Archaeology in Washington, Paperback

Leading mining historian Kerby Jackson introduces us to a classic mining work in this important re-issue of "Gold in Washington". Unavailable since...

Ski jumping, once Washington's most popular winter sport, was introduced by Norwegian immigrants in the early twentieth century. It began at Spokan...

In the years after World War II, Georgetown's leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors who helped shape American strategy. Thi...

Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation, Paperback

It Happened in Washington takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Evergreen state's s...

Reducere. In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's parliamentary majority in British electoral history and proceeded to tran...

Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China's formative era of phar...

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 ...

In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-hist...

Reducere. Sylvia Hood Washington's Packing Them In provides strong and often startling evidence of the depths and complexities of environmental racism in Chi...

Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and...

Description1940s, Washington DC. Government girl Louise is blackmailed into investigating the suspicious death of a missing co-worker, with siniste...

Reducere. In 1854, and again in 1856, Rev. Eli Washington Caruthers published a compilation of stories, gathered over the course of many years, that spotligh...

Reducere. Now in paperback, and following her extraordinary, bestselling, and much-acclaimed accounts of the most guarded secrets of the Second World War, he...

Reducere. The discipline of black history has its roots firmly planted at 1538 Ninth Street, Northwest, in Washington, D.C. The Victorian row house in Black ...

"Shaber does a fine job portraying the plight of alien residents in wartime Washington, besides conveying the hectic atmosphere of a city whose res...

DescriptionIn the summer of 1943, Hester Moore was employed in the communications department of E.I. DuPont. She was called into the head office an...

The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against othe...

A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960-1279)--medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes--depict women who were co...

Reducere. The Great Suffrage Parade was the first civil rights march to use the nation's capital as a backdrop. Despite sixty years of relentless campaigning...

Reducere. "Written in 1965 about a same-sex sexual scandal that occurred in 1955 in Boise, Idaho, John Gerassi's classic study depicts both middle America's ...

Reducere. China's vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geog...

This book traces the history of the development, abandonment, and eventual revival of George Washington's original vision for a grand national capi...

Reducere. The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the ...