Reducere. The concentration of power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a formative element of Mexican culture and politics as the historical legacy of the ...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, earth sciences
Reducere. "Masterly. . . . A triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis." --The New York Review of Books "Britain's finest contem...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. The DeepIn a twilight land, two warring powers -- the Reds and the Blacks -- play out an ancient game of murder and betrayal. Then a Visitor from b...
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Reducere. "Roberts'spopulist approach makes for a rollicking good read and never comes at theexpense of accuracy. His mastery of the huge variety of subjects...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. Originally edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, and revised and updated by Martha White. With a foreword by John Updike.These letters are, of course, be...
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Reducere. This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, graphic novels
Reducere. Award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau has written a gripping, definitive account that will stand as the last word on General William...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. Volume 3 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eigh...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in histo...
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Reducere. With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this updated edition of the classic national bestseller reviews the book's thirty-five year history and ...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one co...
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Reducere. "If one laughs when David Hackett Fischer sits down to play, one will stay to cheer. His book must be read three times: the first in anger, the src...
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Reducere. Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exactin...
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Reducere. From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind ...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. An epicintellectual history of Latin America by one of the region's most prominentthinkersInhis first book to appear in English since Mexico: Biogr...
Reducere. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Darkmans is an exhilarating, extraordinary examination of the ways in which history can play jokes on us all....
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Reducere. Working side by side in the White House, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger were two of the most compelling, contradictory, and powerful figures in ...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, politics & government
Reducere. Candid and revealing, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries brings together his thoughts on life, love, and death. Beginning in the p...
Reducere. Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics,...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. In the little town of Palomo Grove, two great armies are amassing; forces shaped from the hearts and souls of America. In this New York Times bests...
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Reducere. Ike is acclaimed author Michael Korda's sweeping and enthralling biography of Dwight David Eisenhower, arguably America's greatest general and one ...
Reducere. The past thirty-five years have marked an era of conservatism. Although briefly interrupted in the late 1970s and temporarily reversed in the 1990s...
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Reducere. If you're one of the thousands of parents who feel frustrated and overwhelmed by the different kinds of medical advice you're getting from doctors,...
Reducere. Following Napoleon's defeat and exile in 1814, the future of the European continent hung in the balance. Eager to negotiate a lasting, workable pea...
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Reducere. Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience...
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Reducere. An orphan raised in Valparaiso, Chile, by a Victorian spinster and her rigid brother, vivacious young Eliza Sommers follows her lover to California...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, historical fiction
Reducere. From the late-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, Spain was the most extensive empire the world had seen, stretching from Naples and the Nethe...
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Reducere. "Simply astounding. . . . The Kindly Ones is unmistakably the work of a profoundly gifted writer." -- Time A literary prize-winner that has been an...
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Reducere. A sterling collection of classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction evoking the unique spirit of the West and its people, selected and introdu...
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Reducere. Has there ever been a history of the world as readable as this?In The Human Story, James C. Davis takes us on a journey to ancient times, telling h...
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Reducere. "Superb professional history that moves boldly beyond the scholar's monograph to make the American past alive and exciting for the general reader."...
Reducere. DescriptionAn absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vie...
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Reducere. On the occasion of Mozart's two hundred and fiftieth birthday, read Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life, universally hailed as the Mozart biography of...
Reducere. From bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies, authors of the classic "Medieval Life" series, comes this compelling, lucid, and highly readab...
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Reducere. Combining firsthand scholarship and material drawn from the Jefferson Papers, Willard Sterne Randall calls on his skills as an investigative journa...
Reducere. When Consuelo Vanderbilt's grandfather died, he was the richest man in America. Her father soon started to spend the family fortune, enthusiastical...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. We all know absolute beauty when we see it--skin that glows with health and an outer bearing that projects inner tranquillity. Yet, despite our eve...
Reducere. With more than 300, 000 copies sold, this landmark book is an impressive examination of the importance of touching. "All professionals concerned wi...
Reducere. From the author of Women, Sex, and Addiction, a timely and controversial second look at 12-Step programs, helping all readers to draw on the steps'...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, medicine & nursing
Reducere. Groundbreaking, insightful, and compulsively readable, Revolution in Mind goes beyond myth and polemic to give us the story of one of the most cont...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin's Ghosts--a groundbreaking examination of the greatest e...
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Reducere. They came by boat from a starving land--and by the Underground Railroad from Southern chains--seeking refuge in a crowded, filthy corner of hell at...
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Reducere. A 2004 PEN/Malamud Award winner, this collection celebrates the work of American artist Richard Bausch -- a writer the New York Times calls "a mast...
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Reducere. Dorris Lessing's classic series of autobiographical novels is the fictional counterpart to Under My Skin. In these five novels, first published in ...
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Reducere. New Mexico Book AwardsIn nineteenth-century industrial America, while Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil, Morgan the money, and Vande...
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Reducere. From the co-author of KGB: The Inside Story and an acknowledged authority on the subject comes "the most important book ever written about American...
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Reducere. Peggy Guggenheim -- millionairess, legendary lover, sadomasochist, appalling parent, selective miser -- was one of the greatest and most notorious ...
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Karl BarthBarth stands before us as the greatest theologian of the twentieth century, yet the massive corpus of work which ...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion, philosophy
Reducere. Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdosed America shows that at the heart of the cu...
Reducere. "Douglas Brinkley has written a sweeping, blow-by-blow account of the struggle to preserve the last great remnants of American wilderness. An engag...
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Reducere. In this eye-opening companion volume to her acclaimed history Founding Mothers, number-one New York Times bestselling author and renowned political...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, society & culture: general
Reducere. Powerfully involving narrative and incisive detail, clarity and inherent drama: Blood offers in abundance the qualities that define the best popula...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, medicine & nursing
Reducere. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels--the fourth, fifth and sixth of which are collected i...
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Reducere. What is it like to kill? What is it like to be under fire? How do you know what's right? What can you never forget?In The Things They Cannot Say, a...
Reducere. Description" A] testament to a great spirit, a woman who lived in terrifying proximity to one of the greatest writers of all time, and who understo...
Reducere. Assembled by Allen Ginsberg, Selected Poems 1947-1995 is the definitive collection of the best works of one of the most influential and revolutiona...
Reducere. Randall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century...
Reducere. The Secret of the Great Pyramid is a thrilling intellectual adventure story about the most exciting discovery in Egyptology in decades. Bob Brier, ...
harper perennial, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, archaeology
Reducere. Golda Meir was the first female head of state in the Western world and one of the most influential women in modern history. A blend of Emma Goldman...
Reducere. Republished in a beautiful new package, the eternal classic that captures the Eternal City in all its vibrant enchantmentBringing to life the legen...
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Reducere. A fascinating look at Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Vesuvius eruption in comparison with other historically significant volcanic eruptions, includin...