Old Is Gold
Discover old books and books of old at our online bookstore. Shop old classic books, best-selling books, and timeless treasures—perfect for collectors and book lovers alike!
-
Capturing Kahanamoku: How a Surfing Legend and a Scientific Obsession Redefined Race and Culture"A haunting, quietly devastating excavation of a story we should all know but don't: how a surfing legend became the target of eugenic obsession... Gorgeously written and brilliantly researched, this book is both a warning and a wonder." -- Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Boy Next Door: My Sixty Year Friendship with Bill ClintonThe life of President Bill Clinton as seen through the lens of one who was his next-door neighbor during high school and who has maintained a close and uninterrupted friendship ever since, by maintaining a near-constant correspondence, serving roles in both his gubernatorial and...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
American Grammar: Race, Education, and the Building of a NationA new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as "the great equalizer" to not only be a lie, but also a myth that reproduces...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets, Spycraft and Gaia Theory"Utterly fascinating--a beautifully braided account of the life of a maverick, prophetic genius."--Robert MacFarlane Based on in-depth interviews with James Lovelock and unprecedented access to his personal archive, The Many Lives of James Lovelock is a definitive, revelatory biography of a fascinating, sometimes contradictory...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save CivilizationFrom Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O'Reilly's Killing series--with more than 12 million copies sold--comes a soaring account of England's desperate fight to fend off German invasion. Great Britain, summer 1940. The Battle of France is over. The Battle...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Wright Brothers#1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-HopA political and intellectual history of American counterculture and the historical figures who redefined mainstream understandings of freedom, culture, art, and politics--from The Beat Generation to Basquiat This entertaining, intellectual history fulfills the growing appetite for marginalized narratives. Counterculture brilliantly interrogates the diversity of...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Willard Gibbs: The Whole Is Simpler Than Its PartsMarginalian Editions presents a groundbreaking poet's biography of the forgotten scientist who founded physical chemistry, shaping much of the 20th century--and an ingenious, expansive treatise on American creativity, character, and remembrance. Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903) was an American visionary whose work shaped a century...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil WarWinner of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians * Winner of the Lincoln Forum Book Prize * Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize A propulsive account of our history's most surprising, most consequential political club: the Wide Awake anti-slavery...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and PlayThe "deep and impactful" story of the American stadium (Howard Bryant, author of Full Dissidence)--from the first wooden ballparks to today's glass and steel mega-arenas--revealing how it has made, and remade, American life. Stadiums are monuments to recreation, sports, and pleasure. Yet from the...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." and the End of the HeartlandA thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen's iconic album, Born in the U.S.A.--a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern America On June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling and most impactful rock albums of...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White SuburbiaThe rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity Two material artifacts defined the middle-class American lifestyle in the mid-twentieth century: the automobile, which brought gas stations, highways, commercial strips, and sprawl; and the single-family...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester PrynneAcclaimed journalist, podcaster, and crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the chilling true story of a young woman whose scandalous life was rumored to be Nathaniel Hawthorne's inspiration for The Scarlet Letter--and whose shocking death inspired the first true-crime book published in America. On...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated SouthA "brilliantly researched and surprising" (Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University) history of Southern segregationists' long war against interracial relationships, and the century-long fight to restore the freedom to love, marry, and inherit Interracial marriage was already illegal in some American colonies as early as the...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Start Making Sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd TimesA "beautiful, deep, thoughtful" (Angela Duckworth, New York Times-bestselling author of Grit) investigation into the science of why we crave meaning--and how we can pursue it in this age of anxiety These days everyone feels on edge, panicked by climate change, political polarization, and...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin"Larson is a marvelous writer...superb at creating characters with a few short strokes."--New York Times Book Review Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in his new book, the bestselling author of Devil in the White City turns...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Snowy Day and Other Stories"Vivid . . . These stories, in which class divisions form impassable rifts and submission to the status quo comes at great psychic cost, have much to say about our contemporary reality." --The New York Times Book Review "What a gift to have these...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern ScienceA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests,...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the PeopleThe first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought--a "fascinating biography and magnificent revival of this brilliant thinker" (Skye Cleary, author of How to Be Authentic) Named a Best Book of 2024 by the New...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to PowerFrom the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin In the summer of 1932, the Weimar Republic was on the verge of...
- $49.34 AUD
- $49.34 AUD
- Unit price
- per
