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US History General Browse more titles in US History General The Supremes' Greatest Hits: The 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life by Michael G. Trachtman Publisher Comments Can the government seize your house in order to build a shopping mall? Can it determine what you can do to your own body? Why are you allowed to copy songs on a CD, but not music files from the Internet? The answers to those questions come from the... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies World History Asia Browse more titles in World History Asia Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Publisher Comments In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies World History Caribbean Browse more titles in World History Caribbean Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies World History France Browse more titles in World History France Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel Publisher Comments The first major biography of one of France’s most mysterious women—Marie Antoinette’s only child to survive the revolution. Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention to... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover add to wish list check for other copies World History General Browse more titles in World History General Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano Publisher Comments Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works “invade the reader’s mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover add to wish list check for other copies World History Latin America Browse more titles in World History Latin America Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano Publisher Comments Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies World History Middle East Browse more titles in World History Middle East The View from Damascus: State, Political Community and Foreign Relations in Twentieth-Century Syria Synopsis Sheds new light on the recent history and current politics and policies of this important Middle Eastern country. Throughout the last hundred years Syria has been a crucial hub of Middle Eastern events: the birth place and 'pulsating heart' of Arab... (read more) Your price: $49.95 New - Hardcover add to wish list check for other copies US History US Presidency Browse more titles in US History US Presidency Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama Publisher Comments In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies Sale Books Browse more titles in Sale Books A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation by Howard Zinn and Paul Buhle and Mike Konopacki Publisher Comments Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form.  Since its landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has had six new editions, sold more than 1.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper add to wish list check for other copies

Bestsellers Friday, July 10, 2009 The Supremes' Greatest Hits: The 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life by Michael G. Trachtman Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court by Peter Irons Interviews | July 4, 2009 Powells.com Interview: Luis Alberto Urrea 2 comments By Jill Owens Luis Alberto Urrea is a poet, novelist, journalist, and essayist who has been writing about the relationship between the United States and Mexico,... Continue » $19.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list Into the Beautiful North Luis Alberto Urrea Review-a-Day | June 29, 2009 China's Dictators at Work: The Secret Story 0 comments By Review-a-Day Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang by Ziyang Zhao Reviewed by Jonathan Mirsky New York Review of Books Prisoner of the State is the secretly recorded memoir of Zhao Ziyang, once holder of China's two highest Party and state positions and the architect of the economic reforms that have brought the country to the edge of great-power status. Continue » $26.00 New Hardcover add to wish list Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang Ziyang Zhao Review-a-Day | June 17, 2009 White Nationalists Find Sundry Faults with the U.S. Government 0 comments By Review-a-Day Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream by Leonard Zeskind Reviewed by Art Winslow Los... Continue » $37.50 New Hardcover add to wish list Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream Leonard Zeskind Original Essays | June 16, 2009 The Evolution of God 1 comment By Robert Wright On September 11, 2001, I was scheduled to start teaching a graduate seminar at Penn called "Religion and Human Nature." But religion and human... Continue » $18.19 Sale Hardcover add to wish list The Evolution of God Robert Wright Review-a-Day | June 12, 2009 Weeding Out the Weak 0 comments By Review-a-Day American Passage: The History of Ellis Island by Vincent J. Cannato Reviewed by Jonathan Yardley Washington Post Book World Ellis Island, through... Continue » $27.99 New Hardcover add to wish list American Passage: The History of Ellis Island Vincent J. Cannato

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