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Revolutionary Summer
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $26.95
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $26.95
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.
The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were...
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Revolutionary Summer
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $13.99
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $13.99
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.
The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were...
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
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Revolutionary Summer
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $27.00
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $27.00
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.
The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were...
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Revolutionary Summer
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $35.00
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $35.00
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.
The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were...
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
Revolutionary Summer
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $17.50
The Birth of American Independence
Written by Joseph J. Ellis
Read by Stefan Rudnicki
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $17.50
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.
The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were...
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From Resistance to Revolution
Written by Pauline Maier
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $12.99
Maintaining that the outbreak of revolution in 1775 was not the result of secret planning by radicals but rather the end product of years of painful evolution, Pauline Maier brilliantly traces the American colonists’ road to independence from 1765 to 1776 and examines the role of popular violence as political allegiances... Read more >
Written by Pauline Maier
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $12.99
Maintaining that the outbreak of revolution in 1775 was not the result of secret planning by radicals but rather the end product of years of painful evolution, Pauline Maier brilliantly traces the American colonists’ road to independence from 1765 to 1776 and examines the role of popular violence as political allegiances... Read more >
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The Old Revolutionaries
Written by Pauline Maier
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $18.99
The "old revolutionaries" were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee and Charels Carroll, five men who played significant roles in the American Revolution, and who are usually overlooked in history books today. Of widely varying backgrounds and interests, all of them had thir gratest influence in the years... Read more >
Written by Pauline Maier
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $18.99
The "old revolutionaries" were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee and Charels Carroll, five men who played significant roles in the American Revolution, and who are usually overlooked in history books today. Of widely varying backgrounds and interests, all of them had thir gratest influence in the years... Read more >
Armored Units of the Russian Civil War
Red Army
Written by David Bullock
Illustrated by Peter Sarson
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $13.95
By 1920 the Red Army fielded an overwhelming array of armored cars and armored trains, while tank detachments had begun forming in earnest. These armored units played an important part in consolidating the newly won Bolshevik empire in the early 1920s; as a consequence of the fact that railways were the... Read more >
Red Army
Written by David Bullock
Illustrated by Peter Sarson
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $13.95
By 1920 the Red Army fielded an overwhelming array of armored cars and armored trains, while tank detachments had begun forming in earnest. These armored units played an important part in consolidating the newly won Bolshevik empire in the early 1920s; as a consequence of the fact that railways were the... Read more >
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Hamas
From Resistance to Government
Written by Paola Caridi
Translated by Andrea Teti
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $24.95
When the radical Islamist group Hamas was elected to lead Palestine in 2006, the Western world was shocked. How had the majority of Palestinians come to support an extremist organization and how would the group’s new political power affect the larger Israel/Palestine conflict?
Italian journalist and historian Paola Caridi offers a... Read more >
From Resistance to Government
Written by Paola Caridi
Translated by Andrea Teti
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $24.95
When the radical Islamist group Hamas was elected to lead Palestine in 2006, the Western world was shocked. How had the majority of Palestinians come to support an extremist organization and how would the group’s new political power affect the larger Israel/Palestine conflict?
Italian journalist and historian Paola Caridi offers a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Hamas
From Resistance to Government
Written by Paola Caridi
Translated by Andrea Teti
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $24.95
When the radical Islamist group Hamas was elected to lead Palestine in 2006, the Western world was shocked. How had the majority of Palestinians come to support an extremist organization and how would the group’s new political power affect the larger Israel/Palestine conflict?
Italian journalist and historian Paola Caridi offers a clear-eyed... Read more >
From Resistance to Government
Written by Paola Caridi
Translated by Andrea Teti
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 20, 2012
Price: $24.95
When the radical Islamist group Hamas was elected to lead Palestine in 2006, the Western world was shocked. How had the majority of Palestinians come to support an extremist organization and how would the group’s new political power affect the larger Israel/Palestine conflict?
