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The Passions of Andrew Jackson

Hardcover, Condition: Very Good. The unabashedly aggressive Jackson came of age in the Carolinas during the American Revolution, migrating to Tennessee after he was orphaned at the age of fourteen. Little more than a poorly educated frontier bully when he first opened his public career, he was possessed of a controlling sense of honor that would lead him into more than one duel. As a lover, he fled to Spanish Mississippi with his wife-to-be before she was divorced. Yet when he was declared a national hero upon his stunning victory at the Battle of New Orleans, Jackson suddenly found the presidency within his grasp. How this brash frontiersman took Washington by storm makes a fascinating story, and Burstein tells it thoughtfully and expertly. In the process he reveals why Jackson was so fiercely loved (and fiercely hated) by the American people, and how his presidency came to shape the young country’s character.

The Age of Napoleon

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Story of Civilization XI. This is the eleventh and final volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series.

State of Denial

Bush at War, Part III. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. This bestseller about the George Bush Jr. wars tells the detailed, behind-the-scenes story of how the Bush administration failed to tell the truth about the Iraq War.

Triumph and Tragedy

The Second World War. Hardcover. Sleeve tarnished, whereas the actual book is very good.

Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim

The Presidency, the Founding of the University and the Private Battle. Condition: Very Good (Hardcover). In Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim, Jefferson the human being, passionate in his loves and hates, is never lost in a revealing portrait of the public figure. Witnessing Jefferson’s actions in private life as well as in the arena of history, the reader learns why this founding father was abhorred by some but adored by many more. The book not only is enlightening about Jefferson’s personality, character, and career, but also enables us to view America and Europe in the first quarter of the nineteenth century through the eyes of the one person best qualified to see them in all phases. His wide acquaintance on both sides of the Atlantic, his richly varied interests, and his life as both scholar and social animal, gave him a unique perspective.

False Economy

A Surprising Economic History of the World. Condition: Very Good (Hardcover). In False Economy, Alan Beattie weaves together the economic choices, political choices, economic history, and human stories, that determine whether governments and countries remain rich or poor. He also addresses larger questions about why they make the choices they do, and what those mean for the future of our global economy. But despite the heady subject matter, False Economy is a lively and lucid book that engagingly and thought-provokingly examines macroeconomics, economic topics, and the fault lines and successes that can make or break a culture or induce a global depression. Along the way, readers will discover why Africa doesn’t grow cocaine, why our asparagus comes from Peru, why our keyboard spells QWERTY, and why giant pandas are living on borrowed time.

Everyone Loves You When You re Dead

Journeys into fame and madness. Interviews with Famous Musicians. Paperback, Condition: Very Good. Neil Strauss can uncover the naked truth like nobody else. With his groundbreaking book The Game, Strauss penetrated the secret society of pickup artists; now, in Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead, his candid, surprising, and often hysterical interviews reveal the hidden sides of 120 of the world’s biggest celebrities, from Hugh Heffner to Johnny Cash to Snoop Dogg and beyond. The Strokes, The Who, Paul McCartney, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Madonna…

Lives of the Presidents of the United States

Ostali autori: R. H. Conewll Opis: Hardcover, Condition: Very Good. Illustrated. Revised Edition. From Washington to the present times. Containing a narrative of the most interesting events in the career of each president; this constituting a graphic history of the United States. This wonderful historic book is also illustrated with portraits of all the presidents engraved on steel and pictures of their private residences.

Look Away: History of Confederate States

A History of the Confederate States of America. Hardcover, Condition: Very Good. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, ranging from the 800-odd newspapers in operation during the war to the personal writings of more than 100 leaders and common citizens, Davis reveals the Confederacy through the words of the Confederates themselves. Look Away! recounts all the epic sagas — as well as those little-known and long-forgotten — about a desperate government that socialized the salt industry, rangers and marauders who preyed on their fellow Confederates, and the systematic breakdown of law and order in some states. A dramatic, definitive account of one of our nation’s most searing episodes, Look Away! shows us a South divided against itself, unable to stand.

Karaval

Zapamti, ovo je samo igra… Caraval. Na srpski prevela Eli Gilić

Hrvatski mitovi i legende

Pri;e o bogovima. Tekst Vanja Spirin. Ideja i ilustracije Roman Markuš. Ova je knijga prvo pokušaj da se mitovi, legende i priče najranijih stanovnika hrvatske zemlje predstave čitatelju na jasan, jednostavan i zanimljiv način.

The Conquest of England

Hardcover, Condition: Used, Tarnished. From Viking incursion to Norman invasions by the author of Mary, Queen of Scots.

To Begin The World Anew

The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders. Hardcover, Condition: Very Good. The opening essay illuminates the central importance of America’s provincialism to the formation of a truly original political system. In the chapters following, he explores the ambiguities and achievements of Jefferson’s career, Benjamin Franklin’s changing image and supple diplomacy, the circumstances and impact of the Federalist Papers, and the continuing influence of American constitutional thought throughout the Atlantic world. To Begin the World Anew enlivens our appreciation of how America came to be and deepens our understanding of the men who created it.

The Sexual Life of Savages

Full title: The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia. An Ethnographic Account of Courtship, Marriage, and Family Life among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands, Britih New Guinea. With a preface by Havelock Ellis. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good

Codependent No More

How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself. Condition: Very Good

Zbirka rešenih zadataka iz matematike I.

kombinatorika, Kompleksni brojevi, Sistemi linearnih jednačina, Vektori i analitička geometrija, Granične vrednosti, Izvod i primene, Određeni i neodređeni integral, Prolozi

Globalization and its Discontents

Hardcover, Condition: Very Good. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics 2001. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the last decade, including stints as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist at the World Bank. Particularly concerned with the plight of the developing nations, he became increasingly disillusioned as he saw the International Monetary Fund and other major institutions put the interests of Wall Street and the financial community ahead of the poorer nations. Those seeking to understand why globalization has engendered the hostility of protesters in Seattle and Genoa will find the reasons here. While this book includes no simple formula on how to make globalization work, Stiglitz provides a reform agenda that will provoke debate for years to come. Rarely do we get such an insider’s analysis of the major institutions of globalization as in this penetrating book. With a new foreword for this paperback edition.