The First Pearl

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Hailed as one of the finest examples of aviation research, this comprehensive 1984 study presents a detailed and scrupulously accurate operational ...

Contributor(s): Author: Gretchen DavisAuthor: Mindy HallLearn first-rate techniques and tips from some of the best makeup artists in the business i...

Reducere. DescriptionUSS Nevada (BB-36) was America's first modern battleship. When her keel was laid in 1912, kings and emperors still ruled much of the wor...

Reducere. This is the story of the 90th Bomb Group of the US 5th Air Force, nicknamed the Jolly Rogers, and the James Horner bomber crew, as told to the auth...

Reducere. In 2018 Toys for Bob Studios thrilled fans worldwide by releasing Spyro(TM) Reignited(TM) Trilogy, a faithful remaster encompassing all three title...

Reducere. Felix Klein, a great geometer of the nineteenth century, rediscovered an idea from Hindu mythology in mathematics: the heaven of Indra in which the...

Reducere. The new breed of American fast aircraft carriers could make thirty-three knots, and each carried almost one hundred strike aircraft. Brought togeth...

Reducere. Daisy Wilder prefers the company of horses to people, bare feet and salt water to high heels and society parties. Then, in the dizzying aftermath o...

Reducere. The Acoustic Guitar, Volume II, is the long-awaited sequel to Don E. Teeter's earlier volume on guitar adjustment, care, maintenance, and repair. T...

An award-winning Hong Kong-based architect with decades of experience designing buildings and planning cities in the People's Republic of China tak...

Hawaii's 100th Infantry Battalion Separate was the first US Army combat unit composed of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Its original members were ...

DescriptionIn a last, desperate bid to stave off defeat, Japan's High Command launched the terrifying kamikaze attacks. This fully illustrated book...

Reducere. The definitive history of American war reporting in the Pacific theater of World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombings of ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1948, Moss Kendrix, a former New Deal public relations officer, founded a highly successful, Washington, D.C.-based public relations ...

Reducere. Oil for the Lamps of China (1934) was a best-selling novel when it was first published, just a few years after Pearl Buck's The Good Earth (1931). ...

Reducere. The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother is Pearl S. Buck'sintensely moving memoir of her mother, Caroline (Carrie) Stulting Sydenstricker, whoset...

DescriptionA roadmap to help home cooks round out and enhance any meal, for any occasion with 1001 recipes for every type of side dish imaginable. ...

Reducere. This is the first collection of letters by a member of the legendary 442nd Combat Team, which served in Italy and France during World War II. Writt...

Reducere. ""Even though women were not supposed to be on the front lines, on the front lines we were. Women were not supposed to be interned either, but it h...

Reducere. Teenage Allen Maruyama internalized the hostility directed at Japanese/Japanese Americans subsequent to the Pearl Harbor attack. He says he learned...

Advaita Vedanta is the most refined philosophical pearl of Hinduism. It is reserved for seekers of Truth who want to know their own essence and asp...

Reducere. Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating be...

Reducere. How They Became Famous Dancers: A Dancing History for young readers tells the story of twelve famous dancers - six women and six men - from differe...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the story of the 90th Bomb Group of the US 5th Air Force, nicknamed the Jolly Rogers, and the James Horner bomber crew, as told ...

For Honor and Love is a gripping story of World War II on the home front in Oxford, Ohio, the home of Miami University, and in the Pacific aboard a...

Reducere. Called a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, first publishe...

DescriptionIn January 1940, navy nurse Dorothy Still eagerly anticipated her new assignment at a military hospital in the Philippines. Her first ye...

Reducere. Welcome to the Arrrgh Mighty Kingdom From the mind of child author Selah Nicole comes Penelope the Pirate Princess and the Search for the Magical M...

DescriptionNew expanded 248pp 2019 Edition. The single best collection of photography of Banksy's street work that has ever been assembled for prin...

Reducere. The books that we choose to keep --let alone read-- can say a lot about who we are and how we see ourselves. In MY IDEAL BOOKSHELF, dozens of leadi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Brayton HarrisChester Nimitz was an admiral's Admiral, considered by many to be the greatest naval leader of the last centu...

Reducere. The first book to tell the full story of American isolationism, from the founding era through the Trump presidency. In his Farewell Address of 1796...

Reducere. In 1888, a passenger freight station was built by the Baltimore and Sparrows Point Railroad on land owned by Joshua J. Turner, a local businessman....

