A&p: : The Story of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company - Avis H. Anderson

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1859, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, known everywhere as A&P, began as a mail-order business located at 31 Vesey Street in...

Reducere. How did he walk through walls, escape drowning, and shatter iron chains that were tightly wrapped around him?The rare photos in this book might hel...

Reducere. Take this easy-to-tote guide along to the beach to help identify your finds among its 120 shells and assortment of other seashore creatures. Each s...

WinstonChurchill was far more than a just successful wartime leader. International war correspondent, WWI soldier and Nobel Prize winningwriter, Ch...

The first new and comprehensive narrative history of the American railroads in a generation. 'Shrewd, articulate and incredibly well-informed' - Mi...

A distillation of the life lessons learned by one woman through the ancient art of the Japanese tea ceremony.Illustrations: 1 x 8-pp photo section ...

A distillation of the life lessons learned by one woman through the ancient art of the Japanese tea ceremony.

Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, with its immense, terracot...

Reducere. The Story of the Chinese Zodiac. As the new year approaches, each animal wants it to be named after them, but no one can agree. The Jade Emperor de...

Reducere. A national bestseller, the fast-paced and gripping account of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 from acclaimed science journalist Gina Kolata, now fea...

There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. In five days that small fire...

Reducere. In the summer of 1910, wildfires int eh Northern Rockies scorched millions of acres, darkened skies in New England, and deposited soot on the ice i...

Reducere. BUILDING OF ACHAMPIONHOW I BECAME A CHAMPION IN LIFETHE AVIS BROWN - RILEY STORYIt is not the adversity that you face, but how you face the adversi...

Reducere. Georgette Heyer single handedly created and popularized the historic and regency romance genre. Heyer's writing is lively, witty, and charming full...

Reducere. A Beginner's Guide to Tasseography, or the Art of Tea Leaf Reading, presented by the Witches of Thorn and Moon, with a comprehensive guide to symbo...

Reducere. The material for this book has accumulated over twelve years of active practice in Japan's rite of tea of which the author has received full instru...

DescriptionOut of the Ashes is the story of a Mid-American family met with the pain of unexpected tragedy and loss. Their faith in God and support ...

Reducere. DescriptionFor five centuries Europeans sought a short cut across the top of the world. The quest for a passage to the riches of the Orient claimed...

Reducere. Drawing on exhaustive research, this remarkable, intimate account tells the story of how World War I reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, ...

A unique opportunity for students to learn biology through stories told by one of the great science storytellers of our time: Sean B. Carroll. This...

Reducere. (Book). The definitive history of the world's most famous 12-string electric guitar. When the Byrds recorded their hit version of Dylan's ``Mr. Tam...

DescriptionThe Story of Britain is an accessible one-volume history that clearly depict Britain's origins--and explain how the past shaped the nati...

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 ...

A heartfelt portrait of President George H.W. Bush-and his post-presidential life-by a confidante who knew him well.Publisher: Little, Brown & Comp...

Reducere. It's 1968. Himiko Hamilton struggles in a graceless marriage in a country that is not her own. Having come from Japan at the end of World War II an...

Reducere. The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery--and of the Black mariner whose stunning accom...

Reducere. Here's the story of the Great Pyramid and the people who built it. In the author's telling, the Old Kingdom comes alive: a nation of farmers living...

Reducere. Author of The American Line: 1871-1902 and coauthor of Majesty at Sea and the first edition of QE2, Flayhart retells classic ocean liner disaster s...

The story of how Hip Hop got its start, told by Gene "Poo Poo Man" Anderson, the promoter at the center of it all. From "Rapper's Delight" and the ...

Reducere. "Company town." The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip...

In 1956, the era of tail-finned cars and nineteen-cents-a-gallon gasoline, the Missouri Pacific Railroad emerged on the corporate scene as a privat...

Reducere. "It is impossible to remain unmoved by Gregory's emotional, open memoir of surviving the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. . . . This is a truly fee...

Established in the 19th century to carry passengers and freight across the Atlantic and Pacific, this is the story of the development of the compan...

Reducere. The true tale of a voyage that broke a man down and built him back up, with the help of one special horse. At 36 Jesse McNeil--at times carpenter, ...

Reducere. The "Great Magness Trial" was one of the most celebrated murder cases in early Tennessee history. David Magness shot and killed Major Patton Anders...

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 ...

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 ...

The epic story of the world's longest and greatest railway, as told by Britain's bestselling transport historian.

Reducere. More than one hundred Indian tribes in fifteen language groups inhabited the area of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Western Montana in the nineteen...

Reducere. DescriptionA follow on in the journey through Autism and Aspergers - this, the third book in Rachel's series - enters a new diagnostic space as she...

Reducere. An exciting debut novel set in the exotic, bustling streets of coastal China--a woman whose life is restored when she opens a small caf and gains t...

Reducere. Immigrant Soldier, The Story of a Ritchie Boy, based on a true story, begins on Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom that marks the beginning of the Holo...