The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the ...
Amazon.com Review: The Condition of Postmodernity is David Harvey's seminal history of our most equivocal of eras. What does postmodernism mean? Where did it come from? Harvey, a professor of geography and a key mover behind extending the scope and [... more]
$37.95
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The Bias of Communication
keys to understanding the phases of human/media development: This book and its ideas have stayed with me over 15 years since university : Innis (who influenced Mcluhan) discusses the effect of changes in media on the history of civilization : ex. the [... more]
$27.95
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Landscape And Memory
450 pages too long: The author had a great idea for a book. He collected enough 'meat' for about 30-50 pages and then exploded it into almost 500 pages of boring talk, so typical of many historians. There are a few gems in this book and those few who [... more]
$27.50
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American ...
More boring than history: The author states that history is taught in a boring way. This book is worse than a boring history book. I like the idea of finding out the complete truth of undisclosed facts, like Helen Keller was a communist, but his constant [... more]
$16.00
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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the ...
Amazon.com Review: What a delightful book about books and people who love books! As a second generation bibliophile, a possible bibliomane who had several people move out of my house a year ago because they erroneously believed that my books were taking [... more]
$20.00
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Historic Cottages of Mackinac Island
Beautiful book: Organized and well researched. Interesting era in Michigan's history. VERY Disappointing !: This book had such promise...could have been spectacular...but the overall feel is sub-standard...production quality is horrible...photographs [... more]
$40.00
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To America : Personal Reflections of an Historian
Amazon.com Review: "I am a storyteller by training and inclination," writes the late Stephen Ambrose in To America, his final book. And what a storyteller. One of the most respected and popular historians of his era, Ambrose had a passion for [... more]
$24.00
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100 Years of Nobel Prizes
Not quite everything you wanted to know about the Nobel Prize: This is a very informative and interesting work. It describes the Nobel Prize Winners in each of the major categories .It considers a wide variety of factors from nationality and religion to [... more]
$18.95
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
Amazon.com Review: Little seems to delight historian James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, more than picking apart the cherished myths of American history. Few Americans study history after high school--instead, Loewen writes, they turn to [... more]
$15.00
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Firefighting
65 of history's greatest fires: Or would that be "disasters!" This book features an in-depth examination of 65 fires from all around the world and in a variety of categories. Ship Fires Explosions Forest Fires Fires in the Workplace This book [... more]
$30.00
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Ibn Khaldun: An Essay in Reinterpretation (Ceu Medievalia)
Author: Aziz Al-Azmeh Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 332.410947 EAN: 9789639241503 ISBN: 9639241504 Number Of Pages: 180 Publication Date: 2003-02 [... more]
$16.95
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Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting ...
Calling all educators: A MUST HAVE!: OK, the fact that he is "the" professor who changed the course of my life notwithstanding: This is a terrific book, one that opens doors for teachers who want to think about "what" they do, " [... more]
$26.95
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