The Fall Line: America's Rise to Ski Racing's Summit, Paperback - Nathaniel Vinton

Reducere. Harnessing nature's most powerful forces, elite downhillers descend icy, rugged slopes at speeds cresting 90 miles per hour. For decades, American ...

Reducere. This book offers a major rereading of US foreign policy from Thomas Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana expanse to the Korean War. This period of one...

A news-making, in-depth biography of the man known as America's Mayor after 9/11, but who today is the subject of FBI investigations and is now kno...

Reducere. Throughout the late eighties and nineties, a gang of young Asian refugees cut a bloody swath through New York's Chinatown. They were the lost child...

Reducere. Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fenc...

Reducere. The explosive true story of America's most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), which terrorized the city of Baltimore for half a ...

Reducere. A bold new history of the American presidency, arguing that the successful presidents of the past created unrealistic expectations for every presid...

Andrew J. Priest offers a new understanding of the roots of American empire that foregrounds the longer history of perceptions of European powers. ...

Jeffrey D. Simon tells the gripping story of the forgotten terrorist group the Galleanists, a fiery brand of Italian anarchists in the United State...

Reducere. Ed Norris' career arc was dazzling.He spent 20 years as a crime-fighting savant with the New York Police Department, rising from beat cop to deputy...

Reducere. An award-winning writer chronicles the tragic story behind the downfall of horse racing's crown jewel.Founded in 1924 by Chicago mogul William Monr...

DescriptionThe remarkable career of one of America's greatest detectives--a story of murder, mayhem, and intriguePhilip Marlowe, Dirty Harry, and e...

Reducere. Settled in the 1600s, Brooklyn Heights is one of New York s most historic neighborhoods. Its strategic location overlooking the harbor proved instr...

A leading expert's exploration of the past, present and future of public monuments in AmericaPublisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor(s): Erin L. ThompsonIl...

The compelling story of what really happened inside the famous prison walls of the Narcotic Farm.Illustrations: 141 b&w photos

Reducere. Most readers know Salem only for the city's notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced America's fi...

Reducere. Markham's memoir, West with the Night, was rediscovered in 1983 and became an instant bestseller, though shadowed by rumors that Markham was not th...

Before World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors would deput...

Today, most remember "California Girl" Lillian Frances Smith (1871-1930) as Annie Oakley's chief competitor in the small world of the Wild West sho...

Reducere. A 2020 New York Times notable book One of the Chicago Tribune's best nonfiction books of 2020Complex, turbulent, as haunting as a pedal steel solo ...

DescriptionBefore World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors ...

Publisher: Encounter Books, USAAuthor(s): Angelo M. CodevillaNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 30Cover type: Hardba...

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 ...

Reducere. The controversial history of the Holy Roman Empire is back in print. Attacked by revisionist historians for its integration of church history and t...

Structured around four interlocking themes-mobility, state development, commerce, and frontiers-this beautifully illustrated book brings new dimens...

Reducere. As a recent college graduate and fledging newspaper reporter in the Lake Tahoe area, Jeremy Evans became immersed in ski bum culture-a carefree lif...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of the Ottoman Empire then keep reading...Three captivating manuscripts in one boo...

Reducere. Skiing--like surfing, fishing, sailing, mountaineering and climbing--is an environment sport. It doesn't come to us--we must go to the places where...

John Gotti: Gangster, killer, celebrity. From the tough streets of Queens to the heights of the American Mafia, John Gotti thought he was invincibl...

Reducere. A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tammy "Sunny" SytchWorld famous wrestling diva Tammy Lynn "Sunny" Sytch has written a tell-all autobiography that follows h...

Publisher: Bold Type BooksAuthor(s): Elena ConisNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 245 x 41Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar - Barry Eichengreen

Stuck On You charts the history of football stickers in the UK - those little bundles of self-adhesive joy that have given so much to so many since...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Rome then keep reading... For over 2000 years, Rome has influenced our ...

A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the ele...

DescriptionIn the 1980s and 1990s, Serie A was known as 'Il campionato pi bello del mondo' - the most beautiful championship in the world - and had...

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. Theda Bars's remarkable life as told by Eve Golden's heartfelt account is short of discovering a means of traveling through time and as close as we...