The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood, Paperback

Reducere. In the life of the great cultural icon baseball slugger Mickey Mantle, we see America's romance with boldness, its celebration of muscle, and its c...

Reducere. As a man who played baseball brilliantly despite near-constant pain from a succession of injuries, Mickey Mantle knew something about courage. In T...

Reducere. In 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam. Air power covered the departure of ground forces, and sea...

About the AuthorPeter Golenbock is one of the nation's best-known sports authors, and has written some of the best-selling sports books of the last...

A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States "Engrossing. . . . Astonishing...

"I've been meaning to tell you how much I've enjoyed your book." -Charlie Daniels, Country Music LegendMickey Mantle: Inside and Outside the Lines ...

Published in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man argues that capitalist democracy is the final destination for all societies. Fukuyama believ...

Reducere. To everyone who truly loves the game, Mickey Mantle epitomizes the golden age of baseball, when the mighty New York Yankees indisputably ruled, app...

This timely volume brings insights from multiple disciplines to bear on debates about declining fertility rates and modern approaches to child rais...

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Reducere. FRITZ PETERSON WAS A NEW YORK YANKEE WHO NEVER STOPPED SEARCHING FOR GOD. In the 1960s in New York City, every young boy dreamed of playing for the...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Helen AllanIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 120Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 202 x 20Co...

Fiona MacCarthy traces the stories of the girls who curtseyed that year, and shows how their lives were to open out in often very unexpected ways -...

If my father had been killed in North Africa or Italy during the Second World War, I know that for the rest of my life I would have looked at the f...

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Reducere. Award NameAlex AwardsAward categoryAdult/For Young AdultsWinner of a 2020 ALA Alex Award A "suspenseful, atmospheric tale...punctured by a gut-punc...

The transformation of the American South--from authoritarian to democratic rule--is the most important political development since World War II. It...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: MR Ken OsmondWith: MR Christopher J. LynchForeword by: MR Jerry MathersEddie Haskell was the bad kid who never went away. W...

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Reducere. From the moment when we first open our homes-and our hearts-to a new pet, we know that one day we will have to watch this beloved animal age and di...

Reducere. "Stunning and stirring."--Boston Globe In The Last of His Kind, renowned adventure writer David Roberts gives readers a spellbinding history of mou...

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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 ...

Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Douglas MurphyNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the ...

Three-time Spur Award winner Max McCoy combines fast-paced action, frontier history, and powerful family drama in this epic saga of life, love, and...

Vega Jane and the End of Time (previously published in the USA as The Stars Below) is the fourth and stunning final instalment in master storytelle...

Fleabag meets I Am Legend in this extraordinary novel of one woman's survival in the face of the end of the world. Who will she be now that she is ...

Reducere. Fiction. An unnamed narrator returns to her ancestral home in an environmentally depleted harbor city with a baby in her care. She has escaped from...

DescriptionON MICKEY SPILLANE'S 100TH BIRTHDAY - A BRAND-NEW NOVEL FROM THE MASTER. When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he ...

The definitive history of the Opium War between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize.

Reducere. Best-selling author Rick Riordan introduces this adventure by Roshani Chokshi about twelve-year-old Aru Shah, who has a tendency to stretch the tru...

Reducere. DescriptionThe third book in the funny and joyful series Katherine Applegate has called "tender and important, " by National Book Award finalist El...

DescriptionA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen ...

An active-participant account of the final ten years of Swindon Works - bringing to an end 147 years of railway engineering

Exploring why conservatives have lost almost every political argument since 1945, Ed West looks at this endless litany of failure from the perspect...

Reducere. Moving from the White House to the B-52 cockpits to the missile sites and POW camps of Hanoi, The Eleven Days of Christmas is a gripping tale of he...

Publisher: Smithsonian BooksAuthor(s): Samme (Samme Chittum) ChittumNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 229 x 186 x 18Cover type:...

Reducere. -Anyone interested in the true merits of criminal law and very fine writing must read Alan Dershowitz's book.- --Truman Capote In this tell-all leg...

Reducere. The very title of the last book of the Bible means "unveiling." Yet this mysterious and confusing book seems to do anything but unveil, especially ...

'Anyone who enjoys mythology will find much to love in Pegasus and the Flame. Kate O'Hearn serves up a winning mix of modern adventure and classic ...