Social Issues, Problems & Crime
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Bury the Chains
by Adam Hochschild
From the author of the prize-winning King Leopold's Ghost comes a taut, thrilling account of the first grass-roots human rights campaign, which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world. In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop to pursue a seemingly impossible goal: ending slavery in the largest empire on earth. Along the way, they would pioneer most of the tools citizen activists still rely on today, from wall posters and mass mailings to boycotts and lapel pins. This...
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No Easy Day
by Mark; Maurer, Kevin Owen
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moment From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group — commonly known as SEAL Team Six — has been...
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The Crisis Of Islam
by Bernard Lewis
In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at the theological origins of political Islam and takes us through the rise of militant Islam in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, examining the impact of radical Wahhabi proselytizing, and Saudi oil money, on the rest of the Islamic world. The Crisis of Islam ranges widely through thirteen...
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American Terrorist
by Lou; Herbeck, Dan Michel
American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & The Oklahoma City Bombing (2001) is a book by Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck that chronicles the life of American terrorist Timothy McVeigh from his childhood in Pendleton, New York and military experiences in the Persian Gulf War, to the preparations for and carrying out of the Oklahoma City bombing, to his trial and death row experience.
Anarchist Cookbook
by William Powell
The Anarchist Cookbook, first published in 1971, is a book that contains instructions for the manufacture of explosives, rudimentary telecommunications phreaking devices as well as some dangerous, and in many places illegal, items; while some have merit, other 'recipes' have been shown to be flawed or dangerous or both. It was written by William Powell to protest the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. Interest in the book continues.
The Children
by David Halberstam
DAVID HALBERSTAM graduated from Harvard, where he had served as managing editor of the daily Harvard Crimson. It was 1955, a year after the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools. Halberstam went south and began his career as the one reporter on the West Point, Mississippi, Daily Times Leader. He was fired after ten months there and went to work for The Nashville Tennessean. When the sit-ins broke out in Nashville in February 1960, he was assigned...
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Rough Crossings
by Simon Schama
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution is a history book and television series by Simon Schama. This gives an account of the history of thousands of enslaved African Americans who escaped to the British cause during the American War of Independence. It tells of the legal battles in England that established that slavery was not legally valid in England itself, how the British government offered freedom to enslaved African Americans if they would fight for the king.
Social Issues, Problems & Crime Books & Ephemera
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
by Hochschild, Adam
Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$9.93
No Easy Day The Autobiography of a Navy Seal (The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden)
by Owen, Mark
New York: Dutton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2012. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 0525953728 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. .
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A$23.64
The Outline of knowledge volume 10 sacred writings
by Richards, James Albert
*The Outline of knowledge volume 10 sacred writings -new York: J.A. Richards, 1924. 1924. good. The Outline of knowledge volume 10 sacred writings one book-Brown cloth embossed cover gold wash? on the top of the pages it's faded away embossed titling .stamped bookplate front end paper previous owner, small bent / tear top right title page, actually in fairly good shape for being 90 years old- Set 1 of 20 books published by JA Richards, Sacred Writings index contents has the Bible of Braum monism,...
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A$39.40
Het bloedschip.
by SPRINGER, Norman
Bussum, C. de Boer Jr., (1971). Wrappers. 206 pp. Novel on the 'Golden Bough', with captain and slave-driver Black Yankee Swope.
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A$27.67
Anatomists of Empire: Race, Evolution and the Discovery of Human Biology in the British World
by Jones, Ross L
North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2020. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. xiv, 295 pages. The 20th-century anatomists Grafton Elliot Smith, Frederic Wood Jones and Arthur Keith travelled the globe collecting, cataloguing and constructing morphologies of the biological world with the aim of weaving these into a new vision of bio-ecology that links humans to their deep past as well as their evolutionary niche. Their version of human development and history...
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A$49.95
Slave mutiny. The revolt on the schooner Amistad (in 1839).
by OWENS, William A
New York, John Day Company, (1953). Boards, with dust-jacket (dam.). With 4 plates. VIII,312 pp. First edition. - (With libr. stamp on fly-leaf).
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A$36.89
De slavenhandel in deze tijd.
by O'CALLAGHAN, Sean
's Gravenhage, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, (1962). Cloth, with dust-jacket (dam.). 226 pp.
