The Quiet Americans

From the &i>Sunday Times &/i>bestselling author of &i>Lawrence in Arabia&/i>, a gripping history of the early years of the Cold War, the CIAs cover...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a gripping history of the early years of the Cold War, the CIA's covert battles aga...

"Enthralling. . . . Lying and stealing and invading, it should be said, make for captivating reading, especially in the hands of a storyteller as s...

In WILDLIFE'S QUIET WAR, Terry Grosz continues to chronicle his remarkable career defending America's voiceless wild creatures. Since his first day...

Reducere. DescriptionBetween the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty milli...

Americans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government--especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Sod...

Reducere. In Japanese, the word for "foreign country" means "outnation." But to many Americans and Japanese, it is Japan itself, despite its increasing influ...

Reducere. An inspiring picture book biography about the inimitable Fred Rogers, beloved creator and star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Fred Rogers was a qu...

Reducere. From New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende, "a magical and sweeping" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) love story and multigenerationa...

Reducere. Neighborhoods don't just happen. With unprecedented detail, local historian Henry Stewart (True Crime Bay Ridge) reveals how a quiet Dutch farming ...

Reducere. Father Augustus Tolton was the first identified black American ordained to the priesthood in the United States. He was born into slavery and escape...

DescriptionIn Foreclosed, Christopher K. Odinet gives voice to the stories of homeowners that have been neglected, particularly those facing forecl...

Reducere. "One must go back to All Quiet on the Western Front to find another novel as charged as this one!" -- Philadelphia InquirerNATIONAL BESTSELLER They...

Reducere. In this engaging narrative, author JD Chandler crafts a people's history of Portland, Oregon, sharing the lesser-known stories of individuals who s...

Reducere. From the end of the Great War until the onslaught of the Great Depression, Americans had a good time, and nowhere was that more true than in Bar Ha...

Reducere. The year is 1861. The American Civil War has just begun, and London arms dealer Daniel Alberton is becoming a very wealthy man. His quiet dinner pa...

Reducere. Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how "taking a knee" triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriter"The Kaepernic...

Reducere. Governments everywhere are undergoing a quiet and profound revolution: they're getting simpler, more cost-effective, and focused on improved outcom...

Reducere. Ring Lardner first burst upon the literary scene with his greatest popular success, "You Know Me Al." A sportswriter by trade, Lardner had a superb...

Reducere. DescriptionIn secular mainstream America, meditation has become as ubiquitous as yoga. (Americans spend an estimated $2.5 billion annually on yoga ...

Reducere. Patrick D. Smith, award-winning author of A Land Remembered, Forever Island, and other classic novels about Mississippi and Florida, wrote The Begi...

Reducere. DescriptionA look at the history of Tassajara Hot Springs, for millennia used by Native Americans who went there to cure their ills. In the 1800s t...

Reducere. There's something growing deep in the old Angel Mine - Something the Native Americans warned us about - And now it's rising again.Mitch Taylor, ex-...