Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

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In 1968, at the climax of the sixties, Os Guinness visited the United States for the first time. There he was struck by an impression he'd already ...

Reducere. On April 4, 1968, at 6: 01 p.m., while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only h...

Reducere. No right seems more fundamental to American life than freedom of speech. Yet well into the twentieth century that freedom was still an unfulfilled ...

Reducere. Following in the footsteps of music history/biography texts such as the infamous Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and Sex, Drugs...

Revised and updated edition of Christian Wolmar's classic history of the London Underground, with a new chapter on Crossrail. 'I can think of few b...

On April 28, 2006, as he lay in his hospital bed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, visions of celestial beauty were the last thing on Marv Besteman's mind. H...

In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of...

Reducere. "God has a special providence for fools, drunks and the United States of America."--Otto von Bismarck America's response to the September 11 attack...

Reducere. In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus--one tha...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its s...

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In the bestselling tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, The Great Quake is a riveting narrative abo...

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Reducere. THE BRA THAT CHANGED THE WORLD... The 1970s saw women coming into their own, working hard to create new roles at home and in sports, culture, polit...

Reducere. "... the author's narrative is as much an inspiring business memoir as it isan absorbing chronicle of a surprisingly significant piece of sports cl...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller, Jeff Guinn's definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous gunfight in American history reveals who Wyatt Earp, ...

Reducere. Look out for Johnson's new book, Wonderland, now on sale. A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Bo...

Publisher: Mason Crest PublishersAuthor(s): Christopher ChantNumber of pages: 80Collection: World War IIPublication date: 2017Dimensions: 209 x 247...

Reducere. On January 3, 1961, nuclear reactor SL-1 exploded in rural Idaho, spreading radioactive contamination over thousands of acres and killing three men...

Reducere. Now in paperbackA dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska. John Muir was a fas...

Reducere. The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America, Paperback

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Sam LloydNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 28Cover type: Paperback /...

London's East Enders are known for being a tough, humorous and lively lot. The old East End communities were gone forever. Told by the residents th...

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Reducere. Entering World War I in 1917, a burst of patriotism in New Orleans collided with civil liberties. The city, due to its French heritage, shared a st...

Reducere. A fascinating, full-color introduction to the earth science happening over our heads, packed with STEM experiments and science-minded research proj...

Reducere. It was 1942, and Theodora, a charming Dutch/Indonesian teenager, was uprooted from her pampered East Indies upbringing and forced to live in one of...

A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to China

Midsummer in the lowcountry of South Carolina is a dreamy, quiet time. Professor Sidney Lake uses this respite for literary research and planning h...

Reducere. Leah dreams of leaving behind the crowded streets of Boston's North End neighborhood to journey west. It's the only way she'll have the future she ...

Reducere. Leah dreams of leaving behind the crowded streets of Boston's North End neighborhood to journey west. It's the only way she'll have the future she ...

DescriptionThere is a growing crisis in our oceans as rates of infectious disease outbreaks are on the rise. Marine epidemics have the potential to...

Reducere. Can We Map Success? Successful people typically don't plan their success. Instead they develop a unique philosophy or attitude that works for them....

Reducere. Can We Map Success? Successful people typically don't plan their success. Instead they develop a unique philosophy or attitude that works for them....

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Contributor(s): Author: Meika LoeSince its introduction in 1998, Viagra has launched a new kind of sexual revolution. Quickly becoming one of the m...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hugh KennedyIn this engaging history, world-renowned historian Hugh Kennedy deftly sews together the stories of the people,...

Reducere. Ancient peoples of the world kept a calendar having 360 days in a year and 12 months of 30 days. So what happened? Why did it change? Scientists ca...

Reducere. ``An extraordinary history...Deeply researched, elegantly written...a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten.``--Brent Staples, New Y...

Reducere. A reprint of a 1920 classic surveying the world racial situation after World War I and warning of the coming non-White population explosion. "The w...

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Reducere. Cerami wittily recounts the evening in rich detail.--Library JournalOnly two guests were invited to what was arguably the most elegant, sumptuous, ...

Reducere. The Metaphysical Foundations of Love: Aquinas on Participation, Unity, and Union offers a systematic treatment of St. Thomas Aquinas's account of t...

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Reducere. On September 9, 1921, a tropical depression stalled just north of San Antonio and within hours overwhelmed its winding network of creeks and rivers...

Reducere. Alabama Crimson Tide: 1967 and the Undercurrents of Integration - The First Five - Before the Season ChangedBy: Andrew PernellMr.Pernell was born i...

Reducere. Indiana suffered enormous losses in the Great Flood of 1913, yet this disaster is largely forgotten. The combined tornado and flood barreled throug...

Reducere. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920), by Lothrop Stoddard, postulates the collapse of white world empire, and of coloniali...

Bestselling author Richard Koch shares the secret map to success, revealing the attitudes and strategies that can create world-changing results in ...