Josephine Baker in Art and Life: THE ICON AND THE IMAGE
 Book Description: Beyond biography: a legendary performer's legacy of symbolism Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and philanthropist, whose images and cultural legacy have survived beyond the [... more]
$60.00
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Stupidity
Pretentious to the point of being, well... stupid: I am sorry, but there is something about a book about titled "Stupidity" which contains page after page of sentences like: "From the culture that has been inscribed by Marx and Nietzsche [... more]
$35.00
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Escape to Manila: FROM NAZI TYRANNY TO JAPANESE TERROR
Book Description: With the rise of Nazism in the 1930s more than a thousand European Jews sought refuge in the Philippines, joining the small Jewish population of Manila. When the Japanese invaded the islands in 1941, the peaceful existence of the barely [... more]
$29.95
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Lincoln's Supreme Court
Lincoln's Supreme Court: David M. Silver was a student of the famous Lincoln scholar Dr. James G. Randall at the University of Illinois. Seeking further information on Constitutional issues encountered by Lincoln during his presidency, Dr. Randall [... more]
$24.00
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Josephine Baker in Art and Life: THE ICON AND THE IMAGE
Book Description: Beyond biography: a legendary performer's legacy of symbolism Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and philanthropist, whose images and cultural legacy have survived beyond the [... more]
$25.00
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Barter: POEMS (Illinois Poetry Series)
No such thing as a bad book by Sadoff.: Ira Sadoff, Barter (University of Illinois Press, 2003) Few things make my heart leap like the prospect of a new, unread book of poetry by Ira Sadoff, one of the best poets presently working in America. The only [... more]
$15.95
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The Soul of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was a Godly man.: This book was originally published in 1920 and was republished in 2005 by the University of Illinois Press, presumably with the approaching bicentennial of Lincoln's birth in mind. A new introduction was written by Michael [... more]
$21.95
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The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: vol. 1: Preparing to ...
good job keep up the good work: Selected Papers of Jane Addams Volume 1, Preparing to lead 1860-81,edited by Mary Bryan, Barbara Blair and Maree De Angury is published by University of Illinois Press. It is 650 pages, has 47 illustrations (including a [... more]
$65.00
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The American Discovery of Europe
Book Description: An independent and indigenous revision of established history The American Discovery of Europe investigates the voyages of America's Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus's 1492 arrival in the "New World." [... more]
$34.95
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The Nightinghouls of Paris
Book Description: A wild firsthand account of expatriate life in France during the close of the Twenties The Nightinghouls of Paris is a thinly fictionalized memoir of the darker side of expatriate life in Paris. Beginning in 1928, the story follows the [... more]
$40.00
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Black Hawk: An Autobiography (Prairie State Books)
The Autobiography of Black Hawk: The last "Indian War" in Illinois occurred in 1832 when a small band of Sauk refused under the leadership of the warrior Black Hawk to abandon their village (located under a subdivision of the present Rock [... more]
$15.95
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The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition
Good, Basic Annotated Edition Of Poe's Fiction: Poe's brilliant but often arcane writings fairly scream out for an in-depth and lucid annotated text. The huge amount of literary and historical allusions that course through his fiction are of a sort that [... more]
$24.95
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