The Golden Age

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Publisher: Harvard Business Review PressAuthor(s): Susan Wilner GoldenNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 243 x 27Cover typ...

DescriptionReal news traveled fast, even in the days before internet connections. During the New Deal and World War II, Washington elites turned to...

Reducere. Description""In this wonderfully insightful book, Joan Walsh shows how America built a large and vibrant (although mostly white) middle class that ...

Reducere. Covers Chrysler cars from 1940 through 1949 First Series. A close look at each model with attention to the details. Well researched, great for the ...

The professional and personal lives of the pioneers of an enduring magazine.Publisher: WW Norton & CoAuthor(s): Thomas VinciguerraIllustration(s): ...

Reducere. Scott Stephens received his first set of roller skates at age six in 1966 - and soon he was staging Roller Derby games in his backyard. Growing up ...

Murder by Jury: "If there is any place one would think himself safe, it would be in a jury room, locked up with fellow members of a jury, consideri...

Reducere. Throughout the twentieth century, department stores ruled the retail landscapes of downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul. More than just shopping cente...

This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped i...

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Reducere. This volume of the Golden Age of Illustration Series contains Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Match Girl', first published in May of 1824. Th...

Journey back to the 1950s and '60s with this nostalgic look at Britain's railways in their glory days. Beautifully illustrated throughout with a un...

"A well written, informed, and at times exciting account" (Choice) of the field of Egyptology, part two of Thompson's bestselling monumental histor...

DescriptionThis study offers a reading of Don Quixote to argue that this work was more than just hilariously comic entertainment. Rather, it belong...

A fascinating auto-biography of the life of George Stevens Jr. and his life on movie sets.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Geo...

During the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic was transformed into a leading political power in Europe, with global trading interests. It nurt...

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Reducere. Description3 More Reps showcases the golden age of Bodybuilding, and it's superstars. It is more than a training book. It is a collector coffee tab...

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Reducere. A memoir that represents the lifelong journey - both personal and professional - of legendary actress Janis Paige. It's a deeply personal work, fil...

Reducere. In this accessibly written history, Amira K. Bennison contradicts the common assumption that Islam somehow interrupted the smooth flow of Western c...

Reducere. Think you know everything about Pirates? Fascination with Pirates has for centuries driven stories of heroic proportions--true, exaggerated, and im...

Reducere. DescriptionDagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age, a period of climatic cooling that r...

Reducere. "'Reggae got soul, ' Toots Hibbert sang in one of his best-known songs, andKim Gottlieb-Walker's remarkable photographs coax that soul out of shado...

Walt Disney always envisioned the studios that bear his name remaining relevant by consistently taking creative risks and doing the unexpected. Hea...

For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life. Blending close literary analysis with social and cultural history, Daria...

Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challeng...

Constantine, Divine Emperor of the Christian Golden Age - Jonathan Bardill

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Reducere. Just because you can't respect a movie doesn't mean you can't enjoy it. A seminal text of the VHS nostalgia movement, The Golden Age of Crap serves...

Reducere. The monumental classic collection that studies the ancient Christian writers and their teachings about the early Church.

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When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for its portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer co...

At 102 years of age, Louise Tobin is one of the last surviving musicians of the Swing Era. Born in Aubrey, Texas, in 1918, she grew up in a large f...

Reducere. The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-ce...

This book investigates the cultural and political conflicts that translation brought into the new Abbasid state from a sociological perspective, tr...

DescriptionJan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy...

This book details the lives and careers of four sports-writing greats-Grantland Rice, Red Smith, Shirley Povich, and W. C. Heinz-and the legendary ...

Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age presents the finest pieces from one of the most important private collections in the field, The Leiden ...

A multidisciplinary volume that reframes children as powerful forces in the production of their own literature and culture by uncovering a traditio...

A vibrant survey of visual culture in Golden Age Denmark (1801-1864) Following the disastrous outcome of the Napoleonic Wars and national bankruptc...

Reducere. DescriptionThis comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and exciting period in American film, a time when the studio system was at its peak...

A riotous, 720-page celebration of sneakers and sporting legends, as told through the medium of vintage print advertisingPublisher: Phaidon Press L...

"A continuation of 1994's groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi's Animation: a world history is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive t...

Reducere. How did the ancient Greeks and Romans envision the end of the world? What is the long-term future of the human race? Will the world always remain a...

Most horror film fans are familiar with the classics, from the early Universal archetypes to the Hammer landmarks - all of which have been celebrat...

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This beautifully illustrated, expansive overview of Dutch and Flemish art during the 17th century illuminates the creative achievements of one of t...

Volume 1: with Don Cameron, Joe Greene, Joe Samachson, Alvin Schwartz and France Herron, writers; with Cliff Young, Maurice Del Bourgo, Bernard Kle...

DescriptionMarvel proudly presents TIMELY'S GREATEST, a series of once-in-a-lifetime volumes presenting the greatest stories of the Golden Age, whe...

DescriptionMarvel proudly presents TIMELY'S GREATEST, a series of once-in-a-lifetime Omnibi presenting the greatest stories from the era when Marve...