History Man, Paperback

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 inspiration for the Jedi knights of Star Wars and the films of Akira Kurosawa, the legendary Japanese samurai have captured modern imaginations...

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. A history of the landmark case of Clarence Earl Gideon's fight for the right to legal counsel. notes, table of cases, index. The classic backlist b...

10, 000 years of history in one guide book. Engaging narrative style. Dramatic first-hand accounts.

The history of penicillinPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Kevin BrownNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 200 x 132 x 26...

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: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Henry HemmingPublication date: 1900Dimensions: 232 x 154 x 41Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lect...

At the end of September 1894 a charlady stole an undated and unsigned letter from the wastepaper bin of the German military attache in Paris. Torn ...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. New Orleans, 1838. When Benjamin January suddenly finds that his services playing piano at extravagant balls held by the city's wealthy are no long...

Reducere. In this authoritative biography, historian John Man brings Saladin and his world to life with vivid detail in ``a rollicking good story`` (Justin M...

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

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. 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...

In 1921, Converse hired 20-year-old Chuck Taylor as a salesman, sparking a nearly 50-year career that defined the Converse All Star basketball shoe...

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. First substantial translation of Apollinaire's later works by an award-winning poet. Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the...

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...

DescriptionMan and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution,...

Reducere. No one had ever tried a caper like this before. The goods were kept in a secure room under constant scrutiny, deep inside a crowded building with g...

Reducere. Rockefeller was the quintessential industrialist. He created an industry out of nascent oil and gas start-ups during a time when none existed. His ...

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...

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...

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. At the sound of the bell on the last day of kindergarten, B.J. Hollars and his six-year-old son, Henry, hop in the car to strike out on a 2, 500-mi...

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. A noted medical historian places recent outbreaks of deadly diseases in historical perspective, with accounts of other alarming and recurring disea...

Reducere. In this enlightening new look at one of our most successful, most popular, and least understood presidents, bestselling author and former Reagan ai...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Tennessee Campaign of November and December 1864 was the Southern Confederacy's last significant offensive operation of the Civil Wa...

Yet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire, the palace of Whitehall and the meado...

In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a...

An insight into the man at the heart of the world's most infamous maritime disasterPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Clifford IsmayIllustr...

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

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

Reducere. The riveting story that inspired Kipling's classic tale and a John Huston movieThe true story of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker and the first...

Reducere. In Man and Mission: E. B. Gaston and the Origins of the Fairhope Single Tax Colony, historian Paul Gaston relates his grandfather's 1864 founding o...

Reducere. Texas' most famous fighting man, James (Jim) Bowie, a descendant of the fierce natives of the Scottish Highlands, gets the full treatment in Cliffo...

Reducere. DescriptionNot since the days of the Louisiana Purchase has America seen any bigger real estate transactions than those executed by William Zeckend...

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

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

A woman goes missing, sending a young nuclear engineer on a quest deep into the Judean desert to the legendary fortress of Masada, where secrets ar...

Reducere. One week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry...

Reducere. Robert Englund, legendary star of A Nightmare on Elm Street, peels back the Freddy Krueger mask and reveals the stuff of every horror buff's dreams...

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. "A rip-roaring tale...inspired by but not slavish to historical events of the Dark Ages, this book is full of twists and turns...A fast-moving, tho...

Reducere. "Bill DeYoung's story of the construction of the original and second span of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, of the accident in 1980 that destroyed it,...

Reducere. In the beginning was Jamestown.... This is the wondrous story of the genesis of America told through this cradle to the grave account of the life o...

Intrepid travel historian Justin Marozzi retraces the footsteps of Herodotus through the Mediterranean and Middle East, examining Herodotus's 2, 50...

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

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. In this new biography of General Ulysses S. Grant, acclaimed Civil War historian, Edward G. Longacre, examines Grant's early life and his military ...

Reducere. Casting his expert eye over the rapidly diminishing areas of wilderness where predators still reign, the award-winning author ofThe Song of the Dod...

Reducere. From White Shield to Washington DC, new Indian wars are being fought by Ivy League-trained lawyers called Coyote Warriors--among them a Mandan/Hida...

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...

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...

DescriptionA illustrated biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling's rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his...

Reducere. Jack Crabb, hero of Little Big Man and beloved chronicler of the Wild West, is back in the saddle again. This time he meets, drinks with, and rides...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Kaiser fined him for his writings; he refused to pay. The Weimar Republic charged him with treason for publishing the truth about th...

A fair-minded but highly critical interpretation of president Obama and his brand of "hope and change, " grounded in a reality that goes beyond the...

The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief "Fascinating...

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Reducere. DescriptionBorn into the richest planter family in the Northern Neck of Virginia, Robert Carter III's life is anything but typical. A neighbor of G...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1798, the Royal British Navy withdrew from the Mediterranean to combat the threat of invasion at home. In their absence, rumors aboun...

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...

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

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...

Reducere. For decades, Markus Wolf was known to Western intelligence officers only as "the man without a face." Now the legendary spymaster has emerged from ...

Reducere. A stunning biography of history's most infamous warlord, Attila the Hun For a crucial twenty years in the early fifth century, Attila held the fate...

DescriptionThis official NASA history chronicles the behind-the-scenes conflicts and cooperation during the Apollo expeditions. It shows how the sp...