Rebecca Solnit

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

A landmark essay that went viral, inspired the word ?mansplaining,” and prompted fierce arguments.

Men Explain Things to Me

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Clarence C. Strowbridge

Edited by Clarence C. Strowbridge
Fourteen short works of fiction by noteworthy American women authors offer entrancing tales of redemption, betrayal, tradition, and rebellion. Dating from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, these narratives range in mood from "Heat," Joyce Carol Oates's chilling tale of murder, to "Why I Live at the P.O.,
," Eudora Welty's
comic monologue in the Southern Gothic tradition.
Other contributors include Flannery O'Connor, Kate Chopin, and Edna Ferber as well as lesser-known, newly rediscovered writers.
Edith Wharton examines the issue of divorce and remarriage in "The Other Two," and Willa Cather explores life among Greenwich Village artists at the turn of the twentieth century in "Coming, Aphrodite!" Stories with modern settings include Alice Walker's "Everyday Use," an insightful look at the role of heritage in African-American culture, and Louise Erdrich's "The Shawl," a meditation on memory and the transformation of old stories into new ones.

Washington

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and Ellen Glasgow are among the featured authors in this splendid anthology. The tales include Joyce Carol Oates' "Heat," Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' "Gal Young 'Un," and "Why I Live at the P.O." by Eudora Welty.

Short Story Masterpieces by American Women Writers

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Marija Gimbutas

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Wisconsin

Unearthing the Hidden Symbols of Western Civilization

History of religious symbols about the dominance of the Great Goddess based on archeological finds and art.

(First Edition) The Language of the Goddess

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Her Story

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

A thrilling account of the worst cholera outbreak in Victorian London and a brilliant exploration of how Dr John Snow's solution revolutionised the way people think about disease, cities, science and the modern world. This is an endlessly fascinating and compelling account of the summer of 1854, from the microbial level to the macro-urban-theory level, including, most importantly, the human level. A cultural critic with a poet's soul.' - The Village Voice'

The Ghost Map

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Aarathi Prasad

Arizona

A World History

In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global, natural, and cultural history (and future) of a unique material that has fascinated the world for thousands of years. Silk--prized for its lightness, luminosity, and beauty--is also one of the strongest biological materials ever known. More than a century ago, it was used to make the first bulletproof vest, and yet science has barely even begun to tap its potential. As the technologies it has inspired--from sutures to pharmaceuticals, replacement body parts to holograms--continue to be developed in laboratories around the world, they are now also beginning to offer a desperately needed, sustainable alternative to the plastics choking our planet. Aarathi Prasad's Silk is a cultural and biological history from the origins and ancient routes of silk to the biologists who learned the secrets of silk-producing animals, manipulating the habitats and physiologies of moths, spiders, and mollusks. Because there is more than one silk, there is more than one story of silk. More than one road, more than one people who discovered it, and wove its threads. From the moths of China, Indonesia, and India to the spiders of South America and Madagascar and the silk-producing mollusks of the Mediterranean, Silk is a book rich in the passionate connections made by people of science to the diversity of the animal world. It is an intoxicating read, a mix of biography and science, that not only brings to life the vast, winding history of silk, but also looks to its future as a resource with incredible, untapped potential.

Silk

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John A. Adams

A fascinating reexamination of the Second World War in the Pacific through the analytic lens of one of history's great naval strategists
"John Adams is one of the most remarkable individuals I have met in the course of my long academic career. His knowledge of recent military doctrine, strategy and operations, logistics, and tactics is as deep as any of my academic colleagues."
MALCOLM MUIR, AUTHOR OF
Black Shoes and Blue Water: Surface Warfare in the United States Navy, 1945-1975
"A very interesting, well-researched, well-written work with fine and fresh analysis of the Pacific War." ERIC OSBORNE, AUTHOR OF The Battle of Heligoland Bight

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

An Analysis of World War II Naval Strategy

Would the doctrine of one of history's great naval strategists have stood the test of World War II in the Pacific?

If Mahan Ran the Great Pacific War

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Historical Documents

Daniel J. Peters

Mammoth Paperback (8 to 10 lbs)

New York

A Novel

Cusi, a young Inca warrior, and Micay, the daughter of a chieftain, are drawn together despite the differences in their circumstances in a world turned upside down, in a saga of the final years of the powerful Inca Empire

Ancinet Historical Fiction Bundle: The Incas, River God

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William Sullivan

Light shelf wear on the jacket. Pages in great shape w/ low mileage. Crisp and clean. Please see photos for reference.

