Hudson Bend and the Birth of Lake Travis: Transforming the Hills West of Austin, Hardcover - Carole McIntosh Sikes

Reducere. Along the picturesque shores of the Colorado River lies historic Hudson Bend. Established by Wiley Hudson in the 1850s, the verdant hills and abund...

Reducere. Motion pictures came to Austin on October 10, 1896, debuting at the Hancock Opera House. Since then, movies have continued to enchant, entertain, a...

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Reducere. Having banished eastern Native peoples to lands west of the Mississippi, President Andrew Jackson's government by 1833 needed a new type of soldier...

Reducere. First sighted by John C. Fremont and Charles Preuss in 1844, the "Lake of the Sky" beckons to pioneers and adventurers today as it has through hist...

Publisher: University of Washington PressAuthor(s): Xiaolin DuanIllustration(s): 21 b&w illus., 3 maps, 6 tablesNumber of pages: 264Publication dat...

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The first definitive illustrated biography of this key figure in mid 20th-century British art.Illustrations: Illustrated throughout

With 2018 marking 200 years since }Frankenstein{'s first publication, Levy provides an engrossing insight into the fascinating world of science in ...

Reducere. "Stimulating, encyclopedic, and often downright funny, this is a book worth remembering." --Stephen O'Shea, Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) "A liv...

This major new study examines, for the first time, the US, Canadian, and British policies formulated in reaction to the mass atrocities at the birt...

DescriptionPhoto Adventures is an activity book by photographer and professional fun-maker Jan von Holleben, who reveals his secrets to making magi...

Publisher: Lion Hudson LtdNumber of pages: 6Collection: BubblesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 166 x 219 x 30Cover type: Bath bookIllustrator: Mo...

'. . . the Days immediately associated with the Manifestation of God possess a unique distinction and occupy a station which no mind can ever compr...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book chronicles all 104 episodes of the renowned TV series The Wild Wild West, which aired for four seasons from 1965-1969. It also...

Reducere. The 1828 presidential election, which pitted Major General Andrew Jackson against incumbent John Quincy Adams, has long been hailed as a watershed ...

'A delightful and utterly fascinating work of intellectual history.' - Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with EinsteinIllustrations: 16 pages full...

Reducere. What was the "Classical Revolution" in Greek art? What were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This book introduces students to these qu...

The techniques of early astrology are shown to have been at the foundation of science in this reclaiming of the alleged pseudoscience's value acros...

This study is devoted to the work of two early British filmmakers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the films that they made around 19...

Anna Held was America's most popular musical comedy star during the two decades preceding World War I. In the colorful world of New York theater du...

Reducere. The first offshoot of the internationally successful "Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape, " "Newgrange and the Bend of the Boyne" is the exploratio...

Reducere. Why photograph horses? Because, in the words of author Carol Walker, they fill our hearts, and capturing them on film or in digital images expresse...

Publisher: Amazon PublishingAuthor(s): Joy Jordan-LakeNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 209 x 30Cover type: Paperback / s...

Publisher: Amazon PublishingAuthor(s): Joy Jordan-LakeNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 218 x 150 x 35Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Reducere. "Kagan, faithful to his lifelong fascination with Pericles . . . gives us an accessible and invaluable account of his life and deeds."--Allan Bloom...

The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The scuba-d...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Adrian Lee BakerIllustration(s): 0; 0Number of pages: 244Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 23...

While the birth of global economic governance is conventionally dated to the end of World War II, Jamie Martin shows how its roots lie in World War...

Reducere. Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding moun...

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The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy.Illustrations: 16 pages of B&W photographs

Late in AD 937, four armies met in a place called Brunanburh. On one side stood the shield-wall of the expanding kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons. On th...

Reducere. Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind's essential link to the animal world. --The Ne...

Reducere. One of the most beautiful maps to survive the Great Age of Discoveries, the 1513 world map drawn by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis is also one of the mo...

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

Reducere. The Father of Spin is the first full-length biography of the legendary Edward L. Bernays, who, beginning in the 1920s, was one of the first and mos...

Reducere. In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career"In...

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George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year"A groundbreaking contribution...Intellectual...

'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detectorPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Amit KatwalaNumber of pa...

DescriptionA masterfully designed hardcover collecting over 200 pages of art and commentary from the creators of the brutal and thrilling Days Gone...

Contributor(s): Author: Connor MurphyWe had just beaten a few of the top men's rugbyfootball clubs in the East that excelled in bothsevens and fift...

Acacia Vitak is your average teenager - she has a family, has chores to deal with and goes to a dull school day in, day out.At school she feels lik...