History Man, Paperback

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

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

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

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressAuthor(s): Patricia Tyson StroudIllustration(s): 11 color, 48 b/wNumber of pages: 292Publication date: 2...

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...

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...

Reducere. A BOWIE PRIMER: ERA/MAN/KNIFE presents concise information on the times in which Jim Bowie lived, biographical information on the man himself, and ...

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...

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

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. James Morris Webb (born 1874) was a Christian preacher from USA who was active ca 1910-1930, related to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, whi...

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

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

Laughing Histories breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was inflected by gender and soci...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Don MorrisIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 44Cov...

Reducere. 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 ...

Published in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man argues that capitalist democracy is the final destination for all societies. Fukuyama believ...

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 ...

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. 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. 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. 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...

An essential read for the next generation of environmentalists and climate scholars, this landmark text analyzes the impact of human action on natu...

Reducere. St. Gregory of Nyssa (335 - 395 AD), the great theologian and bishop Nyssa, turned his considerable skill to finishing the work that his brother St...

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...

Publisher: James Clarke & Co LtdAuthor(s): Nayef Al-RodhanNumber of pages: 503Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 232 x 36Cover type: Paperback...

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

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

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 ...

The extraordinary story of a propaganda campaign like no other: the covert British operation to manipulate American public opinion and bring Americ...

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 ...

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

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. 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. 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 ...

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

This is a new edition of Frederick Treves book with the text having been editted to remove typographical errors. The story of Merrick's (the Elepha...

Reducere. Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer whose team were the first to reach the South Pole - this is his astonishing story, in his own words.Amundse...

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...

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. As plans got under way for the Allied invasion of Sicily in June 1943, British counter-intelligence agent Ewen Montagu masterminded a scheme to mis...

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...

Focusing on the eight islands or chains that that form part of the British Isles, this book tells the often forgotten stories of Shetland, Orkney, ...

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

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. 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...

The first nomadic empire and the making of China has its story told with meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, weighing in on the ci...

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. 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...

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

He launched two violent attacks against the eastern and western halves of the Roman empire, attacks which earned him his reputation for mindless de...

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 ...

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...

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. "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. Considered to be one of the most famous stories of man-eating lions in modern times, "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo" is the first-hand account of Lieutan...

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

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...

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 ...

A special 20th anniversary edition of the beloved international bestseller that changed millions of lives, updated with a new foreword from the author

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

Serially betrayed by the people who promised to care for him, Asad lived his childhood at a sceptical remove from the adult world, living in a bewi...

Through physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, Joseph Merrick spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until ...

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. 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. 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 1817 every harbor and estuary in Antigua is filled with ghostly ships, superfluous in the aftermath of war. In this uneasy peace, Adam Bolitho i...

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...

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