The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr., and the Reign of American Taste, Paperback - Elin McCoy

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Yes, you can buy world-class wine on a budget. With Parker's Wine Bargains, America's most influential wine critic offers a guide to the world's be...

DescriptionThis is the only fully illustrated military life of the Emperor Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus (253-268). Considered the most blata...

From the &i>Sunday Times&/i> bestselling author of &i>The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs&/i>, &i> &/i>the story of the mammals, our own kind, from ...

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

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Reducere. The first full and authoritative biography of an American--indeed a world-wide--musical and cultural legend. "No one worked harder than B.B. No one...

Reducere. In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

Reducere. Quo Vadis is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz. "Quo vadis, Domine?" is Latin for "Where are you going, Lord?" and appears in Chapte...

A Kitchen Confidential for the wine industry, this is a sharp and entertaining look inside the secret world of sommeliers.

The Taste of Conquest offers up a riveting, globe-trotting tale of unquenchable desire, fanatical religion, raw greed, fickle fashion, and mouthwat...

Reducere. Constantine XI Palaiologos was the last Christian Emperor of Constantinople and Byzantium. In 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, ...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Steve BrusatteNumber of pages: 528Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 236 x 164 x 39Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, the story of the mammals, our own kind, from their earliest develop...

Describes Antoninus' background, early life and how he came to be adopted as Hadrian's heir.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): John McHughI...

Reducere. -A must-read, sure to engage. . . An important and richly narrated reminder to women of why, 'If you not at the table, you're on the menu.'- --Jess...

Covers the dramatic 15 years of Japanese Empire expansion.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): N S NashIllustration(s): 120 B&W illustrations...

Reducere. This book was written with the firm conviction that the words "Revelation of Jesus Christ" means exactly what they acclaim. Christ's great capstone...

Reducere. This book takes you on a very different journey to wine country, inviting you to enjoy the remarkable stories of twenty dynamic women in the world ...

The rapid decline of the bastions of American power established over the twentieth century is the subject of this extensive historical analysis emp...

A friend, correspondent and intellectual successor to David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1789-1864) published deeply researched articles, pamphl...

Reducere. With a total of 285 wineries reviewed from California, Oregon and now from New York and Washington states, the 2021 edition of the Slow Wine guide ...

This is a biography of one of the most unusual Byzantine emperors in Constantinople who reigned from 1347 to 1354, and subsequently spent thirty ye...

Sheds new light on the relationship between the emperor and his senators in the later Roman Empire, focusing on Constantius II, son of Constantine ...

Reducere. DescriptionRobert Lovett grew up in Texas, went to Yale, and earned his wings as a naval air force hero in World War I. He played a key role in the...

The first authoritative cradle-to-grave biography of a worldwide musical and cultural legend.Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressAuthor(...

Reducere. Robert Asprey completes his definitive, two-volume biography with an intimate, fast-paced look at Napoleon's daring reign and tragic demise with mo...

Reducere. Red Power is a classic documentary history of the American Indian activist movement. This landmark second edition considerably expands and updates ...

The surprising story of the wine industry's role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall of empire. "We owe to wine a blessing far more precious...

Reducere. The central theological distinctive of Christianity--that Jesus is God incarnate--has repeatedly come under fire from adherents to other religions ...

For more than fifty years, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor -- who became Elizabeth II, Queen of England on February 6, 1952 -- has been loved and ...

Reducere. The city of Bumblyburg's in danger and LarryBoy's the only one who can save the day. Everyone is weak with jealousy after the diabolical Napoleon o...

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Reducere. Just as the resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of Christianity, the visions of Joseph Smith are the foundation of Mormonism. In Jesus' Resurre...

Reducere. Historical accounts of major events have almost always relied upon what those who were there witnessed. Nowhere is this truer than in the nerve-sha...

Reducere. Born in the wake of World War II, RAND quickly became the creator of America's anti-Soviet nuclear strategy. A magnet for the best and the brightes...

Reducere. Over the past quarter-century, Robert William Fogel has blazed new trails in scholarship on the lives of the slaves in the American South. Now he p...

Reducere. Women of Discriminating Taste examines the role of historically white sororities in the shaping of white womanhood in the twentieth century. As nat...

Reducere. The definitive, award-winning biography of the legendary chief and his dramatic role in the history of westward expansionReviled by the United Stat...

A new centenary history of the infamous Western Front campaign for the Belgian village of Passchendaele fought from 31 July - 10 November 1917.

Reducere. DescriptionIn early twentieth-century New York, few could have imagined a train terminal as grandiose as Pennsylvania Station. Yet, executives at t...

Reducere. Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before beco...

Documents the lives of Tsars famous and infamous in a series of biographical portraits stretching from the late 15th to the early 20th centuries. W...

An eye-opening account of the informal economy around the globe, Stealth of Nations traces the history and reach of unregulated markets, and explai...

Reducere. South of Somewhere begins and ends in American writer Robert Camuto's maternal ancestral town of Vico Equense, Italy--a tiny paradise south of Napl...

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