Children of the Great Depression (Freedman Russell)(Paperback)

Children of the Great Depression (Freedman Russell)(Paperback)

As he did for frontier children in his enormously popular Children of the Wild West, Russell Freedman illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression. Middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, children whose

America's Great Depression (Rothbard Murray N.)(Paperback)

First published in 1963, America's Great Depression is the classic treatise on the 1930s Great Depression and its root causes. Author Rothbard blames government interventionist policies for magnifying the duration, breadth, and intensity of the Great Depression. He explains how government

The World in Depression, 1929-1939, 4 (Kindleberger Charles P.)(Paperback)

In this magisterial account of the Great Depression, MIT economist Charles Kindleberger emphasizes three factors that continue to shape global financial markets: panic, the power of contagion, and importance of hegemony. Reissued on its fortieth anniversary with a new foreword by Barry J

Lafayette and the American Revolution (Freedman Russell)(Paperback)

When the Marquis de Lafayette ran off to join the American Revolution against the explicit orders of the king of France, he was a strong-willed nineteen-year-old who had never set foot on a battlefield. Although the U.S. Congress granted him an honorary commission only out of respect for his title

The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck John)(Paperback)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized--and sometimes outraged--millions of readers. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read A Penguin Classic First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the

Foxfire (Seton Anya)(Paperback / softback)

A captivating story of adventure and romance during the Great Depression, from the bestselling author of

Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck John)(Paperback)

A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression They are an unlikely pair: George is 'small and quick and dark of face'; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a 'family,' clinging together in the face of loneliness and

Heaven's My Destination (Wilder Thornton)(Paperback)

'If John Steinbeck's mighty Grapes of Wrath is the tragic novel of the Great Depression, then Heaven's My Destination is its comic masterpiece. --J.D. McClatchyA hilarious tale about goodness in a fallen world, Heaven's My Destination introduces George Marvin Brush, one of Thornton Wilder's most

Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck John)(Paperback)

A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression A Penguin Classic Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck's tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America's most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and

Essays on the Great Depression (Bernanke Ben S.)(Paperback)

From the Nobel Prize-winning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic economic effects As chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve during the Global Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke

Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression (Burgin Angus)(Paperback)

Just as today's observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasionis an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin traces

The Female Man (Russ Joanna)(Paperback)

Living in an altered past that never saw the end of the Great Depression, Jeannine, a librarian, is waiting to be married. Joanna lives in a different version of reality: she's a 1970s feminist trying to succeed in a man's world. Janet is from Whileaway, a utopian earth where only women exist. And

Fast One (Cain Paul)(Paperback)

First published by Doubleday in 1932 in the depth of the Great Depression, an era whose seamy side it depicts, and only recently rediscovered, Fast One by Paul Cain explodes into real life with the story of one of the toughest characters ever to emerge in American

Forgotten Man - A New History of the Great Depression (Shlaes Amity)(Paperback / softback)

In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a stunning blow to the New Deal, to Bill W., who founded Alcoholics Anonymous, and Father Divine, a black cult

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal (Leuchtenburg William E.)(Paperback)

When the stability of American life was threatened by the Great Depression, the decisive and visionary policy contained in FDR's New Deal offered America a way forward. In this groundbreaking work, William E. Leuchtenburg traces the evolution of what was both the most controversial and effective

Future of War - A History (Freedman Sir Lawrence)(Paperback / softback)

Unstoppable (Freedman Dan)(Paperback / softback)

'A thrilling page-turner' - The Times' Children's Book of the

You Have Seen Their Faces (Caldwell Erskine)(Paperback)

In the middle years of the Great Depression, Erskine Caldwell and photographer Margaret Bourke-White spent eighteen months traveling across the back roads of the Deep South--from South Carolina to Arkansas--to document the living conditions of the sharecropper. Their collaboration resulted in You

Lost Penguin - An Oliver and Patch Story (Freedman Claire)(Paperback / softback)

A new story from the exceptional partnership of Claire Freedman and Kate

The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks (Banks Russell)(Paperback)

With The Angel on the Roof, Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and highlighted by the inclusion of nine new stories that are among the finest he has ever written. As is characteristic of all of Bank's

Art of Creating Power - Freedman on Strategy(Pevná vazba)

Explores the thought of Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on

Adventures of Augie March (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, including butler, thief, dog-washer, sailor and salesman. He is a 'born recruit', easily influenced by others who try to mould his

Modelling and Sculpting the Figure (Russell Tanya)(Paperback)

The human figure in sculpture is a powerful form, capable of great expression and depth. Sculpting the figure in any medium is a rewarding practice, but one that presents special challenges for the maker. Tanya Russell, founder and principal of the Art Academy in London, details the whole creative

Our Knowledge of the External World (Russell Bertrand)(Paperback)

Our Knowledge of the External World is a compilation of lectures Bertrand Russell delivered in the US in which he questions the very relevance and legitimacy of philosophy. In it he investigates the relationship between 'individual' and 'scientific' knowledge and questions the means in which we