Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Colin GordonOnce a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of ...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Nathaniel PhilbrickNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 214 x 30Cover type: Paperb...

A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the re...

Reducere. A searing and "magisterial" (Cornel West) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St...

Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature's creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before g...

A compelling history of seashells and the animals that make them, revealing what they have to tell us about nature, our changing oceans and ourselv...

Reducere. For the updated paperback edition of Under the Surface, Tom Wilber has written a new chapter and epilogue covering developments since the book's in...

Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance...

Floods, Famines and Emperors. El Nino and the Fate of Civilisations - Brian Fagan

Abundant, newly discovered sources shatter long-held beliefs The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 revealed, among many other things, a hidden w...

Reducere. Holy warfare is the festering wound on the conscience of Bible-believing Christians. Of all the problems the Old Testament poses for our modern age...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Great Partnership has the power to change how we think about Confederate strategic decision-making and the value of personal relatio...

Description"Homelands helps us to see ourselves in each other, and in so doing it gets at the genius of a country that has always aspired to be one...

Reducere. The dream of a United States of Europe is unraveling in the wake of several crises now afflicting the continent. The single Euro currency threatens...

Reducere. The dwarves are going to battle for the last time. There has been no word from the courageous warrior Tungdil since the bitter struggle at the Blac...

Reducere. Custer's ill-fated attack on June 25, 1876, has gone down as the American military's most catastrophic defeat. This historic and personal work tell...

Winner of the 2014 Robert W. Peterson Award for Excellence in Negro League Research from the Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference, sponsored by Neg...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Destin JenkinsIllustration(s): 26 halftones, 10 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 20...

Reducere. The ancient Roman philosopher Cicero wrote that philosophy is ars vitae, the art of living. Today, signs of stress and duress point to a full-fledg...

Reducere. In 1973, Leonard and Edith Ehrlich chose to undertake a daunting task that would ultimately become their greatest work: conducting over thirty year...

Dealing with the imminent decline of cheap oil, this book shows how oil and war have been closely related in the 20th century. Tracing the crucial ...

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 ...

A strident argument about the dangers of compromise in art, politics, and everyday life On Compromise is an argument against contemporary liberal s...

Countess Sofia Panina lived a remarkable life. Born into an aristocratic family in imperial Russia, she found her true calling in improving the liv...

Publisher: ScribnerAuthor(s): Bruce JonesNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 226 x 171 x 30Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farme...

From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flo...

How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman EmpireHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of h...

Reducere. This title collects Berry's signature views on the interconnectedness of both Earth's future and the Christian future. He ponders why Christians ha...

A dramatic account of the fateful year leading to the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar's autocracy

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Eva RosenIllustration(s): 15 b/w illus.Number of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x ...

Reducere. No metropolis in America has more pure baseball spirit than St. Louis, Missouri. It's a love affair that began in 1874, when a band of local booste...

Reducere. The animal wealth of the western "wilderness" provided by talented "savages" encouraged French-Americans from Illinois, Canada and Louisiana to fou...

Reducere. Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Rise...

DescriptionGet a new perspective from the 'other half' of macroeconomics The failure of the vast majority of economists in government, academia and...

The never-before told story of how Napoleon's top brass escaped to America after Waterloo.Illustrations: 14 Halftones, color; 19 Halftones, black a...

When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occur...

The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, benefi...