Pathfinder: John Charles Fr mont and the Course of American Empire, Paperback - Tom Chaffin

Reducere. "The most eloquent, understanding, and yet very candid biography of Fr mont that has appeared to date"--Howard R. Lamar, Yale UniversityThe career ...

Reducere. Available in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One covers the role Jac...

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Reducere. National Book AwardsAvailable in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One...

Contributor(s): Author: Tom ChaffinIn 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already ...

Reducere. The Pawprints of History shines a new light on a favorite subject -- the relationship between humans and their four-legged best friends. Stanley Co...

On the evening of February 17, 1864, the Confederacy's H. L. Hunley sank the Union's formidable sloop of war the USS Housatonic and became the firs...

Description"A fascinating book."--James Ryerson, New York Times Book ReviewA Smithsonian Best Science Book of the YearWinner of the PROSE Award for...

Reducere. Born in the wake of World War II, RAND quickly became the creator of America's anti-Soviet nuclear strategy. A magnet for the best and the brightes...

A sweeping germ's-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their ger...

Reducere. In this elegantly written and far-reaching narrative, acclaimed author Gerard Koeppel tells the astonishing story of the creation of the Erie Canal...

Reducere. DescriptionHistory is the key to understanding men-whether as nations, families, or individuals. For Catholics, history has an even higher purpose ...

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Reducere. Climate Change and the Course of Global History presents the first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the ...

Reducere. In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small t...

Reducere. The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science f...

This is the first detailed account of the historic race for long-distance flight records between the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy after World War II.Pub...

Publisher: Simon & SchusterAuthor(s): Tom CoyneIllustration(s): 8-pg 4-c insert; maps t-oNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 213 ...

Reducere. This is the story of a nation--the United States--that has conducted more than 160 wars and other military ventures while insisting it loves peace....

Reducere. In ancient Rome, ambitious citizens who aspired to political power, to become one of the ruling elite--a senator, had to follow what was known as "...

Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire re-examines the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and Jorie G...

DescriptionEva Rass, a leading expert on the work of Allan Schore, presents a collection that provides an overview of his core ideas and makes acce...

Charting the relationship between humans and animals and how certain species have been instrumental in the development of our understanding of the ...

Reducere. A conservative take on the antifascist movementAntifascism argues that current self-described antifascists are not struggling against a reappearanc...

Reducere. "An engrossing talethat] provides plenty of food for thought" (People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel...

Reducere. Coltrane's role in spearheading the last major innovative development in jazz, and how the 1960s jazz revolution reflected an intense cultural, pol...

"I don't make culture, I sell it" Dick Clark once remarked. Indeed, the man who reigned as host of American Bandstand for nearly four decades may n...

In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.Thomas...

DescriptionAn entertaining seat at the table of ten power meals that shaped history--including the menus and recreated recipes Some of the most con...

Reducere. Visionary solutions for a community ripe for transformational change--from fourteen leading innovators of Jewish life."Jewish Megatrends offers a v...

Reducere. Nijay Gupta's Best Academic NT Books of 2015, Honorable Mention, Academia You're finishing your first year of teaching. It's been exciting and grat...

Publisher: Elsevier Science & TechnologyAuthor(s): Jeffrey MB (Clinical Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Med...

DescriptionHow social upheavals after the collapse of the French Empire shaped the lives and work of artists in early nineteenth-century EuropeAs t...

A Course In Miracles teaches that the separation between man and God is an illusion. The miracle in the title refers to a "shift in perception" tha...

DescriptionWritten 1924-1925 (CW 28)"Because I entered this world with defined soul predispositions, and because the course of my life, as expresse...

The very word Taxes sends shivers up spines. Yet, very few realize the tremendous impact that taxation has had on civilization. The author changes ...

By walking the same ground as Dumas - from Haiti tothe Pyramids, Paris to the prison cell at Taranto - Reiss, like the novelistbefore him, triumpha...

Reducere. DescriptionBill Spiller was forty-seven when he was forced by desperate finances to caddie at the Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles. One day Sp...