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古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Saga of the Pony Express - Joseph J DiCerto (Mountain Press) 【紙書籍】 9780878424528

タイトル: Saga of the Pony Express著者: Joseph J DiCerto出版社: Mountain Press出版日: 2002年06月15日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。America in the mid-1800s was a land of burgeoning cities, westward expansion, economic optimism, and political turmoil. Threatened by civil war and Indian uprisings, the government needed better communication with its far-flung citizens in the West. Three visionaries dreamt up a seemingly impossible solution: the Pony Express. An elite cadre of young riders would carry the U.S. mail across 2,000 miles of inhospitable wilderness in 10 days. For a brief yet crucial time, the system worked, until scandal--and the arrival of the telegraph--ended it.Against a backdrop of colorful characters chasing great dreams and greater adventure, The Saga of the Pony Express brings the legendary mail service to life. Separating truth from myth, it covers the route, the horses, the hard-driving supervisors, and the talented young riders such as Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody, who shrugged off pain and sneered at danger. Meticulously researched yet anything but dry, this book takes a fresh approach to a topic previously limited mostly to scholarly writings--Di Certo entertains and informs.Complete with dozens of illustrations, several maps, and appendixes of riders and relay stations--including stations the reader can still see today--The Saga of the Pony Express proves there's a reason some legends endure.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp - Christopher R Browning (W. W. Norton & Company) 【紙書籍】 9780393070194

タイトル: Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp著者: Christopher R Browning出版社: W. W. Norton & Company出版日: 2010年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。In 1972 the Hamburg State Court acquitted Walter Becker, the German chief of police in the Polish city of Starachowice, of war crimes committed against Jews. Thirty years before, Becker had been responsible for liquidating the nearby Jewish ghetto, sending nearly 4,000 Jews to their deaths at Treblinka and 1,600 to slave-labor factories. The shocking acquittal, delivered despite the incriminating eyewitness testimony of survivors, drives this author's inquiry. Drawing on the rich testimony of survivors of the Starachowice slave-labor camps, Christopher R. Browning examines the experiences and survival strategies of the Jewish prisoners and the policies and personnel of the Nazi guard. From the killings in the market square in 1942 through the succession of brutal camp regimes, there are stories of heroism, of corruption and retribution, of desperate choices forced on husbands and wives, parents and children. In the end, the ties of family and neighbor are the sinews of survival.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Divided Union: The Politics of War in the Early American Republic - Scott A Silverstone (Cornell University Press) 【紙書籍】 9780801442308

タイトル: Divided Union: The Politics of War in the Early American Republic著者: Scott A Silverstone出版社: Cornell University Press出版日: 2004年08月17日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, the United States was embroiled in competitive inter-state politics. Although it did not directly involve itself in European affairs, the United States did engage regularly in dangerous struggles with other states and with colonial powers with territory on the American periphery. Aside from the War of 1812, the Oregon Crisis, and the Mexican War, other "near misses" included here--disputes of 1807 and 1809 with Britain, with Spain over East Florida in 1811-13, with Mexico in 1853, and disputes with Spain over Cuba in 1853-55 and with Mexico in 1858-1860--have been ignored in the democratic peace literature. Scott A. Silverstone finds these cases particularly useful for testing alternative explanations of constraints on armed conflict, because the United States backed down each time, allowing each crisis to pass short of its full potential for violence.Silverstone builds on a nascent theory of institutional constraints on the use of force presented in the Federalist Papers to explain American attitudes toward participation in conflicts. He argues that the federal character of American democracy that emerged from the founding and the large size of the new American republic provide the keys to understanding its decision-making processes. Divided Union shows how the institutional features of federal union and the diverse social, economic, and security interests within this geographically extended republic created political conditions that impeded the use of force by the United States before the Civil War.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Art of Medieval Technology: Images of Noah the Shipbuilder - Richard W Unger (Rutgers University Press) 【紙書籍】 9780813517278

タイトル: Art of Medieval Technology: Images of Noah the Shipbuilder著者: Richard W Unger出版社: Rutgers University Press出版日: 1991年12月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Secret of Atlantis - Otto Heinrich Muck (Times Books) 【紙書籍】 0812907132

タイトル: Secret of Atlantis著者: Otto Heinrich Muck出版社: Times Books出版日: 1978年12月31日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola: Nature, Accident, or Intentional? (Limited) - Leonard G Horowitz (Healthy World Dist) 【紙書籍】 9780923550127

