H. H. Holmes: The Life of the American Ripper, Paperback - Hourly History

Reducere. DescriptionH. H. HolmesH. H. Holmes' story has become one of legend. Holmes committed his crimes at a time in history where the idea of murdering o...

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Reducere. DescriptionAmerica's first and most notorious serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. H. H. Holmes:...

Jack the RipperIn 1888, between August and November, the women of London's East End were terrorized by a deranged serial killer. A man was stalking...

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize Finalist Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly...

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Reducere. DescriptionValley of the Shadow joins a fraternity of published first-person accounts of the fall of the Philippines, including the surrender of Co...

Reducere. When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that t...

The true saviour of Little Round Top at Gettysburg was a 26-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer, who paid with his life to defend that hill. This is t...

Reducere. A fun, nostalgic look at the great American stores of yesteryear and their rise and fall.The wealthy and leisured lady of the 1920s shopped in a pa...

Reducere. Three adventures of Sherlock Holmes, very much in the style of the original stories, by a writer who has been acclaimed as the reincarnation of Sir...

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Reducere. The Pattons is an exceptional portrait of the famous military family, eloquently written by the grandson of its most illustrious member, George S. ...

This American history volume is intended by the writer as an introduction basic American history and as an introduction to his larger work entitled...

Description"No soldier could ask for a sweeter resting place than on the field of glory where he fell. The land he died to save vies with the one w...

A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times-bestselling author sets a new standard for histories of the American WestIllustrations: 24 Ha...

Reducere. The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen...

Reducere. This groundbreaking study clarifies the differences between British and American English and defines the distinguishing characteristics of American...

Reducere. Buffalo at the Crossroads is a diverse set of cutting-edge essays. Twelve authors highlight the outsized importance of Buffalo, New York, within th...

All too often, when Americans think of the American Revolution, they think only in terms of the events that occurred in the thirteen English coloni...

Reducere. For more than five hundred years, explorers roamed the wilderness of North America, some in search of a route to the East or fabled cities of gold,...

Reducere. Milton H. Erickson was the most influential hypnotherapist in the 20th Century. The extant literature on Erickson, including his own numerous writi...

Reducere. In this compelling and crisply written biography, historian Joseph Wheelan examines the life and wars of the indomitable General Phil Sheridan, who...

Reducere. FOAM. This acronym has been used for over ?fty years at Rensselaer to designate an upper-division course entitled, Foundations of Applied Ma- emati...

Reducere. This thoroughly researched book is a history of the development of Western horoscopic astrology from its origin among the Babylonians and its subse...

Sherlock Holmes and his friend, Dr. John Watson, are no strangers to danger-but a visitor's claim that they are to be the targets of an assassin is...

Reducere. From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique ...

Publisher: Pearson Education (US)Author(s): Susan H. ArmitageNumber of pages: 968Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 230 x 276 x 35Cover type: Paperb...

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Reducere. "The best book by far on the Pacific War" (The New York Times Book Review), this classic one-volume history of World War II in the Pacific draws on...

In this lively narrative history, Robert H. Patton, grandson of the World War II battlefield legend, tells a sweeping tale of courage, capitalism, ...

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The first biography of Robert Welch, who founded the John Birch Society and planted some of modern conservatism's most insidious seeds.Publisher: T...

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Reducere. For the past nine years, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has been tweeting the history of the United States. But this has been no ordinary version...

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