The Story of Inventions

Reducere. Journey through the history of the world, one day at a time!If you ever wondered what happened on your birthday 100 years ago, or on Christmas in t...

Reducere. Vito "Tutuc" Cellini went from street gangster to soldier to resistance fighter to secret agent - all before he was 21 years of age. In World War T...

Reducere. John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the "Rise of the West" that assume that Europeans have pioneered their own d...

Reducere. Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Autho...

Delve into the story of science - from astronomy and biology to geology and mathematics - with this illustrated guide to the great scientists, disc...

Discover how humans created their world from the objects they left behind - from the US Constitution to the first iPhone - in DK's latest history b...

Reducere. In 2009, the legendary Les Paul passed away at the age of 94. In celebration of his life, this book, capturing Paul's own reflections on his remark...

Reducere. The story begins when a mysterious sea monster, theorized by some to be a giant narwhal, is sighted by ships of several nations; an ocean liner is ...

Reducere. Vito "Tutuc" Cellini went from street gangster to soldier to resistance fighter to secret agent - all before he was 21 years of age. In World War T...

Reducere. The English language arrived in Australia with the first motley bunch of European settlers on January 26, 1788. Today there is a distinctive Austra...

The definitive collection of a twentieth-century master of the short story, whose unforgettable inventions revolutionized the form The short storie...

Reducere. DescriptionShahnameh is a lengthy epic poem which vividly intertwines the mythical and historical history of Persia, thereby enchanting and impress...

DescriptionThis engaging book places Leonardo da Vinci's scientific achievements within the wider context of the rapid development that occurred du...

Reducere. Delve into the story of science - from astronomy and biology to geology and mathematics - with this illustrated guide to the great scientists, disc...

Reducere. DescriptionThroughout his life, Atlanta resident George W. Wray Jr. (1936-2004) built a collection of more than six hundred of the rarest Confedera...

Reducere. History tells the story of mankind from prehistory to the present day using a unique visual approach, filled with timelines, images of artifacts, p...

Reducere. What would art and man be without a story? And what would the 19th century be without the upheavals and the achievements that shaped it? The more t...