Golden Age, Paperback

Reducere. The years 1945-1959 marked the time when basketball truly became the sport of Indiana. High school basketball bound together communities across the...

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous of all fictional detectives but, across the Atlantic, he had plenty of rivals.Between 1890 and 1920, American wr...

Reducere. This coloring book for kids is filled with adorable cats to colour. Perfect for both girls and boys who love kittens, caticorn toys, and cat activi...

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Most horror film fans are familiar with the classics, from the early Universal archetypes to the Hammer landmarks - all of which have been celebrat...

This book investigates the cultural and political conflicts that translation brought into the new Abbasid state from a sociological perspective, tr...

Beauty and glamour meet deception and revenge in this electrifying novel by New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick.Publisher: Little, Brown...

Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. Villains of all Nations re...

In this book Saint Germain explains that his actual vision for what is possible in his Golden Age is so far beyond what we see manifest today that ...

When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for its portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer co...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Gore VidalNumber of pages: 480Collection: Vintage InternationalPublication date: 2001Dimensions: 132 x 20...

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"A continuation of 1994's groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi's Animation: a world history is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive t...

Reducere. The music world exploded into Technicolor on February 9, 1964, when the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and ignited the music phenomenon d...

Reducere. ComicsAlliance and ComicsBlend Best Comic Book of the YearBUST Magazine "Lit Pick" RecommendationCertified Cool(TM) in PREVIEWS: The Comic Shop's C...

Reducere. Of all the giants of golf's Golden Age, Bobby Jones was the most revered. His intelligence, modesty, eloquence, and charm--and the fact he remained...

Reducere. This unique, one-volume encyclopedia contains entries on the more than 2000 superheroes, private eyes, cowboys, pilots, and adventure heroes who ap...

Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challeng...

"A well written, informed, and at times exciting account" (Choice) of the field of Egyptology, part two of Thompson's bestselling monumental histor...

The enthralling true story of the curious life and career of Maud West, one of Britain's first and best-known female detectives.

Kenneth Grahame captured the imagination of the English speaking world with his books in the early 1900s. Later "The Wind in the Willows" and "The ...

Reducere. Scott Stephens received his first set of roller skates at age six in 1966 - and soon he was staging Roller Derby games in his backyard. Growing up ...

'If the 1960s were a wild weekend and the 1980s a hectic day at the office, the 1970s were a long Sunday evening in winter, with cold leftovers for...

A case from Lord Peter Wimsey's past returns, in a dazzling novel from Jill Paton Walsh.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Jill Paton WalshNum...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading If one were to glide over the ...

A multidisciplinary volume that reframes children as powerful forces in the production of their own literature and culture by uncovering a traditio...

Reducere. "I'm worried. . . .This damned black-out. I'm afraid of what may happen in the dark."Artists' model Althea Greville was, in life, known as somethin...

"Do you want to make 500 pounds? If you do and are willing to earn it, write to..." So reads the handbill thrust on Car Fairfax. He is literally do...

Explores the history of the famous cathedral as part of the School of Chartres through its great teachers Fulbertus, Bernadus Silvestris, John of S...

Quite simply, Go to the Games with Humble: Kern Tips and the Golden Age of SWC radio is a one-of-a-kind book. For the first time, the history of th...

Reducere. Prepare yourself for macabre spectacle and contes cruel, crawling things and loathsome gods, predators from deep inside the mind of man and from fa...

As battles over school desegregation helped define a generation of civil rights activism in the United States, a less heralded yet equally importan...

This book explores what life was really like for everyday people in the Islamic Golden Age, including Baghdad around AD900. Supported by timelines,...

An insider's story of creativity and innovation at Apple under Steve Jobs. Creative Selection shows readers how a small group of people developed a...

1100 years ago Baghdad was the world's biggest and finest city. Discover this glamorous, glorious desert city - its art, literature and learning - ...

The final novel in Jane Smiley's masterpiece - the Last Hundred Years trilogy.

