Century of Wind

'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops' A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, includi...

Reducere. The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) is a collection of poems and plays by W.B. Yeats. Containing many of the poet's early important works, The Wind Amo...

Reducere. The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus. The chief gladiators were two great leg...

Reducere. The Wind Among the Reeds is a classic collection of Irish poetry by William Butler Yeats. All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and o...

For more than a century, The Wind in the Willows and its endearing protagonists--Mole, Mr. Toad, Badger, and Ratty--have enchanted children of all ...

Reducere. The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast-paced, it focuses on fo...

Set in the last century against a tropical landscape and the ever-present sea, A High Wind in Jamaica tells the story of a family of English childr...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. A new addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series, . After carving a place f...

SMOKE IN THE WIND is the eleventh spine-chilling mystery in Peter Tremayne's extraordinary series featuring 7th-century Irish super-sleuth Sister F...

A biography of seventeenth century trader Captain Thomas Bowrey.

Making a piece of wood move is fun, but making it tell time is truly amazingInside this book you'll find ingenious plans for creating awesome woode...

An utterly gripping love story set in nineteenth-century Norway, about a woman rescued from the sea, the fisherman who marries her, their tiny and ...

Reducere. Wind energy. It's free. It's green. It's healthy. It's sustainable. And it's lucrative for property-owners. If only this popular narrative were tru...

Reducere. Welcome to the wonderful world of whirligigsWhirligigs are small, wind-driven toylike objects -- often called -wind toys- -- that whirl and twirl o...

"The greatest enterprise of its kind in history, " was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English D...

Reducere. DescriptionDespite its Harry Potter-like title, The Book of the Cave of Treasures is actually a rich seam of Jewish and Christian apocryphal lore, ...

Contributor(s): Author: R. M. BallantyneOne night, soon after we entered the tropics, an awful storm burst upon our ship. The first squall of wind ...

The revived cult of Pan recognizes him as the god of fields, groves and wooded glens. This connects him to fertility and the season of spring, with...

Woody and Little Pip, the acorn children, begin an adventure flying through the air on an autumn leaf. When they don't come home their friend Hazel...

DescriptionThis title is a detailed, illustrated guide to the Douglas D-558, the ground-breaking US Navy research aircraft which became the first a...

Reducere. The third volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Century of the Wind offers a panorama of Galeano's singular vision of the past, turbu...

Reducere. One of the Best Books of the Year The New York Times - San Francisco Chronicle - The Economist - Kirkus Reviews In the twenty-first century, airpla...

Reducere. Celestia, daughter of Jon and Martina has been taught well by her Gap-crosser father. Like him, she has learned to leap the Galactic Antipaterminal...

Reducere. The chase is on in New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown's gripping new foxhunting mystery, featuring the irrepressible "Sister" Jane Ar...

Reducere. DescriptionBay breezes from the Gulf of Mexico sweep into this sparkling city by the sea. The sound of the wind, waves, and shore birds transport h...

Reducere. The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 was no run-of-the-mill misfortune-it was a watershed moment that shook the pillars of an inveterate social order and ...

DescriptionMichael Stephenson's Patriot Battles is a comprehensive and richly detailed study of the military aspects of the War of Independence, an...

Reducere. An easy-to-follow, nine-step process for how to land your dream job and cut through the noise of job-searching in the 21st century. Banging your he...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: D. M. DoolingIntroduction by: Vivian Arviso One FeatherAfterword by: Elaine A. JahnerThe Sons of the Wind presents the myth...

Reducere. One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German.We have a marvelous, almost legendary, i...

Reducere. AN ENGAGING AND INSIGHTFUL WESTERN ADVENTURE. He was called White Buffalo, and he would be the greatest medicine man the People had ever known. The...

Reducere. Hope doesn't only want to listen to her father's stories about his voyages at sea, she wants to be part of those stories. And so, unbeknownst to he...

Reducere. An expert treatise on the origin and evolution of dunes, this classic work was used by NASA in studying sand dunes on Mars and is appropriate for u...

Reducere. Sleeping Beauty meets Indiana Jones in this thrilling fairytale retelling for fans of Sorcery of Thorns and The Cruel Prince. Fi is a bookish treas...

Reducere. It's been a century since readers first ventured into the Green Forest to encounter Reddy Fox, Grandfather Frog, Jimmy Skunk, and other winsome cha...