タイトル: Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola: Nature, Accident, or Intentional? (Limited)著者: Leonard G Horowitz出版社: Healthy World Dist出版日: 1996年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Introduction to Mushroom Hunting - Vera K Charles (Dover Pubns) 【紙書籍】 048620667X

タイトル: Introduction to Mushroom Hunting著者: Vera K Charles出版社: Dover Pubns出版日: 1974年12月31日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 It's Up to Us - John Graham (The Giraffe Project) 【紙書籍】 9781893805002

タイトル: It's Up to Us著者: John Graham出版社: The Giraffe Project出版日: 1999年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Magic School Bus Chapter Book #13 - Judith B Stamper (Scholastic Paperbacks) 【紙書籍】 9780439314336

タイトル: Magic School Bus Chapter Book #13著者: Judith B Stamper出版社: Scholastic Paperbacks出版日: 2003年02月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Get ready for some serious science fun when the Friz takes the kids on a chilling adventure through the North Pole! Hi, I'm Tim -- one of the kids in Ms. Frizzle's class. When Ms. Frizzle announced that we'd be studying the North Pole, I never thought it would lead us to the top of the world. I also never thought I'd get to see seals, caribou, musk oxen, and polar bears in person, but that was just the beginning. Find out all the bone-chilling facts of our Arctic adventure!

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Scat - Carl Hiaasen (Yearling) 【紙書籍】 9780440421047

タイトル: Scat著者: Carl Hiaasen出版社: Yearling出版日: 2012年02月28日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Carl Hiaasen takes us deep in the Everglades with an eccentric eco-avenger, a ticked-off panther, and two kids on a mission to find their missing teacher. Florida--where the animals are wild and the people are wilder! Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, is missing. She disappeared after a school field trip to Black Vine Swamp. And, to be honest, the kids in her class are relieved. But when the principal tries to tell the students that Mrs. Starch has been called away on a "family emergency," Nick and Marta just don't buy it. No, they figure the class delinquent, Smoke, has something to do with her disappearance. And he does! But not in the way they think. There's a lot more going on in Black Vine Swamp than any one player in this twisted tale can see. It's all about to hit the fan, and when it does, the bad guys better scat. "Ingenious . . . Scat won't disappoint Hiaasenphiles of any age." --The New York Times "Woohoo! It's time for another trip to Florida--screwy, gorgeous Florida, with its swamps and scammers and strange creatures (two- and four-legged). Our guide, of course, is Carl Hiaasen." --DenverPost.com

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E.L. Konigsburg (Laurel Leaf) 【紙書籍】 9780440931805

タイトル: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler著者: E.L. Konigsburg出版社: Laurel Leaf出版日: 1973年08月15日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone for just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would live in comfort -- at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She invited her brother Jamie to go, too, mostly because he was a miser and would have money. The two took up residence in the museum right on schedule. But once the fun of settling in was over, Claudia had two unexpected problems; she felt just the same, and she wanted to feel different; and she found a statue at the museum so beautiful she could not go home until she had discovered its maker, a question that baffled even the experts. The former owner of the statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. And without her help Claudia might never have found a way to go home.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Prize - Stacy Gregg (HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks) 【紙書籍】 9780007333462

タイトル: Prize著者: Stacy Gregg出版社: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks出版日: 2014年06月24日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。 Saddle up for the fourth exciting Pony Club Rivals adventure! Will Georgie fulfil her riding dreams at the 'All-stars' Academy? It's a new term at Blainford 'All-Stars' academy in Lexington, USA, and Georgie is eager to take on her rivals once more. Having surprised everyone on the polo field, Georgie's ambitions are sky high and she's keen to take her riding to the next level.Meanwhile Kennedy Kirkwood has plans of her own, which might not turn out so well for Georgie... find out about all the gossip, drama and competitive challenges that lie ahead for our riding star in the next PONY CLUB RIVALS adventure!

