History of Love

Reducere. The bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses now explores the allure of adultery, the appeal of aphrodisiacs, and the cult of the kiss...

Reducere. DescriptionAn Indie Next Selection for July 2019 An Indies Introduce Selection for Summer/Fall 2019 From New York Times opinion writer Margaret Ren...

Reducere. A novel inspired by the legendary spiritual master, Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezar, known as the Baal Shem Tov, the Good Master of the Name, who beckone...

Reducere. The Life and Adventures of Nat Love (1907) is an autobiography by Nat Love. Written while Love was living in California, the text is an invaluable ...

Reducere. Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the "Summer of Love" and the revolutionary music of 1967. During late spring 1967, tens of thousands of young peo...

Travelling through time from Ancient Egypt to today, A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues unpicks the past, illuminates the present and offers ...

Publisher: Aurum PressAuthor(s): Peter HughesIllustration(s): line drawing chapter opener for 21 statues + line drawing for the coverNumber of page...

Reducere. Awards🏆Nominee (2006) - Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - (Fiction)Winner (2008) - Saroyan Writing Prize - (Fiction)Contributor(s): Author: Nicol...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes ancient descriptions of the goddess and myths *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further rea...

Reducere. After decades under lock and key, Hollywood's best kept secret is about to be revealed. Love to Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bun...

DescriptionThree acclaimed Christian historical fiction authors' romantic and intriguing stories will delight inspirational readers. Romance and hi...

Taking an extraordinary journey into the history and landscape of the Hebrides, Bunting explores the islands' turbulent history, their influence an...

Reducere. In the summer of 1932, with the Cubs in the thick of the pennant race, Billy Jurges broke off his relationship with Violet Popovich to focus on bas...

From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex w...

Reducere. Few stories in the annals of American counterculture are as intriguing or dramatic as that of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.Dubbed the "Hippie Ma...

Three years into the Great War, England's greatest asset is their intelligence network--field agents risking their lives to gather information, and...

Reducere. *A New York Times bestseller*Under the cover of night, deep in the desert of Afghanistan, a US Army handler led a Special Forces patrol with his mi...

An intimate and inspiring collection of letters revealing some of the greatest queer love stories in historyPublisher: Octopus Publishing GroupAuth...

April McBride has suffered a broken engagement once before and fully intends to guard her heart when she travels to Lewistown, Montana, to attend h...

'Eileen is an ambitious, kind and achingly funny observer' The Times 'Passionate, gossipy, vivacious' Marina Warner 'A unique insight into home-fro...

DescriptionMeke, a traditional rhythmic dance accompanied by singing, signifies an important piece of identity for Fijians. Despite its complicated...

DescriptionAisha al-Ba'uniyya (c.1456-1517) was one of the greatest women mystics in Islamic history. A Sufi master and an Arab poet, her religious...

Reducere. DescriptionThe love story of Vlad Dracula Europe's most fearsome prisoner, Vlad Dracula, gifted military commander and one time Prince of Wallachia...

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

DescriptionPhilosophers and poets in times past tried to figure out why the stainless moon "smoothly polished, like a diamond" in Dante's words, ha...

DescriptionIn 1697 Martin Martin, a Gaelic-speaking scholar from Skye, traveled to St Kilda to study the island's flora and fauna and to learn abou...

Reducere. DescriptionTHE BATTER'S BOX follows the path of Will Jamison, a star player with the Washington Senators who enlists in the U.S. Army following the...

DescriptionThe Holocaust survivors have important and unique stories to impart about their lives before the war, after Germany invades Poland, libe...

Reducere. DescriptionTempesta's Dream - A Story of Love, Friendship and Opera, is an Italian Historical Fiction novel New Orleans writer, Vincent B. "Chip" L...

Reducere. Eliza was born in the Ottoman Empire to a family of merchants and parish priests. They lost their ancestral home in Aintab during the Hamidian Mass...

Reducere. The seafood industry on the coast of Mississippi has attracted waves of immigrants and other workers--oftentimes folks who were either already acqu...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, an...

This volume exposes at once the nature of World War I and its depth and duration in personal lives. Contributors, including historians, museum prof...

