The Psychic Highway: How the Erie Canal Changed America, Paperback - Michael T. Keene

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael T. KeeneThe Erie Canal delivered people to important places for important reasons, like Susan Cady Stanton and Lucr...

Reducere. Just off the coast of the Bronx in Long Island Sound sits Hart Island, where more than one million bodies are buried in unmarked graves. Beginning ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael T. Keene Eight boys from the rural community of Holley, New York, died fighting in Vietnam. All went to the same hi...

Publisher: Cameo PressAuthor(s): Emerson KleesNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 154 x 228 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

Reducere. ``An extraordinary history...Deeply researched, elegantly written...a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten.``--Brent Staples, New Y...

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Reducere. THE YEAR WAS 1869, HER NAME WAS MARY ROTE. ...SHE ARRIVED BY STEAMBOAT AT OVID LANDING, SHACKLED AT THE WRISTS AND TRANSPORTED BY ARMED GUARDS........

Reducere. The women who serve as the subjects for this book, all share compelling stories. Most of the women in Keene's book are from North Central New York ...

Reducere. In this elegantly written and far-reaching narrative, acclaimed author Gerard Koeppel tells the astonishing story of the creation of the Erie Canal...

Reducere. The story of the Eric Canal is the story of industrial and economic progress between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The Artificial River reveal...

Reducere. In the summer of 1936, fourteen-year-old Maxwell Breeze was playing in the waters of the Erie Canal in Brockport when a dog jumped into the canal a...

Reducere. The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America, Paperback

Reducere. DescriptionLife working along the banks of the Erie Canal is preserved in the songs of America's rich musical history. Thomas Allen's "Low Bridge, ...

Reducere. Most of us have experienced bursts of intuition or "paranormal" events. Are they all products of imagination or confusion? The truth is that we all...

Reducere. In 1972 the banks of the Wabash River in southeastern Illinois played host to one of the most disorganized music festivals in history. The Bull Isl...

Reducere. In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners i...

Reducere. Presidential Courage is a brilliantly readable and inspiring saga about crucial times in American history when a courageous President dramatically ...

Reducere. DescriptionGeorge Washington first proposed the idea of a canal connecting the Great Lakes to the Ohio-Mississippi River System in 1784. Inspired b...

Reducere. No right seems more fundamental to American life than freedom of speech. Yet well into the twentieth century that freedom was still an unfulfilled ...

In 1968, at the climax of the sixties, Os Guinness visited the United States for the first time. There he was struck by an impression he'd already ...

Reducere. Now in paperbackA dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska. John Muir was a fas...

Contributor(s): Author: Meika LoeSince its introduction in 1998, Viagra has launched a new kind of sexual revolution. Quickly becoming one of the m...

Reducere. On January 3, 1961, nuclear reactor SL-1 exploded in rural Idaho, spreading radioactive contamination over thousands of acres and killing three men...

An inspiring account of the transformative power of purpose-driven entrepreneurship. Bag Lady is a masterful case study in how to start up a compan...

Reducere. On April 4, 1968, at 6: 01 p.m., while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only h...

Reducere. The birth of rock 'n roll ignited a firestorm of controversy--one critic called it "musical riots put to a switchblade beat"--but if it generated m...

Reducere. The book we needed right now. --Betsy Bird, A Fuse #8 Production Helaine Becker's An Equal Shot is a nonfiction picture book introduction to the hi...

Psychic Development and understanding Are you interested in how you can increase the joy and happiness in your life? Are you currently looking for ...

Publisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Michael FreemantleIllustration(s): 16 Plates, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber o...

In this warm, engaging look at the life of a great First Lady, Kathi Appelt tells the story behind Lady Bird Johnson's environmental vision. Joy Fi...

Reducere. A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication Born to Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald rose to lead Sears, Roebuck & Company and turn it into the world's...

Reducere. The Catskills ( Cat Creek in Dutch), America s original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land ...

How gangsta rap shocked America, made millions, and pulled back the curtain on an urban crisis.How is it that gangsta rap--so dystopian that it str...

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In the bestselling tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, The Great Quake is a riveting narrative abo...

Reducere. Bluebonnets and lady's slippers, larkspurs and blazing stars, black-eyed Susans and Granny's nightcaps.From a lonely childhood in the Piney Woods o...

Covering Four Counties Ring cruising circuit, this guide features the whole of the Trent & Mersey Canal and the beautiful Caldon Canal. It interpre...

DescriptionUnderstanding the explosive protests over police killings and the legacy of racismFollowing the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old...

Reducere. This New York Times bestselling "deep dive into the terms of eight former presidents is chock-full of political hijinks--and d j vu" (Vanity Fair) ...

Reducere. Publisher: Rizzoli International PublicationsAuthor(s): Michael GordonIllustration(s): 150 COLOR & B/W ILLUSTRATIONSNumber of pages: 168Publication...

The fascinating and topical nonfiction story of how one gun changed American courtrooms, streets, and homes, told for a YA audience by award-winnin...

Pearson's canal companions encourage visitors, explain the lie of the land and provide a lasting souvenir of journeys made. This new 9th edition of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dds Robert KulaczAuthor: MD Jd LevyIs Your Smile Worth Your Life? What You Need to Know Before Undergoing a Root Canal Unde...

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Reducere. The book offers an insider's critical look at the impact of globalization on the American furniture business, an industry that went from making 'wo...

Reducere. Capitalism is the greatest economic system the world has ever known - but capitalism is broken.The Mission Corporation promotes a more enlightened ...

Reducere. DescriptionA VIVID AND FASCINATING LOOK AT AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE COUNTRY'S MOST STORIED HIGHWAY, THE BOSTON POST ROAD During it...

Sleep no morePublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): L T C RoltNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 203 x 142 x 13Cover type: P...