Big History

Reducere. Discover how we got to where we are, in this multidisciplinary approach to 13.8 billion years of human and cosmic history With the Big Bang as its ...

When the Japanese war machine swept through South-East Asia in early 1942, it was inevitable that conflict would reach Australian territory on the ...

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley LtdAuthor(s): DKNumber of pages: 376Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 256 x 215 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

The years after World War I have often been seen as an era when Republican presidents and business leaders brought the growth of government in the ...

Publisher: Page Street Publishing Co.Author(s): Shannon Wong-NizicIllustration(s): 60 photosNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923Publisher: Yale Univer...

Reducere. America's most popular progressive radio host Thom Hartmann reveals how the government and corporate America misuse our personal data and shows how...

Reducere. First published in 1926 and respected ever since for its measured view of the most famous battle in the American West, The Story of the Little Big ...

Reducere. The New York Times-bestselling history of the first half of the twentieth century--five decades that transformed America--from the author of Only Y...

Reducere. "(The Least Among Them) is the ultimate insider book." - Marty Appel "This charming and meticulously researched book will remind you of baseball's ...

The definitive, compulsively readable story of the greatest era of the most iconic league in college basketball history--the Big East "This book ca...

In the early months and years of World War II, it was Germany's cruisers and battleships that most ravaged the Atlantic Convoys. This is the histor...

Reducere. American Big-Game Hunting: The Book Of The Boone And Crockett Club Edited By Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell This book is a result of an e...

A collection of the greatest goalscorers in the history of British football. Profiles of 50 of the greatest, including Bloomer, Dean, Greaves, Law,...

A collection of the greatest goalscorers in the history of British football. Profiles of 50 of the greatest, including Bloomer, Dean, Greaves, Law,...

Features photographs of some of the world's largest and most spectacular bugs. From the heaviest cockroach to the spider with the longest legs, thi...

The story of the New York Police Department, America's largest and most celebrated law enforcement agency.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Jules...

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The Big Bend region of Texas-variously referred to as "El Despoblado" (the uninhabited land), "a land of contrasts, " "Texas' last frontier, " or s...

Reducere. Originally published in 1950, first-hand memoirs offer a rare look at ranch life and big-game hunts in the Davis Mountains of West Texas and the Gi...

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Have you always dreamed of living in Silicon Valley and having an easy, perfect life? Well, think again. In Jeremie Gluckman-Picard's In the Shadow...

I was born and spent my early years in the West River country of South Dakota. This story is built from the many hours I spent talking with my Moth...

Reducere. Visiting the redwoods in nineteenth-century California meant coming to Big Trees Grove, now part of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. This forest o...

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Reducere. With more than eighty recipes and stunning photography, writer and radio host Stella Fong marries cherished local ingredients with world flavors. S...

Reducere. This history concerns the wars with the Native Americans, as the United States expanded westward and sought to exert its control over greater porti...

Reducere. DescriptionAlmost 7, 000 fans eagerly packed into the Ringling Brothers big top on July 6, 1944. With a single careless act, an afternoon at the "G...

Reducere. The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State is a groundbreaking history of death in Montana. It offers a unique, reflective, and sensitive persp...

Reducere. Since the 1950s UPS has been partner in its own "Silent Movement" to develop and promote African Americans from entry level positions to the C-Suit...

An Album of Indian Big Tops, chronicling the circus industry in India from 1880 to 2010, was written by Sreedharan Champad, a flying trapeze artist...

Reducere. Discover the rich and complex history of the peoples of Africa, and the struggles and triumphs of Black cultures and communities around the world. ...

Reducere. Big history becomes engaging and personal in Big History, Small World by Cynthia Stokes Brown, the first guide in English to a new approach to hist...

City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinn...

In 1908, author John Fox Jr. published his best-selling novel The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, and with it, he brought Big Stone Gap into homes acro...

Reducere. The small things that had great historical consequences..."Heart-stopping, compelling, and fun!" Win Blevins, New York Times Bestselling AuthorHow ...

When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed ...

Drawing on examples ranging from ancient Greece to Tony Blair's Britain, this title addresses 20 of questions that have asked over the centuries ab...

Featuring a variety of updates and revisions, Big History and the Future of Humanity, Second Edition, presents an accessible and original overview ...

Reducere. Join field biologist Richard MacDonald on a year-long journey to document the birds of Acadia National Park and Downeast Maine. As you read this bo...

Reducere. Strap in for a rip-roaring ride through the history of the universe, starting with the Big Bang, and bringing us right up to present day. What was ...

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early ...

Reducere. Winner First place in The Wyoming State Historical Society's 2014 Awards Program. Ambush on Elk Mountain is the true story of the murder of two dep...

Reducere. Hollywood was not always a bastion of liberalism. Following World War II, an informal alliance of movie stars, studio moguls, and Southern Californ...

Reducere. Big Medicine from Six Nations is a series of reminiscences and essays by the late Ted Williams, on the themes of "Medicine" (physical/spiritual/psy...

Reducere. In 1871, Jacob and Isaac Kaufmann created a classic Pittsburgh institution. The business grew from a small store on the South Side to a mammoth clo...

The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for centuries.

Basil Davidson's unsurpassed study of the struggle against colonial rule in Gunea-Bissau and Cape Verde

Reducere. When Dallas turned 150 years old in 1991, Rose-Mary Rumbley celebrated the occasion by writing The Unauthorized History of Dallas-a history that ta...

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Reducere. This book offers glimpses into the rich history of Bayfield, Wisconsin's most eclectic restaurant, Maggie's. From its inception as a corner bar wit...

The advent of Big Data is a recent and debated issue in Digital Archaeology. Papers consider the historiographic context and current developments, ...

DescriptionHauntings lurk and spirits linger in the Show Me State Reader, beware Turn these pages and enter the world of the paranormal, where ghos...

Reducere. Everything You Need to Ace World History . . . kicks off with the Paleolithic Era and transports the reader to ancient civilizations-from Africa an...

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Reducere. Why do some cryptographic systems fail and others succeed? Stephen Kelley's new book, Big Machines, explores this fundamental question of cryptolog...

Reducere. William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful gro...

The unique character of San Francisco's Chinatown is revealed in a historical map and fascinating photographs This colorful and celebratory time ca...

Reducere. Jack Crabb, hero of Little Big Man and beloved chronicler of the Wild West, is back in the saddle again. This time he meets, drinks with, and rides...

Reducere. What's your Fart IQ?Did you know that cats fart more in Pennsylvania? That Mississippi students go to jail for farting? That there's a movie award ...

From the Rock 'n' Roll pioneers of the 1950s to the 21st century rockers, this is the first-ever complete and fully illustrated History of Rock mus...

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Reducere. They were the most famous women in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the thre...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

This book illuminates a set of crisis and conflicts that marked the 1920s and 1930s in the area between the Baltic and the Black Seas, demonstratin...

Reducere. In her inimitable storytelling style, Mrs. Windham takes readers on a tour of the history, people, and places of the "heart of Dixie." First publis...

A lighthearted meditation on the philosophical quandaries of the hit television show The Big Bang Theory Ever wonder what Aristotle might say about...

Almost 7, 000 fans eagerly packed into the Ringling Brothers big top on July 6, 1944. With a single careless act, an afternoon at the "Greatest Sho...

Reducere. Reveals how the Rothschild Banking Dynasty fomented war and assassination attempts on 4 presidents in order to create the Federal Reserve Bank - Ex...

Reducere. Sergeant Charles Windolph was the last white survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn when he described it nearly seventy years later. A six-y...