DescriptionFor well over a century, Milwaukee shoppers have had Gimbels or Schuster's on the brain. Even if they didn't crave sewing notions or pri...

Reducere. Living in twenty first century Dallas, teenager T. Bone Stone and his dog, Little red, are mysteriously hurled back in time to Indian Territory in ...

Reducere. Defining the Wind is a wonderfully written account of one man's crusade to learn about what the wind is made of by tracing the history of the Beauf...

Reducere. From hermitages on wind-blasted holms to dour nineteenth-century preaching barns; from a splendid cathedral founded by a Norse earl to a Nissen hut...

Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivo...

Reducere. In the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico's Mora Valley harbors the ghosts of history: troubadours and soldiers, Plains Indians a...

Reducere. Coastal Delaware, Maryland and Virginia have always been vulnerable to the power of storms. In the early nineteenth century, storm-driven shipwreck...

DescriptionFrom wood to coal to oil and gas, the sources of energy on which civilization depends have always changed as technology advances. Now re...

Reducere. Nobility. Garden parties. Luxury. Prestige. War breaks out. Merry Hall and its male heirs are now at stake. From the time of William the Conqueror,...

Reducere. They rise, limbs interlocked like a mighty phalanx engaged in a slow northward march along Florida's coast. Collectively, they are battered and dim...

A page-turning historical thriller set in 19th century Barcelona, this bestselling debut is }Frankenstein{ meets }The Shadow Of The Wind{.

Reducere. First published in 1808, The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor became a standard guide throughout the 19th century in both England and the United St...

DescriptionThe story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world A thirtieth-century toxic...

DescriptionNow in paper, a droll memoir by a world-class physicist that includes recollections of his involvement with pioneering laser research, e...

DescriptionAn astonishing untold story from the nineteenth century--a "riveting...engrossing...'American Epic'" (The Wall Street Journal) and neces...

Reducere. Winner of BEST HORROR NOVEL (August Derleth Award) at British Fantasy Awards 2016For generations the Villarcas have died mysteriously, and young. N...

Reducere. Have you ever encountered a noblewoman who was so beautiful that every time she walked by a body of water, the divine being who lived there kidnapp...

Reducere. DescriptionIs America in jeopardy?Any day, America could be held hostage over critical minerals used in all advanced technologies due to the decade...

Reducere. Despite the significant role they have played in Texas history for nearly four hundred years, the Lipan Apaches remain among the least studied and ...

Reducere. Four hundred years ago, in a small town in rural France, a young woman creates the future in the shape of Rupetta. Part mechanical, part human, Rup...

In Listening to the Wind, Ian Preece sets out on an international road trip to capture the essence of life for independent record labels operating ...

In the early days of the nineteenth century, water was a significant means for transporting both goods and people throughout this burgeoning nation...

Reducere. Known as one of the most ethereal children's fantasies by George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind has been a favorite among families for ov...

Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it sto...

Reducere. This volume presents the weird fiction of the American writer Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930). Better known for her mainstream writings focusin...

Reducere. Cumberland Island is a national treasure. The largest of the Sea Islands along the Georgia coast, it is a history-filled place of astounding natura...

Reducere. A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo--the ...

Contributor(s): Author: Richard HeinbergAuthor: David FridleyOne of GreenBiz's Six Best Sustainability Books of 2016 The next few decades will see ...

Description100 traditional yet surprisingly modern recipes from the far northern corners of Russia, featuring ingredients and dishes that young Rus...

With over 75 nourishing recipes and herbal remedies, this cookbook and seasonal guide to wellness brings the ancient wisdom of the elements to the ...

Reducere. DescriptionFor well over a century, Milwaukee shoppers have had Gimbels or Schuster's on the brain. Even if they didn't crave sewing notions or pri...

Reducere. Could railroads, the oldest form of mechanized mass transportation, be the key to unlocking solutions to some of the greatest challenges of the 21s...

Reducere. Coastal Delaware, Maryland and Virginia have always been vulnerable to the power of storms. In the early nineteenth century, storm-driven shipwreck...

Reducere. John's Island (also spelled "Johns Island") is the largest Sea Island and the second largest island on the East Coast. The legendary Angel Oak, a r...

Reducere. In 1832, Benjamin Bonneville led the first wagon train across the Continental Divide on the Oregon Trail. Financed by a rival of the Hudson's Bay C...