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Pre-Owned Journey to Ellis Island: How My Father Came to America (Paperback) 0786854995 9780786854998

As the huge ship pulled into New York Harbor Jehuda and his family quickly gathered their few belongings. Looming ahead of them was a giant green statue and beyond lay the huge city. Jehuda thought to himself So this is America! Jehuda and his family... more

Say Their Names : How Black Lives Came to Matter in America (Paperback)

This definitive guide to America s present-day racial reckoning examines the forces that pushed our unjust system to its breaking point after the death of George Floyd. For many the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the... more

Say Their Names : How Black Lives Came to Matter in America 9781538737828 Used / Pre-owned

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Pre-Owned The Bradford Heritage: How the Light of Liberty Came to America

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A Faithful Narrative of the Conversion and Death of Count Struensee Late Prime Minister of Denmark : Together with Letters of His Parents to Him and Also a Letter of His Own Wherein He Relates How He Came to Alter His Sentiments of Religion (Hardcover)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United... more

Lincoln: How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America: A Companion Book for Young Readers to the Steven Spielberg Film (Hardcover)

A new book--and companion to the Steven Spielberg film--tracing how Abraham Lincoln came to view slavery . . . and came to end it. Steven Spielberg focused his movie Lincoln on the sixteenth president s tumultuous final months in office when he pursued... more

Contraband Cocktails : How America Drank When It Wasn t Supposed To 9781612194585 Used / Pre-owned

Americans weren t supposed to drink during Prohibition--but that s exactly when cocktail culture came roaring to life. The Bloody Mary sleek cocktail shakers craft mixology and hundreds of other essentials of modern drinking owe their origins to the... more

Pre-Owned Contraband Cocktails: How America Drank When It Wasn t Supposed to (Hardcover) 1612194583 9781612194585

Americans weren t supposed to drink during Prohibition--but that s exactly when cocktail culture came roaring to life. The Bloody Mary sleek cocktail shakers craft mixology and hundreds of other essentials of modern drinking owe their origins to the... more

Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving: A Harvest Story from Colonial America of How One Native American s Friendship Saved the Pilgrims (Paperback)

Discover the amazing true story of how one Native American s suffering generosity and friendship led to the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims by New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas. In 1608 traders came to Massachusetts captured a Patuxet... more

Pre-Owned Inventing Intelligence: How America Came to Worship IQ (Hardcover 9781440803376) by Elaine Castles

9781440803376. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 208. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 208 p. The use and misuse of IQ tests has long been a subject of contention in the scientific and social communities... more

Haven : The Dramatic Story of 1 000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America (Paperback)

Award-winning journalist Ruth Gruber s powerful account of a top-secret mission to rescue one thousand European refugees in the midst of World War II In 1943 nearly one thousand European Jewish refugees from eighteen different countries were chosen by... more

Pre-Owned Haven : The Dramatic Story of 1 000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America 9780451128652

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How the War Came to America / United States. Committee on Public Information (1918) (1918) [Leather Bound]

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1918 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more

Pre-Owned Inventing Intelligence: How America Came to Worship IQ Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Penn State the History of the Book How Books Came to America: The Rise of the American Book Trade Book 17 (Paperback)

Anyone who pays attention to the popular press knows that the new media will soon make books obsolete. But predicting the imminent demise of the book is nothing new. At the beginning of the twentieth century for example some critics predicted that the... more

Inventing Intelligence: How America Came to Worship IQ (Hardcover)

The use and misuse of IQ tests has long been a subject of contention in the scientific and social communities particularly because these evaluations favor intelligence at the expense of other valuable human qualities. This is the first book of its kind... more

The Rise Progress and Phases of Human Slavery : How it Came Into the World and How it Shall be Made to go Out (Paperback)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United... more

Fiat Money in France: How it Came What it Brought and How it Ended (Paperback)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United... more

Cooking in America: My Last Drink: The Greatest Human Story Ever Written: A Powerful Personal History of a Chicago Alderman and Well-Known Business Man W (Paperback)

This 1915 autobiographical work by Joseph Francis depicts his struggles with alcohol and how he came to embrace temperance. more

Trans America: A Counter-History (Hardcover)

Trans seems to be everywhere in American culture. Yet there is little understanding of how this came about. Are people aware that there were earlier periods of gender flexibility and contestability in American history? How well known is it that a... more

