The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War, Paperback

DescriptionAn acclaimed journalist travels the globe to solve the mystery of her ancestry, confronting the question at the heart of the American ex...

Reducere. This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rick St JohnA war that defined a generation. A band of paratroopers that defied the odds. A bond that couldn't be broken.In...

The definitive three-volume history that FDR did not live to write: the story of World War II from his perspective, showing his mastery of strategy...

Reducere. "Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseem...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rick St JohnA war that defined a generation. A band of paratroopers that defied the odds. A bond that couldn't be broken. I...

Publisher: The Library of AmericaAuthor(s): Henry Louis GatesNumber of pages: 1000Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 132 x 209 x 37Cover type: Hardb...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER `His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator `A masterful performance' Sunday Times `By far the best book on the Vietnam ...

DescriptionAn astonishing untold story from the nineteenth century--a "riveting...engrossing...'American Epic'" (The Wall Street Journal) and neces...

Reducere. The financial crisis that began in 2008 has made Americans keenly aware of the enormous impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the na...

Presents a thorough chronology and atlas of naval warfare from the Age of Galleys to The Nuclear Age.

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. Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country...

As a study of presidential image-fashioning, FDR in American Memory will be of immediate relevance to present-day readers.Publisher: Johns Hopkins ...

Reducere. Just as Detroit symbolizes the U.S. automobile industry, during World War II it also came to stand for all American industry's conversion from civi...

A riveting account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand Greenland's rapidly melting ice: a dramatic harbinger of climate change.

Reducere. "Neither as Christians or Jews, nor simply as intellectually responsible individuals, " says Hixon, "have members of Western civilization been sens...

This book is a view of America and its people as observed by an immigrant through a lifetime of assimilation. It traces the gradual change in his p...

Reducere. John Dewey's Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education seeks to both critique and further the educational philosophie...

Reducere. Bode went to a California beach to discover the truth about his life. Contemplating the sea & the shore, tuning in to the rhythms of the tides, he ...

Reducere. Other Losses caused an international scandal when first published in 1989 by revealing that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower's policies c...

Reducere. Description"Democracy and Education" is a truly wonderful book with none of the dogmatic pretense or "scientific methods" features in so many compe...

Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the lo...

A narrative history of the Korean War by bestselling author Sir Max Hastings

Reducere. This exciting and groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous) writers from across...

Publisher: Poolbeg Press LtdAuthor(s): A. O'ConnorPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 199 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farme...

Reducere. John Dewey's Democracy and Education addresses the challenge of providing quality public education in a democratic society. In this classic work De...

Reducere. For fifteen years Bud Isaacs has been blowing the whistle on an abused stretch of the West's most iconic river. In telling the tale of this oilman'...

Christmas 1942 saw the SS City of Flint in New York with other freighters loading for North Africa. Allied codes had been cracked and the convoy wa...

DescriptionLeft for Dead at Nijmegen recalls the larger-than-life experiences of an American paratrooper, Gene Metcalfe, who served in the 82nd Air...

Reducere. Burmese pythons are invading Florida. These enormous snakes are native to Southeast Asia, so when one showed up dead along the side of a Florida hi...

Reducere. Contemporary scholars often refer to "the event of Vatican II, " but what kind of an event was it? In this first book of the new CUA Press series S...

Publisher: University of Nebraska PressAuthor(s): David Haward BainIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 470Publication date:...

Reason and Life begins with a critical historical examination of past forms of reason (Ancient and Modern) as well as more recent contenders (Exist...

Publisher: Galaxy PressAuthor(s): L. Ron HubbardNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 139 x 203 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

The question at the center of the seventeenth edition of The Irony Of Democracy is "How democratic is American society?" While most American govern...

Reducere. DescriptionA tale about big business, an imploding dynasty, a mogul at war, and a deal that epitomized an era of change While working at the Wall S...

Reducere. G. J. A. O'Toole colorfully depicts the sweep of events and also presents new findings on the mysterious mission of the Maine and on the part playe...

Tells the story of the Cardiff Railway, a 6.5 mile branch to the docks opened in 1909 and that of the docks during the Second World War, when the b...

DescriptionThe last time Valerie was in Paris, she was three years old, running from the Nazis, away from the only home she had ever known. Now as ...

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 ...

Presents twenty-seven graded readings, each accompanied by a vocabulary and an explanation of grammatical details; the final chapter provides a sam...

DescriptionClassical Athens perfected direct democracy. The plays of this ancient Greek state are still staged today. These achievements are rightl...

Reducere. America, how well do you know your history?Who quelled a coup d'etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses? Which U.S. senator was nearly caned t...

Reducere. Respected scholar William Bennett reacquaints America with its heritage in the second volume of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II). This engag...

Reducere. Would you risk your life to save just one person? An incredible story of love, hope and friendship, and a testament to humanity and courage in hist...

Reducere. A gripping narrative of New Netherland a story of global sweep centered on a wilderness called Manhattan that transforms our understanding of early...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...