IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon

DescriptionA history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. ...

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

On December 30, 2019, Carlos Ghosn became the most famous fugitive on the planet when the former chairman of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance...

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

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

Stuck On You charts the history of football stickers in the UK - those little bundles of self-adhesive joy that have given so much to so many since...

DescriptionMany people know about Wessex, the "Last Kingdom" of the Anglo-Saxons in defense against the Northmen, But another kingdom, Mercia, once...

New B-format paperback - The extraordinary history of Mercia and its rulers from the seventh century to 1066. Once the supreme Anglo-Saxon kingdom,...

Reducere. Marc Bolan was the very first superstar of the Seventies. As the seductive focus of "T Rex", he revelled in fame and fortune, released a string of ...

Reducere. Offering a rarely seen female perspective on gang life, this raw and powerful memoir tells not only of one woman s struggle to survive the streets ...

The rise and fall of an international drug ring: a thrilling international true crime adventure from the bestselling author of GANGS

Code 3: The Rise & Fall of a Private Ambulance Empire proves that people from all walks of life are attracted to the strange realm that is Emergenc...

Reducere. Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Martyn RadyNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softb...

Genoa has an incredible story to tell. It rose from an obscurity imposed by its harsh geography to become a merchant-pirate superpower that helped ...

The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger beca...

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. Ex-priest Stephen H. Donnelly's memoir, A Saint and a Sinner, is an immersive experience into the world of a Catholic priest and a brutally honest ...

Reducere. The True Story Behind The Hit Film 'Casino' From An 'Enforcer' Who Lived It Tony Spilotro was the Mob's man in Las Vegas. A feared enforcer, the bo...

Reducere. The "engrossing" (Wall Street Journal) story of the biggest con in wine history In 2002, Rudy Kurniawan, an unknown twentysomething, burst into the...

DescriptionPaul Kriwaczek begins this illuminating and immensely pleasurable chronicle of Yiddish civilization during the Roman empire, when Jewish...

Reducere. On February 26, 1986, Mafia underboss Gennaro Angiulo was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to forty-five years in prison. In The Underboss, ...

The Bright Young People were one of the most extraordinary youth cults in British history. A pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blu...

Reducere. One of the fabled Channel Islands of Southern California, Santa Cruz was once the largest privately owned island off the coast of the continental U...

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

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 ...

Reducere. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On ...

A brilliant new biography of Boris Johnson from his best biographer, Andrew GimsonPublisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Andrew GimsonIllustrati...

John Gotti: Gangster, killer, celebrity. From the tough streets of Queens to the heights of the American Mafia, John Gotti thought he was invincibl...

With Congress paralyzed, lawmaking falls to executive agencies and courts that interpret existing statutes. Due to the so-called Chevron doctrine, ...

The Maximalist considers Tony O'Reilly's life and influence, exploring the events and personalities behind his decline from a position of enormous ...

"It would be hard to write a dull book on Light-Horse Harry, and Mr. Cole's is far from it.... The book] contains passages of considerable eloquenc...

Ten-year-old Persimmony Smudge lives a boring life on the Island in the Middle of Everything, but she longs for adventure. And she soon gets it whe...

Reducere. Theda Bars's remarkable life as told by Eve Golden's heartfelt account is short of discovering a means of traveling through time and as close as we...

Reducere. With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized ...

The Irish experience of Christianity has never been simple or uncomplicated. Here, Crawford Gribben describes the ancient emergence, long dominance...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chr...

Publisher: Mortons Media GroupAuthor(s): Nick PiggottNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 217 x 304 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

Eminent Corporations. The Rise and Fall of the Great British Corporation - Andrew Simms, David Boyle

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...

Reducere. DescriptionThe dramatic story of the United States' destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida In the af...

Reducere. Now in paperback comes the first and authorized biography of Stuey Ungar, the greatest card player of all time, who was backed by the Mob in New Yo...

SIX STARRED REVIEWS Discover the dark side of Charles Lindbergh--one of America's most celebrated heroes and complicated men--in this riveting biog...

Reducere. On March 16, 2008, Alan Greenberg, former CEO and current chairman of the executive committee of Bear Stearns, found himself in the company's offic...

In 1851 Isaac Singer brought onto the market the first practical sewing machine in history. He had combined all the ideas that had gone before to m...