The American Future: A History, Paperback - Simon Schama

``With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny....A book of beautiful w...

Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behin...

Reducere. In this New York Timesbestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and...

In 1957, America turned its back on its earlier self and jumped headlong into the nation it has become today. From Sputnik and the beginning of the...

Reducere. 2013 Logos Book of the Year in Christianity/Culture "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freeme...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVERBelonging is a magn...

Ezra Klein's Why We're Polarized meets Alan Weisman's The World Without Us in this deeply researched work of speculative nonfiction that takes a fi...

A wide-ranging collection of essays written by the award-winning writer and historian over his forty-year career, chosen by the man himself.

Aceasta carte face parte din colectia Anansi Mentor. Arta este o minciuna care te face sa intelegi adevarul. - Pablo Picasso Arta extraordinara are...

What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home...

A wide-ranging collection of essays written by the award-winning writer and historian over his forty-year career, chosen by the man himself.

Reducere. To argue against the widely proclaimed idea of American decline, as this book does, might seem a lonely task. After all, the problems are real and ...

Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries...

A reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to surv...

Reducere. DescriptionIn America and the American Record Business, Don Cusic weaves the history of the music, the business and the technology that has created...

Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality.' In inimitable st...

* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art.

Reducere. An award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its guises and applications, ...

First published in 1962, Frederick Rudolph's groundbreaking study, The American College and University, remains one of the most useful and signific...

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Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Ingrassia comes a narrative of America like no other: a cultural history that explores how cars have bo...

In A Necessary Evil, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills shows that distrust of government is embedded deep in the American psyche. From the ...

Publisher: Simon & SchusterAuthor(s): Bobby HallNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 228 x 26Cover type: PaperbackRedescoper...

The capstone book in a trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead and The American Story and host of Bloomberg TV's The Davi...

Reducere. Angel in the Whirlwind is the epic tale of the American Revolution, from its roots among tax-weary colonists to the triumphant Declaration of Indep...

Reducere. In this biography, the acclaimed author of Sons of Providence, winner of the 2007 George Wash- ington Book Prize, recovers an immensely important p...

When a magical history book from the future falls out of time and space and into the home of the Denzell family they each get a peek into the futur...

IN 1991 THE UNITED STATES trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil. Then in 2003 the United States did it aga...

Reducere. Buffalo at the Crossroads is a diverse set of cutting-edge essays. Twelve authors highlight the outsized importance of Buffalo, New York, within th...

Reducere. Sons of Providence paints a vivid portrait of Colonial life as we follow these founding brothers in their rise to the heights of American commerce ...

Reducere. The "intelligent and sweeping" (Booklist) story of the crucial year that prefigured the events of the American Revolution in 1776--and how Boston's...

Reducere. The New York Times bestseller from master biographer Evan Thomas brings to life the tumultuous story of the father of the American Navy. John Paul ...

Reducere. * Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize​ * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A ...

Reducere. Description"Do you believe that future thinking machines are likely within our lifetimes?" After reading this book, the emphatic answer is, "Yes. L...

Reducere. Amid the turmoil of modern Damascus, one teenage boy finds his political voice in a message of rebellion that echoes throughout Syria and as far aw...

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 ...

A definitive, illustrated, single-volume history of the American West, from the bestselling author of BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, Dee Brown.

Reducere. The New York Times Bestseller "This is The Most Inspiring Children's Book We've Ever Seen."--Refinery29.com"The very first kids' book released by t...

Reducere. For the first time in four decades, prison populations are declining and politicians have reached the consensus that mass imprisonment is no longer...

Reducere. Simon Girty Turncoat Hero: The Most Hated Man on the Early American Frontier by Phillip W. Hoffman The subject of this panoramic biography is one o...

Publisher: Simon & SchusterAuthor(s): Austen IvereighNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 212 x 15Cover type: PaperbackRedes...

Reducere. DescriptionSomething calls us back to the simple and idyllic life of an earlier time. Perhaps we long for a kinder time. Matt Andrews looks out at ...

Description#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the Amer...

Reducere. An award-winning reporter chronicles the calamitous story of Washington Mutual, the single-largest bank failure in American history, in a fast-pace...

Reducere. We are in a time like no other. Those who play the game by the new rules understand that seven highly disruptive new technologies are changing the ...

The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's...

Giving an introduction to the political, social, and cultural development of imperial Chinese civilisation, this work introduces a number of import...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller, Jeff Guinn's definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous gunfight in American history reveals who Wyatt Earp, ...

After the Virus is a provocative manifesto for change post-COVID-19. Shining a light on the deep fractures in our society, Hilary Cooper and Simon ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Amy B. ZegartIllustration(s): 11 b/w illus. 6 tables.Number of pages: 424Publication date: 2022Dime...