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Fear : A Cultural History

Joanna Bourke
Hardcover - $42.95

"Fear -- the word, itself, conjures the appropriate response. With a dark cacophony of associations like fright, dread, horror, panic, alarm, anxiety, and terror, fear is universally understood as one of the most basic and powerful of human emotions, ...

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Fear : A Cultural History

Joanna Bourke
Paperback - $30.95

Whether we like it or not, an atmosphere of fear pervades modern culture. In America, each day is color-coded for the level of threat; newspapers fill with gloomy news of climate crisis; and the radio and TV bleat with Amber alerts, car crashes, and ...

Book cover for Charles R. Brashear: V.9 Brashear

V.9 Brashear : Additions, Corrections, Strays

Charles R. Brashear
Hardcover - $86.95



Book cover for Fred Butler: Down the Ginnel

Down the Ginnel : More Shoddy Town Tales

Fred Butler
Paperback - $33.95

Following the huge success of 'Up The Snicket', this is the second instalment in the laugh-a-minute series about life in the Shoddy Town district of West Yorkshire. Join Fred Butler on his stroll 'Down the Ginnel' of hilarious anecdotes and happy mem ...

Book cover for Fred Butler: Over Yonder

Over Yonder : Last of the Shoddy Town Tales

Fred Butler
Paperback - $33.95

This is the third and final instalment in Fred Butler's hilarious series about life in the Shoddy Town district of West Yorkshire, England. Following the huge success of 'Up the Snicket' and 'Down the Ginnel', 'Over Yonder' takes you back to the time ...

Book cover for Fred Butler: Up the Snicket

Up the Snicket : Shoddy Towns Series

Fred Butler
Paperback - $33.95

Due to its success in the United Kingdom, this hilarious and perennially popular series about life and times in the Shoddy Town district of West Yorkshire is now available throughout North America. In the first book of the series, readers meet Dopey ...

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Children at Play : An American History

Howard Chudacoff
Paperback - $30.95



Book cover for Christopher Clark: Social Change in America

Social Change in America : From the Revolution Through the Civil War

Christopher Clark
Paperback - $30.95

The processes of social change in the late colonial period and early years of the new Republic made a dramatic imprint on the character of American society. These changes over a century or more were rooted in the origins of the United States, its rap ...

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Social Change in America : From the Revolution to the Civil War

Christopher Clark
Hardcover - $43.95

An interpretive history of the processes of social change in the early years of the new republic. It concentrates on the nation's expansion, which saw the rapid growth of rural societies based on family labor, slavery, and wage labor, but also an int ...

Book cover for Elizabeth Clement: Love for Sale

Love for Sale : Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945

Elizabeth Clement
Paperback - $45.95

Comparing prostitution and courtship with a new working-class practice of heterosexual barter called "treating," in which women exchanged sexual favors for dinner and entertainment or for stockings, shoes, and other material goods, Clement examines c ...

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