South American Battleships 1908-59: Brazil, Argentina, and Chile's Great Dreadnought Race, Paperback - Mark Lardas

DescriptionIn 1908 the most incredible naval arms race in history began. Flush with cash from rubber and coffee, Brazil decided to order three of t...

DescriptionThis title tells the fascinating story of the development and deployment of the mighty Russian fleets, the pride of the Tsar, which went...

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Reducere. The ultimate illustrated field guide to the birds of Argentina and the islands of the South-west Atlantic Argentina is one of South America's premi...

In 1942, the massive Japanese naval base and airfield at Rabaul was a fortress standing in the Allies' path to Tokyo. It was impossible to seize Ra...

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The Royal Navy's battleships at the turn of the 20th century were the most powerful battlefleet in the world, and embodied one of the key periods i...

Sub Crucea Sudului, prin Argentina, Brazilia, Uruguay - Doru Ciucescu

Reducere. In this action-packed H.I.V.E. adventure, the world's most powerful villains have a problem: One of their own has gone rogue. It's up to Otto to sa...

Reducere. Doru Ciucescu este primul scriitor-calator in sapte continente, din literatura romana.

Un motiv l-a constituit caracteristicile exceptionale ale Americii de Sud, care in ciuda suprafetei de 17.840.000 de kilometri patrati, a patra din...

Nationalizing Nature demonstrates how Brazil and Argentina employed national parks to develop and settle frontier areas, casting light on conservat...

Have you ever wondered about the explicit formulas in analytic number theory? This short book provides a streamlined and rigorous approach to the e...

A textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

Originally coined by the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg in 1930, the term concrete denotes abstract painting with no reference to external reality....

65 off-road routes for beginner and experienced trail runners selected for their runnability, landscape and scenery, they include easily-accessible...

A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany during the decades lead...

Reducere. Now in paperback, an award-winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President Joh...

DescriptionA highly illustrated account of the first and largest fleet action between the navies of Great Britain and France during the French Revo...

A highly illustrated history exploring the world's first aircraft carriers and their World War I exploits, appealing to enthusiasts of naval warfar...

Reducere. DescriptionBack in print after more than a decade, the singular chronicle of life at the forefront of antiracist activism, with a new introduction ...

Reducere. In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, New York Times bestselling author and historian Douglas Brinkley delivers a youn...

In September 1864, the Confederate army abandoned Atlanta and were on the verge of being driven out of the critical state of Tennessee. In an attem...

Reducere. The USS Texas was built when dreadnought battleships were kings of the seas. It was the world s most powerful battleship when first commissioned in...

Focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; th...

Providing an in-depth study of the construction of foreign policy in developing countries, Martin Mullins takes an original line of both a post-pos...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Mark LardasIllustration(s): Illustrated throughout with around 60 photos and at least 14pp of colour...

Reducere. DescriptionIn anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, New York Times bestselling author and historian Douglas Brinkley deli...

Reducere. Although it is sometimes called a town without a history, Houston actually possesses the kind of sprawling past that includes a frontier port, a mo...

"Italian Battleships of World War II".

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DescriptionJapan 1944-45 examines the only time in history that a major war was ended by the use of air power. It shows how the United States used ...

A superbly illustrated study of the major warships of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. While the Kriegsmarine's capital ships became less important to ...

Reducere. A biography telling the life story of Booker T. Washington, along with his accomplishments toward promoting the education of African Americans. Wri...

Reducere. People may associate Texas with cattle drives and oil derricks, but the sea has shaped the state's history as dramatically as it has delineated its...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Mark LardasIllustration(s): Illustrated throughout with around 60 photos and at least 14pp of colour...

Reducere. In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of countr...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Mark LardasIllustration(s): Illustrated throughout with around 60 photos and at least 14pp of colour...

Publisher: Alan Godfrey MapsCollection: Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Inch to the MilePublication date: 2003Dimensions: 204 x 121 x 2Cover type: Sheet...

The avifauna of the region includes representatives from both the Palaearctic and Oriental regions, with a wide range of Arctic, Temperate and sub-...

By tracing the careers of Rio's pioneering black musicians from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s, Marc A. Hertzman revises the histories...

DescriptionThis is the David-and-Goliath story of how RAF Coastal Command battled with outdated aircraft against the deadly U-boat fleet during the...

During its heyday in the 19th century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the US and Brazil. This work tells the story...