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  • The Universe Unraveling

    American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos

    by Seth S. Jacobs ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, Laos was positioned to become a major front in the Cold War. Yet American policymakers ultimately chose to resist communism in neighboring South Vietnam instead. Two generations of historians have explained this decision by citing logistical considerations. According to the accepted account, Laos's landlocked, mountainous terrain made the kingdom ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • America's Miracle Man in Vietnam

    Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia

    by Seth Jacobs, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam rethinks the motivations behind one of the most ruinous foreign-policy decisions of the postwar era: America’s commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so-called Diem experiment is usually ascribed to U.S. anticommunism and an absence of other candidates for South Vietnam’s highest office. Challenging those ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Cold War Mandarin

    Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963

    by Seth Jacobs ...
    Series series Vietnam: America in the War Years
    For almost a decade, the tyrannical Ngo Dinh Diem governed South Vietnam as a one-party police state while the U.S. financed his tyranny. In this new book, Seth Jacobs traces the history of American support for Diem from his first appearance in Washington as a penniless expatriate in 1950 to his murder by South Vietnamese soldiers on the outskirts of Saigon in 1963.Drawing on recent scholarship ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Rogue Diplomats

    The Proud Tradition of Disobedience in American Foreign Policy

    by Seth Jacobs ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
    Many of America's most significant political, economic, territorial, and geostrategic accomplishments from 1776 to the present day came about because a U.S. diplomat disobeyed orders. The magnificent terms granted to the infant republic by Britain at the close of the American Revolution, the bloodless acquisition of France's massive Louisiana territory in 1803, the procurement of an even vaster ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Toll House

    A Ghost Story for Christmas

    by W. W. Jacobs ...
    Series series Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories
    The Toll-House has a long and terrible history as a place of death. But Jack Barnes doesn't believe in spirits. His travelling companions, Messrs. Meagle, Lester, and White, wager that he might be convinced otherwise if they all spend a night together in the house. Four men go in, but will four come out?W. W. Jacobs was an English author, well-known for his story "The Monkey's Paw." ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Drawing What the Eye Sees

    by Ted Seth Jacobs ...
    Series series Dover Art Instruction
    Heralded as a revolutionary right-brain approach to figure drawing, this guide focuses on mentality rather than technique. Ted Seth Jacobs offers personal reflections and advice on developing the ability to draw what the eye sees rather than what the mind dictates. More than 180 black-and-white drawings and eight pages of color illustrations reinforce his insights into such concepts as light, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Light for the Artist

    by Ted Seth Jacobs ...
    Series series Dover Art Instruction
    Intermediate and advanced art students receive a broad vocabulary of effects with this in-depth study of light. The guide offers detailed descriptions that start with the basics — the direction of light, reflections, and shadows — and advance to studies of light in natural and manipulated situations. Examinations of subtler light effects include foreshortening, field effects, multiple light ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Red Lodge

    A Ghost Story for Christmas

    by H.R. Wakefield ...
    Series series Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories
    Attractively designed and illustrated by well-known cartoonist Seth (creator of several New Yorker covers, graphic novels, etc.)Small trim size and inexpensive price = perfect for register display. Attractive Seth-designed display for books ideal for register placement. Similar series of Xmas Ghost Stories by Galley Beggar Press have sold 30,000+ in UK. Canadian "trial run" of books showed approx. ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk

    A Ghost Story for Christmas

    by Frank Cowper ...
    Series series Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories
    Attractively designed and illustrated by well-known cartoonist Seth (creator of several New Yorker covers, graphic novels, etc.)Small trim size and inexpensive price = perfect for register display. Attractive Seth-designed display for books ideal for register placement. Similar series of Xmas Ghost Stories by Galley Beggar Press have sold 30,000+ in UK. Canadian "trial run" of books showed approx. ... Read more

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  • The Green Room

    A Ghost Story for Christmas

    by Walter De La Mare ...
    Series series Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories
    Attractively designed and illustrated by well-known cartoonist Seth (creator of several New Yorker covers, graphic novels, etc.)Small trim size and inexpensive price = perfect for register display. Attractive Seth-designed display for books ideal for register placement. Similar series of Xmas Ghost Stories by Galley Beggar Press have sold 30,000+ in UK. Canadian "trial run" of books showed approx. ... Read more

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  • How Fear Departed the Long Gallery

    A Ghost Story for Christmas

    by E. F. Benson ...
    Series series Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories
    Attractively designed and illustrated by well-known cartoonist Seth (creator of several New Yorker covers, graphic novels, etc.)Small trim size and inexpensive price = perfect for register displayAttractive Seth-designed display for books ideal for register placementSimilar series of Xmas Ghost Stories by Galley Beggar Press have sold 30,000+ in UKCanadian "trial run" of books showed approx. 1,000 ... Read more

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  • The Empty House

    A Ghost Story for Christmas

    by Algernon Blackwood ...
    Series series Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories
    Attractively designed and illustrated by well-known cartoonist Seth (creator of several New Yorker covers, graphic novels, etc.)Small trim size and inexpensive price = perfect for register displayAttractive Seth-designed display for books ideal for register placementSimilar series of Xmas Ghost Stories by Galley Beggar Press have sold 30,000+ in UKCanadian "trial run" of books showed approx. 1,000 ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD