The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914, Paperback - David McCullough

Reducere. The National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat t...

The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the "American Century." Panama Fever draw...

Marco Polo's family traveled to the Far East with the hope of establishing trade with what today is known as China and India. But It was Henry of P...

Reducere. The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the "Windrush Generation"in 1950s' England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive S...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the projects' construction *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The Transcont...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen the United States took on the building of the Panama Canal in 1904, workers were faced with extremely difficult living conditions. ...

Reducere. DescriptionDavid Healy follows his widely praised study, The Antidepressant Era, with an even more ambitious and dramatic story: the discovery and ...

Reducere. This book tells a previously untold story of decades of financial speculation, fraud, and international conspiracy that led to the creation of the ...

Reducere. Masonic Education has regrettably been reduced to teaching protocol, traditions, and catechism while ignoring the esoteric essence of the ritual. E...

Reducere. France achieved national unity much later than is commonly supposed. For a hundred years and more after the Revolution, millions of peasants lived ...

Reducere. At a young age, Sara knew she wanted to be free from slavery. She attempted many times to run away. On one of these attempts, she was caught by ano...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's...

The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that's...

Publisher: Triumph BooksAuthor(s): David SmaleNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 224 x 145 x 29Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

A hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began making their way to the New World, fleets of giant Chinese junks commanded by the eu...

This is just one of the fresh insights drawn from Stabile's teaching that have been included in this journal. Also included are brief quotes from T...

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 ...

Conveys the excitement, diversity and richness of London at a time when the city was arguably at the height of its power, uniqueness and attraction...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered how Germany became a military and economic powerhouse that placed its bid for world domination in the 20th century? If you w...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered how Germany became a military and economic powerhouse that placed its bid for world domination in the 20th century? If you w...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize--the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courag...

Description#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the Amer...

This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across th...

Marking the 100th anniversary of the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow, David Meara draws on archive material - including a previously un...

This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, fo...

This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, fo...

Publisher: Monthly Review Press, U.S.Author(s): Michael (Fitchburg State University, USA) PerelmanNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2006Dimensi...

Conventional wisdom dates the origins of activist federal government to the New Deal. William J. Novak shows that the roots run deeper. Tracing the...

Reducere. DescriptionThe intricate shapes of Sacred Geometry are explained as representations of the successive stages in the creation of the universe. Begin...

A groundbreaking work that delivers a fresh account of the Arab conquests, incorporating the latest research in Late Antique history.

Reducere. #1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michael (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) ReynoldsNumber of pages: 360Publicati...

Reducere. In this fascinating graphic novel, witness the real-life debates, disagreements, and compromises that led to the formation of the U.S. Constitution...