Rakuten Kobo

Skip side bar filters

Gay Berlin

Birthplace of a Modern Identity

by Robert Beachy ...

An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity.Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its “warm brothers” (German slang for men who love other men), Berlin, before the turn of the twentieth century, ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity.Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its “warm brothers” (German slang for men who love other men), Berlin, before the turn of the twentieth century,
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Who Ran the Cities?

City Elites and Urban Power Structures in Europe and North America, 1750–1940

by Ralf Roth ...

Series series Historical Urban Studies Series
The question of who actually ran cities in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been increasingly debated in recent years. As well as trying to understand the distribution of political power and the rise of broad political participation, urban historians have questioned how and whether elites retained influence in municipal government. The essays in this collection provide a ... Read more

$77.99 USD

The question of who actually ran cities in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries has been increasingly debated in recent years. As well as trying to understand the distribution of political power and the rise of broad political participation, urban historians have questioned how and whether elites retained influence in municipal government. The essays in this collection provide a
... Read more
Audiobook

Gay Berlin

Birthplace of a Modern Identity

by Robert Beachy ...

Narrated by James D Sasser ...

Unabridged

11 hours 52 min

An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity.Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its “warm brothers” (German slang for men who love other men), Berlin, before the turn of the twentieth century, ... Read more

$22.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity.Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its “warm brothers” (German slang for men who love other men), Berlin, before the turn of the twentieth century,
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

Audiobook

Without Consent

A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

by Sarah Weinman ...

Narrated by Sarah Weinman ...

Unabridged

9 hours 24 min

From Sarah Weinman, author of Scoundrel and The Real Lolita, comes an eye-opening story about the first major spousal rape trial in America and urgent questions it raised about women’s rights that would reverberate for decades.In 1978, Greta Rideout was the first woman in United States history to accuse her husband of rape, at a time when the idea of “marital rape” seemed ludicrous to many ... Read more

$28.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

From Sarah Weinman, author of Scoundrel and The Real Lolita, comes an eye-opening story about the first major spousal rape trial in America and urgent questions it raised about women’s rights that would reverberate for decades.In 1978, Greta Rideout was the first woman in United States history to accuse her husband of rape, at a time when the idea of “marital rape” seemed ludicrous to many
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

The Stonewall Reader

Narrated by Various ...

Unabridged

10 hours 45 min

**"...a remarkable audio experience that emphasizes the revolutionary power of LGBTQ voices and provides an invaluable record of a community that refuses to be silenced." -AudioFile magazine Earphones Award winnerFor the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword ... Read more

$20.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

**"...a remarkable audio experience that emphasizes the revolutionary power of LGBTQ voices and provides an invaluable record of a community that refuses to be silenced." -AudioFile magazine Earphones Award winnerFor the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Last First Kiss

A Novel

by Julian Winters ...

Narrated by James Cavenaugh ...

Unabridged

10 hours 58 min

Sparks fly in this USA Today bestselling second-chance rom-com when an unlucky-in-love event planner realizes the man of honor at the high-profile wedding he's planning is the same man who broke his heart.They say you never forget your first kiss. But Jordan Carter wishes he could forget the one he shared with Jamie Peters as a teenager. And the one they almost shared again last year before Jamie ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Sparks fly in this USA Today bestselling second-chance rom-com when an unlucky-in-love event planner realizes the man of honor at the high-profile wedding he's planning is the same man who broke his heart.They say you never forget your first kiss. But Jordan Carter wishes he could forget the one he shared with Jamie Peters as a teenager. And the one they almost shared again last year before Jamie
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Rebel With A Clause

Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian

by Ellen Jovin ...

Narrated by Ellen Jovin ...

Unabridged

7 hours 38 min

For fans of Mary Norris and Benjamin Dreyer, an unconventional guide to the English language drawn from the cross-country adventures of an itinerant grammarian.When Ellen Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a GRAMMAR TABLE sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Grammar Table was such a ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

For fans of Mary Norris and Benjamin Dreyer, an unconventional guide to the English language drawn from the cross-country adventures of an itinerant grammarian.When Ellen Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a GRAMMAR TABLE sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Grammar Table was such a
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
The Pink Triangle

The Nazi War Against Homosexuals

by Richard Plant ...

"The lesson that The Pink Triangle elicits from the Holocaust is the realization that we are still haunted by the specters of the Third Reich." ― San Francisco ChronicleThis is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against Germany's gays, as dir ... Read more

$18.79 USD

"The lesson that The Pink Triangle elicits from the Holocaust is the realization that we are still haunted by the specters of the Third Reich." ― San Francisco ChronicleThis is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against Germany's gays, as dir
... Read more
Faggots

by Larry Kramer ...

"A book of major historical importance—the first contemporary novel to chronicle gay life with unsparing honesty and wild humor."—Erica JongIn print since its original publication in 1978, Larry Kramer's Faggots has become one of the bestselling novels about gay life ever written. The book is a fierce satire of the gay ghetto and a touching story of one man's desperate search for love there, and ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"A book of major historical importance—the first contemporary novel to chronicle gay life with unsparing honesty and wild humor."—Erica JongIn print since its original publication in 1978, Larry Kramer's Faggots has become one of the bestselling novels about gay life ever written. The book is a fierce satire of the gay ghetto and a touching story of one man's desperate search for love there, and
... Read more
Nagasaki

The Last Witnesses

by M. G. Sheftall ...

Series Book 2 - Embers
The second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors about each of the atomic bomb drops, first in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, that hastened the end of the Pacific War.On August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen. Then, just three days later, when Japan showed no sign of surrender, ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

The second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors about each of the atomic bomb drops, first in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, that hastened the end of the Pacific War.On August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen. Then, just three days later, when Japan showed no sign of surrender,
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
A Light in the Northern Sea

Denmark's Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII

by Tim Brady ...

From the bestselling author of Three Ordinary Girls, the gripping, remarkably little-known true story of how the people of Denmark banded together during WWII to rescue nearly all of their Jewish citizens from Nazi persecution by ferrying them just a few at a time to sanctuary in Sweden.August 25, 1943. A lone bicyclist transports a cache of explosives, hidden in a beer crate, to a Copenhagen hall ... Read more

$17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Also available as: Audiobook

From the bestselling author of Three Ordinary Girls, the gripping, remarkably little-known true story of how the people of Denmark banded together during WWII to rescue nearly all of their Jewish citizens from Nazi persecution by ferrying them just a few at a time to sanctuary in Sweden.August 25, 1943. A lone bicyclist transports a cache of explosives, hidden in a beer crate, to a Copenhagen hall
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
American Grammar

Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation

by Jarvis R. Givens ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAAH STONE BOOK AWARDA 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 past harms.Education is the epicenter of every community in the United States. Indeed, few ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAAH STONE BOOK AWARDA 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 past harms.Education is the epicenter of every community in the United States. Indeed, few
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in United States

Historical Urban Studies Series

Gay Berlin

Who Ran the Cities?

Gay Berlin

People who read these also enjoyed

Without Consent

The Stonewall Reader

Last First Kiss

Rebel With A Clause

The Pink Triangle

Faggots

Nagasaki

A Light in the Northern Sea

American Grammar

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in United States

Historical Urban Studies Series

Show:

People who read these also enjoyed