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot - Martin W Sandler (Union Square & Co.) 【紙書籍】 9781402729584

タイトル: Lost to Time: Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot著者: Martin W Sandler出版社: Union Square & Co.出版日: 2010年06月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Stories that history forgot...but readers will remember"The only thing new in the world," said Harry S. Truman, "is the history you don't know." In this fresh and fascinating collection of historical vignettes, Martin W. Sandler (author of Resolute and Atlantic Ocean) restores to memory important events, people, and developments that have been lost to time. Though barely known today, these are major historical stories, from Ziryab, an eighth-century black slave whose influence on music, cuisine, fashion, and manners still reverberates, to Cahokia, a 12th century city north of the Rio Grande, which at its zenith contained a population estimated to have been as high as 40,000 (more than any contemporary European city), to the worst peacetime maritime disaster ever, the explosion and sinking of the Sultana on the Mississippi in 1865.These tales are far from trivia; they illuminate little-known American and foreign achievements, ingenuity, heroics, blunders, and tragedies that changed the course of history and resonate today.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Raymie Nightingale - Kate DiCamillo (Scholastic) 【紙書籍】 9781338120691

タイトル: Raymie Nightingale著者: Kate DiCamillo出版社: Scholastic出版日: 2016年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Because of Winn-Dixie - Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick) 【紙書籍】 9780763616052

タイトル: Because of Winn-Dixie著者: Kate DiCamillo出版社: Candlewick出版日: 2001年08月06日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Funny and poignant, this 2001 Newbery Honor novel captures life in a quirky Southern town as Opal and her mangy dog, Winn-Dixie, strike up friendships among the locals. (Ages 8 and up) The summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket--and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, the preacher tells Opal ten things about her absent mother, one for each year Opal has been alive. Winn-Dixie is better at making friends than anyone Opal has ever known, and together they meet the local librarian, Miss Franny Block, who once fought off a bear with a copy of WAR AND PEACE. They meet Gloria Dump, who is nearly blind but sees with her heart, and Otis, an ex-con who sets the animals in his pet shop loose after hours, then lulls them with his guitar. Opal spends all that sweet summer collecting stories about her new friends and thinking about her mother. But because of Winn-Dixie or perhaps because she has grown, Opal learns to let go, just a little, and that friendship--and forgiveness--can sneak up on you like a sudden summer storm. Recalling the fiction of Harper Lee and Carson McCullers, here is a funny, poignant, and utterly genuine first novel from a major new talent.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Puppy in a Puddle - Ben M Baglio (Scholastic, Inc) 【紙書籍】 9780439343893

タイトル: Puppy in a Puddle著者: Ben M Baglio出版社: Scholastic, Inc出版日: 2003年06月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。With sales of more than 3 million books, this newest Animal Ark title will provide cozy reading for young animal lovers. When Mandy's dad diagnoses an Old English Sheepdog puppy as deaf, Mandy feels sorry for it. But it isn't until she finds another Sheepdog puppy weak and abandoned that she and James begin to get suspicious. Could a local breeder be mistreating these poor puppies? It's up to Mandy and James to save them!

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Kitten in the Cold - Ben M Baglio (Scholastic, Inc) 【紙書籍】 9780439096980

タイトル: Kitten in the Cold著者: Ben M Baglio出版社: Scholastic, Inc出版日: 1999年11月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Foals in the Field (Animal Ark Series #24) - Ben M. Baglio; Ann Baum; Jenny Gregory (Scholastic, Inc) 【紙書籍】 9780439343855

タイトル: Foals in the Field (Animal Ark Series #24)著者: Ben M. Baglio; Ann Baum; Jenny Gregory出版社: Scholastic, Inc出版日: 2002年02月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。When twin foals are born on Drysdale Farm, their owner, Nick Summers, asks Mandy and James to help. Nick is too busy building up the farm's stables to care for his sick foals. If Nick can't make the farm a success soon, it will have to be sold. And that means the foals will have to go, too. Can Mandy help save the farm . . . and the foals?

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 More Balls Than Strikes (120 Years of Baseball in New York's Hudson Valley) - Charlie Tiano (Hope Farm Press) 【紙書籍】 0910746141

タイトル: More Balls Than Strikes (120 Years of Baseball in New York's Hudson Valley)著者: Charlie Tiano出版社: Hope Farm Press出版日: 1970年01月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Old Masters: A Comedy - Thomas Bernhard (Seagull Books) 【紙書籍】 9780857424709

