Ruthless Tide: The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America's Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster, Paperback

Lessons from History is a joyful romp through the obscurest parts of the past, scouring the annals for overlooked figures and events that nonethele...

When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate...

'A Japanese Mirror is what the tourist who wants to see the real Japan - "through the looking glass" - should pack in his flight-bag.' TLS

Spanning centuries, counties, class and generations, author Peter Cotgreave allows this heroic, comedic, devious, irresistible cast of characters t...

Reducere. Commonwealth Club of California Book Award winner, Californiana category On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle a...

Reducere. On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each oth...

DescriptionNewport, Rhode Island, was the summer playground of the Gilded Age for the Astors, Belmonts and Vanderbilts. They built lavish villas de...

Reducere. Old Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, is the third-largest National Preservation District in the United States and the largest Victorian-era neig...

The Masters of the Universe are back and better than ever in this brand-new guidebook!Publisher: Scholastic USAuthor(s): Rob DavidNumber of pages: ...

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This new volume of the Engaging the Crusades series explores the ways in which significant crusading figures have been employed as heroes and villa...

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

This powerful book will show you how to write a great screenplay, teleplay, or novel by helping you create one-of-a-kind heroes and villains that a...

Reducere. First published in 1873, The Gilded Age is both a biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America-an age of corruption when crooke...

DescriptionGO BEHIND THE SCENES OF YOUR FAVORITE MARVEL STUDIOS' FILMS TO SEE HOW THE MIGHTIEST HEROES AND DEADLIEST VILLAINS WERE BROUGHT TO LIFE ...

Non-fiction title Heroes or Villains? explores the careers of sporting heroes, a business man and an artist and asks you to decide whether they sho...

Reducere. The battle between good and evil has raged throughout time, in every corner of this world and the next. The heroes and villains of this ancient con...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Lawrence CappelloIllustration(s): 6 halftonesNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

DescriptionThe remarkable career of one of America's greatest detectives--a story of murder, mayhem, and intriguePhilip Marlowe, Dirty Harry, and e...

Reducere. Heroes and Villains, the seventh volume in Jon Scieszka's Guys Read Library of Great Reading, is chock-full of adventure featuring an array of char...

THE MARK OF THE DEVIL, THE SIGN OF A KILLER... A young woman is murdered in her flat and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star is ...

DescriptionWriter Greg Pak (WEAPON H and WEAPON X) teams up with artists Chris Sprouse (BLACK PANTHER) and more to tell stunning adventures starrin...

Galahad in the Gilded Age is the story of George William Curtis, regarded at the beginning of his career as little more than a handsome, amusing yo...

Reducere. Rising from a Missouri boyhood and meager prospecting success to owning the most productive copper, silver, and gold mines in the world and being e...

Reducere. When dinosaur fossils were first discovered in the Wild West, they sparked one of the greatest scientific battles in American history. Over the pas...

Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. Villains of all Nations re...

When Reporters Cross the Line. The Heroes, the Villains, the Hackers and the Spies - Jeff Hulbert, Stewart Purvis

Reducere. This stunning collectible features four costumed dolls -- two women and two men -- and more than two dozen richly detailed original outfits inspire...

The People's Network reconstructs the story of U.S. and Canadian independent telephone companies which challenged the Bell System's market dominati...

Enter a world of miracles that have all been created in Minecraft. Includes six stories of the Bible's most well-known heroes and villains. Ages: 7...

Reducere. The Tri-State Tornado is a gripping account of the worst tornado disaster in American history. Claiming 689 lives during a three-hour rampage acros...

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...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Gilded Age, then keep reading...From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United State...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Gilded Age, then keep reading...From a modern perspective, it may seem that the United State...

Publisher: Wilkinson PublishingAuthor(s): Robert HadlerNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 28Cover type: Paperback / ...

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Reducere. So how do you draw comics? Well, you draw one line here and another there then you repeat the process many times over. But did you do it correctly?...

Reducere. A fresh look at the life and times of Victoria Woodhull and Tennie Claflin, two sisters whose radical views on sex, love, politics, and business th...

The ninth volume of the stunning Morland Dynasty series

The riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling ...

Reducere. A "balanced, engrossing account" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of the Bay of Pigs crisis drawing on long-hidden CIA documents and delivering the...

Reducere. If the Wright brothers' 1903 flights in Kitty Hawk marked the birth of aviation, World War I can be called its violent adolescence--a brief but blo...

When the Continental Congress decided to declare independence from the British empire in 1776, ten percent of the population of their fledgling cou...

Reducere. When Consuelo Vanderbilt's grandfather died, he was the richest man in America. Her father soon started to spend the family fortune, enthusiastical...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Amy KlobucharNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 132 x 204 x 39Cover type: Paperback / ...

A unique new account of New Labour in power-drawing on a mass of previously unpublished contributions from most of the main players in the Blair go...

In More Stories of the Rich and Famous: Aiken's Winter Colony in the Gilded Age, the reader is placed in the action as witness to the high and low ...

After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. ...

Arthur Curtiss James: Unsung Titan of the Gilded Age is about the extraordinary life and times of Arthur Curtis James, a relatively unknown railroa...

Reducere. Contains 184 authentic sewing patterns and instructions for women's garments. Includes special rulers that enable drafting to custom sizes. Quotes ...