The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History, Paperback - Molly Caldwell Crosby

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Andrew Rimas and Evan D.G. Fraser have joined together to tell the remarkable story of the noble cow in Beef: The Untold Story of How Milk, Meat, a...

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Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Neil OliverNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 31Cover type: Paperback...

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Reducere. Explore Captivating Stories and Facts about African American History The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events. The...

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Reducere. At last, here is a book that tells the full story of the turning point in World War II's Battle of the Bulge--the story of five crucial days in whi...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Neil (Author) OliverNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 42Cover type: ...

As the war began to swing in the favor of the Allies, it became clear that no final defeat of the Third Reich would be possible until the armored m...

A beautifully written LGBTQ+ reimagining of the life of one of Pride & Prejudice's most underdeveloped characters, Miss Anne de Bourgh, The Heiress...

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Reducere. At last, here is a book that tells the full story of the turning point in World War II's Battle of the Bulge--the story of five crucial days in whi...

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The untold story of the remarkable young men who played a central role in the history of British horticulture and helped to shape the way we garden...

A riveting account of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Reducere. The machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland crime of the century."" Or...

Reducere. This ground breaking study is the first to comprehensively examine the history of yellow fever in Louisiana. As the state's largest city and princi...

Reducere. Explore Captivating Stories and Facts about African American History The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events. The...

Reducere. At 3: 17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created ...

DescriptionAsian Americans have made significant contributions to American history, society, and culture. This book presents key events in the Asia...

Reducere. DescriptionThe delicious, informative, and entertaining cookbook tie-in to PBS's Emmy Award-winning series A Taste of History. A TASTE OF HISTORY C...

Reducere. Discover 30 milestones that made 20th-century American history--for kids History is a great teacher, and 20th Century American History for Kids mak...

Reducere. "Capacious and rigorous . . . Blue Dreams, like all good histories of medicine, reveals healing to be art as much as science." --Parul Sehgal, New ...

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Reducere. Show kids ages 8 to 12 how women shaped the 20th century History books often focus on the things that men have done, but that's only half the story...

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A sweeping and lively history of one of the most dramatic stories never told--of the greatest railroad war of all time, fought by the daring leader...

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An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Ab...

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Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncAuthor(s): Sam KleinerIllustration(s): 16 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 304Public...

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In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust "the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country between Mississippi and the Rocky M...