American Windmills: An Album of Historic Photographs, Paperback - T. Lindsay Baker

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In the spring of 1874 a handful of men and one women set out for the Texas Panhandle to seek their fortunes in the great buffalo hunt. Moving south...

Classic document of social realism contains 37 photographs by famed Victorian photographer John Thomson, accompanied by individual essays by Thomso...

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The US Constitution says nothing about a presidential cabinet, yet this institution has grown powerful. Lindsay M. Chervinsky tells the story of Ge...

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Reducere. In 1952, Jack Faragasso, a young art student, hired a model for a photo shoot. The model was Bettie Page before her career took off to the heights ...

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Practicing lawyers, students, and informed general readers will learn the general principles of American systems of criminal justice, and will obta...

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Publisher: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): Derek NicholasIllustration(s): 184 black and whiteNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 21...

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The American Fraternity is a mysterious photo and ritual book that lifts the veil on America's oldest and most influential male tradition. The text...

Reducere. Rare photographs document the lives of Cheyenne people during the early reservation years In 1878 the Northern Cheyennes left what is now Oklahoma,...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Libbie GrantNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 203 x 36Cover type: Paper...

The United States is at a crossroads. Despite a defense budget that dwarfs that of any of the nation's rivals, the marginal return on this investme...

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A thrilling novel of love, loyalty, and espionage, based on the incredible true story of Elizabeth Bentley, a Cold War double agent spying for the ...

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DescriptionSince taking up photography in the mid-1960s, Robert Adams (born 1937) has quietly become one of the most influential chroniclers of the...

A deliciously classy tale of an American heiress, an English blue blood and the hunt for happiness from the acclaimed scriptwriter for the epic dra...

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