American Time Bomb: Attica, Sam Melville, and a Son's Search for Answers, Hardcover - Joshua Melville

"American Time Bomb is a vital read for this moment. " --Heather Ann Thompson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Blood in the Water: The Attica ...

Reducere. Now presented with a son's thirty years of research to provide new context. In June 1970, Sam Melville pleaded guilty to a series of politically mo...

Reducere. In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aram...

DescriptionOver the past few decades, the complicated divides of geography, class, religion, and race created deep fractures in the United States, ...

**A New York Times Editors Choice** The most substantive biography of the artist to date...propulsive, positive and persuasive.--Holland Cotter, Ne...

Having left most of Moby-Dick with a printer in 1851, Herman Melville lamented to Nathaniel Hawthorne that he would go down in history as a "man wh...

Reducere. Brought to you by the long-time writer of Hellboy's B.P.R.D, John Arcudi curates a magnificent collection of over fifty illustrations inspired by t...

Reducere. A journey to find Norway's supposed bliss makes for a comic travelogue that asks, seriously, what makes Norwegians so damn happy--and does it trans...

Reducere. Colectia Mari clasici ilustrati cuprinde cele mai cunoscute capodopere ale literaturii universale. Titlurile seriei fac parte din lista de lecturi ...

Reducere. Moby Dick. Dupa un roman de Herman Melville Copiii adora povestile, iar cele clasice au fost intotdeauna printre favoritele lor. Totusi, uneori, o ...

Reducere. Both history and memoir, The Flight tells the story of Richard W. "Dick" Bridges's heroic service in World War II. Bridges survived a German attack...

Publisher: Melville House PublishingAuthor(s): Randall KenanNumber of pages: 149Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 181 x 16Cover type: Paperba...

Reducere. Volumul de fata cuprinde patru povestiri in cadrul carora, asa cum afirma cercetatoarea Nathalia Wright, personajele lui Melville sunt preocupate d...

DescriptionThey all came from the mud. The people of the Southern Village fulfill their duty to the field of mud at the village's center, helping u...

Reducere. Observati un lucru. Ne aflam intr-unul dintre cele trei tinuturi nelocuite care, situandu-se cam la aceeasi distanta de continent, vegheaza intreag...

DescriptionA celebration of the revolutionary potential of women working with other women, and a powerful statement about myths like the "cool girl...

Reducere. Cand se hotaraste sa se imbarce pe o nava de vanatoare de balene, tanarul Ismael nu are nici cea mai mica idee despre incredibila aventura care il ...

Reducere. ...for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.The 500 page book of the American classic...

Reducere. Herman Melville's absurdist classic is printed anew in this presentable hardcover edition. First published in 1853, Bartleby, the Scrivener has bee...

DescriptionThe mixture of journalism, history and fiction; the presentation of a sequence of striking characters; the metaphor of a sailing ship as...

Call me Ishmael. These three famous words begin one of America's most epic novels, a tale of one obsessed captain, his doomed crew, and an elusive ...

The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9, 000-mile journey along its many contested borders Sharing borders wi...

A look at Nobel Prize winning American author Ernest Hemingway's life in Cuba, based on never seen before archives and interviews. With information...

Reducere. Do you want to read Moby Dick? If so then keep reading... Moby-Dick, one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature, follows t...

Reducere. El narrador, Ismael, un joven con experiencia en la marina mercante, decide que su siguiente viaje será en un ballenero. De igual forma se convence...

Reducere. "Llamadme Ismael" es una de las primeras frases más recordadas en la historia de la literatura. Así comienza Moby Dick, la gran obra maestra de Her...

Josh Greenberg is my kind of nature writer.--The Wall Street Journal It's the beginning of trout fishing season, and Josh Greenberg -- proprietor o...

Reducere. Ginette Vincendeau discusses the artistic value of his films in their proper context and comments on Jean-Pierre Melville's love of American cultur...

DescriptionA gripping and subversive novel about the slippery nature of truth and the tragic consequences of American idealism ... Leonora Gelb cam...

DescriptionThe FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe c...

Reducere. "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two part...

Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): Alan MelvilleNumber of pages: 624Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 273 x 247 x 36Cover type: Paperba...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lynn MelvilleThrough daily readings and affirmations, the reader is led into an inspirational, experiential journey as seen...

DescriptionA dazzling, inventive literary adventure story in which Captain Ahab confronts Captain Nemo and the dark cultural stories represented by...

Based on historic events, and frighteningly relevant to today's headlines -- a taut thriller about one American diplomat's year of living dangerous...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Herman Melville"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell...

The past decade has seen major political upheaval in Latin America--from Brazil to Chile to Venezuela to Bolivia--but to understand what happened, ...

Description"This is a book about counterculture, and that's a problem . . . " So begins Curtis White's thrilling call for the revitalization of cou...

Description"Nothing less than astonishing..."--Booklist (starred review) From a renowned international journalist comes a galvanizing international...

"At last--a global plan that actually adds up."--James Hansen, former director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies The world must reach negat...

Reducere. 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 ...

Billy Budd & Other Stories - Herman Melville

DescriptionWhat does Melville studies look like after a phase of intense critical activity? This book addresses that question by analyzing Melville...

Wonderfully imagined and wonderfully written . . . Superb! -- Lee Child Part Wolf Hall, part The Name of the Rose, a riveting new literary thriller...

On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by a crazed captai...