Sputnik: The Shock of the Century, Paperback - Paul Dickson

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Reducere. DescriptionThe shock of history: we live it, neither knowing or comprehending it. France, Europe, and the world have entered into a new era of thou...

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The shock of history: we live it, neither knowing or comprehending it. France, Europe, and the world have entered into a new era of thought, attitu...

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No two nations in the world are as integrated, economically and socially, as are the United States and Canada. We share geography, values and the l...

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Reducere. National Jewish Book Awards WinnerIn 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongfully convicted of being a spy for Germany...

Reducere. Though thousands of articles and books have been published on various aspects of the Manhattan Project, this book is the first comprehensive single...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Antonio ScuratiTranslator: Anne Milano AppelNumber of pages: 784Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129...

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Reducere. For over twenty-five years John Dickson served the United States as a Foreign Service officer in North America, South America, the Caribbean, and A...

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Publisher: Ebury PublishingAuthor(s): Tim HigginsNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 126 x 197 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softba...

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The Big Nowhere , LA Confidential and White Jazz. In his intoduction to The Best American Noir of the Century, James Ellroy writes, "noir is the mo...

The story of Wharton School of Business graduate Jho Low's successful siphoning of billions of dollars of investment funds under the nose of the gl...

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Thomas Doherty offers a lively and comprehensive cultural history of the media coverage of the abduction of the child of Charles and Anne Lindbergh...

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Reducere. Queens Village was a picture-perfect postcard New York suburb. But in March 1927 the façade of respectability was stripped away to reveal an unders...

In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar a...

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