Coatesville and the Lynching of Zachariah Walker: Death in a Pennsylvania Steel Town, Hardcover - Dennis B. Downey

Reducere. DescriptionOn a warm August night in 1911, Zachariah Walker was lynched--burned alive--by an angry mob on the outskirts of Coatesville, a prosperou...

Reducere. One hundred years ago, in 1911, two young men lost their lives: one from a stab wound and the other by mob action. In an attempt to explain how suc...

Complicating historical narratives associated with the history of lynching in the city of Salisbury, The Silent Shore explores the immediate and li...

Reducere. Two intrepid girls hunt for a legendary treasure on the deadly high seas in this YA remix of the classic adventure novel Treasure Island.1826. The ...

As the twentieth century dawned on western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, the region's steel industry faced a struggle for unionism. Unionists like...

Reducere. Northern urbanite D. B. Tipmore describes the culture shock he experienced after moving to a small Alabama town in My Little Town: A Pilgrim's Port...

Reducere. Hidden in Plain Sight: A History of the Newberry Mass Lynching of 1916 is a fast-paced narrative history of a 1916 mass lynching in North Florida, ...

Provides an account of the rebellion of the unprotected frontiersmen and the unfranchised artisans, who constituted two-thirds of the population in...

Reducere. A classic of investigative journalism, the pamphlets of Ida B. Wells-Barnett shine a light on the evils of racism in the United States. With a cont...

Reducere. During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This interest create...

Reducere. Seneca Possessed examines the ordeal of a Native people in the wake of the American Revolution. As part of the once-formidable Iroquois Six Nations...

In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire...

A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy. "You simply cannot unders...

Reducere. A mother's search for the son she gave up uncovers terrifying secrets in a Minnesota town in this "masterfully depicted true-crime tale" (Publisher...

TOWN OF BAR: Jewish Pages Through The Prism Of TimeThe history of Jewish community of the town of Bar, Ukraine. From the beginning of the establish...

If you know how to program, you're ready to tackle Bayesian statistics. With this book, you'll learn how to solve statistical problems with Python ...

A selection of the best of men's street fashion, through the last ten years. For the last decade, Giuseppe Santamaria has observed and recorded the...

Reducere. Carl Wade Ryder-brother, son, and all-around good person-was murdered on August 5, 2006.Blood was found at his home in Franklin County, PA.All evid...

Reducere. Description"A substantive contribution to the history of ethnic strife and extreme violence" (The Wall Street Journal) and a cautionary examination...

Reducere. "Good food . . . Endearing characters."--Sheila Connolly, New York Times bestselling authorIn the quiet coastal community of Cape Willington, Maine...

Publisher: Granta BooksAuthor(s): Barbara (Y) DemickPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 128 x 200 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera far...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Brian AlexanderNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 136 x 210 x 25Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, de...

If you understand basic mathematics and know how to program with Python, you're ready to dive into signal processing. While most resources start wi...

In 1952, John T. "Jack" Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer, was shot down over Manchuria. He was captured by the Chinese and held for the ...

Python for Software Design: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - Allen B. Downey

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In the early 1930s, Sheriff Levi Taylor is called to Wallton's creek where the body of a six-year old girl lies strangled. Citizens in the small to...

Reducere. Cape Willington's annual Winter Moose Fest is in full swing when the sightings of a mysterious white moose-and rumors of a dead body found in the w...

Examines the life and work of William Lamport (d. 1659), an Irish rebel, soldier, poet, and thinker who was burned at the stake by the Inquisition ...

DescriptionThe second novel in the unforgettable, long lost series by Ralph Dennis is finally back in print... after being coveted for years by col...

Reducere. Hidden in Plain Sight: A History of the Newberry Mass Lynching of 1916 is a fast-paced narrative history of a 1916 mass lynching in North Florida, ...

32 sights in a town are illustrated in exploratory detail, challenging the reader to spot the people walking from page to page. Attractively combin...

Reducere. The overwhelming majority of Jews who laid the foundations of the Israeli state during the first half of the twentieth century came from the Polish...

Reducere. The area known as Dogtown--an isolated colonial ruin and surrounding 3, 000-acre woodland in seaside Gloucester, Massachusetts--has long exerted a ...

Reducere. Join award-winning author and photographer Carol Walker as she tells the story, in words and photographs, of the wild horses of Adobe Town herd of ...

If you're a student studying computer science or a software developer preparing for technical interviews, this practical book will help you learn a...

What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the beli...

Reducere. The focus of Conquistador's Wake is a decade-long archaeological project undertaken at a place now known as the Glass Site, located in Telfair Coun...

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Captivating. --Kirkus Fascinating, deeply reported, and slightly eerie. --BookPage (Starred Review) The Quiet Zone will live on in your memory. --B...

Reducere. For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-mak...