Standoff. Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation, Hardback - Jamie Thompson

Award-winning journalist Jamie Thompson's gripping account of the deadliest attack on law enforcement since 9/11, and the officers behind an audaci...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Jamie ThompsonIllustration(s): 8-pg. 1/c photo section to print on text stockNumber of pages: 320Publication...

The remarkable true story of the disgraced politician John StonehousePublisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Keely WinstoneIllustration(s): 8pp c...

The East Indiaman HCS `Halsewell' set sail on 1 January 1786, en route from England to India. Her dramatic demise touched the very heart of the nat...

Malaysian Murders and Mysteries brings together 42 of the nation's most well-known and notorious cases - and investigates over a century of crimes ...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Linda HirshmanNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 238 x 36Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Reducere. When Anastasia Pollack's husband permanently cashes in his chips at a roulette table in Vegas, her comfortable middle-class life in New Jersey crap...

The remarkable true story of the disgraced politician John StonehousePublisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Keely WinstoneIllustration(s): 8pp c...

One man's pursuit of justice over violence and racism in the nineteenth century.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Randolph Paul...

Reducere. An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American historyIn May 1866, just a year after the Civil Wa...

A haunting and twisty novel about the ghosts of our past and whether we can bear to face them or not - and the consequences of doing so. Perfect fo...

Dressy men as a type of celebrity have played a distinctive part in the cultural - and even in the political - life of Britain over several centuri...

"Engaging. . . a remarkably candid account. . . Succeeding as a centrist in public life these days can be an almost impossible task. But centrism i...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Renee J. MitchellIllustration(s): 45 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 17 Tab...

Reducere. Description- Notorious incident: In 1967 the spy ship USS Liberty was attacked by Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats in international waters du...

Reducere. wo sisters. One secret... A lie that could destroy them both. When her father dies, Josie is devastated to uncover he led a secret life: another ho...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Anne VartyNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 244 x 21Cover type: HardbackR...

Detailed, graphic account of the history of military parachuting. Describes how parachute landings became a standard tactic in twentieth-century wa...

Reducere. When someone close to him is shot dead in a roadside motel in a small-town in Wyoming, DeMarco shirks his responsibilities as the Speaker of the Ho...

An electrifying memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential ...

Reducere. "A rousing celebration of a moment in history when college football was more than metaphor and entertainment, it was a gritty sidebar to real war."...

The riveting story of the Shawnee brothers who led the last great pan-Indian confederacy against the United States, by the award-winning author of ...

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Whispers haunt the walls and treachery darkens the shadows in this captivating historical novel for readers of C.J. Sansom, Andrew Taylor's Ashes o...

Reducere. An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply researched and ...

Reducere. In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia Garc a-Pe a explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominica...

The first book to tell the history of Britain through its headwearIllustrations: 120 Illustrations, unspecified

Reducere. New to the historic town of Metamora, Indiana, Cameron Cripps-Hayman is looking to make friends with her neighbors. What she isn't looking for is o...

Eighth-grader Lucy Sandoval has no hope of reaching high school.Blindsided by a terminal cancer diagnosis, she resolves to spend her last moments w...

Blackmail, seduction and murder - there's more to horse-racing than meets the eye

"An urgent look at the relationship between the politics of guns, race, and policing in America today"--Illustrations: 6 tables.

Reducere. Over the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this...

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Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): John WhiteIllustration(s): 22 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2...

This book showcases the impact of state responses to COVID-19 on marginalized communities. The authors analyse the lockdowns, immigration and borde...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tal McTheniaAuthor: Margaret Dunbar CutrightThe spellbinding story of one of the most celebrated kidnapping cases in Americ...

A haunting and twisty novel about the ghosts of our past and whether we can bear to face them or not - and the consequences of doing so. Perfect fo...

The #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Cathy Kelly brings you a refreshingly honest story about female friendship and marriage - and all the great ...

The return of the Crimson Guard could not have come at a worse time for an empire exhausted by warfare and weakened by betrayals and rivalries. Int...

She discusses early-twentieth century women whose musical lives were shaped by Ireland's struggles to become a nation; follows the career of Julia ...

Anatomy of a Nation explores over 800, 000 years of British identity by examining 50 documents that tell the story of what makes Britain unique: it...

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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 ...

Reducere. The scene was paralyzing. We stood there, numb. No one spoke. There were 69 bodies spread about the 24x50 foot area. They all could have been sleep...

Reducere. Gone is the era of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, when news programs fought to gain the trust and respect of a wide spectrum of American vie...

Reducere. Big, friendly eyes will delight children as they read the amusing story about a little cow In addition to fun googley-eyes, the rhyming text and br...

Reducere. Although frequently overlooked between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 tested a rising generation of American leaders; u...

Reducere. In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that ...

The development of race relations in the period from the Brixton Riots to Brexit is considered through the lens of black British sportspeople, with...