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  • Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

    Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionAnti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society."As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no ... Leer más

    $212 MXN

  • The U.S. Civil War

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    More than one hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape. Louis P. Masur's The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction offers a masterful and eminently readable overview of the war's multiple causes and catastrophic ... Leer más

    $138 MXN

  • Pictures at a Revolution

    Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood

    de Mark Harris ...
    The epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967-Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Doolittle, and Bonnie and Clyde-and through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood, and America, foreverIt's the mid-1960s, and westerns, war movies and blockbuster musicals-Mary Poppins, The ... Leer más

    $113 MXN

  • In Cold Blood

    de Truman Capote ...
    Series series Vintage International
    National BestsellerOn November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he ... Leer más

    $146 MXN

  • Out of the Shadows

    Revealing the Truth About Non-Human Intelligent Life

    de Jay Stratton ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn explosive memoir by the most senior U.S. Intelligence Official to investigate unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and non-human intelligent lifeFor over thirty-two years, Jay Stratton served the U.S. on the battlefield and as a senior member of the National Intelligence Community. He specialized in emerging and disruptive aerospace technologies, including the ... Leer más

    $341 MXN

  • Private Woman, Public Stage

    Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America

    de Mary Kelley ...
    In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century’s most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary Kelley’s landmark study: Maria Cummins, Caroline Howard Gilman, Caroline Lee Hentz, Mary Jane Holmes, Maria McIntosh, Sara Parton, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Virginia ... Leer más

    $493 MXN

  • Race and Manifest Destiny

    The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism

    American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. Reginald Horsman’s book is the first study to examine the origins of racialism in America and to show that the belief in white American superiority was firmly ensconced in the nation’s ideology by 1850.The author deftly chronicles the beginnings and growth of an ideology stressing race, basic stock, and attributes ... Leer más

    $638 MXN

  • The American Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of government based on the idea that people have the right to govern themselves. In this lively account, Robert Allison provides a ... Leer más

    $138 MXN

  • La Invasión Americana en México

    Una Cortina de Humo

    Humberto Garza presenta preguntas intrigantes: ¿Por qué las figuras históricas tales como el Comodoro Stockton, Comodoro Sloat, Cónsul Thomas O. Larkin, y el General Kearny estaban asegurándose para los los Estados Unidos todos los territorios de México (Alta California, Nuevo México y el Sureste) en julio 1846, sólo dos meses después que el Congreso autorizó al Presidente Polk “para unirse a una ... Leer más

    $86 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Chaos

    The Truth Behind the Manson Murders

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY______________________________A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders leads to shocking new conspiracy theories about the FBI's involvement in this fascinating re-evaluation of one of the most infamous cases in American history.Twenty years ago, reporting for a routine magazine piece about the infamous Manson murders, ... ... Leer más

    $217 MXN

  • The Poisoner's Handbook

    Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

    de Deborah Blum ...
    **Equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller, The Poisoner's Handbook is "a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie." —**The New York Observer**“The Poisoner’s Handbook breathes deadly life into the Roaring Twenties.” —Financial Times“Reads like science fiction, complete with suspense, mystery and foolhardy guys in lab coats ... Leer más

    $178 MXN

  • Terrorism and War

    de Howard Zinn ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Truth—as Zinn shows us in the interviews that make up Terrorism and War—has indeed been the first casualty of war, starting from the beginnings of American empire in the Spanish-American War. But war has many other casualties, he argues, including civil liberties on the home front and human rights abroad. In Terrorism and War, Zinn explores the growth of the American empire, as well as the long ... Leer más

    $150 MXN

  • The Trial of Anne Hutchinson

    Liberty, Law, and Intolerance in Puritan New England

    Series series Reacting to the Past™
    The Trial of Anne Hutchinson re-creates one of the most tumultuous and significant episodes in early American history: the struggle between the followers and allies of John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and those of Anne Hutchinson, a strong-willed and brilliant religious dissenter. The controversy pushed Massachusetts to the brink of collapse and spurred a significant exodus ... Leer más

