Search Results: Titles starting with G from Book Nook

irst edition paperback, which is in fine condition and signed and inscribed by the author. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.
Gadsby's Tavern was at the center of daily life in late-18th and early-19th-century Alexandria. Operated by John Gadsby from 1796 to 1808, the tavern served both local citizens and travelers on their way to the nation's new capital. Gadsby's was a venue for dancing assemblies, performances, and celebratory dinners. Among its most famous patrons were George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. By the early 20th century, the tavern buildings were in danger of being demolished. Saved from the wrecking ball in 1929 by American Legion Post 24, Gadsby's became the cornerstone of Alexandria's historic preservation movement. In 1972, the American Legion donated the site to the City of Alexandria. Following a full restoration, Gadsby's reopened as part of America's bicentennial celebration. Today, Gadsby's… Read More

First edition hardcover, which is in good condition and signed by both authors. There is some yellowing of the page edges and a remainder mark along the top edge of the book. Please see photos. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.
The gripping inside story of the 2008 presidential election, by two of the best political reporters in the country.
"It's one of the best books on politics of any kind I've read. For entertainment value, I put it up there with Catch 22." —The Financial Times
"It transports you to a parallel universe in which everything in the National Enquirer is true….More interesting is what we learn about the candidates themselves: their frailties, egos and almost super-human stamina." —The Financial Times
"I can't put down this book!" —Stephen Colbert
Game Change is the New York Times bestselling story of the 2008 presidential election, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the best political reporters in the country. In the… Read More

First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition and signed and inscribed by the author. There are very slight signs of shelf wear on the dust cover (see photos). Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.
Released to coincide with the centennial of the National Park Service this new and comprehensive illustrated history of the White House grounds is presented in four parts: I: An introduction to the site with a discussion of the relationship between the house and its landscape. II: A geographical survey of the grounds and gardens beginning with the North and continuing to the East, South, and West. III: The story of how the gardens have been used through time including public access; first family recreation and entertaining; agricultural uses; and wartime uses, such as the troop encampment during the Civil War. And IV: A look at what has been grown on the grounds including the history of the greenhouses, flowers and ornamental gardening, and… Read More

First edition hardcover, which is in good condition (see photos). Please note, book is slightly bent. Will include brochure from exhibit at the National Gallery where book was signed by the editor, Belinda Thomson.This major reevaluation of Paul Gauguin presents the artist and his work in an entirely new light. The vivid, unnaturalistic colors and bold outlines of Gauguin's paintings and the strong, semiabstract quality of his woodcuts had a profound effect on the development of twentieth-century art. Here readers will discover why Gauguin was one of the most important artists behind European modernism―yet one who also challenged its very tenets. Because while modern art largely rejected narrative, for Gauguin it remained central.Gauguin is the first book to fully examine his use of stories and myth to give powerful narrative tension to his paintings at a time when other painters thought storytelling was dead. Gauguin's life in French Polynesia is often portrayed as a quest for the other, with the… Read More

First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition, and is signed and dated by the author. Bot the book and dustcover have minor sines of shelf wear (see photos). The seller will bubblewrap the book and ship it quickly upon purchase.George Mason was a short, bookish man who was a friend and neighbor of athletic, broad-shouldered George Washington. Unlike Washington, Mason has been virtually forgotton by history. But this new biography of forgotten patriot George Mason makes a convincing case that Mason belongs in the pantheon of honored Founding Fathers. Trained in the law, Mason was also a farmer, philosopher, botanist, and musician. He was one of the architects of the Declaration of Independence, an author of the Bill of Rights, and one of the strongest proponents of religious liberty in American history. In fact, both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison may have been given undue credit for George Mason's own contributions to American democracy.

Paperback, which is in very good condition. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap and ship it with tracking.This 144-page book, which includes more than 170 full-color photographs, is the only official guidebook to the multi-faceted estate of George Washington. It will enliven and expand the experience of visiting Washington's home and serve as a perfect remembrance of your tour. A new introductory section is designed to help you organize your visit and take full advantage of your valuable time. All proceeds from entrance fees, as well as shop and restaurant purchases, are used to restore and maintain Mount Vernon, America's most popular historic home.

