The American Bar

Andrei Codrescu s-a nascut in Romania, la Sibiu, iar actualmente traieste in Statele Unite ale Americii, la New Orleans. Cele mai recente carti ale...

In aceste zece proze scurte, publicate in 1987, Ford extrage aur literar din tinuturile maturate de vant ale Vestului american, din singuratatea ch...

From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes an eye-opening journey through American history that unearths and debunks the myths we'v...

On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand s...

A landmark work of cultural history that tells the story of how four young poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, rei...

Reducere. Will Cordeiro's Trap Street travels a shifting landscape. Keenly observed deserts, woods, highways, seaside enclaves, mountainsides, and motels par...

Reducere. Jim Harrison's essays and articles have been selected from twenty-five years of work, from venues as diverse as PLAYBOY, THE NATION, OUTSIDE, and t...

Reducere. By: Committee on Public Information, Section on Intellectual Property Law, American Bar Association. OVERVIEW Because of their inherent role as cre...

Reducere. Originally published in 1969 and now back in print after over a decade, Robert Coover's first novel instantly established his mastery. A coal-mine ...

Reducere. "The most important book you will read this year."--Caitlin Flanagan, author of To Hell with All That WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD - Th...

Reducere. "A terrific writer . . . Thunder Horse makes this reviewer want to race to the bookstore for the rest of the Gabriel Du Pré series" (Rocky Mountain...

Reducere. All the Peaches & Mangoes I Would Sell For You is a love letter to myself. The book is split into four parts- rebirth, birth, growth, and life- beg...

Learn about one of the most impactful distilleries in American history in this comprehensive tale Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon tells the fascinating...

The first work of fiction ever to hide a hippopotamus Saw is a milestone novel of the seventies. For the first time what has come to be recognized ...

Reducere. Lainey is the expert on how to work collaboratively to create long term societal inclusion." - Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Chief Accessibility Officer, Micr...

Reducere. First-person account of the famous New York City Cedar Bar in the 1950s when it was regularly visited by what came to be known as the "greatest gen...

Reducere. Edited by Chris Honeyman and Andrea Kupfer Schneider and featuring 106 contributors, The Negotiator's Desk Reference is simply the most comprehensi...

Reducere. Culture of honor is what social scientists call a society that organizes social life around maintaining and defending reputation. In an honor cultu...

Reducere. An American Daughter of Brown is an historical novel set in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education in the year 1955, in the geographic center of t...

Reducere. A haunting and powerfully moving book that gives voice to the poorest among us and lays bare the cruelty of a penal system that too often defines t...

Reducere. An easy job on a tourist barge turns into a dangerous game to stay alive. Drunk, broke and in hiding, American Kip Weston runs into an acquaintance...

Reducere. Little Girl Blue is an intimate profile of Karen Carpenter, a girl from a modest Connecticut upbringing who became a Southern California superstar....

Reducere. Sweeping across African American history and culture in the shadow of slavery and ongoing racism, The Souls of Black Folk laid bare challenging iss...

Reducere. This newly revised edition of B'chol L'vavcha, the classic commentary on the prayers of the siddur, includes explanations of the structure of the s...

Reducere. Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States--and...

Reducere. Her name is synonymous with the West. Her celebrity has spread to the East Coast and California, traveling down the new-laid railroads and along th...

Reducere. Ruth Brandt's debut short story collection tackles stubborn, impulsive and adrenaline-seeking human nature. From the formation of the Berlin Wall i...

Reducere. In the early 1950s, a Mexican American man named Gus has become a top Texas civil rights attorney--a climb that has been bedeviled by his competing...

Reducere. Between World War II and Vatican II, as Italy struggled to rebuild after decades of Mussolini's fascism, an eleventh-century order of contemplative...

Reducere. Everyone thought Cedd Moses had lost his mind when he used his life savings to open ten bars in struggling Downtown Los Angeles. Not only would tho...

Reducere. This three-volume set contains a comprehensive history of the von Cramm and Cram families in Germany, Great Britain, Canada and the United States o...

Reducere. Marcia Lloyd and her brother Arthur have spent every summer of their lives exploring the grand halls and seaside grounds of their family's idyllic ...

An American geek with a supercharged brain saved the world when he vanquished the wicked lord of Faerie. Yet sooner than he expects, Kellen St. Jam...

Reducere. "Deeply moved by the tragic Sandy Hook school shootings, Lynn Katz weaves together a compelling story that manages to raise all the key questions."...

Reducere. Michael Ratner (1943-2016) was one of America's leading human rights lawyers. He worked for more than four decades at the Center for Constitutional...

