Author: Hugh Black
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: print, large, friendship
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0554299313
ISBN-13: 9780554299310

With an Introductory Note by W. Robertson Nicoll

Author: Black Dog Publishing
Publisher: Black Dog Publishing
Keywords: york, new, mapping
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-10-20
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1906155828
ISBN-13: 9781906155827

Mapping New York is a fascinating and richly illustrated survey of the urban and social history of New York City. Features maps dating back to the sixteenth century, when New York was founded by the Dutch as a commercial trading post and became known as New Amsterdam, right up to the present day. Mapping New York provides a pictorial history of the city—contextualizing its time as a leader in commerce and one of the most built up urban areas in the world.The maps are arranged thematically, focusing on the last two centuries, charting the city’s population, military history, transport, comm

Author: Daniel Black
Publisher: St. Martin’s Pre
Keywords: peace, perfect
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-03-16
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0312582676
ISBN-13: 9780312582678

The heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family’s attempt to grapple with their mother’s desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mother Emma Jean tells her bewildered daughter, “You was born a boy. I made you a girl. But that ain’t what you was supposed to be. So, from now on, you gon’ be a boy. It’ll be a little strange at first, but you’ll get used to it, and this’ll be over after while.” From this point forward, his life becomes a bizarre kal

Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: politics, maps
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0226054942
ISBN-13: 9780226054940

Do maps accurately and objectively present the information we expect them to portray, or are they instead colored by the political purposes of their makers? In this lively and well-illustrated book, Jeremy Black investigates this dangerous territory, arguing persuasively that the supposed "objectivity" of the map-making and map-using process cannot be divorced from aspects of the politics of representation.

Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, illustrated, revolution, atlases, warfare, atlas, renaissance
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1996-05-31
List price: $75.99
ISBN-10: 0521470331
ISBN-13: 9780521470339

The three centuries following the discovery of the New World was a period of unprecedented global expansion, spearheaded by the lusty armies of the imperial European powers. This volume of The Cambridge Illustrated Atlases of Warfare is a lively and elaborately illustrated study of warfare during the early modern period, ranging from the European Renaissance to the American Revolution. Unique color maps and authoritative text illuminate the major military and naval developments that characterized the period. Feature boxes describe key events, important military confrontations, individual tac

Author: Shayla Black
Publisher: Ellora’s Cave Publishers
Keywords: toy, boys, dangerous
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 2009-04-28
List price: $10.99
ISBN-10: 141995850X
ISBN-13: 9781419958502

Trading orgasms for information isn’t their usual way of doing business, but when a missing criminal-turned-star-witness and fifty grand are on the line, bounty hunter R. A. Thorn and Detective Cameron Martinez are prepared to put their bodies to the task and give gorgeous Brenna Sheridan everything she needs. An exchange they never anticipated becomes an experience none can forget -- or walk away from. Sexual hunger sizzles the threesome, but the stakes and danger rise as a mafia bad-ass stalks Brenna. Soon, their "deal" is no longer about information -- or sex. Emotions bind Bren

Author: David Black
Publisher: Lexington Books
Keywords: raya, england, dunayevskaya, series, humanism, marxism, century, nineteenth, feminist, macfarlane, revolutionary, journalist, mid, philosopher, helen
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-11-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0739108646
ISBN-13: 9780739108642

Helen Macfarlane, revolutionary social critic, feminist and Hegelian philosopher was the first English translator of Karl Marx and Fredrich Engel’s theCommunist Manifesto. Her original translation is included in this edition. Marx publicly admired her as a rare and original thinker and journalist. This book recreates her intellectual and political world at a key turning point in European history.