Ohio

Myth, Astronomy and the War Against Time

Step by step, clue by clue, Sullivan decodes the myths of the Incas to reveal that they embody an astoundingly thorough record of astronomical events - a record so precise it can be checked against a modern computer program. And he uncovers the Incas' tragic secret: they knew they were doomed.

The Secret of the Incas

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Michael Peter Langevin

Explore the magic of Peru and the ancient Incas. This is both an ancient and modern practice of living in communion with the land. If you've ever been interested in Peruvian Shamanism this is a great way to begin your journey. 

A Modern Approach to Ancient Ritual and Practice

An introduction to the secret teachings and ancient traditions of the Incas, covering initiation, tool gathering, shamanic work, the drawing of natural energies, and more.

Secrets of the Ancient Incas

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Interesting Incas

Alan Ryan

Has highlighting, notes, underlining and shelf wear wonderful travel stories of Mexico

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

D.H. Lawrence, Paul Theroux, Graham Greene, Langston Hughes, Katherine Anne Porter, Paul Bowles, and John Steinbeck are among the writers whose eyewitness accounts are collected in this remarkable literary guided tour of Mexico.

The Reader's Companion to Mexico

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Charles Phillips

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Florida

The History, Legend, Myth and Culture of the Ancient Native Peoples of Mexico and Central America: Olmec, Maya, Chichimec, Huastec, Zapotec, Toltec, Mixtec, Totonac, Aztec

The Lost History of Aztec and Maya

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Joyce Kelly

Maryland

Joyce Kelly has visited each site personally. Her purpose is to provide readers with up-to-date information presented as clearly, simply, and accurately as possible. Readers will easily find the exact information they need.

An Archaeological Guide to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula

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Magical Mexico

William E. Connolly

The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism

"This quick and engaging study clearly lays out the United States' current democratic crisis. Examining the early stages of the Nazi movement in Germany, William E. Connolly detects synergies with Donald Trump's rhetorical style. Tapping into a sense of contemporary fragility, Aspirational Fascism pays particular attention to how conflicts between neoliberalism and the pluralizing left have placed the white working class in a bind. Ultimately, Connolly believes a multifaceted democracy constitutes the best antidote to aspirational fascism and rethinks what a politics of the left might look like today"--Publisher's description.

Aspirational Fascism

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Madeleine Albright

#1 New York Times Bestseller Best Books of 2018 --The Economist A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world, written by one of America’s most admired public servants, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state A Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, “is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence and whatever other means are necessary to achieve the goals he or she might have.” The twentieth century was defined by the clash between democracy and Fascism, a struggle that created uncertainty about the survival of human freedom and left millions dead. Given the horrors of that experience, one might expect the world to reject the spiritual successors to Hitler and Mussolini should they arise in our era. In Fascism: A Warning, Madeleine Albright draws on her experiences as a child in war-torn Europe and her distinguished career as a diplomat to question that assumption. Fascism, as she shows, not only endured through the twentieth century but now presents a more virulent threat to peace and justice than at any time since the end of World War II. The momentum toward democracy that swept the world when the Berlin Wall fell has gone into reverse. The United States, which historically championed the free world, is led by a president who exacerbates division and heaps scorn on democratic institutions. In many countries, economic, technological, and cultural factors are weakening the political center and empowering the extremes of right and left. Contemporary leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un are employing many of the tactics used by Fascists in the 1920s and 30s. Fascism: A Warning is a book for our times that is relevant to all times. Written by someone who has not only studied history but helped to shape it, this call to arms teaches us the lessons we must understand and the questions we must answer if we are to save ourselves from repeating the tragic errors of the past.

Fascism: a Warning

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My Little Antifa Bookshelf

Nancy Marie Brown

Voyages of a Viking Woman

Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of Gudrid's story were true. Then, in 2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this pioneering woman's last house, buried under a hay field in Iceland, just where the sagas suggested it could be.  Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid's steps on land and in the sagas, Nancy Marie Brown reconstructs a life that spanned--and expanded--the bounds of the then-known world. She also sheds new light on the society that gave rise to a woman even more extraordinary than legend has painted her and illuminates the reasons for its collapse.


 

The Far Traveler

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Hélène Adeline Guerber

From the Eddas and Sagas

Myths of the Norsemen

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Dale Brown

Raiders from the North

Facts and accounts of scientific discoveries and historic breakthroughs of the Viking era.

Vikings

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Wikinger

Huluppu Tree Books

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