Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000
By: Adam Fairclough
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
From the end of postwar Reconstruction in the South to an analysis of the rise and fall of Black Po…
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1. The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography
By: Martin W. Lewis , None , Kären Wigen
3.87
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reex… read more
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2. A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
3.98
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more
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"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
By: David Christian
3.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the begi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past
By: John Lewis Gaddis
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a… read more
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- nonfiction
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5. Cancer Ward
By: None , David Burg , Nicholas Bethell
3.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Wardis both a deeply compassi… read more
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6. Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long
By: Richard D. White Jr.
3.80
Format: None pages,
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7. The Aeneid
By: Virgil , Robert Fitzgerald
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
The Aeneid (play /@'ni:Id/; Latin: Aeneis [aj'ne:is]--the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aen… read more
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8. A Doll's House
By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer
3.76
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more
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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
9. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
By: Kenneth Pomeranz
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustain… read more
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10. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights: 1919-1950
By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
4.67
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
The civil rights movement that loomed over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal… read more
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11. Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History (Multicultural Education Series)
By: James W. Loewen
3.62
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this follow-up to his landmark bestseller, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American His… read more
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12. Othello
By: William Shakespeare
4.48
Format: None pages,
In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more
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13. The Iliad
By: Homer
3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more
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"I say no wealth is worth my life."-Homer, The Iliad
"These were the colloquies in heaven."-Homer, The Iliad
"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."-Homer, The Iliad
"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
14. The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
By: Pat Barker
3.83
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who e… read more
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"Achilles' story never ends: wherever men fight and die, you'll find Achilles."-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
"Crows are ferociously intelligent birds. I used to watch them gather as the men set off for another day of war. Drums, pipes, trumpets, the rhythmical pounding of swords on shields—to the fighters, t…"-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
"It was one of those moments that I think everybody experiences - and they don't have to be dramatic - when things begin to change; and you know there's no point ruminating about it, because thinking …"-Pat Barker, The Women of Troy (Women of Troy, #2)
15. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
By: John K. Thornton
3.85
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Focusing especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in… read more
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16. How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation
By: E.D. Hirsch Jr.
3.81
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“Profound, vital and correct. Hirsch highlights the essence of our American being and the radical c… read more
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17. The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State
By: Mary Poole
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The relationship between welfare and racial inequality has long been understood as a fight between … read more
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18. A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights
By: Elizabeth Borgwardt
3.30
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World… read more
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19. Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000
By: Adam Fairclough
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
From the end of postwar Reconstruction in the South to an analysis of the rise and fall of Black Po… read more
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20. History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography (2nd Edition)
By: Norman J. Wilson
3.63
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book explores the possibilities remaining for historical study in the face of the current tren… read more
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21. Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s
By: Henry Hampton
4.50
Format: 720 pages, Paperback
“A vast choral pageant that recounts the momentous work of the civil rights struggle.”— The New Yor… read more
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