The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family, Paperback - Ron Chernow

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biogr...

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Reducere. A writer investigates her family's secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations. Hadley Freeman k...

Reducere. Two brothers grow up on the Jewish streets of Warsaw. At the turn of the twentieth century, Adolphe leaves to seek work and start a family in Switz...

Reducere. The author of the The Children's Blizzard delivers an epic work of twentieth century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish...

From the Nuremberg Trials onwards, Jews figure prominently in international legal history. Yet ties between Jewish identity and legal thought rarel...

Judy Simons thought to leave her grandchildren a legacy of reminiscences about her Jewish upbringing in 1950s Sheffield. But when her mother died s...

Reducere. Written by the late Dr. Hugh J. Schonfield. Re-edited and re-printed by Bruce R. Booker under permission of The Hugh & Helene Schonfield World Serv...

The biography of one of America's founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton, which became the basis for the hugely successful Broadway show Hamilton.

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Reducere. Rediscover the sense of wonder and adventure as you ride across the United States along with Bryan, Stig, Bill, Hal, and Vaughn. Rediscover the hos...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a la...

An erudite and accessible survey of Jewish life and culture in the twentieth century, as reflected in seminal texts.Publisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Qui Duc NguyenIn 1968 Nguyen Qui Duc was nine years old, his father was a high-ranking civil servant in the South Vietnames...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Reducere. The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winn...

Reducere. Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2, 500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, New York T...

Reducere. There emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new Jewish elite, notes Moshe Idel, no longer made up of prophets, priests, kings, or rab...

'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An int...

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The story of the famous painting by Picasso and its diverse meanings from its conception to the present day

On a cold day on the thirtieth of January 1649 in London, an anonymous executioner severed the head of King Charles I of England. The watching crow...

Reducere. Celebrate the joy of ``making Shabbat`` each week in your home--with rituals, prayers, blessings, food, and song. This expanded, easy-to-use editio...

DescriptionIran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East, outside of Israel. At its peak in the twentieth century, the populatio...

Powerful life lessons in a funny and moving portrait of family, community and spiritual discovery in America.Hilarious and heartfelt, Ron Wolfson's...

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejec...

Renowned food scholar Carole Counihan serves up a delicious narrative about family and food in twentieth-century Florence.

Reducere. Containing just the twentieth-century chapters from Howard Zinn's bestselling A People's History of the United States, this revised and updated edi...

DescriptionThrough the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20...

Reducere. Happy Days, The Andy Griffith Show, Gentle Ben--these shows captivated millions of TV viewers in the '60s and '70s. Join award-winning filmmaker Ro...

'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An int...

Sarbatoriti aniversarea a 50 de ani a celui mai iubit film de familie din toate timpurile! Comoara cinematografica produsa de Rodgers&Hammerstein s...

DescriptionWinner of the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize. In 1931 a group from Harvard University's Peabody Museum accomplished something that...

My book begins with a brief consideration of what we mean by "English music" and what factors are involved. I explain the reasons behind my choice ...

A new edition of this seminal survey on the history of graphic design in the twentieth century.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Richard Hol...

"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonizat...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Annabella PitkinIllustration(s): 7 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Collection: Buddhism and Moder...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martin GilbertMartin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history...

Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly to the appropriate page of the review se...

The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume ...

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Reducere. Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the go...

This book provides a scholarly but accessible account of British regional development during the twentieth century, focusing on the emergence and d...

Reducere. In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an a...