Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause

In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjelten fuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum business with Cuba's tumultuou...

Reducere. THE LONG BLINK is a narrative nonfiction book by Emmy Award-winning journalist, Brian Kuebler, who exposes the staggering cost of the American truc...

Reducere. This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many lay...

DescriptionArdkinglas is a 45, 000-acre estate in Cairndow, a beautiful area of the Highlands at the head of Loch Fyne. Sir Andrew Noble, the autho...

Reducere. "Fred Kaplan's Lincoln offers penetrating insights on Lincoln's ability to explain complex ideas in language accessible to a broad range of readers...

Weaves political, social and art history of Florence into a lively whole. This book features photographs and illustrations and line drawings that d...

Reducere. Clementine Churchill -- shy, passionate, and high-strung -- shunned publicity but was in the limelight throughout her adult life. As a young woman,...

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 ...

A guide to the use of the avian embryo in studies of vertebrate development. It includes approaches to analysis of the chick genome, gene knock-out...

Combining passion and zeal with a savvy understanding of the press, Eliot Spitzer, scourge of Wall Street, has brought down some of the biggest nam...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark StevensOther: Carol Bloom StevensKing Icahn is an unparalleled human drama. It is the story of a man who rose from hum...

The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Today, zero lies at the he...

Designated a World Heritage Site, the landscape around Avebury in north Wiltshire contains a remarkable wealth of archaeological remains, including...

Reducere. Now in paperback, this major biography of J.E.B. Stuart--the first in two decades--uses newly available documents to draw the fullest, most accurat...

In this book Geert Mak returns to the small Frisian village of his childhood, Jorwert (pop. Jowert has more in common with an English village than ...

Reducere. This book, a National Book Award nominee in 1988, is the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his love affair with Monticello. For...

The story of the famous painting by Picasso and its diverse meanings from its conception to the present day

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 ...

To be effective, sovereignty must be secured through force or consent by those living in a territory, and accepted externally by other sovereign st...

Reducere. Anthony J Randall examines the life of Joan Clarke and her role in breaking the Naval Enigma at Bletchley Park, alongside Alan Turing. An outstandi...

Reducere. Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global l...

Description"Sargent makes you feel simultaneously drawn into and excluded from the sisters' world, a phenomenon that Erica E. -Hirshler explores in...

The New York Times bestseller about the state of college football: Why we love the game, what is at risk, and the fight to save it--"A fascinating ...

Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of Lo...

In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth cent...

Burundi is a small Central African country with a complex history of ethnic tension. This book traces the origins of its political crises, sheds li...

While his early childhood was unimpressive, Einstein later earned the respect of the entire world and won the coveted Nobel Prize. His name is the ...

Reducere. DescriptionRobert Beck, better known as Iceberg Slim, was an American pimp who subsequently became an influential author among a primarily African-...

Reducere. WINNER OF THE 2014 SEYMOUR MEDAL sponsored by the Society for American Baseball Research and finalist for 2014 SABR Larry Ritter AwardThough his pi...

William Morgan, a tough-talking ex-paratrooper, stunned family and friends when in 1957 he left Ohio to join freedom fighters in the mountains of C...

Fr Edward Ryans and his housekeeper abandon a baby girl on the doorstep of a house near the Black Church in Dublin in February 1923. Following the ...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Charles BookerIllustration(s): Black and white chap. Open, . 8PG 4C insertNumber of pages: 272Publication...

He tried to make a difference but instead he lost his career. A teacher is persecuted for trying to do the right thing and is ultimately dismissed ...

Reducere. DescriptionMeet John W. Tukey, one of the most consequential statisticians and original thinkers of the twentieth century. Growing up one hundred y...

Contributor(s): Author: Aaron PutzeIt's 1981 and the Iowa Hawkeyes are struggling for football respectability after decades of losing. Coach Hayden...

Offers an account of more than five decades of success as a performer, concert promoter, songwriter, music publisher, engineer, and record producer...

Reducere. Vivien Goodman Malloy's life as a "long shot" began years before her life as a horsewoman and horse breeder--in fact, her long-shot die was cast be...