Outlaw Ocean. Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier, Hardback - Ian Urbina

Contemporary lawlessness and criminality on the high seas are explored in this casting of light on to piracy, smuggling, wreck theft, oil-dumping, ...

'Just incredible' Naomi Klein'Gripping and shocking...with the pace of a thriller' The TimesA New York Times bestseller, The Outlaw Ocean is a rive...

A fascinating and gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects with environmentalism, class, and culture.Pub...

DescriptionExplore, salvage, and survive inside the Exclusion Zone in this near-future Eastern European-themed skirmish wargame.Zona Alfa is a set ...

Reducere. #1 Best Seller and Winner of The 2021 International Book Awards."The darkest day of my life came when the Nazis took my brother. I felt helples...

An 18th-century adventure - a true story of love, murder and survival...

Reducere. #1 Best Seller and Winner of The 2021 International Book Awards."The darkest day of my life came when the Nazis took my brother. I felt helpless as...

Reducere. Winds of Skilak: The Continuing Saga of One Couple's Adventures and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness continues the journey of Bonnie Rose Ward as...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bonnie WardWinds of Skilak traces a young couple's adventurous move from the suburbs of Ohio to a remote island on ill-temp...

Lev and Svetlana, kept apart for fourteen years by the Second World War and the Gulag, stayed true to each other and exchanged thousands of secret ...

Reducere. The 1982 avalanche at Alpine Meadows ski resort near Lake Tahoe, California was a once-in-a-lifetime catastrophe--an unforeseeable confluence of na...

Reducere. The story of Truman Everts survival for 37 days in Yellowstone is an astonishing tale of one man's struggle against the wilderness.What started out...

A New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Selection"An intense and illuminating travelogue... offer[ing] a corrective to the patriarchal white ga...

"Feasting Wild is indeed a feast--a memorable, genre-defying work that blends anthropology and adventure, love and loss."--Elizabeth Kolbert, New Y...

Reducere. This Holocaust memoir began with an album of photographs, one of the few family possessions that survived WWII. After his mother's death the album ...

Reducere. This Holocaust memoir began with an album of photographs, one of the few family possessions that survived WWII. After his mother's death the album ...

The first book to show that during the era of Wild West, the most dangerous place to be was in the Wilder East, far from the American frontier.

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the heyday of the Cherokee Nation and on through the twentieth century, the Great Smoky Mountains have nurtured some of the most ce...

Reducere. There's many who feel the Alaska Territory is no place for a woman on her own. But Charlotte Brody, suffragette and journalist, has never let publi...

The book provides a non-specialist introduction to the reasons why we can make sense of the world around and within us, facing the oceans of comple...

Reducere. Since 1935, Alaska magazine has charted the development of our biggest, most mysterious state. With compelling stories on such events as earthquake...

Reducere. Take a journey to the last frontier to explore the lives of Molly and Millie Moose in their community. Follow Molly and Millie through their habita...

Reducere. Ned Johnston, a middle-aged attorney, has escaped the grind of a high-pressure job by returning to his hometown of Oceanic Park and establishing a ...

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A fascinating biography of the poetry of Clive James

The sea has played an important part in shaping Britain's identity, and the country has long needed to look outwards, not inwards, for its trade an...

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Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Graham DominyNumber of pages: 320Collection: History of Military OccupationPublication date: 2016...

The gripping, shocking and true story of a Bosniak family's flight from their home at the outbreak of war in former Yugoslavia. Hasan Nuhanovic was...

Reducere. From the author of the Fall 2015 Disney movie The Finest Hours, the "thrilling and perfectly paced" (Booklist) story of the sinking and rescue of B...

The gripping story of a UK journalist imprisoned and tortured in Iran and the global campaign for his release

The authors take readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women ofthe rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap ...

A journey into the experiences of incarcerated women in rural areas, revealing how location can reinforce gendered violenceIncarceration is all too...

Reducere. Praise for The Rescue ""Steven Trent Smith grapples boldly with several big subjects: the Japanese occupation of the Philippines; the capture of Ja...

A landmark work within the study of conflict, sound studies, and ethnomusicology, Listening to War offers a broad theorization of sound, violence, ...

Reducere. The open ocean--that vast expanse of international waters--spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natu...

Populism suddenly is everywhere, and everywhere misunderstood. Nadia Urbinati argues that populism should be regarded as government based on an unm...

Reducere. About the AuthorChuck Kinder is the author of four novels--Snakehunter, The Silver Ghost, Honeymooners, and Last Mountain Dancer--and three collect...

Reducere. Modern challenges have left many of us wondering what on earth we would do ifeverything came to a crashing halt.When food supplies run dry, and gro...

Reducere. Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new he...

Reducere. In the late 1970s, author Warren Fellows and two of his friends had the perfect scheme: they would traffic heroin between Australia and Thailand, c...

DescriptionFrom driverless cars to smart thermostats, the Internet now has direct effects on the physical world. Although this computerized future,...