The Great Cities in History

Pit your worldly wits against family and friends, or just challenge yourself, with this ultimate travel trivia book. With head-scratching questions...

DescriptionPit your worldly wits against family and friends, or just challenge yourself, with this ultimate travel trivia book. With head-scratchin...

Reducere. Compact and affordable, Fodor's 25 Best Seattle is a great travel guide for those who want an easy-to-pack guidebook and map to one of the most exc...

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Reducere. Ever since the mid-19th Century, national militaries have sought to create monster artillery pieces, designed to shatter armies, cities, and fortre...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Discusses Assyrian military tactics, religious practices, and more *Includes ancient Assyrian accounts documenting their milita...

DescriptionWith stunning scenery, colonial remnants, fascinating ruins and exotic food, Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos offer unrivalled attractions. Foot...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the building written by participants *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of con...

The Royal Air Force had placed a great deal of faith in its force of bombers, Bomber Command, in the event of a future war. The belief in the abili...

Reducere. When the British journalist Rachel Polonsky moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. O...

Twelve thematic chapters dedicated to the places that define the soul of France offer readers 100 best of destinations to the most beautiful, iconi...

Contained within this book is a comprehensive guide to cycling in Europe, with information on preparing for a trip, favourable and beautiful routes...

Reducere. School is out and temperatures nudge the triple digits as a great migration begins. Each year, inhabitants of California's sweltering interior vall...

The ancient Near East is known as the "cradle of civilization"--and for good reason. Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia were home to an extraordinari...

Reducere. Pakal was one of the greatest ancient rulers and the most prominent among a long line of monarchs who held sway at Palenque from AD 300 to 800. Thi...

Reducere. Black Americans have been among the hardest hit by the rapid deindustrialization and accompanying economic decline that have become so synonymous w...

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Moon Michigan reveals the best of the Great Lakes State's charming small towns, vibrant cities, and vast, untouched wilderness. Inside you'll find:...

Canadian John Groot's walk around the entire coastline of Taiwan takes us through bustling cities, fishing ports, rural villages, military sites, a...

DescriptionINSIGHT GUIDES CITY GUIDE BEIJINGLet us guide you on every step of your travels... Explore the most exciting cities in the world with th...

Reducere. Editor and poet Allison Adelle Hedge Coke assembles this multilingual collection of Indigenous American poetry, joining voices old and new in songs...

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Reducere. The Beginning of the End is the first novel by Michael T. Snyder, the publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog. If you want to know what things in A...

Reducere. The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine after 2, 000 years in th...

Reducere. A visual guide to approximately 20 Florida art colonies and districts. The book will discusses in detail a variety of towns in Florida renowned as ...

DescriptionThe first guide to urban birding in the UK, from The Urban Birder himself, David LindoUrban birding is fast becoming ornithology's new r...

Contributor(s): Author: National Geographic Maps - ReferenceThe reference map of New Zealand uses National Geographic's signature Classic style wit...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1700, a young man named John Lawson left London and landed in Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to make a name for himself. For reas...

We Americans love our food. It's part of what has made this nation great. Our fertile farmlands and the abundance and variety of our agricultural o...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn immersive account of the New Deal project that created state-by-state guidebooks to America, in the ...

Reducere. Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz's most recent collection Second Space marks a new stage in one of the great poetic pilgrimages of our time. Few poets...

The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of the Second World War, splitting the American and British allies, and causing great disharmony. ...

Reducere. For more than five hundred years, explorers roamed the wilderness of North America, some in search of a route to the East or fabled cities of gold,...

Reducere. "Chicago is a tale of two cities, " headlines declare. This narrative has been gaining steam alongside reports of growing economic divisions and di...

Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature's creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before g...

ENOCH INSIGHTS gives great insight into the book of Enoch itself, which is an ancient book of around 5000 years old and apparently the very first b...

Reducere. "And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth." - Revelation 17: 18 Which city is this that reign...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the construction of the competing lines and their unification *Includes online resources and a bibliograph...