New Orleans Disasters: Firsthand Accounts of Crescent City Tragedy, Paperback - Royd Anderson

Reducere. With more than one thousand books on Hurricane Katrina, somehow not one work examines a collection of Crescent City calamity--until now. Here seven...

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. New Orleans is a city of beautiful contradictions, evidenced by its street names. New Orleans crosses with Hope, Pleasure and Duels. Religious coup...

Reducere. Fear Dat New Orleans explores the eccentric and often macabre dark corners of America's most unique city. In addition to detailed histories of biza...

New Orleans is a city of beautiful contradictions, evidenced by its street names. New Orleans crosses with Hope, Pleasure and Duels. Religious coup...

Reducere. The first full-length book of drone photography of the Crescent City, Above New Orleans offers readers perspectives never before captured by a came...

Reducere. Celebrate 300 years of New Orleans history Originally written by Joan B. Garvey and Mary Lou Widmer, this book is widely regarded as the definitive...

Reducere. What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural s...

Reducere. New Orleans--the Big Easy, the birthplace of jazz, home of Cafe du Monde and what some call the most haunted city in America. Beneath the indulgenc...

Reducere. Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid...

Reducere. In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. M...

Reducere. Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid...

Reducere. In Secret Life, Professor David M. Jacobs of Temple University takes us into the private world of those abducted by aliens, letting them describe i...

Reducere. A Chiricahua Apache of the Chokonen band, Cochise (c. 1810-1874) was one of the most celebrated Indian leaders of his time, battling both American ...

Reducere. MEXICAN MARTYRDOM is a series of true stories of the terrible anti-Catholic persecutions which took place in Mexico in the 1920's. Told by the Jesu...

This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in China during WWII. Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in As...

The shocking story of the three year siege of Leningrad, now known as St Petersburg.

Reducere. DescriptionWhat is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally an...

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more si...

A collection of over 150 vignettes from the journals and diaries of people who lived or traveled in the Old West, these accounts begin with the six...

Reducere. Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a master satirist who displayed a fiery wit both as a writer and as an artist. For seven months in 1880, he surprise...

From Lonely Planet, the world's leading travel guide publisher Durable and waterproof, with a handy slipcase and an easy-fold format, Lonely Planet...

Reducere. America's most beguiling metropolis started out as a snake-infested swamp. Through intense imperial rivalries and ambitious settlers who risked the...

Reducere. For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language ...

Reducere. Kirkus' Best of 2015 list School Library Journal Best of 2015 Publishers Weekly's Best of 2015 list Horn Book Fanfare Book Booklist Editor's Choice...

A vivid description of flying missions in the bomber air crews during World War Two. Dramatic, first-hand accounts from the bomber pilots and crew....

Reducere. City Park's 1, 300 acres cradle the largest collection of mature live oaks in the nation. Established in 1854, it is one of the country's largest u...

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. The lusty vampire, the sympathetic werewolf, the tragic banshee are just a few of the dark and frightening creatures you'll discover in Banshees, W...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dan KingFirsthand accounts from Japanese WWII soldiers, sailors and pilots who fought in the battle for Iwo Jima and surviv...

Reducere. The Black Hawk War was the final conflict east of the Mississippi River between American Indian communities and the United States regular troops an...

Reducere. Before there were celebrity gourmands, Creole Feast brought together the stories and knowledge of New Orleans top chefs. These masters of modern Cr...

Reducere. In the wake of the tragedy and destruction that came with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, public schools in New Orleans became part of an almost unthink...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dan KingFirsthand accounts from interviews conducted in Japan with five WWII Japanese Naval aviators. All are veterans of t...

Reducere. Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New Orleans, Hardcover