America Alone

A smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nig...

Reducere. In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens of people and abducting close to four hundred to sell into slavery in Algier...

When the Viet Nam War ended, with the United States of America defeated, many wondered how a military powerhouse lost to a "raggedy-ass, little fou...

Reducere. Vinyl 1Side A: The Loveliest Night Of The Year (From "The Great Caruso")Where Do I Begin? (From "Love Story")Maria (From "West Side Story")The Cide...

Reducere. Tom Kline has been an adventure racewalker for fifty years. He has walked the remotest lands on our planet, alone and on foot. Experience the sensa...

Reducere. A promise keeps them apart until WWII threatens to destroy their love foreverFonzaso Italy, between two wars Nina Argenta doesn't want the traditio...

Reducere. The first lone circumnavigation of the globe under sail This book is widely regarded a classic of sailing literature because it is an account writt...

Reducere. Masterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the co...

Reducere. Before World War II, Abe and Sonia Huberman were two soulmates happily married and in love, living a peaceful life with their family in Warsaw, Pol...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Don JordanAuthor: Michael WalshWhite Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage...

World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challen...

Reducere. This remarkable and beautifully illustrated book chronicles the history of Canada's western mountain glaciers through stunning photography, persona...

DescriptionUnpublished Dennis Hopper: new light on the 1960s and the actor's unique transit through American historyDennis Hopper: In Dreams connec...

Reducere. Lilo and Ernst survived the horrors of WWII in the center of Berlin, but not without help. An incredible tale of survival and kindness.Lilo was jus...

More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African...

Reducere. In the twenty-first century there are two ways to study logic. The more recent approach is symbolic logic. The history of teaching logic since Worl...

As the vestiges of the Roman political machine began to collapse in the fifth century A.D., the towering figure of Pope St. Leo the Great came into...

Reducere. Alone, the beautiful young Anna immigrated to America from an Island in the North Sea at 16, running from cruelty. Honor forced her to leave her fi...

The emergence of the early American republic as a new nation on the world stage conjured rival visions in the eyes of leading statesmen at home and...

Reducere. DescriptionA major new look at the work of one of America's foremost self-taught artistsBill Traylor (ca. 1853-1949) came to art-making on his own ...