HISTORY
The titles in this category make the past exciting.
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The Cartoon History of the United States
$17.95What? You don't know what a Burgess is? -- You can't outline the Monroe Doctrine? -- Recall the 14th Amendment? -- Explain the difference between a sputnik and a beatnik? Learn More -
The Cartoon History Of The Modern World Volume 2: Bastille To Baghdad
$18.99The second part of The Cartoon History of the Modern World picks up where the first part left off, right after the American Revolution. Gonick illuminates with the Enlightenment, then goes deep into the French Revolution, followed by Napoleon's conquests. Learn More -
The Cartoon History Of The Modern World Volume 1
$17.99Volume I of the Cartoon History of the Modern World picks up from Gonick's award winning Cartoon History of the Universe Series. That series began with the Big Bang and ended with Christopher Columbus sailing for the New World. This book starts off with peoples that Columbus "discovered" and ends with the U.S. Revolution. Learn More -
The Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
$15.00A kaleidoscopic portrait of New York City in 1977, The Bronx Is Burning is the story of two epic battles: the fight between Yankee Reggie Jackson and team manager Billy Martin, and the battle between Mario Cuomo and Ed Koch for the city's mayorship. Learn More -
The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush
$12.00Several books have argued a hypothetical case for impeaching George W. Bush, but Congressman Dennis Kucinich grabbed the bull by the horns and put forward 35 Articles of Impeachment before Congress in June 2008. Learn More -
Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements
$19.95"Emancipation," argues Raúl Zibechi, "is not an objective but a way of life." Learn More -
Supreme Court Decisions (Penguin Civic Classics 6)
$12.00In time for the upcoming election season, Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Learn More -
Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball, and America, Forever
$14.99The extraordinary story of the 1968 baseball season—when the game was played to perfection even as the country was being pulled apart at the seams. Learn More -
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
$15.99Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science—as well as religious and cultural institutions—has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fidelity. But this narrative is collapsing. Fewer and fewer couples are getting married, and divorce rates keep climbing as adultery and flagging libido drag down even seemingly solid marriages. Learn More -
Seven American Deaths and Disasters
$19.95What are the words we use to describe something that we never thought we'd have to describe? Learn More
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