Last And First Men

One of the most extraordinary, imaginative and ambitious novels of the century: a history of the evolution of humankind over the next 2 billion yea...

Reducere. Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapl...

Reducere. Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapl...

Reducere. DescriptionLast and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author...

When a diplomat dies in the 1930s, he leaves behind a book of 'dream visions' he has been experiencing, detailing events that will occur on Earth f...

Reducere. Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950), philosopher, novelist, educator, and social activist had an imagination unlike that of any other figure in modernist li...

Reducere. In the list of modern science fiction personalities, the late British philosopher and novelist W. Olaf Stapledon is prominent. Last and First Men a...

Reducere. DescriptionAs a dad, you are the most important man in your children's lives You are your son's first hero and your daughter's first romance. The i...

Reducere. In 1931 Grey Owl published his first book, The Men of the Last Frontier, a work that is part memoir, part history of the vanishing wilderness in Ca...

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Reducere. What does it take to get along for a lifetime? Men and women share a deadly problem that kills good relating. The problem is this: we are committed...

Lord Westfield's men are in dire straights when the company is offered a new play which could drag them out of their rut. However, during the play'...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marilyn ShimonWhile growing up in New York, Marilyn Shimon often visited her uncle in California. She saw his scars, gaped ...

Reducere. "One of the very best books to come out of the war in Iraq, " (Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, bestselling author of On Killing), The Last Punisher is a gr...

Reducere. 0n May 24, 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in ...

Like "Aladdin, " but with shell shock, "Charlie Echo" is a story about wishes - the last wishes of a dying soldier on the battlefields of Normandy ...

DescriptionThe story of two men who almost single-handedly saved their football club from extinction. In the 80s David Kilpatrick and Graham Morris...

Reducere. Hangings and Lynchings in Dallas County, Texas: 1853 to 1920 documents all of the known hangings in Dallas County including . . . Jane Elkins, a sl...

The biggest and best adventures of Marvel's mighty mutants - these are the X-Men Milestones Months ago, Cyclops gave Cable custody of the first mut...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Fritz ZimmermanDid a race of giant humans once roam the Biblical lands, Europe and North America? Over 300 historical accou...

Saturday at M.I.9 is the inside story of the underground escape lines in occupied Northwest Europe which brought back to Britain over 4, 000 Allied...

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Reducere. On a mountain somewhere above treeline, in some of the coldest and worst winter conditions imaginable, two men lie unconscious in the snow as explo...

Reducere. Filmul nu are subtitrare in limba romana. / This movie does not have Romanian subtitles.From the creators of Mad Men, The Walking Dead and Breaking...

Reducere. Before Orange is the New Black, there was Inside.American jails and prisons confine nearly 13.5 million people each year. Despite these disturbing ...

Reducere. "First at Bethel, farthest at Gettysburg and Chickamauga and last at Appomattox" is a phrase that is often used to encapsulate the role of North Ca...

Reducere. Russell Means is the most controversial Indian leader of our time. Where White Men Fear to Tread is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his life...

Reducere. DescriptionThey say your first kiss should be earned. Mine was stolen by a devil in a masquerade mask under the black Chicago sky. They say the vow...

Reducere. DescriptionUntil the sixteenth century, people believed in magic as a way of explaining how the world worked. Indeed Queen Elizabeth I had a court ...

Reducere. A must-read for submarine buffsOn the morning of April 10, 1963, the world's most advanced submarine was on a test dive off the New England coast w...

Contributor(s): Author: Maxene RaicesIn 1964 the Vietnam War was heating up, drafting young men into battle. It was an era in which sex was not dis...

Reducere. It Takes Men of Giant Faith to Face the Giants of Canaan. After four hundred years of slavery in Egypt, the Israelites under Moses have escaped int...

Reducere. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) is a historical pamphlet by Nat Turner and Thomas Ruffin Gray. Published shortly after Turner's execution, The...

Reducere. A revised edition of the New York Times bestselling classic: the epic story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men who ...

At last, model and designer Ines de la Fressange offers an essential guide of sartorial advice for men, curated from the most stylish guys in her e...

Reducere. A shy librarian from Earth learns her true female nature as a slave dancer on the planet Gor in this fantasy series where men dominate women. Doree...

