The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History, Hardcover - Greg Woolf

Reducere. The growth of the modern world urban system is the greatest episode of urban growth there has ever been, but it is not the first. Three thousand ye...

The story of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages: a tale of war and politics, pestilence and famine, ...

Sellers has long been acknowledged as one of the screen's greatest comic actors. In this biography, Roger Lewis draws on over 300 interviews with S...

Reducere. * “The most complete and successful biography of the Fuehrer available for this audience.”—SLJ, starred review Many people believe Hitler was the p...

A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationshi...

The true story of one of the biggest financial scandals in recent history reaches very different conclusions to the standard narrative.Publisher: B...

The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios collects three important works promoting the influential Constantinople monastery of Stoudios and the me...

Reducere. Novelist, playwright, film actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was arguably the most famous person in Japan...

In this extraordinary investigation based on extensive documentary research and dozens of interviews with the key players, Brian Brivati sets out t...

This book explores issues of definition and the essential elements of cities, offering a new heuristic typology of cities. It reviews case studies ...

Reducere. The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important oper...

A new account of the tragic life and troubled times of Henry VI, who inherited the crowns of both England and France and lost both, in the course o...

First English translation of a Greek novella first published in 1920 by the Corfiot author Konstantinos Theotokis. A tragi-comedy of Corfiot villag...

Reducere. Acute Misfortune is an unflinching portrait of talent and addiction.In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his s...

Dingo Bold is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between people and dingoes. At its heart is Rowena Lennox's encounter with a ding...

Reducere. The True Story of The Original Tabloid Blonde! Before Anna Nicole, Before Pam Anderson, there was Jayne Mansfield. The original working mom with se...

DescriptionNorthern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in political life of the twentieth century. ...

Reducere. Broken Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart, Paperback

Of all the screen juveniles groomed for stardom by Warner Brothers in the 1930s, few were touted as highly by Hal Wallis and Jack Warner as Ross Al...

Rudolph Valentino was the silver-screen legend who for ever changed America's idea of the leading man: a frightened young fellow who became the cin...

Reducere. In 1823, Hugh Glass did the unthinkable: he wrestled a grizzly bear...and won. But that is only the beginning of the remarkable tale--Glass, badly ...

Reducere. Thirty-five years after his death in Paris at age twenty-seven, Jim Morrison's iconic legend remains as powerful as ever, swathed in the mists of m...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gregory McNameeFor sixty million years, the Gila River, longer than the Hudson and the Delaware combined, has shaped the ec...

Reducere. Sellers' fluidity as an actor made for a terrifying madness that grew like a slow metastasizing cancer throughout his adult life. The story of Pete...

Reducere. "Andrews's wonderful Down from the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thou...

Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black g...

On 17th August 1909, Madan Lal Dhingra was executed in Pentonville Prison for the assassination of Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie, a high-ranking o...

Reducere. Red Star, White Nights: The Life and Death of Yuri Soloviev is a biography of one of history's greatest dancers, who ended his own life in a snow-b...

The Life and Death of Andy Ducat tells the story of one of England's earliest sporting heroes. He played football for Woolwich Arsenal, Aston Villa...

Reducere. After two decades, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and f...

A memorial to one of the greatest coaches in college football history written by the man who knew him better than anyone: his oldest son and coachi...

A major historical biography: the dramatic, harrowing and contested story of Sir Walter Ralegh

Description"Andrews' wonderful Down from the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and mea...