Talking History

DescriptionDuring one of their regular rendezvous at the Natural History Museum, the Queen and Mr Brown are transported to the strange and wonderfu...

Reducere. BASED ON LONG-LOST RECORDINGS, A SET OF RIVETING AND REVEALING CONVERSATIONS WITH AMERICA'S GREAT CULTURAL PROVOCATEURThere have long been rumors o...

Reducere. A non-mathematician explores mathematical terrain, reporting accessibly and engagingly on topics from Sudoku to probability.Brian Hayes wants to co...

Reducere. After dozens of books and articles by anonymous sources, here is finally a history of the Trump White House with the President and his staff talkin...

Reducere. Before he was the Academy Award-nominated director of The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich (b. 1939) interviewed some of cinema's great masters...

Reducere. "This is one of the most valued 'go to' books in my library with talking points new, even to me." -- Alyja Kalinich, Disneyland Costume DesignerWin...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Russian River begins in the hills of Mendocino County and meanders past Cloverdale and Healdsburg on its way to the sea. But when lo...

A global future in the history of a single village After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and lite...

The Prophet is a book of 26 fables written in English prose poetry by the Lebanese-American poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran. It was first publis...

Reducere. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERI will be reading and rereading Woke Up This Morning....These rollicking gabfests... bring together nearly everyon...

In We All Just Bought a Team: The Biggest What-Ifs in Buffalo Sports History, readers can learn what could have happened if Terry and Kim Pegula di...

Reducere. Author J. Ward Boyce spent more than 35 years gathering information and talking to the members of this unique combat group, in order to compile the...

DescriptionMalcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Gol...

DescriptionA beguiling fable about a summer holiday in the Swedish countryside that transforms into a provocative parable about oppression and the ...

Reducere. DescriptionMalcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Gol...

``I was a Long Island kid that graduated college in 1976 and moved to Greenwich Village. Two years later, I was working The Mudd Club door. Standin...

Reducere. Veteran video game designer Dustin Hansen takes YA readers on a fun and fascinating trip through the brief but intensely innovative history of vide...

Reducere. DescriptionMalcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Gol...

Reducere. For the past fifty years and more, Harley-Davidson has been ruling some racing roosts. Its competition iron has always been significant, often supr...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is a print on demand (POD) book with color photos. The paper and photo quality in this book, although good, often does not match th...

Reducere. " An] engrossing tale...imbued with the flavor of English medieval life, Robb's story melds true events with fiction to create a gripping historica...

Reducere. In 1971, Madison College was a small-town teachers college with around 3, 000 students, most of them female. To elevate the college's visibility an...

Reducere. Award-winning journalist Jim Krane charts the history of Dubai from its earliest days, considers the influence of the family who has ruled it since...

Reducere. If the dead could talk, what would they say? According to mediums during the height of Spiritualism, a lot.In the late nineteenth and early twentie...

What is the smartest, most celebrated game show of all time? In this insider's guide, discover the rich history of Jeopardy -- the beloved game sho...

Reducere. It is rare for an individual in history to have successfully made such a mark on their world that people are still talking about them centuries aft...

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR - Dare To Dream: The True Story of a Civil Rights IconThere is no way to talk about the history of the United States of Ameri...

Reducere. Western civilization is becoming increasingly pluralistic, secularized, and biblically illiterate. Many people today have little sense of how their...

Reducere. DescriptionSigmund FreudSigmund Freud was a catalyst who signaled a seat change in how humanity came to understand the world and how it relates to ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1877 Thomas Edison dreamed that one day there would be a talking machine in every home, but even his legendary vision could not have ...

Reducere. Rumo is a little Wolperting who will one day become the greatest hero in the history of Zamonia. Armed with Dandelion, his talking sword, he fights...

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of A...

Reducere. Written by America's most famous engineering storyteller and educator, this abecedarium is one engineer's selection of thoughts, quotations, anecdo...

