The Big Policeman: The Rise and Fall of America's First, Most Ruthless, and Greatest Detective, Paperback - J. North Conway

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The compelling story of what really happened inside the famous prison walls of the Narcotic Farm.Illustrations: 141 b&w photos

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A leading expert's exploration of the past, present and future of public monuments in AmericaPublisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor(s): Erin L. ThompsonIl...

Reducere. In the early 1990s, Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and his brother, Terry "Southwest T, " rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the larg...

New B-format paperback edition. A history of 600 years - an epic story of a dynasty that started as a small group of cavalry mercenaries to become ...

Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar - Barry Eichengreen

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Throughout the late eighties and nineties, a gang of young Asian refugees cut a bloody swath through New York's Chinatown. They were the lost child...

Reducere. Markham's memoir, West with the Night, was rediscovered in 1983 and became an instant bestseller, though shadowed by rumors that Markham was not th...

The Maximalist considers Tony O'Reilly's life and influence, exploring the events and personalities behind his decline from a position of enormous ...

DANDYISM. The Rise and Fall of a Concept - Petru Stefan Ionescu

Reducere. Ed Norris' career arc was dazzling.He spent 20 years as a crime-fighting savant with the New York Police Department, rising from beat cop to deputy...

Ten-year-old Persimmony Smudge lives a boring life on the Island in the Middle of Everything, but she longs for adventure. And she soon gets it whe...

Reducere. Theda Bars's remarkable life as told by Eve Golden's heartfelt account is short of discovering a means of traveling through time and as close as we...

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The Irish experience of Christianity has never been simple or uncomplicated. Here, Crawford Gribben describes the ancient emergence, long dominance...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chr...

Publisher: Mortons Media GroupAuthor(s): Nick PiggottNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 217 x 304 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

Eminent Corporations. The Rise and Fall of the Great British Corporation - Andrew Simms, David Boyle

Little Voice (LV) lives alone with her mother Mari, whose sole purpose in life is to find a man. When Mari's latest catch hears LV's impersonations...

DescriptionMany people know about Wessex, the "Last Kingdom" of the Anglo-Saxons in defense against the Northmen, But another kingdom, Mercia, once...

SIX STARRED REVIEWS Discover the dark side of Charles Lindbergh--one of America's most celebrated heroes and complicated men--in this riveting biog...

Reducere. On March 16, 2008, Alan Greenberg, former CEO and current chairman of the executive committee of Bear Stearns, found himself in the company's offic...

In 1851 Isaac Singer brought onto the market the first practical sewing machine in history. He had combined all the ideas that had gone before to m...

Reducere. It's 1990 and the World Wide Web is making its way into homes all across the world. Everyone wants in on the action, including Charles - a PhD stud...

A biography chronicling the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi. Lugosi, the tragic life story of one of horror's ...

A news-making, in-depth biography of the man known as America's Mayor after 9/11, but who today is the subject of FBI investigations and is now kno...

The story of how the dollar rose to global dominance in the twentieth century - and an assessment of what the future holds for the world's most imp...

New B-format paperback - The extraordinary history of Mercia and its rulers from the seventh century to 1066. Once the supreme Anglo-Saxon kingdom,...