The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet, Paperback - Henry Fountain

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In the bestselling tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, The Great Quake is a riveting narrative abo...

Reducere. Lily is a twelve-year-old Chinese American girl living in San Francisco's Chinatown when an earthquake destroys her home and sets her neighborhood ...

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From 'one of America's most courageous young journalists' (NPR) comes a propulsive narrative history investigating the fifty-year-old mystery behin...

Reducere. Dorothy and the Great Quake: A Story about Dorothy Day as a Young Girl, Paperback

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A popular history of the Arab invasions that carved out an empire from Spain to China

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The Second Continental Congress was an assembly of America's brightest minds. It was formed because of the collective desire to be independent of B...

In 1968, at the climax of the sixties, Os Guinness visited the United States for the first time. There he was struck by an impression he'd already ...

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The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving.Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Joseph JebelliNumber of page...

Henry II conquered the largest empire of any English medieval king. Yet it is the people around him we remember: his wife Eleanor, whom he seduced ...

Reducere. The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 was no run-of-the-mill misfortune-it was a watershed moment that shook the pillars of an inveterate social order and ...

Reducere. Now in paperbackA dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska. John Muir was a fas...

DescriptionThe true story of how a scientist saved the planet from environmental disaster. Mexican American Mario Molina is a modern-day hero who h...

A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown-of population growth, economies, and technological innovation

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The extraordinary story of a propaganda campaign like no other: the covert British operation to manipulate American public opinion and bring Americ...

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Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Henry ManceNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 199 x 36Cover type: Paperback / soft...