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Graduation Gift Set
$224.95To help you find the right gift, we put together FOUR important Gryphon classics as set at a special price. The collection includes books of wisdom by two U.S. Presidents, a Roman Emperor and a Nobel Prize Winner in Economics. Take advantage of this special price to give the gift […] -
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20 volume Ancient History Collection
$899.95What a great way to start your Ancient History Collection! Each of these volumes are fully bound in leather and feature raised bands on spine with gilt lettering, gilt page edges and cover design, ribbon page marker and marble design endpapers. Below is the list of books included in this […] -
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Letters to a Chinese Official
$24.95A theme running through history has been the battle of east versus west – Greeks v. Persians, Romans v. Egyptians, Franks v. Moslems, Americans v. Soviets, etc. The battle has always been ideological and philosophical as well as martial. Letters to a Chinese Official was a vehicle used by William […] -
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The War Against Al Capone: Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders
$49.95According to the Eliot Ness myth, which has been widely disseminated through books, television shows, and movies, Ness and the Untouchables defeated Al Capone by marshaling superior firepower. In Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders, Dennis Hoffman presents a fresh new perspective on the downfall of Al Capone. He shows […] -
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Trial of Martha Stewart
$54.95The investigation of one of the world’s most accomplished and famous women began when the government thought she might have saved $42,000 by selling shares of a stock based on inside information that a cancer drug would be disapproved by the FDA. But when she sold the stock, she was […] -
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Troy and Its Remains
$69.95Troy and Its Remains is Heinrich Schliemann's love letter to the city of Troy and his belief that the events that took place in Homer's The Iliad were historical fact. Published in 1875, Schliemann was one of the first people to popularize archaeology with his books, his up-to-date correspondence with newspapers of the […] -
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The Trial of Jack Ruby [for the Murder of Lee Harvey Oswald]
$39.95In "The Trial of Jack Ruby," John Kaplan and Jon R. Waltz present a sophisticated dissection of the case, intelligently discussing legal concepts like the insanity defense and offering pointed critiques of the childishly squabbling attorneys on both sides. Ruby was convicted in 1964; he successfully appealed but died of […] -
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Jewish-Christian Disputations in the Middle Ages
$59.95During the Middle Ages, the Jewish religion was placed on trial by a series of notorious “disputations” or debates between champions of Christianity and Judaism. Only three of these disputations have detailed records which survived - Paris (1240), Barcelona (1263), and Tortosa (1413-14). This book provides an account from both […] -
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Every Knee Shall Bow-The Ruby Ridge Tragedy
$44.95The story of Ruby Ridge is well known and it has been the subject of many books and articles. Randy and Vicky Weaver were survivalists, racists, anti-Semites, anarchists and violent resisters. They and their family were holed up on Ruby Ridge in northern Idaho where they refused FBI orders to come down […] -
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The Unlawful Concert: an Account of the Presidio Mutiny Case
$49.95The book takes readers to San Francisco in the late 1960s. As the war in Vietnam was escalating, twenty-seven men held in the overcrowded stockade staged a sit-down and asked to present a petition of grievances after seeing one of their fellow prisoners killed by a guard. The angry AWOLS […] -
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The Construction of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms
$54.95John Napier is best known as the discoverer of Logarithms. In the late sixteenth century, further advances in science demanded a less complex method of numerical computation. In response, the Scottish mathematician John Napier (1550-1617) developed “a small table by the use of which we can obtain a knowledge of all geometrical […] -
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Trial of Charles Manson: Witness to Evil
$54.95In the annals of crime, there might never have been a more bizarre motive for killing than that revealed in the 1970-71 trial of four Manson "Family" members. In the twisted mind of thirty-four-year-old Charles Manson, a wave of bloody killings of high-society types in Los Angeles would be the […]
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The Trend of Economic Thinking
$69.95"The Trend of Economic Thinking" captures Hayek’s views on political economists and economic history—on Mandeville, Hume, Cantillon, Adam Smith, and Henry Thornton. Framed by insightful editorial notes, the book provides a fascinating introduction to the historical context of political economy and the evolution of monetary practices. In a highlight of […] -
Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories
$69.95"Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories" was influential conservative commentator Pat Buchanan's first book. Published in 1975 in the wake of Nixon's resignation, the book addresses the question of why the political right has been such a success in the political arena, and such a manifest failure in influencing public policy. Conservatives […] -
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
$69.95Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise 'The Wealth of Nations', Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book, 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments', he investigated the interest of the greater good. Smith's classic work advances ideas about conscience, moral judgment, and virtue. He outlines his view […] -
Frederick Douglass
$69.95This biography, written by Booker T. Washington, one of most important post-Civil War African-American thinkers, is an account of the life and career of Frederick Douglass. Washington's account encompasses the experiences of Frederick Douglass as a slave and then as a public man, through the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War, […]
