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
Slavery and Human Progress
by David Brion Davis
Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1986. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£6.41
The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality
by Hansberry, Lorraine
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1964. 1st. Softcover. Softcover, 96 pages, illustrated wraps. A documentation and moving tribute to the Civil Rights activists of the 1960s, many b&w photographs by Danny Lyons. Stated First Printing. Wrappers have creases, rubbing. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean. Light tanning to pages. Record # 372673
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£162.58
The Other End of the Gun: The true story of Lloyd W. O'Callaghan, Jr.
by O'Callaghan, Lloyd W
Los Angeles: Lloyd O' Enterprises, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/good +. Leatherette hardcover with gilt titles, 1st edition in dustjacket. A good plus copy with some speckling to the front cover from the gilt titles. Bumping to the lower rear corner and general shelfwear at the board edges. Binding and hinges are solid as if unread. Pages clean and unmarked. Unclipped dustjacket is also good plus with ruffling at the edges and 1/2" tear at the top of the front panel, spineward -...
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£77.23
Poems
by Henry Kent
Philadelphia: Ferris and Leach, 1906. 12mo, 104 pages. First edition. Publisher's plum-colored cloth binding. Boards discolored from old dampstaining; a majority of pages with a very thin tideline stain to upper margin. A good sound copy of a scarce book. Posthumously-published collection of poems written by the Quaker abolitionist, reformer, and poet Henry Simmons Kent (d. 1906), affiliated with the Swarthmore Friends of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. A testimonial on p99 describes Kent's "great influence...
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£60.97
Defending the Realm: Inside MI5 and the War on Terrorism
by Mark Hollingsworth; Nick Fielding
André Deutsch Ltd, 2004. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 360 pages, with index and bibliography. Illustrated with b&w photos on four double-sided plates. A critical look at MI5, British domestic intelligence, after 9/11. Trade paperback, former library book with relevant stickers and stamps, wraps worn and creased, peeling to inside front cover, edges and page margins age-toned. Underscoring and/or margin brackets on approximately 30 pages.
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£4.88
Selma, Lord, Selma
by Webb, Sheyann and Rachel West Nelson
University of Alabama Press, 1980. 1st. Hardcover. A Near FINE tight copy in a VG+ bright dj.
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£16.26
HOLY WAR INC
by BERGEN, PETER L
Book slightly yellow on top edge. Covered in plastic.
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£8.71
Inside Al Qaeda: How I Infiltrated the World's Deadliest Terrorist Organization
by Mohamed Sifaoui
Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004. Soft cover. Very Good. 154 pages. English translation by George Miller of book published in French the year before. The journalist author was born in Algeria. High-quality mass-market paperback, scant wear to edges, diagonal creases to a few pages, edges/page margins age-tanned. Yellow highlighting observed on five pages.
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£4.06
Forward Together
by William J. Barber, II
Summary: In the spring of 2013, seventeen people gathered at the North Carolina state legislature to protest extreme legislation passed by the General Assembly attacking health insurance, unemployment insurance, labor, and voting rights. The ministers, labor, and human rights activists began praying, singing, and chanting, and were ultimately arrested. That group grew into crowds of thousands at successive "Moral Mondays" rallies, and by summer's end nearly 1,000 people had been arrested, making this...
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£16.25
Runaway : Wild Child, Working Girl, Survivor
by MacKenzie, Emily & Thurlow, Clifford
London: Simon & Schuster. 2013. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - nice copy. 353 pages. From a golden early childhood through long periods in care and prostitution, Emily Mackenzie recounts her life as a survivor of child abuse. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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£7.83
Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles
by Parker Pillsbury
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles.
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£42.25
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences Of Slavery And Emancipation African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom
by Ira Berlin / Marc Favreau / Steven Miller
2011. The New Press (2011). Black paper over boards, black cloth spine, silver lettering. NEAR MINT/SLIPCASE. The ground breaking book-and-audio set. Nearly ten years ago, The New Press published Remembering Slavery, a book-and-tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery. Using excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writers' Project, the astonishing audiotapes made available the only known recordings...
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£142.26
Guerrillas The inside stories of the world's revolutionaries
by Anderson, John Lee
London: HarperCollins , 1993. Paperback. Good. Good/-. Analysis of today's guerrilla movements world-wide. Takes the reader into the mind of the revolutionary as never before. Equally shocking and touching by turns. Size 19 x 13cm, 270 pages. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings. Pictorial laminated card covers showing faint creases within the laminate, otherwise in good condition. Internally good: clean and unmarked in sound bindings.
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£3.00
Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway
by Dellinger, Matt
Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. The image provided is the actual book I'm offering for sale. Signed by the author. No markings or damage to any pages. No sunning. No clips. Structure of the book (covers, binding, spine, hinges) is tight and free of damage. Page block is nice and square. Cut pages. Additional photos will be provided upon request in order to ensure the quality and integrity of your book purchase.
