Houdini: The Elusive American, Hardcover - Adam Begley

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an exuberant biography of the world's greatest escape artist In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented...

Reducere. Updike is Adam Begley's masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

Reducere. Welcome to the United States of Cryptids...please enjoy your stay!Each year across the United States, there are mysterious and unexplainable firsth...

Reducere. DescriptionTwins Martina and Mateo wanted a hamster as a pet but find caring for Jeannie a chore. Their younger sister, Sophia, loves Jeannie and s...

Reducere. In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare f...

DescriptionThis book revisits the history of modernism in architecture through the legacy of one of its protagonists, Armenian architect Gabriel Gu...

"I have escaped out of more handcuffs, manacles, and leg shackles than any other human being living."Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Ameri...

Contributor(s): Author: Kerri ManiscalcoThe #1 New York Times bestselling series that started with Stalking Jack the Ripper and Hunting Prince Drac...

Reducere. Harry has always admired the famous escape artist Houdini. And when Houdini asks for help in coming back to life, it seems like an amazing chance.....

Reducere. What country is made up of 95 islands, invented the game of golf, and raised a warrior worthy of the name "Braveheart"? Welcome to ScotlandIn B is ...

The idea that American education has been steered by progressive values is celebrated by liberals and deplored by conservatives, but both sides acc...

DescriptionMarine-turned-novelist Jack Dana is back in Louis Begley's most intense, suspenseful, and deadly adventure yet. With the death of his ne...

Reducere. Though we cannot see God, His handiwork in the written text of the Bible and in the beauty of nature inspires and comforts us. Through these things...

Reducere. Being the only child of a single mother, Sergio was raised by his maternal grandparents in a South Texas region better known as the Rio Grande Vall...

This new interpretation of the causes, course and consequences of America's greatest crisis explores the complex relationships between the local an...

Reducere. DescriptionHarry Houdini (born Erik Weisz, later Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss; March 24, 1874 - October 31, 1926) was an American illusionist and st...

Reducere. Runaway. Castaway. Prostitute. Hermit. Desert dweller. Saint. Boundary breaker. Archetypal wild woman. In the corner of a library, in a dusty stack...

Why have conservatives decried 'activist judges'? And why have liberals - and America's powerful legal establishment - emphasized qualifications an...

An epic re-imagining of the early life of the legendary magician, the film rights to which have already been sold. Harry must use his extraordinary...

DescriptionWhen tragedy strikes an engagement party, Special Agent Parisa Maxwell becomes the sole survivor and the only witness to a kidnapping an...

A chance encounter with Harry Houdini leaves a small boy in possession of a mysterious box--one that might hold the secrets to the greatest magic t...

Reducere. Adam's faded second-hand guitar never left his side. He played it at home. He played it at school. He even slept with it. As Adam and the rest of t...

The Elusive Tipping Point: China-India Ties for a New Order is a timely foreign-policy-relevant book. This insightful book delves deep into the rea...

Reducere. "DON'T believe the naysayers. The American Dream--the fable that says if you work hard and follow the rules, you'll make it--is alive and well."--N...

Harry the Bear is back again with his disgusting sidekick Stanky the Dog This time they bring Jeremy along on their adventure While Harry and Jerem...

Reducere. Joseph Epstein takes on that most enchanting (and, alas, increasingly rare) of human gifts, charm. "Almost everyone will recognize when he or she i...

Reducere. Description-- Soon to be a Public Television Special -- For the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death comes an immersive journey through f...

Reducere. In a revelatory work praised as "excellent and timely" (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes...

Reducere. The sequel to Pendleton's acclaimed Black Dada Reader, compiling an anti-canon of radical experimentation and thoughtIn 2011, artist Adam Pendleton...

Reducere. How did he walk through walls, escape drowning, and shatter iron chains that were tightly wrapped around him?The rare photos in this book might hel...

Reducere. An artist's book exploring the language of protestA new artist's book by Adam Pendleton (born 1984), As Heavy as Sculpture follows Pendleton's 2021...

Harry the Bear has very long hair that he refuses to cut. When his friend gets his hair burned off in a housefire, Harry the Bear finds a way to us...

Reducere. Micii mei eroi. Harry Houdini, magicianul care putea sa disparaSuperputerile lui au fost o dexteritate uluitoare, antrenamentul demn de un atlet pr...

Superputerile lui au fost o dexteritate uluitoare, antrenamentul demn de un atlet profesionist si stradania neobosita. Datorita lor a devenit unul ...

New edition of Dr Patterson's history of the narrow-gauge County Donegal Railway. This edition adds interviews with workers and others who had cont...

Is it really possible to change the structure and function of the brain, and in so doing alter how we think and feel? The answer is a resounding yes.

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher IncAuthor(s): Adam Van DorenNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 236 x 161 x 21Cover type: Ha...

In this primer accompanying Adam Pendleton's MoMA show, the artist behind "Black Dada" fuses musical counterpoint with the aesthetics of protestAda...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Daniel MendelsohnHailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves togeth...

Reducere. In this authoritative biography of the congressman and civil rights activist Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Prof. Hamilton reassesses the man's unique a...