Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, (2018) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures series, and the first comprehensive look at the history of Hamas. "Neither a democratic political party nor a terrorist group, Hamas is a multifaceted liberation organization, one rooted in the nationalist claims of the Palestinian people. . . Drawing on interviews with organization leaders, as well as publications from the group, Tareq Baconi maps Hamas's thirty-year transition from fringe military resistance towards governance. He breaks new ground in questioning the conventional understanding of Hamas and shows how the movement's ideology ultimately threatens the Palestinian struggle and, inadvertently, its own legitimacy." Notes, bibliography, index. xxiv, 336 pp. ISBN: 978-0804797412.

London: Francis Aldor (Aldus Publications Ltd), (1947). Hardcover first edition - Biography of Cesare Borgia,the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI who was named a cardinal at 17 but later resigned that to go on to become a powerful ruler while he had the support of the papacy. Machiavelli was at Borgia's court in 1502-1503 and some of the episodes in The Prince were based on Borgia's actions. Translated from the original Italian by William Stirling. 224 pp.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A survey of slavery and emancipation throughout world history, from antiquity to the modern era - divided into three sections - How Progress led to the Europeans' Enslavement of Africans, Redeeming Christianity's Reptutations, and Abolishing Slavery and Civilizing the World - this book discusses the concept that slavery was considered part of progress and the transition from white slaves to black slaves; the emancipation movements and the on-going debate over modern slavery in the United States. Davis has won many prices - the Pulitzer, the National Book Award, the Bancroft - for his thought-provoking works on slavery. Notes, index. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-195034392.

New York & London: Longmans, Green and Co., (1947, c 1938). Hardcover - A survey of economic thought and practice from ancient Egypt on up through the time this was written, with most attention given to the rise of capitalist and then socialist economic theory - Marxian and post-Marxian. Discussion questions, index. 299 pp.

Drexel, PA Casemate (2008). First edition - The wartime memoir of Will, the nephew of Reinhard Gehlen, head of Nazi Germany intelligence agency, Foreign Armies East. He was only 10 when the war began but as a member of the Jungvolk, and lived in a small town near the Westwall, but he became a helper with the local Luftwaffe flak battery. Photographs, ix, 318 pp.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1963) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of this often misunderstood queen of France, based on her own memoirs and correspondence. Illustrated with photographs. Sources, notes on translation, map, family tree, index. 307 pp.

New York: Riverhead Books, (2006) dj. Hardcover - "The Ghost Map takes place in the summer of 1854. A devastating cholera outbreak seizes London just as it is emerging as a modern city: more than 2 million people packed into a ten-mile circumference, a hub of travel and commerce, teeming with people from all over the world, continually pushing the limits of infrastructure that's outdated as soon as it's updated. Dr. John Snow - whose ideas about contagion had been dismissed by the scientific community - is spurred to intense action when the people in his neighborhood begin dying." Maps and illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 300 pp. ISBN: 978-1594489259.

New York: The Viking Press, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A brilliant reconstruction of the 'spiritual history' that led up to the European domination and decimation of aboriginal cultures - native American tribes, Caribbean tribes, the Mayans - as rich in mythic life as the Western culture was barren. The author contends that it was the progressive decay of Christianity from a living mythology into a historically oriented state religion that creted a spiritual vacuum in the West, resulting in a terrific restlessness and energy that eventually mainfested itself in exploration conquest and conversion." Notes on sources, index. xviii, 329 pp. ISBN: 0-670-160989.

New York: Harper Collins, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the early days of cryptography - this book uses the original sources, including many ciphers and code-tables and shows that Lieutenant Colonel George Scovell was a true forerunner to the great code-breakers of the twentieth century. Photographs, maps, notes on sources, index. xix, 346pp. ISBN: 0-06-018891X.