House of Plenty: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Luby's Cafeterias, Paperback - Carol Dawson

Reducere. Scarred by the deaths of his mother and sisters and the failure of his father's business, a young man dreamed of making enough money to retire earl...

The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama ...

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The unprecedented rise and catastrophic fall of one of the world's most feared and admired business executives-Carlos Ghosn-a remarkable story of i...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Carol LeonnigNumber of pages: 560Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 235 x 43Cover type: Paperback / s...

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DescriptionMaris Boyd Gillette's groundbreaking study tells the story of Jingdezhen, China's porcelain capital, from its origins in 1004 in Song dy...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Jill JonnesIllustration(s): 48 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 608Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

DescriptionIn the 1980s and 1990s, Serie A was known as 'Il campionato pi bello del mondo' - the most beautiful championship in the world - and had...

Reducere. The surprising rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches story of how Michael Jackson grew a billion-dollar business. Michael Jackson is known by many as th...

Publisher: Bold Type BooksAuthor(s): Elena ConisNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 245 x 41Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rob SkibaWho or what is an Archon? What is "The Genesis Six Experiment?" Who were the Nephilim? How did they return both be...

Every May, a sea of 250, 000 people decked out in red and white head to Chicago's Loop to celebrate the Polish Constitution Day Parade. In the city...

At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its bloody pol...

Reducere. DescriptionSocialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in "science." Each failure to ...

Reducere. Settled in the 1600s, Brooklyn Heights is one of New York s most historic neighborhoods. Its strategic location overlooking the harbor proved instr...

Reducere. From agriculture to big business, from medicine to politics, The Cigarette Century is the definitive account of how smoking came to be so deeply im...

Reducere. Before the Twin Cities established themselves as a hotbed for stand-up comedy, producing some of the biggest names in comedy history, the local sce...

A Woman's Game explores the history of women's football from the Victorian era to the present day.Publisher: Guardian Faber PublishingAuthor(s): Su...

Reducere. Soldiers of the Sun traces the origins of the Imperial Japanese Army back to its samurai roots in the nineteenth century to tell the story of the r...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Abraham RiesmanIllustration(s): 8-PG 4C InsertNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 133 x...

What were the origins of the ANC Youth League, where has it gone wrong and how can it once again become an organization that represents and support...

The most powerful dynasty behind the throne of Anglo-Saxon England, shedding new light on events such as the Battle of Hastings.Publisher: Amberley...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Adrian TinniswoodNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 187 x 241 x 36Cover type: HardbackRe...

The story of Roundway's rise and fall, the people who built and owned it, lived and worked there, and the house's eventual partial demolition in 1954.

Reducere. This expose investigates the evolution of the Almighty Black P Stone Nation, a motley group of poverty-stricken teens transformed into a dominant g...

Reducere. "Suge Knight - The Rise, Fall & Rise of Death Row Records - The Story of Marion "Suge" Knight - A Hard-Hitting Study of One Man, One Company that C...

Reducere. Ed Norris' career arc was dazzling.He spent 20 years as a crime-fighting savant with the New York Police Department, rising from beat cop to deputy...

Reducere. A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic valuesAs the sun set slowly on th...

Reducere. Bestselling authors and world-renowned marketing strategists Al and Laura Ries usher in the new era of public relations. Today's major brands are b...

Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar - Barry Eichengreen

Reducere. A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tammy "Sunny" SytchWorld famous wrestling diva Tammy Lynn "Sunny" Sytch has written a tell-all autobiography that follows h...

An account of the rise of the Zulu nation in southern Africa, and its fall under Cetshwayo in the Zulu war of 1879. This work sets out to be not on...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Angie DeboHere is the story of the Choctaws, a proud and gifted tribe among the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. It is the...

DescriptionHaving a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick ...

Reducere. On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law. Th...

Featuring some of the most iconic images of our time, this unique combination of photojournalism and commentary offers a probing and comprehensive ...

A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Ottoman Empire then keep reading...Three captivating manuscripts in one boo...

Reducere. A short history of nearly everything classical. The foundations of the modern world were laid in Alexandria of Egypt at the turn of the first mille...

A thrilling and fun-filled introduction to the incredible creatures that ruled the earth for 150 million years, by one of the world's leading paleo...

A thrilling re-evaluation of the creatures that ruled the earth for 150 million years by one of the world's leading paleontologists.

DANDYISM. The Rise and Fall of a Concept - Petru Stefan Ionescu

The Rise and Fall of The British Press present a clinical and provocative overview at the past, present and immediate future of the printed newspap...

Reducere. He had a number one hit at eighteen. He was a millionaire with his own record label at twenty-two. He was, according to Tom Wolfe, "the first tycoo...