Life and Death of an Oilman: The Career of E. W. Marland, Paperback - John Joseph Mathews

Reducere. One of America's most colorful oilmen was Ernest Whitworth Marland, a man who had much in common with other industrial giants of his age-- the Mell...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gregory McNameeFor sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ec...

Reducere. Challenge Windzer, the mixed-blood protagonist of this compelling autobiographical novel, was born at the beginning of the twentieth century -when ...

Reducere. An authoritative account of the dangers of unfettered markets and monied politics, People, Power, and Profits shows us an America in crisis. The Am...

The true story of one of the biggest financial scandals in recent history reaches very different conclusions to the standard narrative.Publisher: B...

A biography that offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann's life. It confronts the traditional perception of the doom-laden Romantic, forced by de...

Interweaving lost articles by the Osage author, naturalist, and historian, John Joseph Mathews with insightful commentaries and essays by his biogr...

"Stradley has]...a clipped, hard-hitting narrative style that makes no excuses and offers no apologies. Boxing fans interested in this...tragic fig...

Reducere. Perhaps once in a generation a great book appears on the life of a people--less than a nation, more than a tribe--that reflects in a clear light th...

Johnny Alpha's explosive return from beyond concludes in this action-packed finale.

Reducere. In Wah'Kon-Tah, John Joseph Mathews relied heavily on the papers of Osage agent Major Labian J. Miles to recreate the world of the Osage during the...

Reducere. Talking to the Moon is an unusual and charming story of a Thoreau-like adventure in remote northeastern Oklahoma. Following his university educatio...

Reducere. Few are more qualified to comment during this turbulent time than Joseph E. Stiglitz. Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, Stiglitz is "an ...

A great book for those interested in biblical study from the pen of E W Rogers. This is the first volume in a new series of collected writings that...

Reducere. Horror has taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law - Psalm 119: 53Updated, Modern English. Illustrated.The life of Mr. Badman...

Reducere. Raised in a restrictive and oppressive household, Harriet Frean is used to sacrificing her own happiness and comfort for the sake of others, in fac...

Sellers has long been acknowledged as one of the screen's greatest comic actors. In this biography, Roger Lewis draws on over 300 interviews with S...

Reducere. * “The most complete and successful biography of the Fuehrer available for this audience.”—SLJ, starred review Many people believe Hitler was the p...

Reducere. After two decades, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and f...

The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft is the acclaimed bestselling biography by Claire Tomalin Winner of the Whitbread First Book Prize Witty, ...

A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationshi...

In Tomb of the Eagles John Hedges describes vividly the activities of a tribe in Isbister in the Orkneys which had as its totem the magnificent whi...

Reducere. This dynamic, challenging, and transforming vision of Christian theology, presented in a systematic manner, invites readers to approach the mystery...

Death of a Poet is rhyming couplets meet etched illustrations in this whimsically dark chapbook about poets and their deaths. Dog Truths includes a...

This book recounts in detail the negotiations, internal and external struggles, and the outcome of an attempt by HUD, the City of Washington, and s...

The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios collects three important works promoting the influential Constantinople monastery of Stoudios and the me...

Reducere. Novelist, playwright, film actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was arguably the most famous person in Japan...

In this extraordinary investigation based on extensive documentary research and dozens of interviews with the key players, Brian Brivati sets out t...

Publisher: Myrtle PressIllustration(s): 16 colour platesNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 146 x 224 x 23Cover type: HardbackRed...

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. The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important oper...

A new account of the tragic life and troubled times of Henry VI, who inherited the crowns of both England and France and lost both, in the course o...

First English translation of a Greek novella first published in 1920 by the Corfiot author Konstantinos Theotokis. A tragi-comedy of Corfiot villag...

Reducere. Acute Misfortune is an unflinching portrait of talent and addiction.In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his s...