Thank You for Your Service - A Tribute is a collection of two dozen, mostly un-known, yet inspirational and true stories of military heroes. Spanni...

Reducere. In 1884, a Japanese sailor named Hamanosuke Shigeta made his way to the eastern section of downtown Los Angeles and opened Little Tokyo's first bus...

Reducere. Elliot Carlson's award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navy...

Reducere. Revisit the definitive book on Pearl Harbor in advance of the 75th anniversary (December 7, 2016) of the "date which will live in infamy" At 7: 53 ...

On February 12, 1965, in the Audubon Ballroom, Yuri Kochiyama cradled Malcolm X in her arms as he died, but her role as a public servant and activi...

Reducere. Nuclear war may kill millions.Nuclear Winter will kill billions. International bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America's favorite storytell...

Reducere. There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn ...

Pearl Zane Grey (1872 - 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of t...

DescriptionThe American Provisional Tank Group had been in the Philippines only three weeks when the Japanese attacked the islands hours after the ...

On September 15, 1944, the U.S. First Marine Division landed on a small island in the Central Pacific called Peleliu as a prelude to the liberation...

Reducere. "This path-breaking book brilliantly explains the explosive growth of Florida from 2.7 million inhabitants in 1950 to 15.9 million in 2000. It focu...

Reducere. The little-known story of Pearl Hart, the most famous female bandit in the American West. On May 30, 1899, history was made when Pearl Hart, disgui...

In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true stor...

In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true stor...

Reducere. Although bad eyesight kept him from receiving a commission in the U.S. Navy when he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1933, Draper Kauffman becam...

Rhode Island's contribution to World War II vastly exceeded its small size. Narragansett Bay was an armed camp dotted by army forts and navy facili...

Reducere. The most gripping, intimate, and inspiring account of Pearl Harbor. The first memoir ever published by a USS Arizona survivor.At 8: 10 a.m. on Dece...

From the award-winning author of The Scamp, Jennifer Pashley is back with a searing literary noir about what it means to live on the margins of soc...

This book chronicles the life of Wilma Pearl Mankiller, the first woman ever elected to be chief of the Cherokee Nation.Publisher: Rowman & Littlef...

Reducere. An in-depth look at the world's mightiest structures. Stunning foldout pages, panels, diagrams, photographs and "Mega Facts" boxes make this book a...

Reducere. From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie, Josh Malerman, comes the legend of Pearl, a strange new monster unlike any othe...

With 100 recipes, this is the first book to explore the vibrant food culture of Macau--an east-meets-west melting pot of Chinese, Portuguese, Malay...

DescriptionThe New York Times bestselling master of military historical fiction tells the story of Pearl Harbor as only he can in the first novel o...

The definitive, compulsively readable story of the greatest era of the most iconic league in college basketball history--the Big East "This book ca...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nicola DaviesIllustrator: Emily SuttonIn a remarkable collaboration, Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton celebrate the sea in al...

Reducere. Before dawn breaks over the Pacific, young Japanese pilots don the scarfs of ancient warriors -- and in the early light of Sunday morning an Americ...

Reducere. On December 7, 1941, Commander Mitsuo Fuchida plunged Japan into war with the United States when he led the attack on Pearl Harbor. His autobiograp...

Reducere. In 2013, James Perloff published his landmark primer on the New World Order Truth Is a Lonely Warrior. In the years since, online, he has expanded ...

This book provides for the first time modern-spelling, fully annotated editions of three important Elizabethan and Jacobean 'usury plays' - The Thr...

Reducere. New York Times Best Seller2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition2015 Lillian Smith Book Award2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title Based ...

Reducere. DescriptionEdited by Max Allan Collins & Lynn F. Myers, Jr.41 fast-moving short-short stories by the creator of Mike Hammer Revised and expanded wi...

Reducere. The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother is Pearl S. Buck's intensely moving memoir of her mother, Caroline (Carrie) Stulting Sydenstricker, who s...

The story of Kilsoo Haan's brilliant espionage, first against Japan and then against the Soviet Union - a huge advantage spurned.

DescriptionThe Douglas Dauntless was a Second World War American naval scout plane and dive bomber that saw active service during the course of thi...

Reducere. On December 7, 1941, as the great battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah lie paralyzed and burning in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pear...

DescriptionThe complete autobiography of Earl "The Pearl" Monroe--now in paperback Earl "The Pearl" Monroe is a basketball legend whose impact on t...