The Ruins, Paperback

In this classic picture book featuring evocative illustrations of the effects of the London Blitz, Ruby rediscovers her attachment to her father up...

}Grave Of The Fireflies{ author Akiyuki Nosaka looks back over the harrowing spectacles he witnessed during a childhood in wartime Kobe, emphasisin...

Publisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Phoebe WynnePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 36Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lectu...

The author of The Yellow Birds explores the nature of random violence and the fragility and preciousness of life in relation to the American Civil ...

Truth and lies.Captain Jamie Callahan knows the Metahuman Defense Force frowns on fraternization. For once in his life, he's breaking all the rules...

Knowing Jesus and developing an intimate relationship with him before encountering storms will help us weather them well. The Christian life isn't ...

DescriptionAn extraordinary novel about the ubiquitous mysteries of family, memory and music. London, 2010: Icelandic volcanoes have the city in gr...

Reducere. Set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond, this novel by the award-winning author of The Yellow Birds explores the brutal legacy of...

Reducere. Nothing could hurt worse. But even in the darkness . . . there's hope.The pain of suicide loss is indescribable. It seems beyond survival. Yet with...

Reducere. Dr. Tom More has created a stethoscope of the human spirit. With it, he embarks on an unforgettable odyssey to cure mankind's spiritual flu. This n...

Reducere. Imagine Jeffery Dahmer or Ted Bundy set loose in a war-ravaged city with thousands of places to lurk and legions of easy prey.In the winter of 1945...

Reducere. An ancient tomb is discovered in the ruins of Babylon. The Pope sends Vatican archeologist Fr. Daniel Azar and his best friend, Swiss Guard Luca Ro...

At 22, the war is over for RAF serviceman Harry Leslie Smith -- the now 92-year-old activist and author of the acclaimed Harry's Last Stand -- but ...

Reducere. Paradise in Ruins offers readers a look at the Pacific Theater of World War Two by introducing them to military and naval leaders from both sides o...

Reducere. The international bestselling series with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. alone They have always scared him in the past--the Rangers, with t...

An illustrated examination of Beverly Buchanan's 1981 environmental sculpture, which exists in an ongoing state of ruination. Beverly Buchanan's Ma...

Reducere. My, oh MayaMimi, Papa, Christina, and Grant really get in over ``skulls`` in this Mexican hat dance of a mystery set in the Yucatan Peninsula. When...

Re-issue of a classic book on a fascinating but often overlooked period in the history of the Second World War.

Reducere. What do you do when the one that got away comes back?CarterI thought I was doing right by those Emilia and I both love when I let her go. So why ha...

Re-tells the history of the past 2 centuries from an Asian point of view, showing how a remarkable, disparate group of thinkers, journalists, radic...

One long, hot summer Andy and her friends begin a game that will take their whole lives to play out.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Victoria...

Reducere. Essays examine the way we perceive landscape, the effect of gardens and cities of the past on the landscapes of the present, and the way American a...

Argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is part of a critique of the visions of progress and the hi...

If that list were to fall into the hands of Darth Vader, the Rebel Alliance would lose its most valued support - and possibly the way itself. As an...

Reducere. The ancient site of Tiahuanaco in Bolivia is one of the greatest archaeological mysteries in the world. Some experts date it to 17, 000 years ago, ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Third Reich collapsed around him and the Red Army swamped Berlin. This is the sto...

DescriptionThe Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture fro...

A fresh post-apocalyptic anthology: the end of the world seen through the salvage and ruins. Featuring Emily St John Mandel, Carmen Maria Machado a...

DescriptionThe Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. ...

Reducere. This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa's oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in wh...

Julius Evola's masterful overview of the political and social manifestations of our time, the "age of decline" known to the Hindus as the Kali Yuga...

DescriptionSet against the turbulent backdrop of the near future, The Ruins of Mars opens on the discovery of an ancient city buried under the sand...

Earthquake Children is the first book to examine the origins of modern Japan's infrastructure of resilience. Janet Borland vividly demonstrates tha...

DescriptionKuvira's true nature is revealed, and the Earth Kingdom will feel the consequences Thanks to Commander Guan and Doctor Sheng's brainwash...

DescriptionAcross the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional famil...

Reducere. DescriptionAt over 2, 500 years old, Rome is more than the capital of Italy. It is the center of artistic creativity and a cultural complex that ar...

Reducere. This is your guide into the mysterious world of the Adena Hopewell mound builders, 1000 B.C.-500 A.D. 222 mound and earthworks sites have been phot...

Reducere. DescriptionPuebloan Ruins of the Southwest offers a complete picture of Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundre...

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 ...

Reducere. Hiking New Mexico's Chaco Canyon is a guidebook for informed hikers who want a substantive yet accessible guide to hiking and camping at Chaco Cany...

Reducere. A Financial Times and The Economist Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICTIN...

Reducere. What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that g...

Reducere. Canyon de Chelly; The Story of its Ruins and People, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never for...

The most ambitious and rewarding novel to date by the acclaimed Colombian author

Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins ...

Contemporary educational practices and policies across the world are heeding the calls of Wall Street for more corporate control, privatization, an...

DescriptionAs the seat of Hitler's government, Berlin was the most frequently targeted city in Germany for Allied bombing campaigns during World Wa...

Reducere. War rages between the Confederation and the Union. Shattered fleets watch each other warily across a war torn frontier. Both sides are licking thei...

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 ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Aleksandra PricaIllustration(s): 8 halftonesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 20...

Reducere. How exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-q...

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 ...

What do you get when you mix a novice wizard, a reckless warrior, a sharp-tongued thief, & a saintly cleric? Swords, sorcery, & sarcasm. Glolindir ...

Reducere. Information on 37 archaeological sites in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico.About the Author: Dave Wilson is a longtime journalist and an avid hiker an...

DescriptionWhat will it take to stop a war? King Wu's dreams of peacefully transitioning the Earth Kingdom into a democracy are in danger when Comm...

Reducere. Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the...

Reducere. In Rabbinic Tales of Destruction, Julia Watts Belser examines early Jewish accounts of the Roman conquest of Judea. Faced with stories of sexual vi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anand Vivek TanejaIn the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds ...

An unsparing and revealing portrayal of Somalia, from the Siad Barre decades to Al-Shabaab, seen through the eyes of 'Tarzan', a formidable Mogadis...