Spectacular Bid: The Last Superhorse of the Twentieth Century, Hardcover - Peter Lee

A safety pin was all that kept Spectacular Bid from becoming the eleventh Thoroughbred to take the Triple Crown. This work examines Spectacular Bid...

Reducere. The original (1985) edition of this work attempted to cover the main lines of development of phonological theory from the end of the 19th century t...

An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one.At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and paint...

Reducere. A comprehensive monograph of artistic travel at the height of British imperial power. Kenneth McConkey takes us around the world to show how Britis...

Reducere. This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, an...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder's lessons for surviving and resisting America's arc toward authoritariani...

DescriptionA dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American ...

Contributor(s): Editor: David KaldeweyEditor: D. Schauz The distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentieth-century science...

The ocean is humanity's largest battlefield. It is also our greatest graveyard. Resting in its depths lay the lost ships of war spanning the totali...

A vivid biography of John Lee Hooker, from a critically acclaimed journalist

Reducere. With John Lee Hooker's death in June 2001 the world lost one of the last great Mississippi Delta bluesmen. Acclaimed writer Charles Schaar Murray's...

Reducere. Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2, 500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, New York T...

Drawn from Peter H. Lee's Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Volume I, this abridged introductory collection offers students and general readers pr...

Publisher: Temple Lodge PublishingAuthor(s): Peter SelgTranslator: Pauline WehrleNumber of pages: 88Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 235 x 160 x 7...

This book explores the life courses of children born of warin different twentieth-century conflicts, from the Second World War to theRwandan Genoci...

This book provides a scholarly but accessible account of British regional development during the twentieth century, focusing on the emergence and d...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

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 ...

Provides a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how artistic statements of the er...

Reducere. The hugely popular Japanese artist Takehisa Yumeji (1884-1934) is an emblematic figure of Japan's rapidly changing cultural milieu in the early twe...

Sarbatoriti aniversarea a 50 de ani a celui mai iubit film de familie din toate timpurile! Comoara cinematografica produsa de Rodgers&Hammerstein s...

Reducere. DescriptionAn Amazon Best History and Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 So Far "Gripping. . . R]eads like a crime novel in the best way possible. . . No...

Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly to the appropriate page of the review se...

Significant and iconic photographs created over the last 100 years provide an essential history and new interpretation of the medium

Reducere. Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian leftist tho...

Reducere. "Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century provides a good short course in the major popular revolutions of our century--in Russia, Mexico, China, Alge...

Reducere. A writer investigates her family's secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations. Hadley Freeman k...

Death comes to everyone, and in the late-medieval morality play of Everyman the familiar skeleton forces the universalized central figure to come t...

This book looks at British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1975 through 1991, during which Mrs. Thatcher was Conservative Party Leader and th...

Thomas A. Noble and Jason S. Sexton offer a thorough introduction to and appraisal of twelve leading British evangelical theologians of the twentie...

Reducere. A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Riveting and unconventional, The Last Story of Mina Lee traces the far-reaching conseque...

20/20 provides an account of modern architecture through the prism of 20 of the most influential houses built over the past century, including exam...

Our understanding of history is often mediated by popular culture, and television series set in the past have provided some of our most indelible i...

The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume ...

Publisher: Edward Everett RootCollection: Studies in Irish Literature, Cinema and CulturePublication date: 2019Dimensions: 159 x 235 x 23Cover type...

Final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond. The book is for stu...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Claire ZimmermanNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 256 x 179 x 26Cover type: ...

These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research a...

'Almost a prerequisite for any serious study of Sufism in European languages': this was the verdict of Seyyed Hossein Nasr in his review of the fir...

This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called 'Anarchy in the UK' was issued in London, and this event launched a tran...

This book examines the Red Love vogue that swept across the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s as part of a worldwide interest in socialism and fo...

Acclaimed author follows the work of the Situationist International after May 1968.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): McKenzie WarkNumber of pages: 2...

Reducere. At the outset of his career, Norman Rockwell was not the most likely candidate for long-term celebrity; he was just one of many skillful illustrato...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biogr...

Publisher: Tate PublishingAuthor(s): Nicolette JonesIllustration(s): 46 illustrationsNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 246 x 30...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martin GilbertMartin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history...

Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-...