Excellent Cadavers. The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic, Paperback - Alexander Stille

Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino set out to destroy the Mafia. In 1992, aware that the magistrates didn't have the support of the Italian gove...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Barry LintonArguably the greatest Empire to ever exist, Rome has indelibly left a significant mark on the modern world. The...

Over the last three decades, Italian crime fiction has demonstrated a trend toward a much higher level of realism and complexity. The origins of th...

Reducere. In this gripping memoir, perfect for true crime fans, former San Francisco 49er Kermit Alexander recounts his thirty-year-journey to redemption aft...

Reducere. When British-born Elizabeth Blackwell earned her medical degree in America in 1849 there was an international outcry. Few at the time would have di...

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A Longman-History Today Book Prize FinalistWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year"Deeply thought...

Reducere. DescriptionI lived in the darkness for so long.No life. No choice.The devil owned me, body and soul-but not my heart. It was the only part of me wh...

Reducere. This is the original mafia story that spawned all the rest, the story of Chicago's ruthless and tireless mafia. The intensely real characters, the ...

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Reducere. This fast-paced and timely book from Vijay Prashad is the best critical primer to the Middle East conflicts today, from Syria and Saudi Arabia to t...

A dramatic account of Germany's slide from parliamentary democracy to dictatorship, and the history of Weimar Berlin in the three years before the ...

Tracing its beginnings as an underground society which sprang up in Sicily, to the Mob which went on to run organised crime throughout Italy and Am...

Seasoned and renowned BBC war correspondent Martin Bell provides a personal account of war and offers an impassioned call for a return to substanti...

In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Soc...

The author of the bestselling COSA NOSTRA explores the previously underexposed mafias of Southern Italy.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Joh...

Reducere. Award-winning author Alexander Stille has been called ?one of the best English-language writers on Italy? by the New York Times Book Review, and in...

In this second edition, Ancient Rome presents an extensive range of material, from the early Republic to the death of Augustus, with two new chapte...

Reducere. A history of Julian, the grandson of Constantine, and his failed attempt to reverse the Christian tide that swept the Roman Empire - Portrays the "...

Reducere. Here are nine new stories by Alan Good, author of The War on Xmas. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, occasionally a little of both, the stories in Th...

A dramatic account of Germany's slide from parliamentary democracy to dictatorship, and the history of Weimar Berlin in the three years before the ...

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 ...

The Portuguese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature exercises his capacity for darkness, intellectual inquiry and humour across these reissued ...

Marcus Porcius Cato ("the Younger") is most famous for being Julius Caesar's nemesis. His sustained antagonism was in large part responsible for pu...

Reducere. When Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in t...

Reducere. From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt--and what it mea...

Publisher: Crossway BooksAuthor(s): Francis A. SchaefferNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 215 x 16Cover type: Paperback /...

DescriptionThe Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powe...

Publisher: Prospect BooksTranslator: Timothy J. TomasikNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 142 x 218 x 23Cover type: Paperback / ...

Reducere. Alexander Pushkin, the greatest name in Russian literature, a voice that must reach English speakers again and again Could there be a nobler and mo...

Reducere. DescriptionA highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work. "U...

Tommy Ball, a key member of Aston Villa's 1923 all-star team, is the only English professional footballer deemed by law to have been murdered. The ...