Personal History

This captivating collection of first-hand accounts brings to life the "War to End All Wars."Publisher: ABC-CLIOIllustration(s): 36 Illustrations, u...

Through an analysis of glass beads from four key study regions in Britain, the book aims to explore the role that this object played within the net...

In this two-volume work, published in 1912, the Hungarian-born archaeologist Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943) describes his second expedition to the de...

The volume offers a discussion of the intra and extra familial network ruling the Mediterranean world at the time of Philip and Alexander.Illustrat...

Drawn from personal recollections, historical records, and biographical research, Capitan Chiquito relates the little-known life and career of a le...

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Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

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Cutting-edge research on personal ornaments from archaeological contexts around the world.Publisher: Oxbow BooksIllustration(s): B/w and colourNumb...

Interweaves an autobiographical narrative with concrete research. John Mraz describes the resistance he encountered in US academia to this new way ...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work w...

An engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to these remarkable insects. Drawing on her experiences as a natural history instructor, dragonfl...

Reducere. DescriptionGod's Word, Your ThoughtsYour Bible study will never be the same. . . . .when you record your observations and insights on the actual pa...

Reducere. Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. At the o...

Reducere. Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. At the o...

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Ruth DaltonIllustration(s): 88 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 240Publication dat...

Reducere. Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of M...

A photographer becomes a mother and photographs her children for 30 years with a 1950's Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Camera and color film. Carole Glauber...

Completed just days before his death and hailed by Mark Twain as "the most remarkable work of its kind since the Commentaries of Julius Caesar, " t...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Mohinder DhillonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 207 x 258 x...

Blenheim Palace is one of the most important buildings in Europe, and the only palace in England that is still lived in as a family home.Publisher:...

Reducere. A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacob...

Argues that the largest extant theatrical tradition of the third and second centuries BCE continued to be vital for writers of the first century BC...

Publisher: Leonaur LtdAuthor(s): Frederic ShoberlNumber of pages: 140Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 227 x 182 x 19Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Mohinder DhillonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 252 x...

Reducere. Filipino farmworkers sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in 1965 and began the strike that brought about a dramatic turn in the lon...

An anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. It tells the enduring truths of battle, stripping away ...

An overview of what Civil War soldiers and veterans chose to record and share about their experiences in the years after the war.Publisher: Casemat...

Reducere. An important voice for her people by the first published Native American female authorLucy Thompson (or to give her the correct Yurok name Che-na-w...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. During the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear devastation. America's hope for national security relied ...

In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dr...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the second half of my life, my thoughts and feelings have centered around one thing: the Holocaust. In my younger years I avoided tha...

Personal accounts by individual Japanese servicemen.Illustrations: 80 black and white illustrations

The Middle East represents the greatest threat to world peace. A clear and concise explanation of the complex historical, religious, political and ...

From the first large-scale Viet Minh offensive against the French in 1950, to the fall of Saigon in 1975, the United States tried desperately to un...

Reducere. First published in 1921, this book contains the memoirs of Pierre Gilliard. Pierre Gilliard (1879 - 1962) was a Swiss author and academic famous fo...

Reducere. General Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888) was the most important Union cavalry commander of the Civil War, and ranks as one of America's greatest h...

Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father's construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life p...

Reducere. In this surprising new life of Victoria, Christopher Hibbert, master of the telling anecdote and peerless biographer of England's great leaders, pa...

Reducere. In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immi...

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. A history of the office of the President of the United States, from 1789 to the present...This book is a perfect introduction to America's Presiden...

Reducere. THRIFTWOOD is a mixture of personal memoir and cultural and literary criticism, which explores the ideas of the liminal, changing place and liminal...

The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is an autobiography by Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, focused mainly on his mi...

Reducere. At war for the Emperor with the horsemen of the CuirassiersAmong students of the Napoleonic Wars there has long been an enthusiasm for the memoirs ...

Reducere. In this riveting political and social history of the American South during the second half of the twentieth century, acclaimed journalist Curtis Wi...

Reducere. "The reminiscences of a Yaqui Indian born in 1896 in northwestern Mexico whose story begins during the Yaqui revolutionary period, continues throug...

Narrated by dozens of activists and everyday individuals, this book documents the unprecedented events that led to the collapse of dictatorial regi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert JungkAuthor: Jungk RobertTranslator: James CleughAn account of the remarkable scientists who discovered that nuclear...

"Man proposes and God disposes." There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. Although frequently ur...

Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regimePublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(...

The book reveals the inner workings of a large union taken from newspaper and union officials accounts.The story involves several union officers, h...

Reducere. Winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir Jeffery Smith was living in Missoula, Montana, working as a psychiatric case manag...

Reducere. In Quagmire you'll find a range of voices--men and women, military and civilian--and a range of perspectives from the homeland, the combat zone, an...

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In this compelling and chilling memoir, a top forensic investigator lifts the lid on the most notable and notorious cases of his forty-year career.

A vivid and authoritative account of the making of the modern Middle East, from the BBC's long-serving correspondent in the region.Publisher: Pan M...

Reducere. In 1854, after serving in the U.S. Army for 11 years, Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) resigned his commission and found himself out of a job and ...

A clear and concise explanation of the complex historical, religious, political and military factors involved.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAutho...

Reducere. DescriptionToday's society is one in which we, as individuals, are constantly barraged by the threat of domestic terrorism. The ever-present fear f...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Margaret DrabbleThe Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drab...

Reducere. Mile for mile, St. Simons Island--one of Georgia's Golden Isles--boasts as much history as any community on the East Coast. Originally an Indian hu...

Reducere. In 1945, the Allied nations agreed on a judicial process, rather than summary execution, to determine the fate of the Nazis following the end of Wo...

Reducere. Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father's construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life p...

The first in a ground-breaking two-volume history of Henry III's rule, from when he first assumed the crown to the moment his personal rule ended

Reducere. Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired wom...

Reducere. Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twenti...