Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier

Reducere. The "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, se...

Reducere. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER" The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revelatory." -- ...

Reducere. A detailed account of Ant Farm's 1975 Media Burn performance, a legendary act of consumerist critiqueThis book examines the complex set of cultural...

The seminal reference book which started the literature on Islam and the West. This classic study by Norman Daniel explores the political and relig...

DescriptionDreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles's pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depressi...

As a study of presidential image-fashioning, FDR in American Memory will be of immediate relevance to present-day readers.Publisher: Johns Hopkins ...

Publisher: The Dovecote PressAuthor(s): Anne SebbaIllustration(s): 8 pages platesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 199 x 131 x ...

The story of the dynamic, driven, and sometimes despised third wheel in the creation of America's iconic theme park While the success of Disneyland...

Reducere. The Queen of the Ring is the story of Mildred Burke, the longest reigning champion of female wrestling. In this in-depth account, Pulitzer Prize-wi...

Reducere. Examines how the Irish American community, the American public, and the American government played a crucial role in the making of a sovereign inde...

When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren groun...

DescriptionINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER" The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revel...

Reducere. In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustr...

Reducere. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work t...

Contributor(s): Author: Tom ChaffinIn 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already ...

In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the new--the cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally i...

Hall of Famer, Olympic gold medalist, NBA Champion, MVP, and All-Star could all be used to describe the illustrious career of Spencer Haywood on th...

Reducere. "A pathbreaking work about how policies forged in blood and fire in Latin America were then exported to every corner of the globe. This brilliant a...

Using a cohesive approach that combines linguistics, legal history and colonial studies, this study advances our knowledge of creolistics. Focusing...

The full inside story of the iconic Ford Transit by an acknowledged expert

In Robert Motherwell: The Making of an American Giant, published to coincide with Motherwell's centenary, author Bernard Jacobson examines Motherwe...

Representing a significant re-examination of the Tarikh al-fattash, proved to be one the most important nineteenth-century sources for the history ...

A Washington Post 2019 Notable SelectionA vivid and inspiring account of the "bromance" between Barack Obama and Joe Biden.The extraordinary partne...

DescriptionMunich, 1972. In the men's 400-metre freestyle race, America's Rick DeMont beats Australia's Brad Cooper by a hundredth of a second. It'...

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 ...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Graham DominyNumber of pages: 320Collection: History of Military OccupationPublication date: 2016...

Reducere. How does an underground oddity become a cultural phenomenon? For over 40 years, the rock band Kiss has galvanized the entertainment world with an u...

Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Malcolm AndrewsIllustration(s): 64 color plates, 65 halftonesNumber of pages: 356Publication date: 2021Dimensio...

Reducere. This book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged again Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resour...

A bold new biography of the thinker who demolished accepted economic theories in order to expose how people of economic and social privilege plunde...

In this new and fully revised edition of Oklahoma! The Making of an American Musical, author Tim Carter brings newly uncovered sources, including c...

David Martin is one of the most distinguished writers on Christianity and society in modern times; his many influential writings and broadcasts ran...

Reducere. Madam C. J. Walker-reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire-has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former ...

Reducere. The Making of an Old Soul: Aging as the Fulfillment of Life's Promise is the healing vision of a woman who is a scholar in the fields of adult and ...

Reducere. In this pioneering biography of a frontline Holocaust perpetrator, Alex J. Kay uncovers the life of SS Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Filbert, responsib...

The Santa Fe Ring versus Billy the Kid: The Making of an American Monster, by Gale Cooper (888 pages in hardcover and paperback) exposes New Mexico...

Reducere. The Santa Fe Ring versus Billy the Kid: The Making of an American Monster, by Gale Cooper (888 pages in hardcover and paperback) exposes New Mexico...

Reducere. As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain of Ameri...

Description**The National Bestseller** From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating, wild, and wonder-filled...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Shamus Rahman KhanAs one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, h...

Publisher: Merlin Unwin BooksAuthor(s): James BattyIllustration(s): 26 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dime...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Christopher J. LebronStarted in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLiv...

Reducere. This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this...

This book examines the ways in which writers' houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novel...

Social conflict and the making of a globalized place at Rosia Montana - Filip Alexandrescu

Home to over 730, 000 people, with close to four million people living in the metropolitan area, Seattle has the third-highest homeless population ...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnishe...