Reducere. Acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, returns with a lacerating analysis of the history of st...
belt publishing, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology
Reducere. Chosen as one of the top history book of the year by The Economist From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of...
penguin press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology
Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans In 1869, when the final spik...
mariner books, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology
Reducere. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a health...
overlook press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate, " a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived...
princeton university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. From the former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, the first biography of advertising maverick David OgilvyFamous for his colorful personality and formidable ...
st. martin's griffin, carti, carte straina, economics
Reducere. When this work - one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields - first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of th...
berghahn books, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences
Reducere. DescriptionThough the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occu...
university of north carolina press, carti, carte straina, earth sciences
Reducere. Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudevill...
university of north carolina press, carti, carte straina, the arts, performing arts
Reducere. Here is the book that finally unlocks the secrets that professional restorers have been using for years. It explains critical (and previously close...
Reducere. Majestic and lyrically written, The Conquest of Nature traces the rise of Germany through the development of water and landscape. David Blackbourn ...
w. w. norton & company, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history
Reducere. The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe...
da capo press, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary