Big History

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

Reducere. From pioneering superstars like Tris Speaker and Rogers Hornsby and Negro League standouts Smokey Joe Williams and Willie Well to present-day lumin...

Nicknamed the Big Red One, 1st Division had fought from North Africa to Sicily, earning a reputation as stalwart warriors on the front lines and ra...

Reducere. The big Horn Basin of northern Wyoming was one of the last frontiers in the continental United States. With settlers did not arrive until 1879, whe...

Reducere. DescriptionThe summer of 64--the height of the Cold War You will gain a new respect (or frightening concern) for the military component of our fore...

Reducere. Colonel Henry Knox forms an expedition to transport sixty tons of brass and iron weaponry from Fort Ticonderoga (where they had been left behind by...

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

Reducere. The Rio Grande makes a large bend into Mexico and forms the "boot heel" of Texas that is the Big Bend. Big Bend National Park nestles inside this m...

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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 ...

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...

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. DescriptionFrom the Big Bang to your birthday, and (almost) everything in between, this funny and informative book tells your story.You are one of ...

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...

Reducere. The definitive history of writing and producing the"Big Book" of Alcoholics Anonymous, told through extensive access to the group's archives. Alcoh...

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

DescriptionHow our understanding of calculus has evolved over more than three centuries, how this has shaped the way it is taught in the classroom,...

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...

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...

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,...

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. 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 ...

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

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

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

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. Temple's Tigerbelles: An Illustrated History Of The Women Who Outran the World is a celebration of a unique rags to riches story unlike any other.T...

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. 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...

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 ...

It's the revolutionary world history study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest. Everything You Need to Ace Wor...

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...

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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...

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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...

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

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 A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (of both JFK and RFK) Lisa Pease lays out, in meticulous detail, how witnesses with evidence ...

Reducere. The widely acclaimed study of what's gone wrong in American higher education.What do we know about the history, origin, design, and purpose of the ...

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. This book contains all the puzzles from two of our popular books combined: Dot-to-Dot Landmarks for Adults & Dot-to-Dot Beautiful Landmarks, for mu...

Reducere. Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks transports the reader back in time to the days when steamboats, buckboards, and gas lighting were common. Jane an...

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

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: M. D. WhalenHow much do you know about farts?Did you know it would take just nine farts from every person on earth to power...

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

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

This book will take the story of astronomy on from where Allan Chapman left it in Stargazers, and bring it almost up to date, with the developments...

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 ...

How old is the universe? How are humans related to a sponge? Where did most of the world's water come from? How much would a complete T Rex skeleto...

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...

Reducere. BLOOPER: BALL SQUIRTS THROUGH BILLY BUCKNER'S LEGS. BLUNDER: BILLY BUCKNER'S MANAGER LEFT HIM IN THE GAME. Baseball bloopers are fun; they're funny...

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