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  • Whatever Happened to the Metric System?

    How America Kept Its Feet

    by John Bemelmans Marciano ...
    The intriguing tale of why the United States has never adopted the metric system, and what that says about us.The American standard system of measurement is a unique and odd thing to behold with its esoteric, inconsistent standards: twelve inches in a foot, three feet in a yard, sixteen ounces in a pound, one hundred pennies to the dollar. For something as elemental as counting and estimating the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The American War in Vietnam

    Crime or Commemoration?

    by John Marciano ...
    On May 25, 2012, President Obama announced that the United States would spend the next thirteen years – through November 11, 2025 – commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War, and the American soldiers, “more than 58,000 patriots,” who died in Vietnam. The fact that at least 2.1 million Vietnamese – soldiers, parents, grandparents, children – also died in that war will be largely ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Crisis and Commonwealth

    Marcuse, Marx, McLaren

    by John Marciano, Patricia Pollock Brodsky, Lloyd C. Daniel, David Brodsky, Stephen Spartan, Fred Whitehead, Douglas Dowd, Kevin B. Anderson, Zvi Tauber, Alfred T. Kisubi, Jodi Dean, Arnold L. Farr, Henry A. Giroux, Peter Marcuse, Peter McLaren ...
    Crisis and Commonwealth: Marcuse, Marx, McLaren advances Marcuse scholarship by presenting four hitherto untranslated and unpublished manuscripts by Herbert Marcuse from the Frankfurt University Archive on themes of economic value theory, socialism, and humanism. Contributors to this edited collection, notably Peter Marcuse, Henry Giroux, Peter McLaren, Zvi Tauber, Arnold L. Farr and editor, ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Anonyponymous

    The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words

    by John Bemelmans Marciano ...
    Eponymous, adj. Giving one's name to a person, place, or thing.Anonymous, adj. Anonymous.Anonyponymous, adj. Anonymous and eponymous.The Earl of Sandwich, fond of salted beef and paired slices of toast, found a novel way to eat them all together. Etienne de Silhouette, a former French finance minister, was so notoriously cheap that his name became a byword for chintzy practices-such as ... Read more

    $11.09 USD

  • The Russians Are Coming, Again

    The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce

    by Jeremy Kuzmarov, John Marciano ...
    A timely commentary on today's New Cold War between the United States and RussiaKarl Marx famously wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon that history repeats itself, “first as tragedy, then as farce.” The Cold War waged between the United States and Soviet Union from 1945 until the latter's dissolution in 1991 was a great tragedy, resulting in millions of civilian deaths in proxy wars ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Respect Your Ghosts

    by John Bemelmans Marciano ...
    Illustrated by Sophie Blackall ...
    Series Book 4 - The Witches of Benevento
    The fourth book in an exciting new chapter book series by John Bemelmans Marciano and Caldecott medalist Sophie Blackall.Welcome to Benevento, an ancient town famous for its witches!The children of Benevento have to be careful and clever to evade the clutches of such witches as the Manalonga, the Janara, and the Clopper, who hide in wells and under bridges, fly at midnight, and play tricks during ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Toponymity

    An Atlas of Words

    by John Bemelmans Marciano ...
    toponymity , n. The condition of being named after a geographic location.It's no secret that America's cookouts owe a lot to the German townsof Frankfurt and Hamburg. Likewise, we know when we put on the wool of agoat from India's Kashmir valley. But did you know that the town ofSpa, Belgium, bequeathed to us a new form of healthy relaxation? Or thatTuxedo Park, New York, brought Americans a ... Read more

    $11.09 USD

  • Beware the Clopper!

    by John Bemelmans Marciano ...
    Illustrated by Sophie Blackall ...
    Series Book 3 - The Witches of Benevento
    The third book in an exciting new chapter book series by John Bemelmans Marciano and Caldecott medalist Sophie Blackall.Welcome to Benevento, an ancient town famous for its witches!The children of Benevento have to be careful and clever to evade the clutches of such witches as the Manalonga, the Janara, and the Clopper, who hide in wells and under bridges, fly at midnight, and play tricks during ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The No-Good Nine

    by John Bemelmans Marciano ...
    They're mad, they're bad, and they're about to ruin Christmas!No kids get coal in their stocking these days. Do you know why? It's thanks to The No-Good Nine!Pittsburgh, 1931. When Peter awakens on Christmas morning to find his stocking full of coal, he is outraged. After he finds the Naughty List, which contains the names of some other children who received no gifts, he decides they should band ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Mischief Season

    by John Bemelmans Marciano ...
    Illustrated by Sophie Blackall ...
    Series Book 1 - The Witches of Benevento
    The first book in an exciting new chapter book series by John Bemelmans Marciano and Caldecott medalist Sophie Blackall.Welcome to Benevento, an ancient town famous for its witches!The children of Benevento have to be careful and clever to evade the clutches of such witches as the Manalonga, the Janara, and the Clopper, who hide in wells and under bridges, fly at midnight, and play tricks during ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Secret Janara

    by John Bemelmans Marciano ...
    Illustrated by Sophie Blackall ...
    Series Book 6 - The Witches of Benevento
    The exciting adventures of the Benevento cousins continue, as Primo discovers the identity of the secret Janara.Primo has been given a tantalizing clue about the secret Janara: the Janara lives with him! How can he discover who it is? Only that success will console him for his humiliating defeat at the boar hunt, where Rosa was the winner. Rosa!! Girls are not even supposed to compete.One night ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Runaway Rosa

    by John Bemelmans Marciano ...
    Illustrated by Sophie Blackall ...
    Series Book 5 - The Witches of Benevento
    The Benevento cousins return for more adventures in the ancient town that's famous for its witches!The Benevento children are excitedly preparing for the annual Boar Hunt, where the prize of the Golden Tusk is given to the ten-year old who catches the boar. No girl has ever competed, but Rosa is determined to take part -- and win! She refuses to stay home and help take care of the new baby and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD