City of Abraham. History, Myth and Memory: A Journey through Hebron, Paperback - Edward Platt

The City of Abraham is a journey to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and an account of the shared roots of the three great monotheist...

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A journey that explores floods and flooding in all its forms: Platt investigates the ways in which water has shaped our landscape, our literature a...

A wide-ranging study of the history of the Jewish community and its impact in Europe.

A book about the joys and pleasures of running, the highs and lows of life, the history and landscape of Ireland, and so much more.

A book about the joys and pleasures of running, the highs and lows of life, the history and landscape of Ireland, and so much more.

Reducere. DescriptionThe transformative power of imagination, the elusive dream world of the unconscious, our changing relationship to nature, and the enduri...

DescriptionThe rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shap...

Reducere. 0n May 24, 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in ...

Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dict...

This immersive, accessible and thought-provoking book takes the reader on a journey - from Los Angeles to Istanbul, via London, Stockholm and Belgr...

Reducere. Winner of the 2001 The Lincoln Group of New York's Award of Achievement A History Book Club Selection The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is usual...

Reducere. Includes a bonus excerpt from Bob Greene's forthcoming Late Edition: A Love Story There is something absolutely magical about Bob Greene's voice.--...

Reducere. A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story--Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln's historic second inaugural address as the lens thr...

Reducere. A Washington Post Best Book of the YearBerlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest...

A classic and vivid history of Ukraine 'Gripping history' The Times'Beautifully written and lovingly researched' Daily TelegraphPublisher: Orion Pu...

Reducere. With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth centu...

Reducere. Description Part memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self-portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on bo...

Reducere. The authors developed a fondness for Chicago sports and its heroes by the time they reached six years of age. They managed to forge lifelong friend...

Reducere. In A Journey Through Childhood the author leaves behind Lydia Clark, a young widow, and her husband, George, who disappeared mysteriously. Their te...

In this practical book, Linda Sasser introduces you to basic information about your brain and helps you understand the differences between normal a...

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Reducere. Description"Among the cobwebs and faint light that streams through the boards of broken windows, photographer Jeff Hagerman hopes to unravel the se...

Reducere. In the darkness of the early morning of 3 March 1949, practically all of the Transylvanian aristocracy were arrested in their beds and loaded into ...

Reducere. One of the most resilient images of the Vietnam era is that of the anti-war protester -- often a woman -- spitting on the uniformed veteran just of...

A groundbreaking new story of women's journey through medicine, exposing the historic origins of the gender pain gap.

Reducere. Borderland tells the story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongol...

Reducere. Gene Simmons' mother survived the Holocaust but the rest of her family perished in the camps. Gene 'played' at being evil in an attempt to understa...

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...

Reducere. What does it mean to deeply love a home place that haunts us still? From Mark Twain to Grant Wood to Garrison Keillor, regionalists from the Gilded...

"Rebecca West's magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time." --The New Yorker Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West's classi...

Reducere. Coaches and Coaching Throughout the Ages travels through time when horses led coaches down every trail turned street to the modernization of coachi...

DescriptionAfter discovering a derelict record plant on the edge of a northern English city, and hearing that it was once visited by David Bowie, K...

Reducere. A sweeping yet intimate history of the diverse individuals who, together, make up America. Ronald Takaki uses letters, diaries & oral histories to ...

In this experiment in ethnographic place-writing, cultural geographer James Riding aims to get at the heart of post-conflict Bosnia via a series of...

Tells the tale of the authors childhood spent in the city of Caliphs, Scheherazade and the land of the Garden of Eden, of traditions passed down ov...

Reducere. Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War. In Through the He...

Focussing on the Australian South Sea Islander minority community this volume employs a variety of theoretical arguments in order to contribute a n...

Description"This is a freaking great book and I highly recommend it...if you are passionate about the history of 'the world's greatest city, ' this...

Reducere. Things New and Strange chronicles a research quest undertaken by G. Wayne Clough, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution born in the So...

Reducere. Old Odessa, on the Black Sea, gained notoriety as a legendary city of Jewish gangsters and swindlers, a frontier boomtown mythologized for the adve...

The Great Cold War is arguably the most fascinating account yet written about the Cold War--and a timely enunciation of the lessons we need to lear...

DescriptionThe Cradle of Humankind--a paleoanthropological site about 30 miles northwest of Johannesburg, listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site...

Will to Freedom is an eyewitness account of the social and political upheaval that shook Eastern Europe from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. As an ...

The history of Chopin's 24 Preludes proves rich in stories and characters in this look at the instruments the Preludes were played on, the pianists...

Reducere. Exposing your students to the rich tapestry of African American history is now easier than ever! From the earliest civilizations in Africa, all the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Suzannah LipscombFor the armchair traveler or for those looking to take a trip back to the colorful time of Henry VIII and ...