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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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Superstition and Force: Essays on The Wager of Law, The Wager of Battle, The Ordeal, and Torture
$59.95This work contains several essays on various topics relating to the history of law, war and torture throughout the ages. -
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15 volume Biographies Collection
$599.95What a great way to start your Biography Collection! Each book within this set is fully bound in leather and features all the loved elements of every Gryphon edition: raised bands on spine with gilt lettering, gilt page edges and cover design, ribbon page marker and marble design endpapers. Below […] -
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40 volume SIGNED Editions Collection
$2,499.95This collection includes 40 leather-bound volumes each personally SIGNED by author. In addition, each of the books features luxurious genuine leather binding, raised bands on the spine with gilt lettering, gilt page edges and cover design, ribbon page marker and marble design endpapers. This collection includes the following volumes: 1) […] -
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50 volume Classics of Medicine Collection
$1,895.95What a great way to start your Classics of Medicine Collection! Each book within this set is fully bound in leather and feature all the loved attributes of every Gryphon Edition: raised bands on spine with gilt lettering, gilt page edges and cover design, ribbon page marker and marble design […] -
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
$29.95The book is a delightful and witty series of essays. The essays are primarily one-sided dialogue with conversations between the unnamed speaker and the residents of a boarding house at a breakfast table. These amusing conversations cover a wide range and topics and give entertaining observations of character. This edition […] -
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The Matrimonial Trials of Henry VIII
$54.95These are the trials that arguably changed the course of English history and subsequently redefined the course of Western Civilization. These trials led to England's permament break with the Catholic Church and contributed to the success of the Protestant Reformation. The marriages, divorces, annulments, and beheadings that were central to […] -
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Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms
$59.95Widely acclaimed as the father of economics and author of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was a professor by trade– a professor of moral philosophy. It is enlightening to note the pay structure of professors at smaller universities, such as the University of Glasgow, where Smith attended and then taught. There, the professors only […] -
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The Raid on Prosperity
$49.95"To hear the agitators you would suppose that all the rich were ready-made and an entailed class, and that all men must approach success from that side, and that the poor are doomed to be poor. But with rarest exceptions our millionaires and business giants have come up from the […] -
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The Death and Life of Malcolm X
$54.95On February 21st 1965 Malcolm X was killed by followers of his former mentor Elijah Mohammed, from whom he had broken. He had few allies and many enemies at the time of his death, having denounced Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement. He railed against intermarriage, integration and […]
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The Way the World Works
$69.95Considered one of the most influential books of the 20th century, Jude Wanniski's masterpiece defined the policies at the heart of the Reagan economic boom and promised a blueprint for prosperity. Written with a simplicity and liveliness uncommon to his subject, Wanniski offered a fresh general theory of the world's political evolution […] -
The Grand Jury
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The Boys from New Jersey: How the Mob Beat the Feds
$54.95Of all the extraordinary stories to emerge about the war on organized crime, none is quite so bizarre as the U.S. government's 1988 prosecution of the notorious Lucchese crime family, the mob that claimed to "own" New Jersey. Federal authorities called it the most ambitious legal attack ever mounted against […] -
Democracy in America
$74.95Alexis de Tocqueville came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the […]
