A History of DuPont Circle: Center of High Society in the Capital, Hardcover - Stephen A. Hansen

Reducere. During the Gilded Age, Dupont Circle was Washington's undisputed center of wealth, power and status. Over twenty years, it evolved from small farms...

By the former editor of the London Times, a vivid, evocative, and deeply knowledgeable history of this unique world capital. London: a settlement f...

Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural exploration of our ...

Reducere. A History of the Yoruba People is a comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in Africa. With a po...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a 'History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind' ex-South African banker Stephen Goodson explains how the Central Bankin...

From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for th...

Reducere. In The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in t...

When young Samuel Clemens first visited the nation's capital in 1854, both were rough around the edges and of dubious potential. Returning as Mark ...

Reducere. There is growing alarm over how drugs empower terrorists, insurgents, militias, and gangs. But by looking back not just years and decades but centu...

Publisher: Route PublishingAuthor(s): Paul HanleyNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 15Cover type: Paperback / softba...

"James Whiteside is an electrifying performer, an incredible athlete, and an artist, through and through. To know James is to love him; with Center...

Reducere. This book is above all, history. For the first time an author has covered the actions of a single Marine company in Vietnam and their 5+ year deplo...

Is it ever appropriate to diagnose and treat oral and dental problems without knowing the full extent of the problem? With more than 50% of anatomi...

Reducere. The Gullah people of St. Helena Island still relate that their people wanted to "catch the learning" after northern abolitionists founded Penn Scho...

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A fascinating study of the devastating new form of warfare that redrew the map of Europe in the opening year of World War II, bringing about the mi...

Reducere. The Texas state constitution of 1876 set aside three million acres of public land in the Texas Panhandle in exchange for construction of the state'...

Reducere. Affectionately called Woodies" by loyal Washingtonians, the beloved department store Woodward & Lothrop stood at the heart of downtown for over a c...

Reducere. Madison's savory ascent as a culinary destination pairs its rich tradition of homegrown bounty with a progressively wider international palate. Sam...

Reducere. In April 1884, Ben Wallace, the owner of the local livery, opened the season of his new circus in Peru and billed it as Wallace and Company's Great...

Reducere. DescriptionAmerica's elite warriors are put through hell in training so they can survive any real special operations.Hell Week and Beyond will take...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Diana Hollingsworth GesslerA travel guide with character, this fact-filled keepsake offers all the history, beauty, charm, ...

Reducere. Recalling the Balzacian conceit of assembling a vast parade of characters whose lives conspire to form a driving central plot, Menasse adapts this ...

Reducere. A frontline witness account of the deadly urban combat of the Battle of Mosul told by former Navy SEAL and frontline combat medic Ephraim Mattos.Af...

DescriptionA dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen A. MitchellAuthor: Margaret J. BlackFreud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconsciou...

DescriptionEssential reading for understanding the international economy--now thoroughly updatedLucid, accessible, and provocative, and now thoroug...

Reducere. A History of the Yoruba People is a comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in Africa. With a po...

The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos"--the "center" or "navel"--of the ancient world for more tha...

Reducere. DescriptionMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's ...

Reducere. One line straight down. One line to the right. One line to the left, then a circle. That was all--just three lines in a circle.This bold picture bo...

In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the new--the cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally i...

The full story on why Derek Bentley was given a posthumous pardon in 1964, detailing all 865 people who were executed in Britain in the 20th Century.

The full story on why Derek Bentley was given a posthumous pardon in 1964. Details all 865 people who were executed in Britain in the 20th Century....

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...