Pre-Owned As a City on a Hill: The Story of America s Most Famous Lay Sermon (Hardcover 9780691181592) by Daniel T Rodgers

9780691181592. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 368. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations. How an obscure Puritan sermon came to be seen as a founding document of American identity and... more

Pre-Owned Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York (Paperback 9780805061208) by Richard M Ketchum

9780805061208. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 464. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 464 p. Years of neglect in the mother country had allowed America s fledgling democracy to gain power but by 1760 America had... more

The Irish Revolution and how it Came About (Hardcover)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United... more

Pre-Owned The Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our Security Paperback Ann Hagedorn

9781416598817. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 320. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. The urgent truth about the privatization of America s national security that exposes where this industry came from how... more

Pre-Owned Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America (Paperback 9781620405635) by Steven J Ross

9781620405635. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 432. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 432 p. [Hitler in Los Angeles] is part thriller and all chiller about how close the California Reich came to succeeding (Los... more

Pre-Owned Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis (Paperback) 0470554657 9780470554654

An updated and revised look at the truth behind America s housing and mortgage bubbles In the summer of 2007 the subprime empire that Wall Street had built all came crashing down. On average fifty lenders a month were going bust-and the people... more

The Color of Race in America 1900-1940 (Paperback)

With the social change brought on by the Great Migration of African Americans into the urban northeast after the Great War came the surge of a biracial sensibility that made America different from other Western nations. How white and black people... more

Engendering Latin America: Class Mates : Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Paperback)

This innovative study considers how approximately seven thousand male graduates of law came to understand themselves as having a legitimate claim to authority over nineteenth-century Brazilian society during their transition from boyhood to manhood.... more

Pre-Owned Ike s Gamble: America s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East (Hardcover)

Pre-Owned - This major retelling of the Suez Crisis of 1956--one of the most important events in the history of US policy in the Middle East--shows how President Eisenhower came to realize that Israel not Egypt is America s strongest regional ally. In... more

Politics and Culture in Modern America: Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy the Cuban Diaspora and the Transformations of Miami (Hardcover)

In Only a Few Blocks to Cuba Mauricio Castro shows how the U.S. government came to view Cuban migration to Miami as a strategic asset during the Cold War in the process investing heavily in the city s development and shaping its future as a global... more

Pre-Owned The Cigarette Century: The Rise Fall and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America (Paperback) 0465070485 9780465070480

From agriculture to big business from medicine to politics The Cigarette Century is the definitive account of how smoking came to be so deeply implicated in our culture science policy and law. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so... more

Pre-Owned The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America s Liberties (Hardcover 9781476743790) by Carol Berkin

9781476743790. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 272. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. The real story of how the Bill of Rights came to be: a concise vivid history of political strategy big egos and partisan... more

Palgrave MacMillan Global Public Diploma The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency (Hardcover)

At a time when issues of international engagement are again at the fore of foreign policy this book tells the story of how America s apparatus for public diplomacy came to be in disarray. Using newly declassified archives and interviews with... more

Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (Paperback) by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

9781847398185. New condition. Paperback. Pages: 320. 320 p. Nomad is a philosophical memoir telling how Ayaan Hirsi Ali came to America in search of a new life and the difficulties she faced in reconciling her two worlds. With vivid anecdotes and... more

The Sober Truth : Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry (Hardcover)

An exposé of Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step programs and the rehab industry--and how a failed addiction-treatment model came to dominate America. AA has become so infused in our society that it is practically synonymous with addiction recovery. Yet the... more

White House Burning: Our National Debt and Why It Matters to You (Paperback)

From the authors of the national bestseller 13 Bankers a chilling account of America s unprecedented debt crisis: how it came to pass why it threatens to topple the nation as a superpower and what needs to be done about it. With bracing clarity White... more

Pre-Owned White House Burning: Our National Debt and Why It Matters to You (Paperback) 0307947645 9780307947642

From the authors of the national bestseller 13 Bankers a chilling account of America s unprecedented debt crisis: how it came to pass why it threatens to topple the nation as a superpower and what needs to be done about it. With bracing clarity White... more

Pipe Dreams : Greed Ego and the Death of Enron 9781586482015 Used / Pre-owned

After the shocking collapse of Enron in fall 2001 came an equally shocking series of disclosures about how America s seventh-largest company had destroyed itself. There were unethical deals offshore accounts and accounting irregularities. There were... more