タイトル: Old Masters: A Comedy著者: Thomas Bernhard出版社: Seagull Books出版日: 2018年10月15日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters has been called his "most enjoyable novel" by the New York Review of Books. It's a wild satire that takes place almost entirely in front of Tintoretto's White-Bearded Man, on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, as two typically Viennese pedants (serving as alter egos for Bernhard himself) irreverently, even contemptuously take down high culture, society, state-supported artists, Heidegger, and much more. It's a book built on thought and conversation rather than action or visuals. Yet somehow celebrated Austrian cartoonist Nicholas Mahler has brought it to life in graphic form--and it's brilliant. This volume presents Mahler's typically minimalist cartoons alongside new translations of selected passages from the novel. The result is a version of Old Masters that is strikingly new, yet still true to Bernhard's bleak vision, and to the novel's outrageous proposition that the perfect work of art is truly unbearable to even think about--let alone behold.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Niagara: A History of the Falls - Pierre Berton (McClelland & Syewart) 【紙書籍】 9780771012129

タイトル: Niagara: A History of the Falls著者: Pierre Berton出版社: McClelland & Syewart出版日: 1992年09月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Anthony Trollope's mother wept at the sight of it; Charles Dickens saw God in its rushing waters; and Harriet Beecher Stowe became so "maddened" by its beauty she contemplated flinging herself into the cascade. Few natural wonders have inspired the passions and the imaginations of so many as Niagara Falls, whose sublime beauty and awesome power have made it a magnet for statesmen and stuntmen, poets and poseurs, ordinary sightseers and exceptional visionaries. Popular historian Pierre Berton traces the history and allure of one of America's great natural phenomena. As Thurston Clarke noted in his front page "New York Times Book Review," Berton "makes a serious and convincing case for Niagara's pivotal role in North American history.... His Niagara is a lodestar for North American culture and invention: site of the first railway suspension bridge, inspiration for Nikola Tesla's discovery of the principle of alternating current, and the subject of Frederic Church's most celebrated landscape; a natural wonder that has bewitched generations of scientists, authors, and utopians, and stimulated innovations and social movements still casting long shadows."

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Hearts in Atlantis - Stephen King (Scribner) 【紙書籍】 0684853515

タイトル: Hearts in Atlantis著者: Stephen King出版社: Scribner出版日: 1999年09月14日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Five interconnected, sequential tales set in the years between 1960 and 1999 center around the Vietnam War and weave together innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts - Alexander Keyssar (Cambridge University Press) 【紙書籍】 0521297672

タイトル: Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts著者: Alexander Keyssar出版社: Cambridge University Press出版日: 1986年03月31日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Out of Work chronicles the history of unemployment in the United States. It traces the evolution of the problem of joblessness from the early decades of the nineteenth-century to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Challenging the widely held notion that the United States was a labour-scarce society in which jobs were plentiful, it argues that unemployment played a major role in American history long before the crash of the stock market in 1929. Focusing on the state of Massachusetts, Professor Kevssar analyses the economic and social changes that gave birth to the prevalent concept of unemployment. Drawing on previously untapped sources - including richly detailed statistics and vivid verbatim testimony - he demonstrates that joblessness was a pervasive feature of working-class life from the 1870s to the 1920s. The book describes the ingenious, yet quite costly, strategies that unemployed workers devised to cope with the joblessness in the absence of formal governmental assistance. It also explores the many dimensions of working-class life that were profoundly affected by recurrent layoffs and the chronic uncertainty of work. Finally, it demonstrates that the fundamental contours of the Massachusetts experience were repeated, sooner or later, throughout the United States.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Triomf - Marlene Van Niekerk (Overlook Books) 【紙書籍】 9781585675005

タイトル: Triomf著者: Marlene Van Niekerk出版社: Overlook Books出版日: 2004年02月23日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。This is the story of the four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf. Living on the ruins of old Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a so-called 'black spot', they await with trepidation their country's first democratic elections. It is a date that coincides fatefully with the fortieth birthday of Lambert, the oversexed misfit son of the house. There is also Treppie, master of misrule and family metaphysician; Pop, the angel of peace teetering on the brink of the grave; and Mol, the materfamilias in her eternal housecoat. Pestered on a daily basis by nosy neighbors, National Party canvassers and Jehovah's Witnesses, defenseless against the big city towering over them like a vengeful dinosaur, they often resort to quoting to each other the only consolation that they know; we still have each other and a roof over our heads. Triomf relentlessly probes Afrikaner history and politics, revealing the bizarre and tragic effect that apartheid had on exactly the white underclass who were most supposed to benefit. It is also a seriously funny investigation of the human endeavor to make sense of life even under the most abject of circumstances.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Daylilies: The Wild Species and Garden Clones, Both Old and New, of the Genus Hemerocallis (Revised) - Arlow B Stout (Sagapress) 【紙書籍】 0898310288