Reducere. Four hundred years in the future, women control the world but Khan Aurelius, ruler of the last free men, is determined to take back the power that ...

Reducere. Whether they conducted their research in life or in the lab, experts Tucker Max and Geoffrey Miller have spent the last 20+ years learning what wom...

Nawal El Saadawi's highly acclaimed feminist novel, Woman at Point Zero, follows the life of Firdaus, an Egyptian peasant girl, from her childhood ...

Reducere. From the author of the widely acclaimed King Leopold's Ghost comes the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justi...

Reducere. I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in suc...

Description When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsbur...

Description'In 1811, twelve young men were chosen among the families in the Emperor's personal service to serve as ushers in his apartments. My mot...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John C. CulverAuthor: John Hyde" A] lucid and sympathetic portrait of a fascinating character. Wallace's life reminds us of...

Reducere. B.M. Cron's thoroughly researched biography offers a reassessment of Margaret of Anjou's life, her character, her aims and her dealings with the me...

Reducere. First published in 1948, Death on the Last Train is a Chief Inspector Littlejohn mystery full of false leads, dead ends and old-fashioned charm.Det...

Reducere. The following history consists of nineteen parts; the first treats of the seven sages or wise men of Greece, so famous in Antiquity; the others giv...

Reducere. The present work contains three principal books of the Zohar, the key to the Kabalistic system. The translation is principally taken from the Latin...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1961 the British army struggled with volunteer recruitment after the abolition of National Service. Recruiting teams were sent to thr...

Reducere. Severine Brock's first language was Ga, yet it was not surprising when, in 1842, she married Edward Carstensen. He was the last governor of Christi...

Reducere. "You do not mess with the special investigators."Jack Reacher handpicked a group of the smartest, toughest and most fearless individuals in the Arm...

Reducere. The inspiring love story that will change your life. One hundred years ago, an "unsinkable" luxury liner sank on its maiden voyage. More than 1, 50...

Reducere. The inspiring love story that will change your life. One hundred years ago, an "unsinkable" luxury liner sank on its maiden voyage. More than 1, 50...

Reducere. DescriptionThey came from the Irish neighborhoods of Philadelphia. At the bottom of the social strata, they were the laborers; the railroad workers...

Reducere. Two-time governor of Alta, California and prominent businessman after the U.S. annexation, P o de Jesus Pico was a politically savvy Californio who...

Reducere. Alexander, Grand Duke of Russia (1866-1933), grandson of Tsar Nicholas I, and brother-in-law of Tsar Nicholas II, served as a naval officer during ...

Reducere. Two formidable men collide in this first-class legal thriller and New York Times bestseller about a celebrated criminal defense lawyer and the pros...

Reducere. Two formidable men collide in this first-class legal thriller and New York Times bestseller about a celebrated criminal defense lawyer and the pros...

Reducere. Cleveland's Colorful Characters tells many interesting and unknown stories about Cleveland and some of its more interesting citizens. Many of these...

Cleveland's Colorful Characters tells many interesting and unknown stories about Cleveland and some of its more interesting citizens. Many of these...

Reducere. A quiet haunted man, Paul Cable walked away from a lost cause hoping to pick up where he left off. But things have changed in Arizona since he firs...

Reducere. First published in 2001, Barren Lands is the classic true story of the men who sought-and found-a great diamond mine on the last frontier of the fa...

Reducere. DescriptionEula was born an Elrod but used several last names during her tumultuous life, some legally, others questionable. Although few considere...

Reducere. On the last Tuesday of November 1095, Pope Urban II delivered an electrifying speech that launched the First Crusade. His words set Christendom afi...

Reducere. This book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de Onate, the first colonizer of the old Spanish Borderlands. Born in Zacatecas, Mexi...

Reducere. When Wilbur and Orville Wright arrived on North Carolina's Outer Banks in the year 1900, they were unknown bicycle mechanics who dreamed of powered...

A roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminism Why are so many women single, so m...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first battle of the Texas Revolution was fought in Gonzales in October 1835. The fight was between the Texans and Mexican soldiers o...

Starting in 1970, Jean Genet--petty thief, prostitute, modernist master--spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outc...