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  • PROBLEMS IN TWENTIETH CENTURY FRENCH PHILOSOPHY
    SEAN BOWDEN / ‎MARK G. E. KELLY
    Read through the lens of a single key concept in twentieth-century French philosophy, that of the "problem", this book relates the concept to specific thinkers and situates it in relation both to the wider history of philosophy and contemporary concerns. How exactly should the notion of problems be understood? What must a problem be in order to play an inaugurating role in thou...

    $1,200.00

  • THE BEST AMERICAN CRIME WRITING 2006
    MARK BOWDEN / OTTO PENZLER / THOMAS H. COOK
    Fifteen riveting true crime stories from some of the best crime writers around. A sterling collection of the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, the 2006 edition of  The Best American Crime Writing offers fascinating vicarious journeys into a world of felons and their felonious acts. This thrilling compendium includes: Jeffrey Toobin's ...

    $164.00

  • GUESTS OF THE AYATOLLAH
    MARK BOWDEN
    The New York Times–bestselling author of Black Hawk Down delivers a "suspenseful and inspiring" account of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 ( The Wall Street Journal).   On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans captive, and kept ...

    $179.00

  • THE LAST STONE
    MARK BOWDEN
    The true story of a cold case, a compulsive liar, and five determined detectives, from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author and "master journalist" ( The Wall Street Journal).   On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, ages ten and twelve, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, DC As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothin...

    $329.00

  • HUE 1968
    MARK BOWDEN
    The author of Black Hawk Down vividly recounts a pivotal Vietnam War battle in this New York Times bestseller: "An extraordinary feat of journalism". —Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal In Hue 1968, Mark Bowden presents a detailed, day-by-day reconstruction of the most critical battle of the Tet Offensive. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched a...

    $274.00

  • THE THREE BATTLES OF WANAT
    MARK BOWDEN
    From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Black Hawk Down: "a first-rate collection" of long-form journalism on war, sports, politics, and more ( Booklist).   Mark Bowden has established himself as one of America's leading journalists and nonfiction writers. The Three Battles of Wanat collects the best of his long-form articles, including pieces from the  Atlantic,  Vani...

    $229.00

  • THE FINISH
    MARK BOWDEN
    New York Times bestseller: The true behind-the-scenes story of the manhunt for the 9/11 mastermind is "a page-turner" ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune).   From the author of Black Hawk Down and Hue 1968, this is a gripping account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. With access to key sources, Mark Bowden takes us inside the rooms where decisions were made and on the ground where the ac...

    $229.00

  • WORM
    MARK BOWDEN
    From the bestselling author of Black Hawk Down, the gripping story of the Conficker worm—the cyberattack that nearly toppled the world.   The Conficker worm infected its first computer in November 2008, and within a month had infiltrated 1.5 million computers in 195 countries. Banks, telecommunications companies, and critical government networks—including British Parliament and...

    $200.00

  • BLACK HAWK DOWN
    MARK BOWDEN
    #1 New York Times Bestseller: The "riveting" account of the 1993 operation in Mogadishu—the longest sustained firefight involving US troops since Vietnam ( The Wall Street Journal). On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite US soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Soma...

    $274.00

  • THE BEST GAME EVER
    MARK BOWDEN
    The NFL championship game that changed football forever: a New York Times–bestselling sports history classic by the author of Black Hawk Down.   Yankee Stadium, December 28, 1958. What was about to go down on this Sunday evening in front of sixty-four thousand fans and forty-five million home viewers—the largest viewership ever assembled for a live televised event—was the first...

    $229.00

  • KILLING PABLO
    MARK BOWDEN
    "The story of how the U.S. Army Intelligence . . . helped Colombian police track down and kill Pablo Escobar is a compelling, almost Shakespearean tale." — Los Angeles Times When the cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar escaped his lavish, custom built prison in Colombia, the fallout drove the nation to the brink of chaos. In Killing Pablo, acclaimed journalist Mark Bowden tells the s...

    $416.00

  • FINDERS KEEPERS
    MARK BOWDEN
    The "unexpectedly moving" story of dumb luck and the American Dream set in South Philly from the # 1 New York Times–bestselling author ( Entertainment Weekly).   What would you do if you found a million dollars? When Joey Coyle did, he was a twenty-eight-year-old drug-dependent, unemployed longshoreman living with his ailing mother in a tight-knit Philadelphia neighborhood. Whi...

    $251.00

  • DOCTOR DEALER
    MARK BOWDEN
    From the # 1 New York Times–bestselling author of Black Hawk Down: The "shocking" story of the country's unlikeliest drug kingpin ( The Baltimore Sun).   By the early 1980s, Larry Lavin had everything going for him. He was a bright, charismatic young man who rose from working-class roots to become a dentist with an Ivy League education and a thriving practice, and a beloved fat...

    $179.00

  • ROAD WORK
    MARK BOWDEN
    "Painstakingly reported stories about losers, oddballs and con men" from the #1 New York Times–bestselling journalist and author of Black Hawk Down ( The New York Times Book Review).   This riveting anthology collects the most diverse and far-reaching of Mark Bowden's award-winning nonfiction—"with fascinating features on Norman Mailer, the war against terror, and even a Philad...

    $229.00

  • BRINGING THE HEAT
    MARK BOWDEN
    "An ambitious, remarkably frank" chronicle of the Philadelphia Eagles' bid for the NFL championship by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author ( Kirkus Reviews).   In 1992, the Philadelphia Eagles—a team assembled in the image of their iconoclastic, controversial former head coach, Buddy Ryan—were known for their ferocious defense led by Reggie White, Seth Joyner, and Andre Wa...

    $249.00

  • HUE 1968
    BOWDEN MARK
    En la madrugada del 31 de enero de 1968, el ejército de Vietnam del Norte llevó a cabo lo que se conoce como la Ofensiva del Tet. El momento culminante de esta operación fue la captura de Hué, la histórica capital intelectual y cultural de Vietnam, llevada a cabo por 10.000 combatientes del Viet Cong que ocuparon la ciudad en pocas horas. El ejército estadounidense en Vietnam y...
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    $196.00

  • LENGUAJE NO VERBAL
    MARK BOWDEN / TRACEY THOMSON
    Agotado

    $540.00

  • THE CASE OF THE VANISHING BLONDE
    MARK BOWDEN
    The #1 New York Times bestselling “master of narrative journalism” and author of Black Hawk Down presents a compelling collection of true crime stories (New York Times). Acclaimed investigative reporter Mark Bowden has ferreted out unbelievable-yet-true stories of wrongdoing, murder and mayhem for decades. His illustrious body of work has won him a lifetime achievement award fr...

    $299.00