Nelly and the Quest for Captain Peabody, Paperback - Roland Chambers

When Nelly says she's going to do a thing, she does it, whatever it is, and she sets out in a boat with knitted sails to find her long-lost father,...

Reducere. One girl. One turtle. One epic voyage! If you like Pippi Longstocking, you'll love Nelly Peabody.When Nelly says she's going to do a thing, she doe...

A quirky and original adventure story. Nelly goes off searching for her mother in a knitted hot air balloon with Columbus, her best friend, who jus...

A revelatory and often chilling examination of an English icon, and his controversial Soviet double life. Arthur Ransome was the J.K. Rowling of hi...

Reducere. Join Fancy Nancy as she embarks on a quest for a unicorn in this fun story from the dazzling bestselling duo Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser...

Publisher: Mason Crest PublishersAuthor(s): Dijk, Ruud VanNumber of pages: 64Collection: Making of the Modern WorldPublication date: 2016Dimensions...

Reducere. An in-depth look into the extraordinary life of the world’s most important entrepreneur, Elon Musk This fascinating and easily accessible young rea...

Assessing Chinese cities and urbanization in a time of slowing economic development, rising inequality, and unprecedented mobility.Illustrations: 1...

Reducere. Africa's past and present are deeply influenced by the capture and selling of millions of its people over several centuries. To a greater extent, t...

The riveting story of how the Supreme Court turned a blind eye on justice, stripped away the equal rights promised to all Americans, and ushered in...

A new laugh-out-loud adventure for this unlikely superhero. Third title in what has been another successful series for the creator of }Barry Loser{...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Albena YanevaIllustration(s): 20 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 252Collection: Expertise:...

This is a book that provokes a debate about accountability in the House of Commons. Based on unprecedented access, it reveals different ways that M...

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Reckonings documents how Holocaust victims have sought justice over the decades and the haunting disparity between crime and punishment.

Radical insights into Charlotte Bronte's vital two years in Brussels (1842-3).Illustrations: 33 black and white images

This third Jake Atlas adventure features the popular brand of archaeological curiosity and futuristic gadgets, with huge appeal for boys and girls....

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This is a book that provokes a debate about accountability in the House of Commons. Based on unprecedented access, it reveals different ways that M...

This enquiry into the explorer mindset is part meditation, part memoir, from one of 'Britain's greatest explorers' (Telegraph)Publisher: Canongate ...

The funniest, craziest book featuring bananas that you'll ever read! It'll have your sides splitting, your toes curling, and your nose twitching in...

Reducere. Who was the amazing Otto Rahn? How come if Rahn was such an amazing man has hardly anyone outside specialist pre-WW2 history circles ever heard of ...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the Wolfson History Prize 2019 A single word--"Auschwitz"--is sometimes used to encapsulate the totality of persecution and su...

Reducere. Few outsiders have had the privilege to get to know Algeria and its youth so intimately-or to observe firsthand this pivotal chapter in the nation'...

Donald Sterling. Ray Rice. The Washington Redskins. The Miami Dolphins. NCAA Athletes. These names, among countless others, have blanketed the head...

This book describes how environmental destruction and extreme inequality are the result of the human economy becoming ultrasocial: a society dedica...

An introduction to the new area of ignorance studies that examines how science produces ignorance--both actively and passively, intentionally and u...

Reducere. This book is not yet another manual on how to play golf. Its author is neither a player nor a professional teacher. This is the pupils' book. It is...

Reducere. Robert Crumb (b. 1943) read widely and deeply a long roster of authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kero...

Reducere. Transhumanism is a growing philosophical movement among leading business leaders, scientists, artists, politicians and futurists. They believe that...

The Quest for Radovan Karadzic - Nick Hawton

Tucker presents guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common good.

This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent "Pop Sociologist" and Mental Health Activist of...

Reducere. Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2019 Shortlisted for the 2019 Cundill History Prize From the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. to the "stumb...

Utopia's Discontents provides the first synthetic treatment of the Russian revolutionary emigration before the Revolution. It argues that neighborh...

Reducere. Quinine: The Jesuits discovered it. The Protestants feared it. The British vied with the Dutch for it, and the Nazis seized it. Because of quinine,...

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Reducere. "This book is as autobiographical as it is biographical . . . a book that juxtaposes two adventurers, one with her own challenges still unfolding a...

In spite of pedagogical 'innovations, ' students continue to find school boring. Drawing on contemporary and historical sources, this book analyzes...

Reducere. Fusing myriad primary and secondary sources, historian Larry Cebula offers a compelling master narrative of the impact of Christianity on the Colum...

Reducere. "An elegant and timely history of how black intellectuals have long made a case for the intersections between class and race."--The Nation "A metic...

Reducere. Description#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging ...

A book that finally demystifies Newton's experiments in alchemyWhen Isaac Newton's alchemical papers surfaced at a Sotheby's auction in 1936, the q...

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Reducere. The Gnostic revival of the Enlightenment witnessed the erection of what could be called the "Kantian Rift, " an epistemological barrier between ext...