Paperback, which is in fine condition. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap and ship it with tracking.

Brand new hardcover, which is still wrapped in plastic. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.From his teens until his death, the maps George Washington drew and purchased were always central to his work. After his death, many of the most important maps he had acquired were bound into an atlas. The atlas remained in his family for almost a century before it was sold and eventually ended up at Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library.Inspired by these remarkable maps, historian Barnet Schecter has crafted a unique portrait of our first Founding Father, placing the reader at the scenes of his early career as a surveyor, his dramatic exploits in the French and Indian War (his altercation with the French is credited as the war's spark), his struggles throughout the American Revolution as he outmaneuvered the far more powerful British army, his diplomacy as president, and his shaping of the new republic. Beautifully illustrated in color, with twenty-four of… Read More

First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition and signed by the author on a bookplate. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.
When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. George Washington, instead, is toasted with accolades regarding his solid common sense and strength in battle. Indeed, John Adams once snobbishly dismissed him as "too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and reputation." Yet Adams, as well as the majority of the men who knew Washington in his life, were unaware of his singular devotion to self-improvement.Based on a comprehensive amount of research at the Library of Congress, the collections at Mount Vernon, and rare book archives scattered across the country, Kevin J. Hayes corrects this misconception and reconstructs in vivid detail the active intellectual life… Read More

First edition paperback, which is in fine condition. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap and ship it with tracking.
This out-of-print book is an earlier version of a text with the same title. The new book, also titled Georgetown University, is rewritten and expanded by Paul R. O'Neill and Bennie L. Smith.
Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic university in America, is located in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789 and chartered by Congress in 1815, Georgetown experienced many of the same trials faced by the United States, and like the country, triumphed to enjoy extended prestige and prosperity. Georgetown University is a photographic journey through the school's first 200 years and celebrates the heritage of one of today's premier universities. More than 200 vintage images illuminate the historic campus, early classes, annual events, and prolific leaders. The story begins with the school's founder, Archbishop John Carroll, who first envisioned Georgetown… Read More

First edition hardcover, which is in very good condition. Please see photos. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.
The winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate story of a woman who for a time was its undisputed leader. Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774, at the age of seventeen, Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying one of England's richest and most influential aristocrats, the Duke of Devonshire. Launched into a world of wealth and power, she quickly became the queen of fashionable society, adored by the Prince of Wales, a dear friend of Marie-Antoinette, and leader of the most important salon of her time. Not content with the role of society hostess, she used her… Read More

First edition hardcover, which is in fine condition. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.
Introduces the concept of "re-marketing" to explain the dramatic transformations of Timex, 7-UP and 46 other initial marketing failures into some of the best known brands and products.

First edition paperback, which is in fine condition and signed and inscribed by the author. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.A hair-raising ride through Alexandria's greatest ghostly past. A must-read for fans of the supernatural and Virginia history!The ghost of a Revolutionary War spy that fosters a centuries-old grudge against the British, two young lovers parted by fire but reunited in death and Union and Confederate soldiers who still battle at the Hotel Monaco are among the haunts of Alexandria, Virginia.
Beside the Potomac and the twice-blooming wisteria, local author Michael Lee Pope takes readers on a thrilling journey with his collection of historic ghost lore. Join him as he searches for the identity of the Female Stranger of Gadsby's Tavern and wanders the lonely halls of Woodlawn Plantation to encounter Alexandria's restless souls.
Join award-winning journalist Michael Lee Pope as he takes you on a… Read More

NOT SINCE THOMAS FRIEDMAN'SFROM BEIRUT TO JERUSALEM IN 1989 HAS A JOURNALIST OFFERED SUCH A POIGNANT AND PASSIONATE PORTRAIT OF LEBANON—A UNIQUELY PLURALIST ARAB COUNTRY STRUGGLING TO DEFEND ITS VIABILITY IN A TURBULENT AND TREACHEROUS MIDDLE EAST .Michael Young, who was taken to Lebanon at age seven by his Lebanese mother after the death of his American father and who has worked most of his career as a journalist there for American publications, brings to life a country in the crossfire of invasions, war, domestic division, incessant sectarian scheming, and often living in fear of its neighbors. Young knows or has known many of the players, politicians, writers, and religious leaders.

