American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree, Paperback - Susan Freinkel

Reducere. The American chestnut was one of America's most common, valued, and beloved trees--a "perfect tree" that ruled the forests from Georgia to Maine. B...

Reducere. In 1963 the waters began rising behind Glen Canyon Dam and 170 miles of the Colorado River slowly disappeared as the riverbed and surrounding canyo...

Reducere. At the end of World War I, the United States Army--despite its recent experience with trenches, machine guns, barbed wire, airplanes, and even tank...

Reducere. "Simply put, Harry Mathias has done it again. "The Death & Rebirth of Cinema" solidifies Mathias's standing as THE great translator of film-to-digi...

Genevieve Trimble's remarkable story of Afton Villa began with a tragedy. In 1963, fire ravaged the forty-room Victorian Gothic plantation home on ...

Reducere. The surprising rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches story of how Michael Jackson grew a billion-dollar business. Michael Jackson is known by many as th...

Reducere. Idaho Library Association Book AwardJulie Whitesel Weston left her hometown of Kellogg, Idaho, but eventually it pulled her back. Only when she ret...

In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. ...

In Somebody to Love, biographers Mark Langthorne and Matt Richards skilfully weave both Freddie Mercury's incredible pursuit of musical greatness w...

Reducere. Making wine on Europe's largest active volcano doesn't come easy. Frequent changes in topography, elevation, and weather influence each vintage and...

Publisher: Rudolf Steiner PressAuthor(s): Rudolf SteinerTranslator: A. R. MeussNumber of pages: 174Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 143 x 216 x 14...

A new popular psychology title exploring the science behind out-of-body & tunnel experiences (OBEs) from astral projection to near death experience...

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Reducere. Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair w...

A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences.In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and...

Reducere. 16 lectures, various cities, Oct. 26, 1912 - May 13, 1913 (CW 140) In these lectures Steiner deals with the experiences of the human soul during an...

Reducere. In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town bec...

Publisher: Vitra Design MuseumAuthor(s): Susan FreinkelIllustration(s): 80 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 140Publication date: 2022Dime...

Publisher: Shambhala Publications IncAuthor(s): Tulku ThondupNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 227 x 153 x 24Cover type: Paperb...

One of Rolling Stone's Best Music Books of 2015From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface, comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop...

Reducere. In 1823, Hugh Glass did the unthinkable: he wrestled a grizzly bear...and won. But that is only the beginning of the remarkable tale--Glass, badly ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gregory McNameeFor sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ec...

Every May, a sea of 250, 000 people decked out in red and white head to Chicago's Loop to celebrate the Polish Constitution Day Parade. In the city...

In a tale marrying the insight of Sue Townsend with the farcical humour of John O'Farrell, a priceless cello is abducted, a conductor is stranded o...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line of the toughest battle our nurses have had to fig...

Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, The Death and Life o...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Brian AlexanderNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 136 x 210 x 25Cover type: Paperback / s...

Lenka Janiurek's memoir discusses the men who defined her life, and the challenges of identity, belonging and family.

DescriptionA Dangerous Woman is Susan Ronald's revealing biography of Florence Gould, fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid ...

Reducere. Settled in the 1600s, Brooklyn Heights is one of New York s most historic neighborhoods. Its strategic location overlooking the harbor proved instr...

Reducere. The Pure Land Dharma Door is the most popular form of Buddhism in Asia, though it is largely unknown in the West. In this book, we introduce the Pu...

Reducere. A reevaluation of psychoanalytic theory, based on a Freudian interpretation of the history of Western civilization

Reducere. In a major new biography, veteran military historian and WII biographer, Charles Whiting combines both talents to tell the tale of barefoot Texan s...

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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 ...

Life in one of the world's oldest civilisations is considered in relation to the contemporary nature of an Egypt in flux since the revolution of 20...

American author, journalist, and activist Jane Jacobs was born in 1916 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She moved to New York City in 1934, where she bec...

Reducere. Before the Twin Cities established themselves as a hotbed for stand-up comedy, producing some of the biggest names in comedy history, the local sce...

Reducere. Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely ...

DescriptionA rich and illuminating biography of America's forgotten Founding Father, the patriot physician and major general who fomented rebellion...