A powerful collection of love letters shared between soldiers and their sweethearts during World War I, edited and introduced by Mandy Kirkby, with...

Reducere. DescriptionFor fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the author of the New York Times bestseller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biograph...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDSA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Best Book of 2007One of the Top ...

Reducere. DescriptionWith the Nazi occupation of Kovno (Lithuania), her life changed forever. Zlata Santocki Sidrer was Jewish, but she survived the horrors ...

Reducere. In 1941, Greer Garson earned an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Fort Worth's Edna Gladney in Blossoms in the Dust." All eyes turned t...

Reducere. Eleven years of events can have a profound effect on an entire lifetime. The story of Stanislawa Emilia (Emma) Krasowska Serbinski is told by her d...

Reducere. Love, lust, and fatal hatreds inside America's most exclusive enclave of wealth and privilege--Palm Beach. Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme devastated...

Reducere. When Mathew Coulter seeks refuge in a small Florida beach town to escape his ruthless family who control the liquor trade in 1920's Atlanta, he mee...

Reducere. Eddy Hoffman was 13 years old when he was taken to Auschwitz where he saw his whole family killed. Eveline was five years old, living in Paris with...

Reducere. It has long been acknowledged that Berry Gordy Jr and his Motown Empire put Detroit on the International musical map but it was the creative genius...

Reducere. An Unlikely Union tells the dramatic story of how two of America's largest ethnic groups learned to love and laugh with each other after decades of...

Reducere. The amazing diversity of color and form in cockroaches around the world has rarely been displayed to the average animal enthusiast. Several well kn...

Christina Courtenay brings the fascinating Viking era to life in her stunning new dual-time novel of forbidden love, secrets and adventure.

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 ...

A Short History of Falling - like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air - is a searingly beautiful, profound and unforgett...

The book covers the author's time reporting from the former Soviet Union not long after the fall of communism.

Reducere. #1 Best Seller and Winner of The 2021 International Book Awards."The darkest day of my life came when the Nazis took my brother. I felt helpless as...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller with an "engaging narrative and array of detail" (The Wall Street Journal), the "intimate and sweeping" (Raleigh News &...

In 2015, Ireland will hold a referendum on the subject of extending marriage rights to same-sex people in the State. Based on interviews with all t...

Reducere. This book tells the history of the famous Jefferson Islands Club, called the "Playground of Presidents, " which was the private island retreat for ...

From Heather Morris, the international bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, comes a novel of breathtaking power, t...

Venus and the Arts of Love offers the first survey of Venus in the art, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300-1600. In the course of decons...

Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850-1950 portrays the history of romantic love between men in hundreds of moving and tender vernacu...

Reducere. Young and na ve, happily in love with the girl of his dreams, Todd is drafted into the U.S. Army just days before his twentieth birthday, December ...

Love with No Tomorrow shares a spark of light by sharing true love stories of the Holocaust. This heart-wrenching book uses hundreds of hours of in...

Reducere. This dramatic story spans 122 years and highlights challenges faced by four generations of an initially British aristocratic family in Kenya, with ...

Frida is a divorce lawyer and a secret descendent of the immortal love god, Eros. A warm and funny love story that blends the romance of }Bridget J...

Reducere. The Italian son of a barber. A failed hydraulic engineer. A giant who performed feats of strength and agility in the circus. Giovanni Belzoni (1778...

The memoirs of Ariadna Efron provide an intimate and indispensable perspective on the poet Marina Tsvetaeva's life and work, told from the point of...

DescriptionFor every fan who has wished Jane Austen herself might have enjoyed the romance and happy ending she so carefully crafted for all her he...

The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, ...

Reducere. In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously r...

The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, ...

Reducere. Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew ab...

Reducere. A padlock is a mundane object, designed to fulfil a specific - and secular - purpose. A contemporary custom has given padlocks new significance. Th...

This thrilling wartime adventure tells the true story of the downed American aviators who were rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi...

Reducere. With a tankful of gas and a passion for baseball history, Jason Love hits the road to discover some of the most and least famous baseball sites in ...