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A$33.20
The Politics of Mercy: Catholic Life in an Era of Inequality, Racism, and Violence
by Matthew T. Eggemeier, Peter Joseph Fritz
Herder & Herder, 2020. Paperback. New. New softcover in glossy printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6 x 0.46 x 9 inches) Includes a bibliography and index. 184 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In an era where the credibility of the Catholic Church has been called into question, hope for the future springs up, in that Catholic social teaching and the concrete witness of communities displays a powerful commitment to mercy. The Politics of Mercy...
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A$45.63
Slavery & Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire
by Fradera, Josep M. & Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Eds
NY: Berghahn Books, 2013. 8vo. x,328pp.,328pp., illus. Sel. Bib., Index. Illus. Boards. New.
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A$110.33
Prison Life and Reflections: Or a Narrative of the Arrest, Trial, Conviction, Imprisonment, Treatment, Observations, Reflections, and Deliverance o
by Thompson, George
Gale, Making of Modern Law, 2011. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$47.09
Who's Who in Hell A Handbook and International Directory for Humanists, Freethinkers, Naturalist, Rationalists and Non-Theists
by Smith, Warren Allen
New York: Barricade Books. Very Good-. 2000. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 1569801584 . This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers have ground-in dirt, rubbing and scuffing. There is some bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are generally clean and bright. There is some yellowish discoloration to all edges of the text block. (Just discoloration, with none of the spills being absorbed onto the text pages...
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A$133.97
Together With Leo Buscaglia
by Buscaglia, Leo
Kent, OH: Pbs / Kvie. Very Good. 1981. Stapled wraps. This is a tradae sized booklet with cardstock covers and a side stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The edges of the book covers have some light toning / fading and several spots of discoloration. The text pages are clean and bright. This is a transcript of one of Leo Buscaglia's early PBS lectures called "Together with Leo Buscaglia" "While teaching at USC, Buscaglia was...
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A$31.52
Newsletter. Vol. 2 no. 1 (January 1965)
by Southern Student Organizing Committee
Nashville, TN: Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1965. Newsletter. 12p., mimeographed 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled together at upper left corner, some toning, otherwise very good. Jeff Shero, a white student at the University of Texas, discusses the effects of the Civil Rights Revolution (Shero, later Jeff Shero Nightbyrd, was national vice president of SDS and later helped start Austin's underground newspaper, The Rag, and edited RAT in New York). There are also updates on efforts to ban capital...
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A$157.61
Black / Right On
by Eckels, Jon
San Francisco, CA: Julian Richardson Associates. Very Good+. 1969. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Pamphlet. This is a trade sized pamphlet with heavy cardstock covers and a stapled binding. The pamphlet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The white covers have some toning and edge wear to the edges of the book covers. There is one small scribble mark to the top front panel. The text pages are clean and...
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A$78.80
Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession
by Terkel, Studs
New York: The New Press, 1992. Champion interviewer Terkel's examination of American race relations, discussing with people from many walks of life their views and feelings about prejudice, racism, and society. INSCRIBED by Terkel on the half-title page: "To Janet -- Here's to the delight of working with you. Peace, Grace and Beauty -- Studs Terkel". Hardcover in jacket as pictured; stated first edition (first printing) with full number line. Light wear to book, minor bumping to...
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A$63.04
The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity. How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective
by Anechiarico, Frank & Jacobs, James B
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1996. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 274 pages. The authors show that efforts to eradicate corruption amount to a cure that is worse than the disease. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$35.00
Our Search for Happiness
by M. Russell Ballard / Hyrum L. Andrus & Helen Mae Andrus
7032 Two books "Search for Happiness", "They Knew the Prophet" Mormon Religion
Two Paperback Books, Our Search for Happiness, by M. Russell Ballard, published by Desert Book Company (1993), ISBN 0875799175, 128 pages about 6"x9" Very good condition, slight wear to covers, pages clean, crisp, unmarked...They Knew the Prophet by Hyrum L. Andrus & Helen Mae Andrus, published by Covenant Communications, Inc., Utah (2004), ISBN 9781591566670, 213 pages about 6"x9", Good conditon, some wear to covers mostly at... Read more about this item
Two Paperback Books, Our Search for Happiness, by M. Russell Ballard, published by Desert Book Company (1993), ISBN 0875799175, 128 pages about 6"x9" Very good condition, slight wear to covers, pages clean, crisp, unmarked...They Knew the Prophet by Hyrum L. Andrus & Helen Mae Andrus, published by Covenant Communications, Inc., Utah (2004), ISBN 9781591566670, 213 pages about 6"x9", Good conditon, some wear to covers mostly at... Read more about this item
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A$20.44
Whatever Happened to the Soul? Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature
by Malony Brown
Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1998. 10 th printing. Paperback. Good/none. clean copy except for description Cover is in good condition showing minor edge wear. Pages are clean and unmarked. This collaborative project strives for greater consonance between contemporary science and Christian faith. Outstanding scholars in biology, genetics, neuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy, theology, biblical studies, and ethics join here to offer contemporary accounts of human nature consistent with Christian...
