Queenpins: Notorious Women Gangsters of the Modern Era, Paperback

Reducere. There may not be a more fascinating a historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, y...

Reducere. Newly updated with chapter on 1918 Spanish flu and 2020 Coronavirus. In today's world conspiracy theories abound. What is the actual history of fal...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): James T. LapsleyNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 24Cover type:...

In the 19th century, when gender roles were more confining, the dominant forms of psychosomatic illness were paralysis and hysteria. Today, when pe...

Lumbering State, Restless Society offers a comprehensive and compelling understanding of modern Egypt. Nathan J. Brown, Shimaa Hatab, and Amr Adly ...

Populism, on both the right and the left, has spread like wildfire throughout Europe and the United States and is making inroads in other parts of ...

These 27 images of legendary freebooters range from Artemisia, a commander in the ancient Persian navy of Xerxes, to Huang P'ei-mei, a twentieth-ce...

From large-scale cattle farming to water pollution, meat-- more than any other food--has had an enormous impact on our environment. Historically, A...

Reducere. Throughout history women have caused wars, defied the rules, and brought men to their knees. The famous and the infamous, queens, divorcees, actres...

Reducere. DescriptionEarly Oklahoma was a haven for violent outlaws and a death trap for deputy U.S. marshals. The infamous Doolin gang's OK Hotel gunfight l...

Reducere. Aristotle towers over Western philosophy and science as no other single person does. As they have come down to us, Aristotle's works comprise a ver...

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Susan McNicollIllustration(s): PaperbackNumber of pages: 160Collection: True CriminalsPublication date...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressIllustration(s): tables & figuresNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 20Cover type: Ha...

John W. O'Malley works out a remarkable guide to the intellectual and historical developments behind the concepts of Catholic reform, the Counter R...

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 ...

The world is in a second nuclear age in which regional powers play an increasingly prominent role. These states have small nuclear arsenals, often ...

Based on original documents never before discussed, this account of the disastrous marriage of Effie Gray and John Ruskin overturns the myths that ...

Reducere. Welche Rolle spielten Kunstwerke im Geflecht der rasch wechselnden politischen Allianzen der Frühen Neuzeit? Dieser Frage gehen die interdisziplinä...

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. Meticulously documented, lavishly detailed, exhaustively researched, and written with an eye for the truths that have remained largely hidden, The ...

The first detailed and comprehensive record of the warship losses of the last 100 years. Much original research from primary sources. Indexes and c...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Marion T. LaneIllustration(s): Colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 45Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141...

Reducere. DescriptionJames J. Corbett and Joe Choynski were destined to spill each other's blood.In the beginning, the boxing legends were simply two lads sc...

Reducere. The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers. Despite critics who tr...

Reducere. This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled doves, and other ...

The modern era of Japanese swords began with the Meiji restoration in 1868. The demand for new swords fell drastically, and by 1876, there was almo...

Describes the human mind. This book presents the anatomy and full description of the reactive mind, the previously unknown source of nightmares, un...

Reducere. Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notoriou...

Reducere. The story of two Revolutionary-era teenagers who defy their Loyalist families to marry radical patriots, Henry Knox and Benedict Arnold, and are fo...

Brimming full of riveting characters, The King of Nazi Paris is a compelling true story.