Italian journalist and historian Paola Caridi offers a clear-eyed... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Faces of Revolution
Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence
Written by Bernard Bailyn
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2011
Price: $12.99
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today. Read more >
Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence
Written by Bernard Bailyn
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2011
Price: $12.99
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today. Read more >
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My Two Chinas
The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary
Written by Baiqiao Tang
Format: Hardcover, 316 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $26.00
At this moment, people in China are being imprisoned and tortured by their own government. These people are not hardened criminals, murderers, thieves, or terrorists. They’ve done nothing wrong. They are student leaders, journalists, bloggers, human rights activists, and monks whose only "crime" is that they want democracy. They want their... Read more >
The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary
Written by Baiqiao Tang
Format: Hardcover, 316 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $26.00
At this moment, people in China are being imprisoned and tortured by their own government. These people are not hardened criminals, murderers, thieves, or terrorists. They’ve done nothing wrong. They are student leaders, journalists, bloggers, human rights activists, and monks whose only "crime" is that they want democracy. They want their... Read more >
Anti-Capitalism
Written by Ezequiel Adamovsky
Illustrated by United Illustrators
Translated by Marie Trigona
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
In Anti-Capitalism, activist and scholar Ezequiel Adamovsky tells the story of the long-standing effort to build a better world, one without an abusive system at its heart. Backed up by arresting, lucid images from the radical artist group United Illustrators, Adamovsky details the struggle against rising corporate power, as that struggle... Read more >
Written by Ezequiel Adamovsky
Illustrated by United Illustrators
Translated by Marie Trigona
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $14.95
In Anti-Capitalism, activist and scholar Ezequiel Adamovsky tells the story of the long-standing effort to build a better world, one without an abusive system at its heart. Backed up by arresting, lucid images from the radical artist group United Illustrators, Adamovsky details the struggle against rising corporate power, as that struggle... Read more >
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Flying Close to the Sun
My Life and Times as a Weatherman
Written by Cathy Wilkerson
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, here wrestles with the
legacy of the movement, at... Read more >
My Life and Times as a Weatherman
Written by Cathy Wilkerson
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $18.95
Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, here wrestles with the
legacy of the movement, at... Read more >
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Notes From the Last Testament
The Struggle for Haiti
Written by Michael Deibert
Prologue by Ti Goave
Introduction by Raoul Peck
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $22.95
Notes from the Last Testament, by veteran reporter Michael Deibert, is a riveting narrative account of the events leading up to and including the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A fearless correspondent and a meticulous researcher, Deibert traces the rupturing of the social-democratic coalition that originally brought Aristide to power... Read more >
The Struggle for Haiti
Written by Michael Deibert
Prologue by Ti Goave
Introduction by Raoul Peck
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $22.95
Notes from the Last Testament, by veteran reporter Michael Deibert, is a riveting narrative account of the events leading up to and including the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A fearless correspondent and a meticulous researcher, Deibert traces the rupturing of the social-democratic coalition that originally brought Aristide to power... Read more >
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Radical Walking Tours of New York City
Written by Bruce Kayton
Foreword by Pete Seeger
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $13.95
Traditional walking tours of New York enshrine the wealthy and war heroes by emphasizing what they’ve left behind. Rarely seen are those buried in their wake—those who fought the power, pushing for a better world. In Radical Walking Tours of New York Bruce Kayton leads us to monuments of those other... Read more >
Written by Bruce Kayton
Foreword by Pete Seeger
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $13.95
Traditional walking tours of New York enshrine the wealthy and war heroes by emphasizing what they’ve left behind. Rarely seen are those buried in their wake—those who fought the power, pushing for a better world. In Radical Walking Tours of New York Bruce Kayton leads us to monuments of those other... Read more >
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Resistance
A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side
Edited by Clayton Patterson
Foreword by Jeff Ferrell
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $30.00
This collection of writings and images documents the political history of NYC’s Lower East Side, describing the lives and struggles of the radicals, artists, and immigrants that populated and politicized one of America’s strangest and most beloved neighborhoods. Current and former residents of the neighborhood explore the social, political, and human... Read more >
A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side
Edited by Clayton Patterson
Foreword by Jeff Ferrell
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $30.00
This collection of writings and images documents the political history of NYC’s Lower East Side, describing the lives and struggles of the radicals, artists, and immigrants that populated and politicized one of America’s strangest and most beloved neighborhoods. Current and former residents of the neighborhood explore the social, political, and human... Read more >
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Sing a Battle Song
The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974
Edited by Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and Jeff Jones
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, a group of young American radicals announced their intention to "bring the war home." The Weather Underground waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison, and evading... Read more >
The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970-1974
