Paper: Paging Through History, Hardcover - Mark Kurlansky

Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more effi...

B format edition of Kurlansky's history of salt and its influence on the events of history and on the culinary traditions of nations around the wor...

An erudite and affectionate history of the Basque people, a nation without a country, the origins of which go back to pre-Roman times, and whose ow...

Reducere. The author of the comparable food histories }Cod{ and }Salt{ turns his attention to the much-mythologised and expansively various substance profoun...

In The Importance of Not Being Ernest, acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky focuses on the sprawling life and ...

The year 1968 encompasses the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media. It was the year of sex and drugs and ro...

Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and a...

The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare.

When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed ...

Reducere. In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct ...

Reducere. Announcing the paperback edition of World Without Fish, the uniquely illustrated narrative nonfiction account--for kids--of what is happening to th...

In his new global food history, the internationally bestselling author says if we can save the salmon, we can save the worldIllustrations: 8-page c...

The internationally bestselling author says if we can save the salmon, we can save the worldPublisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): Mark Kurlans...

Reducere. African American Cinema through Black Lives Consciousness uses critical race theory to discuss American films that embrace contemporary issues of r...

Mark Twain's Hawaii: A Humorous Romp through Paradise, combines Twain's own writings on Hawaii with personal reminiscences by others who met him at...

Reducere. Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and a...

Reducere. DescriptionDenverites once enjoyed a retail landscape rich with personal touches. Revisit May-D&F's animated holiday windows or the ice skating rin...

Reducere. Papier-m ch tigers, riots on the field, Chinese bandits, tailgating before a trip to the stadium nicknamed "Death Valley"--all these things and mor...

Reducere. For most of its history, thanks to its geography, Northwest Denver has felt like a world apart from the rest of the city. West of the South Platte ...

Reducere. As general manager for Erwin, Tennessee-based Clinchfield Railroad, Thomas D. Moore found an eighty-six-year-old vintage 4-6-0 ten-wheeler steam en...

Reducere. Beyond the grand facades and trappings of the Main Line cream-and-crystal crowd are hidden tales and scintillating stories. Author Mark Dixon's col...

Reducere. From its 1858 birth, the Mile High City has undergone continuous change, with each successive generation putting its stamp on Denver's architectura...

Reducere. The only state born as a result of the Civil War, West Virginia was the most divided state in the nation. About forty thousand of its residents ser...

Reducere. One of the surest ways to connect with the past is to sample what was on its plate. That's the goal with this gustatory journey through Alabama his...

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 ...

Explaining the mechanics of tortureeven now a controversial topicthis history questions why so much effort has been put into causing painto fellow ...

Reducere. DescriptionOn an Oxford bound train in 1866 Mary Miles refused to move to the 'blacks-only' section, eighty-nine years before Rosa Parks' famous ri...

Newcomers to the "Mile-High City" of Denver, whether arriving during the 19th, 20th, or 21st centuries, have often remarked on how new the city see...

This research- and pedagogy-oriented book delves into the study and application of incidental vocabulary acquisition in English through captioned v...

Reducere. Vermont's history is marked by fierce independence, generosity of spirit and the saga of human life along its steep slopes and fertile valleys. Mee...

Tony Brooks was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Ch...

Reducere. This is a revised edition of the first volume of the Russian Through Propaganda series, now with free video lessons via YouTube. This new series of...

Reducere. From a prehistoric locale like the Big Falls of the Cuyahoga River to the cavernous 1970s majesty of the Coliseum, explore the places that have mel...

Reducere. This coursebook with Cambridge Elevate edition covers Paper 3, HL option 2: History of the Americas, Topic 17: Civil Rights and Social Movements in...

Amin Maalouf has sifted through the works of a score of contemporary Arab chronicles of the Crusades, eyewitnesses and often participants in the ev...

Reducere. Ken Blanchard's Leading at a Higher Level techniques are inspiring thousands of leaders to build high-performing organizations that make life bette...

Reducere. Faced with the most challenging moment of his life, Mark Lichterman had to ensure his mind was in a state of positivity and gratitude. He would fin...

Reducere. For centuries, the kings and queens of Great Britain have been crowned whilst sitting upon the Stone of Destiny. The Stone was taken from Scone in ...

DescriptionRenowned quilter and textile artist Helen Parrott explores the creative potential of using your local surroundings to create beautiful t...

Reducere. DescriptionEstablished in 1869, Fort Sill initially hosted cavalry regiments, including buffalo soldiers, charged with pacifying native tribes in p...

Reducere. The USS Texas was built when dreadnought battleships were kings of the seas. It was the world s most powerful battleship when first commissioned in...