Kentucky, Hardcover

Reducere. Once thought to be only the tipple of southern gentlemen and the companion of confederate roughnecks, bourbon has gained a steady resurgence in pop...

Reducere. Interest in bourbon, America's native spirit and a beverage almost exclusively distilled in Kentucky, has never been greater. Thanks in part to the...

Reducere. It's Halloween night, and creatures and critters from near and far are starting to gather outside the front door. And now here comes a whole army o...

" The Spanish incursion into the New World, with its brutal destruction of indigenous peoples and their cultures and its material exploitation of m...

Hedy Lamarr's life was punctuated by salacious rumors and public scandal, but it was her stunning looks and classic Hollywood glamour that continuo...

Reducere. Originally inhabited by Native American tribes, territorial Mississippi has a complex history rife with fierce contention. This book explores the p...

Reducere. Harlan Hubbard (1900--1988), a Kentucky writer, environmentalist, and artist, spent many years trying to rediscover and revive the vanishing langua...

Reducere. As anyone who's researched Clayton history over the years can tell you, there are a lot of tangled branches to sort through. This particular branch...

Reducere. A good ghost story can make your hair stand on end, your palms sweat, and your heart race. The bone-chilling collection Tales of Kentucky Ghosts pr...

Reducere. Charles Boyer: The French Lover is the first biography of Boyer to exist in English in almost forty years. Author John Baxter artfully presents the...

Reducere. Of all the military assignments in Vietnam, perhaps none was more challenging than the defense of the Mekong River Delta region. Operating deep wit...

Reducere. Why have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power imbalances in the United States's favor, significa...

Reducere. During his forty-five-year career, William Wyler (1902-1981) pushed the boundaries of filmmaking with his gripping storylines and innovative depth-...

Reducere. Compared to armies and navies, which have existed as professional fighting services for centuries, the technology that makes air forces possible is...

Kentucky. Known today for its bluegrass, horse racing, and bourbon; it's very name, embedded in Iroquois history, means Land of Tomorrow. The song ...

Reducere. On Christmas Eve 1881, a horrible crime shook the small town of Ashland, Kentucky, and captivated the entire nation. Three children were brutally m...

Reducere. Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967) was driven not just to be an actress but to be a star. One of the most influential sex symbols of her time, she was kno...

Reducere. Smokescreen cuts through years of misunderstanding and misdirection to make an impassioned, evidence-based argument for a new era of forest managem...

Reducere. Did Abraham Lincoln hate his father so much that he would not visit him on his deathbed or buy him a tombstone? Is it true that Ann Rutledge, who d...

Reducere. General George Joulwan played a role in many pivotal world events during his long and exceptional career. Present at both the rise and fall of the ...

Reducere. In March 1856, a dead body washed onto the shore of the Mississippi River. Nothing out of the ordinary. In those days, people fished corpses from t...

Reducere. The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is an inspiring personal narrative about a filly who broke through the male-dominated world of horseracing an...

Despite French President Charles de Gaulle's persistent efforts to constructively share French experience and use his resources to help engineer an...

Reducere. The Hatfield-McCoy feud has long been the most famous vendetta of the southern Appalachians. Over the years it has become encrusted with myth and e...

This comprehensive biography is the first to present Lewis Milestone's remarkable life -- a classic rags-to-riches American narrative -- in full an...

During television's first fifty years -- long before cable networks, Hulu, Netflix, and the like -- families would gather around their television s...

Reducere. Established in 1830 and named by the famed pioneer William Clark, the city of Paducah thrived as a result of its position along the waterways. From...

Reducere. It was a cold and foggy February night in 1983 when a group of armed thieves crept onto Ballymany Stud, near The Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland...

Reducere. Camp Nelson, Kentucky, was designed in 1863 as a military supply depot for the Union Army. Later it became one of the country's most important recr...

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. Mere months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a volunteer group of American airmen to the Far East, convinced...

The American theater was not ignorant of the developments brought on by World War II, and actively addressed and debated timely, controversial topi...

Reducere. Established on the campus of Cornell University in the fall of 1905, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity began as an organization to meet the needs of a han...

Reducere. Crystal Wilkinson combines a deep love for her rural roots with a passion for language and storytelling in this compelling collection of poetry and...

Mae Murray (1885-1965), popularly known as ""the girl with the bee-stung lips, "" was a fiery presence in silent-era Hollywood. Renowned for her cl...

