The History, Hardcover - Michael Attaleiates

In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East, controlling the Balkans south of the Danube and all of Asia Minor into ...

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the ...

DescriptionWitchcraft: A Secret History unravels the myth from the mystery, the facts from the legends. Meet all the witches of your imagination an...

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. Before a 1901 ceremony opened the peaceful resort town, the wild dunes of Bethany Beach were part of the rough-and-tumble New World and the deadly ...

Witchcraft in Illinois: A Cultural History, Hardcover

Reducere. The General Motors Corporation was established in 1908 by William C. Durant, who combined the Buick, Oldsmobile, and Oakland companies and, later, ...

Reducere. NOTE: This book contains graphic depictions of extreme crime and violence. Its content may not be suitable for all readers.Under the cover of night...

Foreword by Michael J. Fox Preface by Christopher LloydGreat Scott Go Back to the Future with Doc Brown and Marty McFly and celebrate the film's 35...

Reducere. DescriptionNot just home to Old Salem and tobacco tycoons, Winston-Salem has more stories to tell. Author Michael Bricker chronicles the history of...

DescriptionAvailable in English for the first time, we read the heart-warming, moving and intensely personal letters that the young soldiers wrote ...

Reducere. Step back in time to Ancient Egypt and meet some of the many people who lived, worked, and played during that time. From a necropolis builder to a ...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind will be back in domestic theaters for a one-week run beginning September 1, presented in a 4K restoration of Spi...

Reducere. Founded in 1903, Ford Motor Company has enormously impacted the history and development of America, and the world, in the 20th century. What began ...

Reducere. Founded in 1924 by one-time railroad mechanic Walter P. Chrysler, Chrysler the car actually preceded Chrysler the corporation. With roots entwined ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael A. CremoMichael Cremo, an international authority on human antiquity, has justly earned the forbidden archeologist...

Reducere. Nebula AwardsFor sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven creat...

Reducere. This history of China as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especi...

This book is a collection of oral historical stories told from a traditional and conventional Christian narrative. The stories presented here come ...

DescriptionMarch, 1938. Otto Lehman arrives in New York on the S.S. Osthafen to be immediately confronted by two men with FBI badges . . . only, th...

Reducere. The silver Airstreams and neon signs of the classic American diner brighten New Jersey's highways and Main Streets. But the intrinsic role they hav...

Reducere. Buffalo's appreciation for a frosty pint stretches back more than a century before anyone enjoyed a cold one with a basket of wings. By the middle ...

Almost 7, 000 fans eagerly packed into the Ringling Brothers big top on July 6, 1944. With a single careless act, an afternoon at the "Greatest Sho...

DescriptionApril, 1555. A priest has been stabbed to death in the village of St Botolph, to the east of the City of London, his body left to rot by...

DescriptionWhat do they all mean--the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, potbellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests, and somersaul...

As the Civil War unfolded, Murfreesboro became hotly contested by Confederate and Union forces. Both sides occupied the town for significant period...

DescriptionA global tour of energy--the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat. Energy is humanity's single most important reso...

DescriptionLost on the Yellow Brick Road is the study of a woman in terror much of her life, who had obstacles to climb, pitfalls that may as well ...

Reducere. The wide promenade of the boardwalk, the ring of the carnival games and a steaming bushel of crabs all make for an iconic Ocean City summer. Yet be...

Reducere. Coastal Delaware, Maryland and Virginia have always been vulnerable to the power of storms. In the early nineteenth century, storm-driven shipwreck...

Reducere. On August 16, 1777, a motley militia won a resounding victory near Bennington, Vermont, against combined German, British and Loyalist forces. - Thi...

Reducere. DescriptionOver-the-Rhine is a place where a building owner can stumble upon huge caverns underneath a basement floor or find long-forgotten tunnel...

Reducere. Germany's fast-hitting Panzer divisions made history with their astonishing victories in the opening years of World War II, but the bulk of the Arm...

Reducere. Philadelphia was once the proud home of Wanamaker's, a department store of many firsts founded by the retail giant John Wanamaker in 1861. Its name...

DescriptionThe Spanish Civil War was fought on land and at sea but also in an age of great interest in air warfare and the rapid development of war...

Reducere. This book shows history in the making with the German and Soviet forces of World War II cooperating and then competing in the invasion and occupati...

Reducere. The Holy Jumpers is an amazing account of the coming of the Church of God to the Bahamas in 1909, the growth and development of the institution thr...

Reducere. DescriptionIn October 1917, an invasion force of some 25, 000 German soldiers, accompanied by a flotilla of 10 dreadnoughts, 350 other vessels, a h...

Reducere. Like much of New Jersey during the American Revolution, Monmouth County was contested territory in between the great armies. As the Battles of Tren...

Reducere. Affectionately called Woodies" by loyal Washingtonians, the beloved department store Woodward & Lothrop stood at the heart of downtown for over a c...

Reducere. Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As...

Reducere. The village of Norris was founded by Isaac Norris, a Quaker merchant and mayor of Philadelphia, and his family in 1704. More than a century later, ...

Reducere. The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions,...