Burt Lancaster: An American Life, Paperback - Kate Buford

Reducere. Now in paperback, here is the critically acclaimed, best-selling biography of one of Hollywood's legendary stars. Burt Lancaster is known to audien...

Reducere. A revelatory look at the life of the great American author--and how it shaped his most beloved worksJack London was born a working class, fatherles...

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Part memoir and part description of the creative process, this is an absorbing journey through the musical landscape of John Adams, one of today's ...

"This magnificent and important biography...is the best ever written on the man." - The New Republic; "Mr. Schickel's excellent and important biogr...

Reducere. Going Rogue is the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir from Sarah Palin, one of America's most beloved and controversial political figures. Now wi...

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Reducere. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fasci...

Reducere. A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President, charting how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California b...

Reducere. After barely making it out of the Congo War alive and experiencing South Africa right after apartheid, Yves and his family fled their homeland and ...

Reducere. Three heartwarming tales of old friends and new beginnings that span one year in an Amish community.A Change of Heart by Beth WisemanLeah is no goo...

Celebrated plantsman Roy Lancaster's chance find of a Mexican tobacco plant in a local allotment sowed the seeds of his future career. In this, the...

An anthology of true stories, edited by Paul Auster and chosen from 4, 000 entries sent in to his programme on National Public Radio, which come to...

From pre-war murmurings to postwar memorials, John Fidler's engaging account of Lancaster in World War II draws on first-hand recollections, newspa...

Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. In this award-winning classic work of consensus history, Richard Hofstadter, author of The Age of...

Reducere. The Holocaust in American Life, Paperback

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Reducere. This memoir celebrates the Sicilian life in America, while providing a sociological portrait of the immigrant experience in the US. The author remi...

Thousands of readers have found an exciting new vision for the second half of life in the best-selling book, Halftime. Bob Buford showed us that we...

Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty--and sheer variet...

History is recorded in many ways. According toauthor James Deetz, the past can be seen most fullyby studying the small things so often forgotten.Ob...

Savor the richness and beauty of wool appliqué—its texture, depth, color, and design. Well-known, award-winning folk artist Rebekah L. Smith will i...

Reducere. From Central District Seattle to Harlem to Holly Springs, Black people have built a dynamic network of cities and towns where Black culture is main...

Reducere. In this hybrid memoir, Alberto Ledesma wonders, At what point does a long-time undocumented immigrant become an American in the making? From undocu...

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Reducere. Description*Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journa...

Reducere. Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and com...

Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration o...

Reducere. Treat yourself to a lively, intuitive, and easy-to-follow introduction to computer programming in Python. The book was written specifically for bio...

Edward Stanton is a 39-year-old with Asperger's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder who tracks his most common waking time (7: 38 a.m.), ref...

Reducere. Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography - Winner of the Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize - Winner of the W...

Kate Gunn was a social drinker, usually having a few drinks about three nights a week. But she had an inkling that alcohol was holding her back fro...

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 ...

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. An American Slave: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave Frederic...

An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials The preeminent American slave narrative first publ...

Reducere. ``Now, `` said he, ``if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a s...

Reducere. Delmore Schwartz was only twenty-four in 1938 when his first book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, was published. and received praise from T. S. ...

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Reducere. Kat D. Williams traces Isabel "Lefty" Alvarez's life from her childhood in Cuba, where she played baseball with the boys on the streets of El Cerro...

Reducere. Winner of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture (2005)Readers of Cheaper by the Dozen remember Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) as the ...