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£24.38
In the Land of Jim Crow, A White Journalist's Groundbreaking Masquerade as a Black Man in the 1940s Jim Crow South
by Civil Rights, Jim Crow
SPRIGLE, Ray. In the Land of Jim Crow. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. First edition, with no statement of edition or printing on the copyright page. 215 pages. 8" x 5.5" inches. Original red paper boards with the original dust jacket unclipped. In 1948 white journalist Ray Sprigle met with NAACP Executive Secretary Walter White for help with his plan to travel as a black man in the South. Walter White tapped civil rights leader John Wesley Dobbs to be Springle's guide as he crossed "the race line...
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£365.80
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860
by Thomas D. Morris
Paperback / softback. New. A history of the relationship between American slavery and the law from colonial times to the Civil War. It shows that racial slavery came to the English colonies as an institution without strict legal definitions, and Southern lawmakers struggled to reconcile a social order based on slavery.
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£72.68
Relief in Recovery: Stopping Depression, Anger and Relapse... Fast.
by Bernardo Du Blanc and Susan Claire
Capitola, CA Visual Books, 1996. Paperback First Ed; First Printing indicated. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Ed; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: shows only very minor indications of use: the back strip in lightly sunned, but the titles thereon remain bold and clearly legible; binding shows barely discernible spine lean, but remains perfectly secure; text clean. Very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 4to. 225pp....
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£19.12
Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed--and How to Stop It
by Rachel Ehrenfeld
Bonus Books, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 267 pages, with index, maps, foreword by former CIA director James Woolsey. Medium 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/4"), black cloth, unclipped dust jacket, scant wear, outer clear plastic jacket. Former library book with relevant stickers, card pocket, stamps. Pages bright and unmarked.
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£4.06
Milestones
by Qutb, Sayyid
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2005-01-01. Paperback. New. Paperback. An UNUSED, UNMARKED, UNBLEMISHED copy.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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£6.50
The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden
by Anthony Summers, Robbyn Swan
Ballantine Books, 2011. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 603 pages, with index, selected bibliography, notes and sources list, b&w photos on seven double-sided plates. Royal 8vo (6-1/2" x 9-1/2"), light gray paper over boards with dark gray quarter, scant shelf wear, soil to edges, in unclipped dust jacket with scant wear and outer plastic jacket. Former library book, with stamps and stickers.
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£8.13
Racializing Jesus
by Shawn Kelley
Shawn Kelley's groundbreaking study shows how the major intellectual movements of the modern world, such as Orientalism and romantic nationalism, become infused with the category of race. He then traces the processes through which racially-grounded thinking has influenced modern biblical scholarship.
Dynamic and thought-provoking, the book incorporates a wide range of current debate, from critical race theory to the relationship between Martin Heidegger and National Socialism. It will give every student... Read more about this item
Dynamic and thought-provoking, the book incorporates a wide range of current debate, from critical race theory to the relationship between Martin Heidegger and National Socialism. It will give every student... Read more about this item
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£29.22
Prelude to riot; a view of urban America from the bottom, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
by Jacobs, Paul
New York: Random House, 1967. x, 298p., first edition, inscribed by Jacobs and dated May, 1968, Obit for Jacobs pasted on front pastedown, dj slightly faded on the spine.
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£16.26
Plantations for Slave Labor. The Death of Yeomanry
by Lieber, Francis
New York: Loyal Publication Society. Very Good+. 1865. Later Printing. Softcover. Thumb size area of light soil or discoloration upper right corner front cover. ; Printed wrappers; Loyal Publications Society, No. 29; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 8 pages; Francis Lieber was a German-American jurist and political philosopher. He is best known for his work on the laws of war and the formulation of the Lieber Code. Here, he references Joseph Kay's, Social Condition and Education of the People of...
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£40.64
The Woman Who Wasn't There. The Story of Fraud That Shocked America
by Fisher, Robin Gaby; Guglielmo Jr., Angelo J
Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 2012. Very Good condition. A couple ofsmall, light creases to lower corners. 291 pages. The story of one of the most audacious and bewildering quests for acclaim in recent memory. Tania Head's fraudulent and senseless claim to be a survivor of September 11, 2001 attack. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition (Australia). Trade Paperback.
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£8.36
Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch. (Signed by John Hope Franklin)
by John Roy Lynch
Chicago and London: University of Chicago, (1970). 521 pages. Hardcover with light spotting to edges of text block and dustwrapper; a very good copy. First edition. Inscribed by John Hope Franklin, the series editor and dean of African American historians. Published for the first time, the autobiography of John Roy Lynch who was enslaved from birth on a Louisiana plantation. Lynch rose to become Speaker of the House for the Mississippi legislature and later became the first African American elected to...
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£60.97
