The Finest Gold: The Making of an Olympic Swimmer, Paperback - Brad Cooper

DescriptionMunich, 1972. In the men's 400-metre freestyle race, America's Rick DeMont beats Australia's Brad Cooper by a hundredth of a second. It'...

Reducere. On the fortieth anniversary of the historic Miracle on Ice, Mike Eruzione--the captain of the 1980 U.S Men's Olympic Hockey Team, who scored the wi...

The full inside story of the iconic Ford Transit by an acknowledged expert

In Robert Motherwell: The Making of an American Giant, published to coincide with Motherwell's centenary, author Bernard Jacobson examines Motherwe...

The Santa Fe Ring versus Billy the Kid: The Making of an American Monster, by Gale Cooper (888 pages in hardcover and paperback) exposes New Mexico...

A Washington Post 2019 Notable SelectionA vivid and inspiring account of the "bromance" between Barack Obama and Joe Biden.The extraordinary partne...

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In her extraordinary swimming career, Shirley Babashoff set thirty-nine national records and eleven world records. Prior to the 1990s, she was the ...

A pictorial celebration of the world-famous sister ships: the Olympic-class liners A maritime expert tells the story of the sister ships using prev...

Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Malcolm AndrewsIllustration(s): 64 color plates, 65 halftonesNumber of pages: 356Publication date: 2021Dimensio...

Reducere. A detailed account of Ant Farm's 1975 Media Burn performance, a legendary act of consumerist critiqueThis book examines the complex set of cultural...

The seminal reference book which started the literature on Islam and the West. This classic study by Norman Daniel explores the political and relig...

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A bold new biography of the thinker who demolished accepted economic theories in order to expose how people of economic and social privilege plunde...

Publisher: The Dovecote PressAuthor(s): Anne SebbaIllustration(s): 8 pages platesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 199 x 131 x ...

In this new and fully revised edition of Oklahoma! The Making of an American Musical, author Tim Carter brings newly uncovered sources, including c...

David Martin is one of the most distinguished writers on Christianity and society in modern times; his many influential writings and broadcasts ran...

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Reducere. The Making of an Old Soul: Aging as the Fulfillment of Life's Promise is the healing vision of a woman who is a scholar in the fields of adult and ...

When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren groun...

Reducere. In California, a team of talented young men begin pursuing the most elusive dream in sports, the Olympic Games. The pressure steadily increases as ...

Reducere. The Queen of the Ring is the story of Mildred Burke, the longest reigning champion of female wrestling. In this in-depth account, Pulitzer Prize-wi...

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Reducere. In this pioneering biography of a frontline Holocaust perpetrator, Alex J. Kay uncovers the life of SS Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Filbert, responsib...

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Publisher: Merlin Unwin BooksAuthor(s): James BattyIllustration(s): 26 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dime...

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Reducere. It's a blustery December day in Springfield Massachusetts. The year - 1891. James Naismith, age 29 is a rare combination of violent rugby player an...

Photographer Edward Curtis's 1914 orchestrally scored melodrama In the Land of the Head Hunters was one of the first US films to feature an Indigen...

Reducere. In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustr...

Reducere. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Christopher J. LebronStarted in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLiv...

Contributor(s): Author: Tom ChaffinIn 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already ...

Reducere. This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this...

In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the new--the cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally i...

Hall of Famer, Olympic gold medalist, NBA Champion, MVP, and All-Star could all be used to describe the illustrious career of Spencer Haywood on th...

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Using a cohesive approach that combines linguistics, legal history and colonial studies, this study advances our knowledge of creolistics. Focusing...

Reducere. It was billed as the greatest event in the history of pair skating: three of the best teams of all time battling for Olympic gold on one night in S...

Reducere. DescriptionAren't You Gonna Die Someday? explores the deceptions and veiled truths lurking within a film that has haunted author Patrick Cooper for...

DescriptionSince its founding in 1956 in Spain's Basque region, the Mondrag n Corporation has been a touchstone for the international cooperative m...

Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and u...

Reducere. It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most-distinguished jurist and politician, Charles Evans Hughes, has been...

This first and only official children's book on the Olympics--created in association with the Olympic Museum in Lausanne--introduces kids to the gl...

Reducere. DescriptionSwimming across the English Channel is regarded as one of the world's toughest endurance challenges. During a night out with friends, Ma...

Reducere. How does an underground oddity become a cultural phenomenon? For over 40 years, the rock band Kiss has galvanized the entertainment world with an u...