Reducere. DescriptionThe telephone rings on the hospital floor, and they tell you it is your mother, the phone call you have been dreading. You've lost part ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe telephone rings on the hospital floor, and they tell you it is your mother, the phone call you have been dreading. You've lost part ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Spanish edition of I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 Chet Roscow is finally feeling at home in Elm Hills, New Jersey. He has a jo...

DescriptionIn celebration of the Brady Bunch's 50th anniversary, TV writer Kimberly Potts writes a Seinfeldia-like definitive history of the show t...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Wounded Knee Massacre, then keep reading...The Wounded Knee Massacre is often glossed over i...

DescriptionIn 1917, at the height of World War I, Laurence Binyon was commissioned by the army to write a story about wartime volunteers and spent ...

Reducere. Do you think you're the ultimate New England Patriots superfan?Do you have a buddy who can't stop talking about Tom Brady?Do you want to learn abou...

A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and li...

Reducere. Informative, entertaining and interesting, Hidden Gems of America: Wineries and Vineyards 2020 - 2021 is a unique compilation of American wineries ...

In recent years, the museum and gallery have increasingly become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its cre...

The true story of the battle of Xom Bo II that was fought on June 17, 1967. It was a battle that pitted Five hundred 1st Infantry Division soldiers...

Reducere. Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood-and solar system-very different from our own, from Catherynne M. ...

Reducere. Discover why words matter in a noisy worldTechnology has made it easier than ever before to share just about everything: pictures, ideas, even the ...

Reducere. ``Fasting is the body talking what the spirit yearns, what the soul longs for, and what the mind knows to be true.``-- Scot McKnightChristianity ha...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Linda Kreger Silverman"Linda Silverman is an articulate, insightful, authoritative, and extremely "gifted" international ex...

Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood-and solar system-very different from our own, from Catherynne M. ...

``Beguiling . . . Longworth evokes the pleasures of France in delicious detail--great wine, delicious meals, and fine company.`` --Publishers Weekl...

Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different ki...

DescriptionNormal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEHow does someone recover from the worst school shooting in U.S. history? On April 20, 1999, Krist...

Reducere. DescriptionHold on tight "Always Cedar Point, a Memoir of the Midway" gives the reader an insider's view of the operations of the world's greatest ...

DescriptionThe untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was o...

What makes one nation curious about another nation? Curious enough that the study of the other's culture and language becomes a natural commitment ...

Welcome to Mongolia with its yaks, camels, and rippling sweeps of grassland with horsemen galloping by. A hunter with his falcon passes over desert...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER They met over their dogs. Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp (author of Drinking: A Love Story) became best friends, talkin...

Reducere. DescriptionEvery winter, a young girl flies to Haiti to visit her Auntie Luce, a painter. The moment she steps off the plane, she feels a wall of h...

Reducere. DescriptionDespite their differences in shapes, sizes, and colors, the ingredients in a salad work together to create a healthy meal. Oni and the K...

Reducere. DescriptionTribal Screams is a compelling collection of fantasy and horror stories by Owl Goingback, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of 'Crota', E...

Reducere. F lix Ventura trades in an unusual commodity; he is a dealer in memories, clandestinely selling new pasts to people whose futures are secure and wh...

DescriptionWhat is feminism? Why are we still talking about it, and what can it tell us about ourselves, our societies and prejudices? In this uniq...

Reducere. Greeks were history's great men of thought. John Haaren has collected stories from the lives of thirty famous Greek men, detailing the rise, Golden...

In 1966, Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at Johns Hopkins University that cast the entire history of Western Philosophy into doubt. The following ye...

Reducere. Borderland tells the story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongol...

America has nearly five thousand miles of coastline. What would it be like to travel from the islands of Maine to the stepping-stones of the Florid...

Reducere. The material for this book has accumulated over twelve years of active practice in Japan's rite of tea of which the author has received full instru...

At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer, mixed-race woman with no history of health problems whose world was turned upside d...

Reducere. In Only in St. Louis!, Charlie Brennan shares the most incredible, strange and inspiring stories he has come across in his three decades talking ab...

Reducere. A "dazzling" (Bryan Washington, author of Lot) and brilliantly satirical debut novel for fans of Women Talking and Red Clocks about two best friend...