History Man, Paperback

Reducere. Sherman Sage (ca. 1844-1943) was an unforgettable Arapaho man who witnessed profound change in his community and was one of the last to see the Pla...

This is not a book about Laurie Lee, still less a biography. Taking this as a starting point, poet Adam Horovitz reaches back through myth, memory ...

Can the world be governed by agreement rather than conflict? In 1945 the world's powerful nation states came together to 'save succeeding generatio...

Publisher: Tommies GuidesAuthor(s): Jude ColeNumber of pages: 130Publication date: 1900Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 9Cover type: Paperback / softbackRed...

The Sunday Times BestsellerAt the age of 23, Brian Wood was thrust into the front line in Iraq, in the infamous Battle of Danny Boy.

Publisher: British Museum PressAuthor(s): Thorsten OpperIllustration(s): 280 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Di...

In this brilliant history of Prohibition and its most notorious gangster, acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen takes us to the gritty streets of ...

Reducere. Ruler, scholar, statesman, and devout man of faith; Mansa Musa was a 14th century African emperor who reigned over the Mali Empire from 1312 to 133...

In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, stock and barrel - the Hebrid...

Reducere. The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the concentration camp, Buna-Monow...

Reducere. A fearless young Swede whose efforts saved countless Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of Adolf Eichmann, Raoul Wallenberg was one of ...

Reducere. DescriptionOn July 27, 1890, Vincent van Gogh came stumbling into his room in the Ravoux Inn, in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, bleeding from a wound in ...

Reducere. DescriptionAlan Turing: Enigma: The Incredible True Story of the Man Who Cracked The CodeIf you have ever used a computer, you owe that joy to Alan...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Again he turned hi...

Reducere. There are three men whose life's work helped free science from the strait-jacket of religion. Two of the three--Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles Dar...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Supreme UnderstandingAuthor: C'Bs Alife AllahTHIS BOOK WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE SCIENCE The Science of Self is a dynamic...

Reducere. Before the charismatic John Duval Gluck, Jr. came along, letters from New York City children to Santa Claus were destroyed, unopened, by the U.S. P...

A critical study of race, racialization and representation in the context of Turkish modernization

Reducere. DescriptionHe immortalized Henry Frankenstein in Hollywood's Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, but his too-brief life was often a horror saga...

Reducere. The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock fas...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading To possess and develop western North America became...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Publisher: Y LolfaAuthor(s): Sally Roberts JonesIllustration(s): 10 b/w imagesNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 214 x 18C...

Gerhard Bast was found shot in an abandoned bunker in northern Italy in April 1947. Pollack digs deeply into the archives and travels to the places...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Frances WilsonIllustration(s): B&W illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 202...

Stuart Kelly's biography of Sir Walter Scott defies classification in terms of genre. Rather than a literary biography, or critical study, it is a ...

Reducere. Old Man River, Paul Schneider's exploration of America's great waterway--taking the reader from the Mississippi River's origins to its polluted pre...

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Reducere. A classic about real-life WWII espionage, as conducted by its modern master * A Man Called Intrepid is the classic true story of Sir William Stephe...

Reducere. Ambushed in the wilderness along with French missionaries, this early pioneer in America survived torture and captivity to become an esteemed advis...

Reducere. An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Orville A. TurnquestForeword by: Sidney PoitierEditor: Diane GedyminWhat Manner of Man Is This? is a unique and incisive lo...

Reducere. The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world--an operation of such magnitude that it couldn't be handled by just any military or intell...

Primo Levi's classic memoir of The Camps.

Described as "the best MP Scotland never had", Jimmy Reid was undoubtedly of the most important figures of late twentieth-century Britain. Often at...

Reducere. Per aspera ad astra - Through adversity to the starsMilan Rastislav Stef nik was great not only for the Slovaks, but also for the Czechs and the Fr...

The seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province, yet led a remarkably global life through schola...

DescriptionIn the late nineteenth century, a conviction that China was somehow weaker than other political states in Asia and the West spread acros...

Reducere. Before the first light of dawn on the morning of June twenty-second, 1941, Oskar Scheja stood on the western shore of the Bug River, looking to the...

Radical journalist Laura Flanders exposes the seedy, cynical and power hungry history of the women in the Bush administration. "Bushwomen": women a...

Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize "Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic histo...

The international bestselling story of one British soldier's brave choice to exchange places with a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.

We are living in some of the most discouraging times in my lifetime, which has spanned some very bad periods; the Depression, World War II, the Kor...

From 'Space Oddity', his dark vision of mankind's voyage into the unknown terrain of space, to the Scary Monsters album, Doggett examines in detail...

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How an Australian commoner saved the British monarchy.Publisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Peter ConradiNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 20...

For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic educat...

Reducere. The definitive history of the ninja, based on a wealth of historical texts, local Japanese sources, and John Man's own treks across Asia"An immense...

Reducere. A canine version of Unbroken.--Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air with Terry Gross NO BETTER FRIEND tells the story of Air Force technician Frank Williams...

Reducere. DescriptionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "GRIPPING...THIS YARN HAS IT ALL." --USA TODAY * "A WONDERFUL BOOK." --Christian Science Monitor * "ENTHRALL...

Reducere. "A fascinating historical account...A snapshot of the American Dream culminating with this country's mid-century greatness" (The Wall Street Journa...

Admired by some of the finest artists of the period, and familiar to millions around the world, over 100 of Matania's pictures are brought together...

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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 ...

Reducere. My National Service (1955-1957): The Making of a Man is the story of young man who joined the British Army as an Infantry Soldier and served for tw...

The worst storm in history seem from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective...

Reducere. With a secondhand motorcycle, the support of a few powerful tribesmen and a good friend in the CIA, the unknown Hamid Karzai willed himself to powe...

When the harrowing Great War diaries of one of Britain's first black soldiers were unearthed in a dusty Scottish attic nearly 100 years after they ...

A celebratory volume that gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociabi...

Reducere. A Sentimental Journey is a social history of the life and culture of the World War II home front in Wilmington and Southeastern North Carolina. "Th...

Reducere. A riveting tale of perseverance in the face of hardship, Cinderella Man is the chronicle of the boxer James J. Braddock, whose exceptional story of...

The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the second world war. Soon to be a majo...

New insights into the senior command levels of the United States fighting elite. Stories include accounts of men in battles from World War II. This...

Reducere. New York Times Bestseller (Humor)"The book everyone is laughing about "--Joe Scarborough, Morning JoeFor two centuries, presidents hoping to secure...

Presented in an illustrated format, this book provides a detailed history of the wartime airfields of the North West of England, including Cark, Cr...

Reducere. James Morris Webb argues that the black man was the father of civilization, born in the land of Egypt, and that the different branches of science a...

Reducere. Now nearly forgotten, John Ogden was one of our country's earliest patriots, a man who stood tall against the intrusion of foreign intervention in ...

Reducere. In 2005, the editors of Metro Silicon Valley, San Jose's alternative weekly newspaper, gave Gary Singh his own column, "Silicon Alleys, " to explor...

Reducere. The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the worldIn the ...

Reducere. Veteran video game designer Dustin Hansen takes YA readers on a fun and fascinating trip through the brief but intensely innovative history of vide...