For all their pride in seeing this world clearly, the thinkers and artists of the English Renaissance were also fascinated by magic and the occult....

Reducere. DescriptionDagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age, a period of climatic cooling that r...

DescriptionShazam made his debut in Whiz Comics in 1940, and outsold his biggest competitor, Superman, by 14 million copies a month. It wasn't long...

Reducere. DescriptionTogether they looked down at the inert sprawling figure of a man fantastically dressed in red-and-white-striped pyjama trousers, with a ...

Reducere. Description"We've managed to head off the Press men so far. But that won't last. We can't escape publicity, and the reading public enjoys murders."...

Reducere. She was looking at the place where the mirror had hung. It didn't reflect anything because the glass was gone. Instead there was a blackness, a dar...

Reducere. Ice is still. Death is still. But no living flesh should be as still as this... Agent Stephen Enderby, known in Russia as Red Stefan, meets Elizabe...

Reducere. DescriptionMurder in the poisoned bosom of a genteel, if alarmingly dysfunctional, family in the English countryside.Dennyford is a "peaceful littl...

Reducere. You have a business. A brand. Or at least an idea. Maybe you started a social media account. Maybe you even grew that account. And made some conten...

Colin Alexander looks at the interwar period, a high-water mark in industrial design as the benefits of streamlining were realised.Publisher: Amber...

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In the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile centred on London's Covent Garden something extraordinary evolved in the eighteen...

Reducere. The monumental classic collection that studies the ancient Christian writers and their teachings about the early Church.

Reducere. Just because you can't respect a movie doesn't mean you can't enjoy it. A seminal text of the VHS nostalgia movement, The Golden Age of Crap serves...

Publisher: Double Dragon PublishingAuthor(s): Marilyn PeakeNumber of pages: 140Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 9Cover type: Paperback...

An account of how Spanish painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dealt with mystic visions in their art, and of how they attempted to ...

A vivid account of the men and women who revealed the treasures of Ancient Egypt to the world, from the first decipherment of hieroglyphics to the ...

A paradigm-shifting history that reveals how the early Christian churches in the East helped to shape the Asia and the Christianity we know todayPu...

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The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles

* The magnificent concluding volume of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history.

DescriptionSherlock Holmes was not the only solver of crimes to patrol the gaslit streets of late Victorian and Edwardian London. The years between...

DescriptionThe combined events of the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the first transcontinental railroad opening in 1869, and the financial...

Reducere. "They are letting me say good-bye. I'm to be shot to-morrow. It will be over by the time you get this..." Laura stood, pale and trembling, in the v...

Reducere. Katharine Hepburn stars in what play at the climax of Stage Door? Can you name the classic in which a cigarette is put out in a jar of cold cream? ...

During the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic was transformed into a leading political power in Europe, with global trading interests. It nurt...

Reducere. She held the candle steady and, stooping, touched the smeared patch with the tip of her finger. The stain was blood. When Sarah Marlowe, secretary ...

Reducere. I he most authoritative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colorful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "raiders and rebels" who ...

DescriptionReveals how humanity's first advanced culture originated in the Altai-Baikal region of southern Siberia - Explores how this prehistoric ...

DescriptionSince the first interactions between Christians and Muslims, a central point of contention has been the nature of God in relation to the...

Reducere. "I think you're tempting fate when you say that you will never go back to Danesborough." Chloe laughed, suddenly, frankly. Her eyes were black agai...

Reducere. Ten years He had been dead ten years Uncannily alike in appearance were the twins, Jim and Jack Laydon. Both, too, loved beautiful Evelyn Prothero....

Reducere. "I hate him worse than I hate snails, and worms, and slugs, and spiders with hairs down their legs..." Bride-to-be Mally was an unlikely fugitive f...

How the Golden Age of transatlantic travel between the wars transformed women's lives across all classes - a vivid portrait of life on-board the ic...