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Reducere. Near the end of World War II, in an attempt to attack the United States mainland, Japan launched its fu-go campaign, deploying thousands of high-al...

From the gold inlaid floors of a high-class casino in Macau to the windswept winter hills of Kurdistan, from the snow-covered top of Pike's Peak to...

Reducere. Before Jutland is a definitive study of the naval engagements in northern European waters in 1914-15 when the German High Sea Fleet faced the Grand...

DescriptionReporter Emerald Malloy is back at the Hot Dish Heaven Caf . This time she's in Kennedy, a small Scandinavian farm community in Minnesot...

Transit and cities grow together. As cities work to become more compact, sustainable, and healthy, their work is paying dividends: in 2014, America...

Thirty-two walks explore the Mournes, taking in rugged coast, high mountains, forest parks and low-level farmlands. The routes lie within the Mourn...

Reducere. Explains how to build the right kind of fire for the best results with a minimum of time and effort. In this title, recipes for hungry fishermen an...

Reducere. She caught him with his pants down...When over-educated anthropology professor Roarke Wallace seeks to discredit her grandfather's sighting of Bigf...

Reducere. DescriptionNoah Andrews hates to lie, but that's exactly what his life is. One big lie.At least that's how he feels as a nerdy, closeted, gay high ...

Reducere. Legendary chairman of the five-time Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, Dan Rooney, tells his life story for the first time. From growing up o...

Reducere. In The Granite Landscape Tom Wessels synthesizes history, geology, biology, and personal narrative to enhance our understanding and appreciation of...

DescriptionGuidebook to 35 mountain biking routes in Slovenia. Ranging from 12km to 59km, the routes are circular, negating any need for logistical...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James A. HolsteinAuthor: Richard S. JonesAuthor: George E. Koonce JrA human face on the realities of professional football,...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Glenn DyerA disgraced agent. A missing battle plan. Will he find redemption or damage the Allies beyond repair?London, 1942...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mario T. GarciaAuthor: Sal CastroIn March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high sch...

Reducere. Completely revised and restructured in light of a nationwide survey of high school and college instructors, and for the first time available in a s...

Reducere. EVERY WISH HAS A COST BUT WILL THE SOCIETY BE WILLING TO PAY IT? Once a hacker-for-hire living in the shadows, Josephina "Jo" Espinosa is the newes...

DescriptionLouis Riel is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. The photographs, maps, and ill...

Diplomatic historians Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia draw on previously untapped primary source materials revealing tensions and rivalries to offer a u...

Guidebook offering detailed descriptions of 40 day walks across County Durham. Walks range from 5 to 24km and show off the region's history and nat...

Reducere. Over beer and hamburgers at the Two Rivers Lodge near Fairbanks, Alaska, a small group of mushers conceived a gutsy idea for a new sled dog race th...

Reducere. The story contained in these pages is a detailed description of a vicious crime and the eighteen-month long manhunt to track down the criminals inv...

Reducere. Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state's natural landscapes, Wild North Carolina provides an engaging, beautifully illust...

DescriptionDid American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow ...

DescriptionThe New Hampshire Seacoast has a wealth of overlooked history. Some remnants are hidden in plain sight, and others are just plain hidden...

Reducere. DescriptionThe inspiring, unlikely story of the American, Canadian, South Korean and even North Korean women who joined together to form Korea's fi...

Reducere. DescriptionThese devotions inspired by ancient Shinto rituals are a series of calls-and-response that directly address the awesome power of the nat...

Reducere. Description"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril, " wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history ...

Reducere. In 1970, Chris Bonington and his now-legendary team of mountaineers were the first climbers to tackle a big wall at extreme altitude. Their target ...

DescriptionA groundbreaking guide to flower flies in North America This is the first comprehensive field guide to the flower flies (also known as h...

Reducere. DescriptionWithin West Virginia's irregular borders, formed by winding rivers, high ridges, and the pecularities of colonial land surveys, is a sed...

Reducere. M. J. Eberhart, aka the Nimblewill Nomad, was a 60-year-old retired doctor in January 1998 when he set off on a foot journey that carried him 4, 40...

The John Muir Trail (JMT) is a world-famous trek and North America's best known walking trail. It runs for 216 miles through California's high Sier...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tal McTheniaAuthor: Margaret Dunbar CutrightThe spellbinding story of one of the most celebrated kidnapping cases in Americ...

Reducere. The best way to experience Phoenix is by hiking it. With more than 4 million people, the Phoenix metropolitan area is one of the country's largest....

Reducere. A three-level vocabulary series for both self-study and classroom use. Now with a revised edition for each level, this best-selling series has been...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lien-Hang T. NguyenWhile most historians of the Vietnam War focus on the origins of U.S. involvement and the Americanizatio...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Miriam JorgensenForeword by: Oren LyonsAfterword by: A revolution is underway among the Indigenous nations of North America...

Reducere. The magnificent Aztec empire has fallen beneath the brutal heal of the Spaniards. But one proud Aztec, Tenamaxtli, refuses to bow to his despised c...

Reducere. The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long...

Reducere. John Baptiste Richard-known as "Reshaw" the French pronunciation of his last name-was both an adventurer and an opportunist. The early American Wes...

The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s -- and won Between th...

Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexua...

Reducere. In the winter of 1861, Union armies had failed to win any significant victories over their Confederate counterparts. The Northern populace, overwhe...

Reducere. Without corn, Tema Flanagan writes, the South would cease to taste like the South. Her treasury of fifty-one recipes demonstrates deliciously just ...

Reducere. Librarian turned sorcerer. Sorcerer turned hero. Hero turned puppet. The Solaris Empire found victory in the North and, at the cost of her heart an...

Reducere. DescriptionIn early 1861, most Missourians hoped they could remain neutral in the upcoming conflict between North and South. In fact, a popularly e...

Reducere. LIKE THE FEMALE SCIENTISTS PORTRAYED IN HIDDEN FIGURES, MARY SHERMAN MORGAN WAS ANOTHER UNSUNG HEROINE OF THE SPACE AGE--NOW HER STORY IS FINALLY T...

Reducere. In 1979, Florida Seminoles opened the first tribally operated high-stakes bingo hall in North America. At the time, their annual budget stood at le...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: J. Samuel WalkerIn this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes t...

Reducere. Tom Carlson tells the story of Ernal Foster and the Foster family of Hatteras Village, who gave birth to what would become the multi-million dollar...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this paean to the brightly colored root, April McGreger tells the multifaceted history of a fundamental southern food, praising its r...