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A$22.07
PRISON LIFE AND REFLECTIONS; OR, A NARRATIVE OF THE ARREST, TRIAL, CONVICTION, IMPRISONMENT, TREATMENT, OBSERVATIONS, REFLECTIONS, AND DELIVERANCE OF WORK, BURR, AND THOMPSON, WHO SUFFERED AN UNJUST AND CRUEL IMPRISONMENT IN MISSOURI PENITENTIARY FOR ATTEMPTING TO AID SOME SLAVES TO LIBERTY
by George Thompson
8vo in publisher's cloth. 377 pp. VG-. Cloth worn at soeners and top of spine otherwise moderate wear. Binding is strong. Light sporadic foxing. No writing or markings of any kind. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.
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A$63.04
Philippians/Colossians Experiencing the Joy of Knowing Christ (Christianity 101® Bible Studies)
by Bruce; Stan Jantz Bickel
Philippians/Colossians Experiencing the Joy of Knowing Christ combines the biblical content of a commentary with the life applications of a Bible study, bestselling authors Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz distill important Bible truths in user-friendly portions and communicate them with amazing clarity....How can people experience unquenchable joy amid incredibly difficult circumstances? The apostle Paul knew the answer. This new 13-week study of two of his most intimate letters highlights his example and...
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A$15.75
Ways of Grace
by Blake, James
New York: Amistad / HarperCollins, 2017. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Signed without inscription by Blake on the title page in black sharpie. Gray hardcover, 3rd printing in dustjacket. A very good copy with minor bending at the spine tips and light wear to the board edges. The interior is clean, tight, and unmarked other than the author's signature. Unclipped jacket is also very good - bright, with matching minimal wear to the edges of the panels and some minor soiling to the...
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A$39.40
Our Country - Its Possible Future and its Present Crisis
by Josiah Strong
1891 hardcover as pictured. This book is being listed as an excellent bad example. It details the thinking that has led to and continues to fuel hatred and division in society based on religion, race, immigration and jingoism. Binding is intact. Blue cloth boards with gold stamping are rubbed and soiled with moderate edge wear. Text is age tanned but generally clean. A few particularly noxious passages have been marked in pencil. No dust jacket. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s
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A$23.64
The Rainbow People Of God
by Tutu, Desmond
Image, 1996-08-01. Paperback. Very Good. Signed 2nd Image soft cover printing, 1994. VG, w/ clean text, tight binding, uncreased spine. Light edge/corner wear. Signed and inscribed (to p.o.) by Nobel peace prize winning author on half-title page. Free delivery confirmation.
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A$138.62
The Practical Encyclopedia of Sex and Health: From Aphrodisiacs and Hormones to Potency, Stress, Vasectomy, and Yeast Infection
by BECHTEL,Stefan
Rodale Books, 1993. 12 printing. Hardcover. Good. practical Encyclopedia of sex and health from aphrodisiacs,, hormones to potency, stress, vasectomy/yeast infection by author and men's health and prevention magazine, hardcover no dust jacket cover is still glossy as a beige background white titling spine is good tight minor amount of wearing on the top of the book from shelving and back top corner has a slight chip of the paper missing. Printedacid-free paper recycled..Practical advice from the...
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A$21.07
VIRGINIA SOLDIERS' CLAIM TO WESTERN LANDS ADJACENT TO FORT PITT
by Mercer, George
Upperville: Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1966. stiff paper wrappers. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. Limited to 300 copies printed by the Spiral Press. Contains a facsimile of the four page printed document.
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A$45.71
