1919 the Year That Changed America, Hardcover - Martin W. Sandler

Reducere. DescriptionAcclaimed author Sandler examines the pinnacle events of 1919 and their relevance to significant issues in American life today.1919 was ...

Reducere. On April 14, 1865, only days after the Civil War had come to a close, a gunshot rang out in Ford's Theatre and President Abraham Lincoln slumped fo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Essynce E. Moore6th grade was child's play. 7th grade was a taste of what was to come. But 8th grade, was the year that cha...

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The definitive visual history of the world under Covid-19, documented by the photographers of Agence France Presse.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAu...

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Reducere. A&W Root Beer. Foster's Freeze. IHOP. Der Wienerschnitzel. See's Candy. Jack in the Box. You name the American food icon, and chances are its roots...

DescriptionThe definitive account of the Stonewall Riots, the first gay rights march, and the LGBTQ activists at the center of the movement. "Marti...

Reducere. DescriptionA 2018 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist The exciting true story of the captaincy, wreck, and discovery...

Reducere. This is the best-selling Original Authorized Edition regularly featured by Glenn Beck to Fox TV viewers as a Must Read The nation the Founders buil...

It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll; it was also the year of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, the Prague Spr...

Reducere. On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Michael Meyer recounts the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold ...

A life-affirming new romance from the Between Sisters author, in which three women celebrate their birthdays marking the onset of a year that will ...

Reducere. Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions a...

The fascinating and topical nonfiction story of how one gun changed American courtrooms, streets, and homes, told for a YA audience by award-winnin...

Reducere. Lincoln's Last Days is a gripping account of one of the most dramatic nights in American history--of how one gunshot changed the country forever. A...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Ken CuthbertsonNumber of pages: 408Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 214 x 29Cover type: PaperbackRedescop...

From I Love Lucy to Will & Grace, this book looks at the television comedies that have tackled social issues, facilitated discussion, or in some ot...

DescriptionThe F-104 Starfighter is quite possibly one of the most photographed aircraft of all time. It is certainly one of the most iconic. Here,...

We all tend to get involved in our work, put our noses down, try to do it diligently, and are sometimes not aware of what is happening around us. O...

The year 1968 encompasses the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media. It was the year of sex and drugs and ro...

Reducere. Bluebonnets and lady's slippers, larkspurs and blazing stars, black-eyed Susans and Granny's nightcaps.From a lonely childhood in the Piney Woods o...

Reducere. 1919, The Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. ...

A major new biography of Charles Dickens, tracing the year that would transform his life and times*BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BECOMING DICKENS ...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Robert Douglas-FairhurstNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 25Cover type: Pap...

December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abra...

Reducere. A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from m...

Reducere. During his whirlwind 1903 tour of the western states, President Theodore Roosevelt paid his first visit to California. In between the appearances a...

One year shaped the world we know today. This is the page-turning story of the pivotal changes which were forged in 1948.

Reducere. In a powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the U.S. Constitution's roots in int...

A "gripping, " (Booklist) "clear-eyed, and honest" (The New York Times Book Review) biography of Samuel Colt--the inventor of the legendary Colt re...

In 1957, America turned its back on its earlier self and jumped headlong into the nation it has become today. From Sputnik and the beginning of the...

The Second Continental Congress was an assembly of America's brightest minds. It was formed because of the collective desire to be independent of B...

Reducere. The descendants of Sgt. Isaac Woodard, Jr., honor his legacy by sharing his story, in his voice, through a children's book. The book is based on a ...

Reducere. The book we needed right now. --Betsy Bird, A Fuse #8 Production Helaine Becker's An Equal Shot is a nonfiction picture book introduction to the hi...

Reducere. Ancient peoples of the world kept a calendar having 360 days in a year and 12 months of 30 days. So what happened? Why did it change? Scientists ca...

Reducere. A rollicking look at 1971, rock's golden year, the year that saw the release of the indelible recordings of Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, the Who, Rod...

DescriptionAward-winning author Don Brown explores computers and technology in book two of the Big Ideas series Machines That Think explores machin...

Reducere. But the story is by no means entirely grim and solemn. Young explorers get lost in the woods and climb trees to escape "roaring lions." There is a ...

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

Reducere. Of all the teams in the annals of baseball, only a select few can lay claim to historic significance. One of those teams is the 1947 Brooklyn Dodge...

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Reducere. The Catskills ( Cat Creek in Dutch), America s original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land ...

How gangsta rap shocked America, made millions, and pulled back the curtain on an urban crisis.How is it that gangsta rap--so dystopian that it str...

Reducere. Cerami wittily recounts the evening in rich detail.--Library JournalOnly two guests were invited to what was arguably the most elegant, sumptuous, ...

Reducere. Now in paperbackA dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska. John Muir was a fas...