The new novel from two time Pulitzer Prize nominee Russell Banks. Famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, who fled to C...

In the first cookbook by a Black pitmaster, James Beard Award-winning chef Rodney Scott celebrates an incredible culinary legacy through his life s...

Ben Wright's Bonds of Salvation demonstrates how religion structured the possibilities and limitations of American abolitionism during the early ye...

Reducere. Test Your Philadelphia Phillies Knowledge The Ultimate Philadelphia Phillies Trivia Book is a staple for anyone who loves baseball, sports trivia, ...

"Methamphetamine was a huge part of this case . . . It was a horrible murder driven by drugs." -- Prosecutor Cal Rerucha, who convicted Matthew She...

In the wake of an affair, the lives of an astronaut and a radical are forever altered by the political fault lines of the 1960s, setting off a seri...

A Notable Memoir by the New York TimesWith echoes of Just Mercy and An American Marriage, a remarkable memoir of a woman who falls in love with an ...

Reducere. The Management Body of Knowledge is the American Management Association's flagship publication that sets the bar in management excellence. It outli...

Reducere. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Mayra Rodr guez Castro. Preface by Dag...

Reducere. While the effects of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack may sound completely harmless or at least over-exaggerated, the truth is it would be dev...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Italian & Italian American Studies. It is not an exaggeration that espresso is at the core of Italian culture and history. Mil...

Award-winning screenwriters reveal their Hollywood secrets in crafting brilliant stories and methodology through interviews with world-renowned UCL...

Reducere. A searing novel about memory, abandonment, and betrayal from the acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks At the center of Foregone is famed Canadia...

Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, looks at the history of the battle again...

Reducere. A Pointillist PortraitKen Ford is an American physicist, teacher, and writer. He has been a pilot, a college president, and, as these essays reveal...

Reducere. A soul-searing chronicle of God's miracle power. Many know Pat Robertson as the founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network whose programs have i...

Reducere. From #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Brad Thor, comes the white-knuckled thriller The Apostle. A new administratio...

Reducere. When Mike Anthony moved to New York City to become an actor, he'd imagined being under the bright lights of Broadway, living a life full of fame an...

Reducere. In 1968 two young Vietnamese sisters flee to Saigon after their village on the Mekong River is attacked by American forces and burned to the ground...

Reducere. "Dan Wright's writing hits like a good friend updating you on the past few years after making eye contact in a moderately crowded bar in an industr...

Reducere. The rags-to-riches story of Silicon Valley's original disruptor. American Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford - from his birth in a ba...

Reducere. Who Killed Bummy Davis?By: John L. BarbellaThe story of the Legendary American boxer, Al "Bummy" Davis, was cut short all too soon on the night of ...

Reducere. America in 1982: Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting U.S. autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentimen...

Reducere. Considering a move? This easy-to-use guide helps you make the best choice for you, whatever stage you are in. Should you stay put? Would a few inex...

In 1855, New York City was scandalized by one of the most infamous murders in its history, that of gang leader Bill "the Butcher" Poole, the feared...

Reducere. "The best high-action thriller writer out there today, bar none."-Jon Land, USA Today bestselling author Wingman and his United American allies tak...

Reducere. A Virginia Kelly Mystery, Book 1 - When businesswoman Virginia Kelly meets her old college chum Bev Johnson for drinks late one night, Bev confides...

Reducere. OCCUPY THIS BODY: A Buddhist Memoir is the story of Religious Studies Professor Sharon A. Suh's struggle to overcome a childhood of forced-feeding,...

Reducere. Aurora began as the town of Fletcher, named after the Denver businessman who had staked out the original four square miles for resale along with as...

Reducere. There are shards of magic to be found on every page of this novel." --Omar El Akkad, author of American WarA struggling journalist named Seif is in...

Eight years ago, Poke Rafferty, an American travel writer, and his Thai wife, Rose, adopted a Bangkok street child named Miaow, forming an unconven...

Reducere. Literary Americana with humor, heart, and a whole lot of twists to keep readers guessing Detective Early Pines loves his southern Arizona desert, o...

Reducere. The explosive story of the illegal gold trade from South America, and the three Miami businessmen who got rich on it--until it all came crashing do...

Reducere. From a child slave put to hard labor to a college president and advisor to presidents, Booker T. Washington's autobiography powerfully describes hi...

Reducere. Shar, Terrence, Ebony, Akiya, Marcus, and Chase are back and this time they are headed on a class trip to Washington, DC! The friends are eager to ...