A sweeping and path-breaking history of the post–World War II decades, during which an activist federal government guided the country toward the first real flowering of the American Dream.In The Gifted Generation, historian David Goldfield examines the generation immediately after World War II and argues that the federal government was instrumental in the great economic, social, and environmental progress of the era. Following the sacrifices of the Greatest Generation, the returning vets and their children took the unprecedented economic growth and federal activism to new heights. This generation was led by presidents who believed in the commonwealth ideal: the belief that federal legislation, by encouraging individual opportunity, would result in the betterment of the entire nation. In the years after the war, these presidents created an outpouring of federal legislation that changed how and where people lived, their access to higher education, and their stewardship of the environment. They also… Read More

First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition and signed and inscribed by the author. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.
"Wonderfully profound …. It's as if Thoreau meets Lao Tzu on the trail and we are fortunate enough to overhear their wisdom on what the wilderness has to offer 21st century civilization."— Jeff Salz, PhD, explorer, adventurer, anthropologist, and author of The Way of AdventureWhether you are a world-weary worker juggling the demands of a hectic life or a seeker of soul-satisfying experiences, this deceptively simple book is your key to refresh, renew, rethink and recharge.From an unexpectedly arduous backpacking trip, Eileen McDargh discovers truths from the experience. Deep in grime, grit, and grace-filled mornings, she finds insights for business, for relationships, for family, for life, and for the soul.Just as the ocean inspired Anne Morrow Lindbergh's classic Gifts from… Read More

From Shel Silverstein, New York Times bestselling author of Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic, comes a poignant picture book about love and acceptance, cherished for over fifty years. This classic is perfect for both young readers and lifelong fans. This miniature full-cloth, gold-stamped edition is a beautiful gift, suitable for such occasions as graduation.
"Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy."
So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return.
Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with… Read More

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (with minor signs of shelf wear - see photos). Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011. First edition, first printing. Out of print and rare. This copy is signed and dated by American Artist Glenn Ligon. Signed following a lecture at the National Gallery of Art, March, 2013. Very rare signed copy of the first printing. Out of print. Comes with pamphlet from event. Seller will bubble wrap book and ship it with tracking. Please note, this is an oversized book, and as such, shipping costs may be higher than standard rates.
American artist Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is best known for his landmark body of text-based paintings, made since the late 1980s, which draw on the writings and speech of diverse figures including Jean Genet, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesse Jackson, and Richard Pryor. Throughout his career, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across a body of work that builds critically on the legacies of… Read More

First edition paperback, which is in very good condition. Please see photos for condition. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap and ship it with tracking.Survey of the most spectacular recent finds in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and their role in reshaping the history of civilization in ancient China. Catalogue for exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Asian Art Museum San Francisco. More than 175 objects from four historical periods and in numerous media represent important early sites and a diversity of cultures located outside the central Yellow River area are included. Lavishly illustrated.

With his acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara expanded upon his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels--ushering the reader through the poignant drama of this most bloody chapter in our history. Now, in Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back fifteen years before that momentous conflict, when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War.

In March 1847, the U.S. Navy delivers eight thousand soldiers on the beaches of Vera Cruz. They are led by the army's commanding general, Winfield Scott, a heroic veteran of the War of 1812, short tempered, vain, and nostalgic for the glories of his youth. At his right hand is Robert E. Lee, a forty-year-old engineer, a dignified, serious man who has never seen combat.

Scott leads his troops against the imperious… Read More