The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls: The Adventures of Eugčne Boban, Hardcover - Jane MacLaren Walsh

DescriptionEug ne Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority ...

Reducere. Eug ne Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Colu...

Reducere. Archimedes had probably the most inventive mind in all history. His war machines beat the mighty Roman Navy. Marcus Claudius Marcellus was the Roma...

Terence: The Man Who Invented Design offers a candid, authentic insight, much of which has never before been published, into the Terence Conran lif...

Terence: The Man Who Invented Design offers a candid, authentic insight, much of which has never before been published, into the Terence Conran lif...

Itinerant journalist Ash Upson was a true "rolling stone" of the western frontier, first kicking around New York with Edgar Allen Poe and then tuto...

Reducere. This book brings geometry to life with Euclid explaining the principles of Geometry to his friends. Full of fun, explanation and even jokes, thei i...

Reducere. The author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who s...

How one man discovered B. B. King, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, and how his tiny label, Sun Records of Memphis, revolutionised t...

Stuart Kelly's biography of Sir Walter Scott defies classification in terms of genre. Rather than a literary biography, or critical study, it is a ...

Reducere. All histories of Hollywood are wrong. Why? Two words: Colonel Selig. This early pioneer laid the foundation for the movie industry that we know tod...

Intrepid travel historian Justin Marozzi retraces the footsteps of Herodotus through the Mediterranean and Middle East, examining Herodotus's 2, 50...

Reducere. In 1946, two men battled for power in Las Vegas. Bugsy Siegel stole Billy Wilkerson's dream of a luxury hotel in the desert, and died in a hail of ...

Reducere. "A highly-spirited adventure...Loopy and lovable characters."--The New York Times Book ReviewNobody knows the dark side of the Sunshine State like ...

Louis Le Prince invented the motion picture in 1890. The man's name was Thomas Edison. This book is the story of the birth of motion pictures, rest...

Contributor(s): Author: Takehiko HaradaThe 15 most powerful practices for guiding breakthrough productivity improvements in any company Management ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert LomasEverybody knows that Thomas Edison devised electric light and domestic electricity supplies, that Guglielmo Mar...

Follow Bryn, a light brown haired dog who is playful and full of energy and Crystal who has silvery black hair and is cunning and more laid back th...

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 ...

In early 1882, before young Oscar Wilde embarked on his lecture tour across America, he posed for publicity photos taken by a famously eccentric Ne...

Reducere. "A vertiginous, white-knuckled adventure through some of the most spectacular forests in the world." ​--Washington Post Meet the man who climbs tre...

Reducere. Roland Garros enjoyed an exciting life. An aviation pioneer in the early 1900s, he taught himself how to fly a bamboo airplane despite crashing it ...

Swan & Maclaren were the most prominent and prestigious architectural practice working in Singapore during the latter part of the British era, that...

An inspiring true story of a boy genius. Plowing a potato field in 1920, a 14-year-old farm boy from Idaho saw in the parallel rows of overturned e...

DescriptionFrank William Epperson is a curious boy who wants to be an inventor when he grows up. Since inventing begins with experimenting, Frank s...

Reducere. Often human scientists try and solve a problem or invent a new tool and they realise that animals have already invented it for them. In this book y...

The OMG romance of the year, The Man Who Didn't Call is a heart-wrenching love story with a dark secret at its heart.

Reducere. Popular Lost Cities author Childress tackles the enigma of worldwide cranial deformation along with Canadian-Peruvian anthropologist Foerster. In a...

Reducere. In the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado's two-year Coalfield War, a young woman and single mother resolved in 1916 to change the stat...

Reducere. When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he observed to Lord Birkenhead that he may have signed h...

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History and Mythology of the Aztec Nothing remains of the ancient Mesoamerican civilization who called themselves the Mexic...

Reducere. Nikola Tesla was an engineer and scientist known for designing the alternating-current (AC) electric system, which is the predominant electrical sy...

Filled with optimism, Edmund vows to find his beloved wolf, GoldenEars. Returning home on leave, our newly-fledged forest ranger begins his task of...

New and Noteworthy --New York Times Book ReviewMust-Read Book of March --Entertainment WeeklyBest Books of March --HelloGiggles"Leaps at the throat...

Reducere. Raoul Walsh (1887-1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career...

Reducere. An inspiring true story of a boy genius. Plowing a potato field in 1920, a 14-year-old farm boy from Idaho saw in the parallel rows of overturned e...

Reducere. In this beautifully illustrated children's book, readers will experience the world in a new way as they see the seasons through the joyful eyes of ...

An elegy to a golden age of literature, Circus of Dreams divulges how the British literary scene underwent an unrecognisable transformation in the ...

Dressed by Chanel and Yves St Laurent, painted by Salvador Dali and Picasso and mingling with Colette and Proust, Helena Rubinstein not only enjoye...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sibeal PounderNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 22Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. A profile of Louis Braille records his struggle to overcome his blindness by devising an alphabet to help other blind people read

DescriptionThe author of the Millennium novels laid out the clues. Now a journalist is following them.When Stieg Larsson died, the author of The Gi...

Reducere. A groundbreaking manifesto decoding the phenomenon of genius through the life of Jesus of Nazareth, revealing the untapped potential within every h...

Reducere. Once upon a time people believed that the Earth was flat and this was their truth, until somebody discovered otherwise. The world had changed, but ...

Reducere. "A fine achievement."--Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save and The Most Good You Can DoA sweeping psychological history of human goodness...