The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Simon Baatz

Reducere. From New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world. In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a ...

An unexplained disappearance spirals into an unrelenting murder mystery. In October 2014, local Michigan police chief Laura Frizzo faced a perplexi...

Reducere. In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an a...

Reducere. Winner, 2018 U.S. History PROSE Award The incredible stories of how trans men assimilated into mainstream communities in the late 1800s In 1883, Fr...

A landmark new account of the twentieth century from one of Europe's most outstanding thinkers.

Sid, Manny si Diego revin alaturi de simpaticul si vesnic lovitul de soarta Scrat, veverita cu tendinte suicidale pentru o ghinda. Trasnaile eroilo...

Elena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how writers including Dosto...

Each week fans avidly devour his latest razor-sharp literary assassination, while authors turn tremblingly to the appropriate page of the review se...

Reducere. Erik Larson, author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts, intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who ...

The first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices across a wide span of American culture. This volume ...

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Reducere. "Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century provides a good short course in the major popular revolutions of our century--in Russia, Mexico, China, Alge...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology ...

This book looks at British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from 1975 through 1991, during which Mrs. Thatcher was Conservative Party Leader and th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lynn SaxonSex - just what is it all about? Don't other species just get on with it? What are the conflicts and jealousy, pa...

Reducere. Biblical inerrancy is under attack. Now more than ever, the church needs to carefully consider what it stands to lose should this crucial doctrine ...

Our understanding of history is often mediated by popular culture, and television series set in the past have provided some of our most indelible i...

An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one.At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and paint...

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. A true-crime, coming-of-age story with a tragic twist: a New York editor's quest to uncover the truth about the brutal murder of her wild and seduc...

Reducere. A comprehensive monograph of artistic travel at the height of British imperial power. Kenneth McConkey takes us around the world to show how Britis...

Publisher: Edward Everett RootCollection: Studies in Irish Literature, Cinema and CulturePublication date: 2019Dimensions: 159 x 235 x 23Cover type...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: W. E. B. Du BoisEditor: Nahum Dimitri ChandlerThis volume assembles essential essays--some published only posthumously, oth...

A whisper network kept Jane's story alive: a rumour of an affair with a professor that ended in tragedy when Britton threatened to expose him. Fort...

At the end of World War II, the international community deemed genocide a crime against humanity. Yet, at the dawn of the twenty-first century it h...

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Reducere. A writer investigates her family's secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations. Hadley Freeman k...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sir Charles Chadwyck-HealeyIllustration(s): 18 bw illusNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2021Dim...

DescriptionA dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American ...

Reducere. This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century ...

Anthropology At the Dawn of the Cold War. The Influence of Foundations, McCarthyism and the CIA - Dustin M. Wax

Reducere. An overview of the best science fiction short stories of the 20th century as selected and evaluated by critically-acclaimed author Orson Scott Card...

Publisher: Temple Lodge PublishingAuthor(s): Peter SelgTranslator: Pauline WehrleNumber of pages: 88Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 235 x 160 x 7...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named One of The Best Books of 2020 by NPR's Fresh Air * Publishers Weekly * Marie Claire * Redbook * Vogue * Kirkus Reviews * ...

Publisher: Mimesis InternationalAuthor(s): Cesereanu RuxandraNumber of pages: 204Collection: Speculum CivitatisPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 14...

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize finalist A poetic history of the twentieth century from one of our most beloved, popular, and highly lauded poets--a stirring, strik...

Reducere. Murder is the willful killing of a human being with malice aforethought, either expressed or implied. Malice includes not only hatred and revenge, ...

Reducere. Matilda Rabinowitz's illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, ...