タイトル: Daylilies: The Wild Species and Garden Clones, Both Old and New, of the Genus Hemerocallis (Revised)著者: Arlow B Stout出版社: Sagapress出版日: 1989年01月31日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution - Lynn Parker (Perseus Books) 【紙書籍】 9780201442311

タイトル: Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution著者: Lynn Parker出版社: Perseus Books出版日: 1996年11月06日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Where did the first humans originate? How and when did humans get onto North America, the tip of South America, and Australia? Was there a single human ancestress whose mitochondria survive within us today? Because history cannot be repeated, we may never have answers to these far-reaching questions. Yet, population geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza proposed that the evolutionary past of humankind can be reconstructed by analyzing current genetic data. Now, in The Great Human Diasporas, coauthored with his son, Cavalli-Sforza presents in a single volume for the non-specialist the fruits of over forty years of research. After providing a thorough grounding in evolutionary theory, Cavalli-Sforza takes readers back to the heady times of 1961-62 when he and a few colleagues were able to bring together genetic data on blood groups for fifteen populations spread out on five continents. By computing the genetic distance between pairs of populations, these scientists were able to develop an evolutionary tree that looks surprisingly like the ones reconstructed today, even with fifteen times more information. Using this crude tree, scientists could trace the approximate routes modern humans took in colonizing the earth 100,000 years ago and discover when populations split off from each other to form new groups. In the course of his work, Cavalli-Sforza joined forces with archaeologists, linguists, anthropologists, and molecular biologists. He shows how both archaeological and genetic data were used to track human migrations during the spread of agriculture; he probes such topics as the existence of a single ancestral language and the relationship between biological and linguistic evolution;and he brings us up to date with his current work as chief sponsor of the human genome diversity project, an ambitious attempt to analyze the most significant individual variations in human genomes.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Quiet Diplomat: A Biography of Max M. Fisher - Peter B Golden (Cornwall Books) 【紙書籍】 0845348469

タイトル: Quiet Diplomat: A Biography of Max M. Fisher著者: Peter B Golden出版社: Cornwall Books出版日: 1992年05月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Fields of Athenry: An Irish Saga - James Charles Roy (Basic Books) 【紙書籍】 9780813338606

タイトル: Fields of Athenry: An Irish Saga著者: James Charles Roy出版社: Basic Books出版日: 2001年02月15日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。In The Fields of Athenry, James Charles Roy leads us through the Irish past and present with the central theme of his own personal experience with the renovation of a run-down castle -- really a crumbled tower -- that he purchased more than thirty years ago. Moyode Castle, located near the County Galway market town of Athenry, was built in the sixteenth century by the Dolphins, an Irish-speaking family directly descended from French-speaking Norman adventurers who had invaded Ireland four centuries earlier. This old tower house and the rich agricultural lands it guards has witnessed every strand of Irish history, from the heroic exploits of Celtic warriors long celebrated by Yeats and Lady Gregory, through the Easter Rising of 1916 when IRA insurgents used the building as a lookout. It stands today as a powerful, timeless symbol of the tumultuous ebb and flow of fortune, both good and bad, that characterizes Irish history.Roy weaves his personal story of the purchase and renovation of Moyode into a wide ranging historical conversation, leading us to a topic of real interest to Ireland today and our sense of history more broadly: the historical nostalgia we attach to Ireland and the fact that our romantic image flies directly in the face of development and boom times in the "Celtic Tiger" of the twenty-first century. Few know, for example, that today Ireland produces and ships more software abroad than any other country in the world with the exception of the United States, though we all know the story of Angela's Ashes. With this theme in mind, Roy leads us to question what attracts us -- or perhaps more aptly him -- to the rubble of a castle from Irish days long past.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Long Gray Line - Rick Atkinson (Houghton Mifflin Company) 【紙書籍】 9780395480083

タイトル: Long Gray Line著者: Rick Atkinson出版社: Houghton Mifflin Company出版日: 1992年02月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years - Joseph A Califano Jr. (Simon & Schuster) 【紙書籍】 9780671664893

タイトル: Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years著者: Joseph A Califano Jr.出版社: Simon & Schuster出版日: 1991年10月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。