Big Oyster. A Molluscular History of New York, Paperback - Mark Kurlansky

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 ...

An erudite and affectionate history of the Basque people, a nation without a country, the origins of which go back to pre-Roman times, and whose ow...

The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare.

B format edition of Kurlansky's history of salt and its influence on the events of history and on the culinary traditions of nations around the wor...

Reducere. The author of the comparable food histories }Cod{ and }Salt{ turns his attention to the much-mythologised and expansively various substance profoun...

Reducere. In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the...

Reducere. Can the cinema imagine a different way of developing, using, and living in the city? Is it possible to do so using images of the extant city? Seein...

Reducere. In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct ...

The internationally bestselling author says if we can save the salmon, we can save the worldPublisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): Mark Kurlans...

The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence centred around the infamous slum of Five...

A dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad, Whitehead recreates the chaos, promi...

A twisting YA novel from New York Times and international bestselling thriller writer Matthew ReillyWhen Skye Rodgers and her brother Red move to M...

Reducere. In 1825, Mordecai Noah, a New York politician and amateur playwright possessed of a utopian vision, summoned all the lost tribes of Israel to an is...

- Written by true locals, addresses selected after independent research, 100 lists of 5 addresses/secrets each. What are the 5 most beautiful build...

Reducere. CALL OF CTHULHU ROLEPLAYING] SECRETS OF NEW YORK is a compendium of one of the oldest and most popular cities in the new world, and is a supplement...

Reducere. The authors scoured New England and New York in search of orchids. The result is this handy book that makes field identification a snap. Learn abou...

In his new global food history, the internationally bestselling author says if we can save the salmon, we can save the worldIllustrations: 8-page c...

In The Importance of Not Being Ernest, acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky focuses on the sprawling life and ...

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 ...

Reducere. Mycologists Alan and Arleen Bessette offer a complete guide to mushroom identification in New York State. Written for readers interested in the saf...

Publisher: Triumph BooksAuthor(s): Mark FeinsandNumber of pages: 256Collection: The FranchisePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 150 x 223 x 38Cover ...

Reducere. "A fascinating and absorbing chapter of New York social and financial history-it is hard to understand why it has never been written before."-Louis...

The essays in this book combine the authors' personal experiences walking through the landscape and among the plants of Western New York with both ...

Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more effi...

DescriptionIn this is the classic indictment of slum life, written by one of the most famous reformers of the nineteenth century. "How the Other Ha...

Reducere. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) is a novel by American writer Stephen Crane. Self-published by Crane when the author was only 22 years old, Ma...

The year 1968 encompasses the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media. It was the year of sex and drugs and ro...

Most cops are trying to right grievous wrongs. Few, however, have to deal with the horrific crimes of their own father...

Bob Dylan in the Big Apple takes you on Dylan's journey through the streets of New York - the locations, characters and stories that formed a backd...

Reducere. Saint Joan of New York: A Novel about God and String Theory, Paperback

Reducere. From bestselling duo Laura Krauss Melmed and Frane Lessac comes an alphabetical picture book tour of one of the greatest cities in the world, New Y...

Reducere. A Fairy Tale of New York is a funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Returning from study abroad, Cornelius Christian enters customs with his...

Reducere. What do we actually know about stone walls? about the people who built them, and why? Stone walls are not simply monuments to the skill of Yankee f...

Publisher: BiblioLifeAuthor(s): New York Chamber of CommerceIllustration(s): Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 12Publication date: 2009Dimension...

Reducere. Award NameParents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007)Award categoryApprovedDiscover how a game of lacrosse led to a victory for the Ojibwatribe again...

Reducere. Description..".Invaluable as a quick reference for the dozens of terms, case names, and criminal concepts buzzing back and forth in (New York) cour...

Reducere. The story of the Thomas Indian School has been overlooked by history and historians even though it predated, lasted longer, and affected a larger n...

From its origins as a primitive Dutch outpost to the sprawling urban complex it is today, the defining characteristic of New York has been constant...

Reducere. In Ultimate Upstate Chuck D'Imperio mines deep into his travel journal and shares an astonishing array of fun and amazing places in Upstate New Yor...

"Gets closer to this marathon than an avenue railbird, and it leaves impressions not fleeting, but lasting."--Sports IllustratedThe New York City M...

Reducere. This brand-new collection packs hours of fun solving into a portable paperback. Enjoy 200 of light and easy puzzles, chosen from Monday and Tuesday...

Reducere. A complex and troubled history defines the borders of upstate New York beyond the physical boundaries of its rivers and lakes. The United States an...

Reducere. From bestselling duo Laura Krauss Melmed and Frane Lessac comes an alphabetical picture book tour of one of the greatest cities in the world, New Y...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and a...

Reducere. Announcing the paperback edition of World Without Fish, the uniquely illustrated narrative nonfiction account--for kids--of what is happening to th...

"How the Other Half Lives" is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th ce...

Reducere. "There are eight million stories in the Naked City." This famous line from the 1948 film The Naked City has become an emblem of New York City itsel...