    $328 MXN

  • Mexico's Uneven Development

    The Geographical and Historical Context of Inequality

    Mexico and the United States may be neighbors, but their economies offer stark contrasts. In Mexico’s Uneven Development: The Geographical and Historical Context of Inequality, Oscar J. Martínez explores Mexico’s history to explain why Mexico remains less developed than the United States. Weaving in stories from his own experiences growing up along the U.S.-Mexico border, Martínez shows how the ... Leer más

    $1,210 MXN

  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

    de Tom Wolfe ...
    One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism.This is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all while introducing acid (then legal) to ... Leer más

    $186 MXN

  • Life Among the Apaches

    de John Cremony ...
    Life Among the Apaches is the recollections of John Cremony, the first white man to learn Apache. He spent many years in the American Southwest as a military man, eventually being promoted to Major. ... Leer más

    $38 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sonora

    A Description of the Province

    Traducido por Theodore E. Treutlein ...
    Series series Century Collection
    "The bloodsucking bat, construction of bows and arrows, the punishment for adultery among the Apaches... all was grist that dropped into the industrious mill of Father Pfefferkorn's eyes, ears, and brain."—Saturday Review"To be read for enjoyment; nevertheless, the historian will find in it a wealth of information that has been shrewdly appraised, carefully sifted, and creditably related." ... Leer más

    $461 MXN

  • Yazoo

    Series series Images of America
    With a diverse past, from Native American tribes to the first European explorers and settlers to the present day, Yazoo has always been intriguing. French explorers first named the river that flows through the area the River of the Yazous after the Yazoo Indian tribe, and the county and city were later named for the river. Yazoo County, established in 1823, is the largest county in Mississippi, ... Leer más

    $204 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War

    A gold mine for the historian as well as the Civil War buff, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War offers a concise, comprehensive overview of the major personalities and pivotal events of the war that redefined the American nation. Drawing upon recent research that has moved beyond battles and military campaigns to address the significant roles played by civilians, women, and African Americans ... Leer más

    $312 MXN

  • The Thirteen Colonies

    The History of the USA, #2

    Series Libro 2 - The History of the USA
    The Thirteen Colonies traces the dramatic, often brutal, story of how a scattering of fragile English outposts along the Atlantic coast evolved into a complex and dynamic American society. Moving beyond simplistic myths, this volume immerses the reader in the formative century of British America—from the desperate survival of Jamestown and the Pilgrims' quest for religious freedom to the Puritan ... Leer más

    $138 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Affirmative Action Puzzle

    A Living History from Reconstruction to Today

    A rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today’s tumultuous timesFrom acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis (“Remarkable” —Anthony Lewis, The New York Review of Books, “Definitive”—Jeffrey Rosen, The New Republic) and Dissent and the Supreme Court (“Riveting”—Dahlia Lithwick, The New York Times Book Review), a history ... Leer más

    $178 MXN

  • In the Days of Victorio

    Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache

    "Chief Victorio of the Warm Springs Apache has recounted the turbulent life of his people between 1876 and 1886. This eyewitness account . . . recalls not only the hunger, pursuit, and strife of those years, but also the thoughts, feelings, and culture of the hunted tribe. Recommended as general reading."—Library Journal"This volume contains a great deal of interesting information."—Journal of the ... Leer más

    $273 MXN

  • El libro rojo, 1520-1867, Tomo I

    Descubre los secretos ocultos de la historia que nunca te contaron.El libro rojo, 1520-1867, Tomo I de Vicente Riva Palacio et al. es una obra que te transportará a través de los siglos, revelando los eventos más fascinantes y menos conocidos de la historia de México. Con una narrativa envolvente, este libro te invita a explorar los rincones más oscuros y emocionantes de un pasado lleno de intriga ... Leer más

    $109 MXN

  • El Misterio de el Guardián Entre el Centeno

    El Misterio de El guardián entre el centeno, de James Morcan y Lance MorcanDescubriendo los misterios que rodean al clásico de J.D. Salinger.“El Misterio de El guardián entre el Centeno saca a la luz los misterios de la famosa novela de 1951 “El guardián entre el Centeno”, de J.D. Salinger – probablemente la novela más controvertida de todos los tiempos. Conocida para muchos por representar la ... Leer más

    $52 MXN