While television has always played a role in recording and curating history, shaping cultural memory, and influencing public sentiment, the changin...

In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the perspective of two Afric...

On March 28, 1966, Peace Corps personnel in Tanzania received word that volunteer Peppy Kinsey had fallen to her death while rock climbing during a...

Reducere. True Kentucky cuisine tastes best at a full table. Friends and family share stories while passing delectables like roast chicken, bacon-kissed wilt...

A safety pin was all that kept Spectacular Bid from becoming the eleventh Thoroughbred to take the Triple Crown. This work examines Spectacular Bid...

What essential leadership lessons do we learn by distilling the actions and ideas of great military commanders such as George Washington, Dwight D....

When Bob Thompson asked his granny years ago why she continued to create so many of her beautiful quilts, she said it was the only way she could re...

On June 29, 1978, Bob Crane, known to Hogan's Heroes fans as Colonel Hogan, was discovered brutally murdered in his Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment....

Reducere. When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three...

This insightful collection of essays details the political life of one of the most prominent and gifted American statesmen of the twentieth century...

Reducere. Harlan and Anna Hubbard, newly married in middle age, build the boat of their dreams and drift down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Harlan is an a...

Reducere. DescriptionHow Meatyard made a stage set of his native Kentucky to portray his circle of friends and compose his eerie tableauxStages for Being exa...

Reducere. Iconic graphic designer and Academy Award--winning filmmaker Saul Bass (1920--1996) defined an innovative era in cinema. His title sequences for fi...

When the Declaration of Independence was signed by a group of wealthy white men in 1776, poor white men, African Americans, and women quickly disco...

Reducere. At various points in history, Kentucky's politics and government have been rocked by scandal, and each episode defined the era in which it happened...

From ghost towns to circus performers to mass hysteria, the Bluegrass State is no stranger to the strange. Read stories of famed President Abraham ...

Reducere. On January 19, 1862, Confederate and Union forces clashed in the now-forgotten Battle of Mill Springs. Armies of inexperienced soldiers chaotically...

Reducere. DescriptionMammoth Cave National Park and the surrounding area comprise the world's most extensive cave system. The region is characterized by what...

Reducere. Description"United We Stand, Divided We Fall" is Kentucky's motto. Yet the Civil War sharply split the Bluegrass State. Kentuckians fought Kentucki...

George S. Patton is one of the most controversial, celebrated, and popular military leaders in American history, and his accomplishments and victor...

Reducere. Until I was nine or ten, everyone called me Joe or Joe Hall. Then one day, my grandmother, for reasons known only to her, pulled me aside, telling ...

Reducere. A military operation unlike any other on American soil, Morgan's Raid was characterized by incredible speed, superhuman endurance and innovative ta...

Reducere. Kentucky has a rich history of producing spirits. Kentucky is the birthplace for bourbon and is America's only native spirit made with at least 51%...

Reducere. DescriptionIt's 4: 30 in the morning, and the "book woman" and her horse are already on their way. Hers is an important job, for the folks along he...

Award NameMichigan Notable BooksAward categoryNotable BookDescriptionEmerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing ...

DescriptionThroughout his prolific career, John Mellencamp has performed more than twenty Top 40 hits, has been nominated for thirteen Grammy Award...

Reducere. In the months leading up to the 1971 Kentucky Derby, Canonero II was an unknown horse with a Venezuelan trainer who spoke only Spanish. The Derby e...

Reducere. In grocery store aisles and kitchens across the country, smiling images of ``Aunt Jemima`` and other historical and fictional black cooks can be fo...

Reducere. Think of Kentucky and several images come to mind: sports, bluegrass, Churchill Downs, and yes, bourbon. There is a sobering reality in that bourbo...

Description"No soldier could ask for a sweeter resting place than on the field of glory where he fell. The land he died to save vies with the one w...

Reducere. DescriptionNorthern Kentucky has a unique location as the gateway between the North and the South. Many of its historic businesses, religious struc...

Reducere. On December 18, 1972, more than one hundred U.S. B-52 bombers flew over North Vietnam to initiate Operation Linebacker II. During the next eleven d...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat makes western Kentucky so unique? Sometimes it seems as if the history of this distinctive region lies buried deep within its awe-i...

Reducere. DescriptionIsra Shadi, a twenty-one-year-old woman of mixed Palestinian and white descent, lives in California with her paternal amu (uncle), amtu ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alan K. RodeAcademy Award--winning director Michael Curtiz (1886--1962) -- whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942)...