Cholera. How the Blue Death Changed History, Paperback - Mark K. Lewis

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The bubonic plague is a disease spread by fleas that live on rats. Outbreaks of the disease killed millions of people. Read this book to learn more...

In 1968, at the climax of the sixties, Os Guinness visited the United States for the first time. There he was struck by an impression he'd already ...

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A senior executive, and father of an autistic child, transforms how a top US retailer employs people with disabilities.

A delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventure. "Publishers Weekly, "Starred Eel has troubles...

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'Rappaport uses new sources to give a vivid account of Albert's death . Drawing widely on contemporary letters, diaries and memoirs, Rappaport brin...

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London's East Enders are known for being a tough, humorous and lively lot. The old East End communities were gone forever. Told by the residents th...

Contributor(s): Author: Meika LoeSince its introduction in 1998, Viagra has launched a new kind of sexual revolution. Quickly becoming one of the m...

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Reducere. How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful h...

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Reducere. Mark K. Olsen shares a collection of inner experiences which are meant to steer readers to a path of fulfillment on their Spiritual journeys in his...

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Reducere. Old Blue, Texas' most revered longhorn, worked for rancher Charles Goodnight. But Blue has almost been forgotten by history. In 1998 a mysterious o...

Reducere. On January 3, 1961, nuclear reactor SL-1 exploded in rural Idaho, spreading radioactive contamination over thousands of acres and killing three men...

Reducere. The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another...

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The story of the 1944 development of an unprecedented surgical procedure that saved babies' lives and paved the way for all types of open-heart sur...

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An action-packed account of one of the most crucial battles of WW2. The WW2 invasion known as D-Day was the largest military endeavour in history. ...

In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of...

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Reducere. In 1982, Walt Disney Productions was in serious trouble. Its films were no longer drawing audiences into theaters. In the era of "Star Wars" and "R...

After the collapse of the Han dynasty, China divided along a north-south line. Lewis traces the changes that underlay and resulted from this split ...

Empire of Sentiment opens up a new area of the emotional history of imperialism, showing why a history of the emotions is crucial to understanding ...

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Reducere. The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America, Paperback

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Signs of Civilisation provides an account of the rich cultural history of punctuation.

December 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abra...

Publisher: Prometheus BooksAuthor(s): Jeff PearceIllustration(s): 24 Illustrations including: - 21 Black and White Illustrations; - 3 Maps.Number o...

The incredible story of how the village of Lesmahagow has influenced the world in a variety of fields, from industry to espionage, throughout history.

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These were the shadows that hung over a country paralysed by frozen heating oil, burst pipes and power cuts. And yet underneath the frozen surface,...

No previous book has explored deeper or broader into Napoleon's seething labyrinth of a mind and revealed more of its complex, fascinating, provoca...