Edited by Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and Jeff Jones
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $19.95
Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, a group of young American radicals announced their intention to "bring the war home." The Weather Underground waged a low-level war against the U.S. government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison, and evading... Read more >
Up Against the Wall Motherf**er
A Memoir of the '60s, with Notes for Next Time
Written by Osha Neumann
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
They called themselves the Motherfuckers; others called them a "street gang with an analysis." Osha Neumann's thoughtful, funny, and honest account of his part in ’60s counterculture is also an unflinching look at what all that rebellion of the past means today. The fast moving story follows the establishment of the... Read more >
A Memoir of the '60s, with Notes for Next Time
Written by Osha Neumann
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $16.95
They called themselves the Motherfuckers; others called them a "street gang with an analysis." Osha Neumann's thoughtful, funny, and honest account of his part in ’60s counterculture is also an unflinching look at what all that rebellion of the past means today. The fast moving story follows the establishment of the... Read more >
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Zapatista Encuentro
Documents from the 1996 Encounter for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism
Written by Zapatistas
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $6.95
"Why is everyone so quiet? Is this the democracy you wanted?" So ask the Zapatistas, the group of indigenous Mexicans who, on January 1, 1994, mounted a rebellion against the implementation of NAFTA, political corruption, and the slow, unreported genocide of indigenous people worldwide. As the group expressed their demands and... Read more >
Documents from the 1996 Encounter for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism
Written by Zapatistas
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $6.95
"Why is everyone so quiet? Is this the democracy you wanted?" So ask the Zapatistas, the group of indigenous Mexicans who, on January 1, 1994, mounted a rebellion against the implementation of NAFTA, political corruption, and the slow, unreported genocide of indigenous people worldwide. As the group expressed their demands and... Read more >
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Flying Close to the Sun
My Life and Times as a Weatherman
Written by Cathy Wilkerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2010
Price: $18.95
Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, here wrestles with the
legacy of the movement, at... Read more >
My Life and Times as a Weatherman
Written by Cathy Wilkerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: August 17, 2010
Price: $18.95
Flying Close to the Sun is the stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who became a member of the Weather Underground, one of the most notorious groups of the 1960s. Cathy Wilkerson, who famously escaped the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, here wrestles with the
legacy of the movement, at... Read more >
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The World That Never Was
A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents
Written by Alex Butterworth
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $11.99
A thrilling history of the rise of anarchism, told through the stories of a number of prominent revolutionaries and the agents of the secret police who pursued them.
In the late nineteenth century, nations the world over were mired in economic recession and beset by social unrest, their leaders increasingly threatened by... Read more >
A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents
Written by Alex Butterworth
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $11.99
A thrilling history of the rise of anarchism, told through the stories of a number of prominent revolutionaries and the agents of the secret police who pursued them.
In the late nineteenth century, nations the world over were mired in economic recession and beset by social unrest, their leaders increasingly threatened by... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Up Against the Wall Motherf**er
A Memoir of the '60s, with Notes for Next Time
Written by Osha Neumann
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $16.95
They called themselves the Motherfuckers; others called them a "street gang with an analysis." Osha Neumann's thoughtful, funny, and honest account of his part in ’60s counterculture is also an unflinching look at what all that rebellion of the past means today. The fast moving story follows the establishment of the... Read more >
A Memoir of the '60s, with Notes for Next Time
Written by Osha Neumann
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $16.95
They called themselves the Motherfuckers; others called them a "street gang with an analysis." Osha Neumann's thoughtful, funny, and honest account of his part in ’60s counterculture is also an unflinching look at what all that rebellion of the past means today. The fast moving story follows the establishment of the... Read more >
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eBook.
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Our First Revolution
The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers
Written by Michael Barone
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $16.00
In this exciting work of popular history, Michael Barone brings the story of the Glorious Revolution–an unlikely late-seventeenth-century British uprising–to American readers and reveals that, without it, the American Revolution may never have happened. With a strong narrative drive and unforgettable portraits of kings, queens, and soldiers, Barone takes an episode... Read more >
The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers
Written by Michael Barone
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 24, 2008
Price: $16.00
In this exciting work of popular history, Michael Barone brings the story of the Glorious Revolution–an unlikely late-seventeenth-century British uprising–to American readers and reveals that, without it, the American Revolution may never have happened. With a strong narrative drive and unforgettable portraits of kings, queens, and soldiers, Barone takes an episode... Read more >
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Washington's Spies
The Story of America's First Spy Ring
Written by Alexander Rose
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and... Read more >
The Story of America's First Spy Ring
Written by Alexander Rose
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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