The Devil's Town: Hot Springs During the Gangster Era, Paperback - Philip Leigh

Reducere. In The Devil's Town, Philip Leigh, a rising star among American historians, tells the unique and colorful story of the small resort city of Hot Spr...

Reducere. Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days of the Great De...

Reducere. DescriptionIn U. S. Grant's Failed Presidency Philip Leigh examines the eighteenth President free from the hagiographic bias that has dominated boo...

Reducere. For many locals, the Steamboat Pilot & Today's police blotter is a breakfast staple. From arguments over sweaters, to bears breaking into Subarus, ...

Reducere. The End of an Era provides a glimpse into the former Nova Scotian Town of Canso in its final days as an independent municipality. With photographs ...

Reducere. Cabot Yerxa's discovery of natural hot and cold mineral water in 1914 was the impetus for the establishment of Desert Hot Springs. His eccentric pu...

Reducere. Larry Thompson was one of the most wanted people in the country. The authorities knew that he was doing a lot of illegal things but could never pro...

Reducere. The sexy supernatural romcom that inspired the anime! Homeless and haunted by ghosts, high schooler Kogarashi thinks his luck has finally turned wh...

Reducere. There's a duel for a love potion on the line, and the whole Yuragi-sou crew are embroiled in a game of water gun survival! They'll be pitting their...

Reducere. Deep within the walls of the Divine Dragon Cave, the girls of Yuragi-sou are running into trouble! The cave's resident, a powerful dragon god, want...

Reducere. The Premier Hot Springs Guidebook for Natural Hot Springs & Resorts in the NW United States. If you are looking for places to stay on a road trip, ...

How does one record an extraordinary time? Confined to his Delhi apartment, Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee unravels the intimate paradoxes of life he e...

Philip Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim - known to later ages as Paracelsus - stands on the borderline between medieval and modern;Pub...

Reducere. The End of an Era provides a glimpse into the former Nova Scotian Town of Canso in its final days as an independent municipality. With photographs ...

Reducere. This timeless memoir documents two sisters' bravery leading up to WWII--a singular historical account that shines a light on one of humanity's dark...

Two hundred years after the massacre of protestors in Manchester, known as Peterloo, distinguished scholars of Romantic-era literature join togethe...

Reducere. DescriptionNamed to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015 The Newspaper Boy is a remarkable collection of memories and personal reflections of the deep...

This book is about stagecoach travel during the Napoleonic War, the era of Austen and Dickens, and the early years of Queen Victoria. Its covers tr...

Traces the history of yellowface, the theatrical convention of non-Asian actors putting on makeup and costume to look East Asian. Using specific ca...

The most comprehensive biographical study of the Cawnpore Massacre ever compiled. Details the lives and biographical background of many of the peop...

Reducere. Homeless and haunted by ghosts, high schooler Kogarashi thinks his luck has finally turned when he finds Yuragi-sou-a cheap boarding house that was...

DescriptionHomeless and haunted by ghosts, high schooler Kogarashi thinks his luck has finally turned when he finds Yuragi-sou-a cheap boarding hou...

Reducere. Defend This Old Town is a riveting war epic of local scale and human dimensions. Taking its title from the cry raised in Williamsburg as the Federa...

How has the Chinese central government been able to avoid the crippling hyperinflation that has bedeviled so many developing and centrally planned ...

'A breathtaking story' Daily Mail 'Extraordinary' The Telegraph on the Cook sisters Desperate circumstances can cause ordinary women to achieve ext...

DescriptionFeaturing everything from developed hot springs resorts to isolated mountain pools, this newly revised guide covers the publicly accessi...

Reducere. This book presents a comparative look at several activities and the mores of inhabitants of the United States of America during the last and the pr...

Publisher: The History Press LtdPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 207 x 26Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si al...

Montana's hot springs and hot water resorts bubble with fascinating histories of medical cures, Native American legends, glittering spas, and isola...

Reducere. The British colony of West Florida--which once stretched from the mighty Mississippi to the shallow bends of the Apalachicola and portions of what ...

Reducere. From 1998 through 2013, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs sought to develop a casino in Cascade Locks, Oregon. This prompted objections from ...

Reducere. •Autor distins cu Premiul Pulitzer pentru literatura in 1998 Romanul Pe cand era buna este privit ca portretul unei femei formidabile si distructiv...

Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest trib...

Reducere. As Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working t...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the scramble *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Th...

ESSENTIAL ANTIRACIST READING "We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history a­fter finishing this astonishing wor...

Reducere. The gangster movie is one of the most popular genres in film. From the Italian, Irish, and Russian "families" in America to similarly sinister grou...