whose decision in Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 supported the notion of "separate but equal." Their book traces the lengthy court litigations highlighting the pivotal role of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and including incisive portraits of key players including co-plaintiff Oliver Brown newly appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren NAACP lawyer and future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall and Justice Felix Frankfurter who recognized the crucial importance of a unanimous court decision and helped produce it. The authors simply but powerfully narrate their story and show that Brown not only changed the national equation of race and caste�it also changed our view of the Court's role in American life. As we prepare to commemorate the decision's fiftieth anniversary in May 2004 this book invites readers to appreciate the lasting importance of what was indisputably a landmark case. University Press of Kansas: paperback
Rand McNally 1963. Paperback. Good. Rand McNally 1963. Good. Paperback Text clean. Light wear. 56 pages. Berkeley Series in American History. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care. Rand McNally paperback
Brandeis University Press Watham. Softcover. Brand new book. What is Holocaust literature When does it begin and how is it changing Is there an essential core that consists of diaries eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps and tales of individual survival Is it the same everywhere: West and East in Australia as in the Americas in poetry as in prose Is this literature sacred and separate or can it be studied alongside other responses to catastrophe What works of Holocaust literature will be read a hundred years from now�and why Here for the first time is a historical survey of Holocaust literature in all genres countries and major languages. Beginning in wartime it proceeds from the literature of mobilization and mourning in the Free World to the vast literature produced in Nazi-occupied ghettos bunkers and places of hiding transit and concentration camps. No less remarkable is the new memorial literature that begins to take shape within weeks and months of the liberation. Moving from Europe to Israel the United States and beyond the authors situate the writings by real and proxy witnesses within three distinct postwar periods: "communal memory" still internal and internecine; "provisional memory" in the 1960s and 1970s when a self-conscious Holocaust genre is born; and "authorized memory" in which we live today. Twenty book covers�first editions in their original languages�and a guide to the "first hundred books" show the multilingual scope historical depth and artistic range of this extraordinary body of writing. Brandeis University Press, Watham paperback
Rand McNally 1963. Paperback. Good. Rand McNally 1963. Good. Paperback A few minor ink markings otherwise clean. 56 pages. Berkeley Series in American History. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care. Rand McNally paperback
Rand McNally 1963. Paperback. Good. Rand McNally 1963. Good. Paperback A few minor ink markings otherwise clean. 56 pages. Berkeley Series in American History. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care. Rand McNally paperback
Rand McNally 1963. Paperback. Good. Rand McNally 1963. Good. Paperback Text clean. Light wear. 56 pages. Berkeley Series in American History. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care. Rand McNally paperback
Rand McNally 1963. Paperback. Good. Rand McNally 1963. Good. Paperback Text clean. Light wear. 56 pages. Berkeley Series in American History. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care. Rand McNally paperback
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1988. Octavo xiv 254 pages with 2 cartoons and a map plus 10 plates. Papered boards very slightly bumped; top edge a little foxed; a very good copy with the dustwrapper lightly sunned on the spine. Melbourne University Press hardcover
The Johns Hopkins University Press. Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. The Johns Hopkins University Press unknown
Bookseller reference : GRP11298912 ISBN : 0801807085 9780801807084
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