The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream - Jason Vuic

Reducere. Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when...

Reducere. DescriptionFor five days in December 1908 the body of Cyrus Teed lay in a bathtub at a beach house just south of Fort Myers, Florida. His followers...

Insatiable. Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream - Jason Fagone

The epic story of London's major railway stations, by Britain's bestselling transport historian.Illustrations: 1x8pp colour plates, 1x8pp b/w plate...

The epic story of London's major railway stations, by Britain's bestselling transport historian.Publisher: Atlantic BooksAuthor(s): Christian Wolma...

Reducere. "A gutsy success story" (The New York Times Book Review) about one tenacious woman's journey to escape rural poverty and create a billion-dollar fa...

Reducere. Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's ...

The incredible, rollicking, rags-to-riches story of Rocky Aoki, the prodigiously successful businessman and expert sportsman who founded the multim...

Reducere. This classic guide to homesteading is based on solid, practical techniques that remain useful to everyone who wants to learn country skills and inc...

Reducere. Friday Night Lights meets The Bad News Bears in "a brisk, warmhearted reminder of how professional sports can occasionally reach stunning unprofess...

Reducere. The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and American...

Publisher: Greystone Books, CanadaAuthor(s): Bernd BrunnerIllustration(s): 80 illustrations, 10 b&w photos, 10 color photosTranslator: Lori LantzNu...

Reducere. During the early 1970s, the nation's turbulence was keenly reflected in Austin's kaleidoscopic cultural movements, particularly in the city's progr...

Reducere. "I have a dream." When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Lut...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): James CurranIllustration(s): 8 pages colour photo insertNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Winner of the Littleton-Griswold PrizeWinner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson AwardWinner of the Order of the Coif AwardWinner of the David J. Langum Sr....

Reducere. "This path-breaking book brilliantly explains the explosive growth of Florida from 2.7 million inhabitants in 1950 to 15.9 million in 2000. It focu...

Michael Edelstein was headstrong and independent, a self-described mamzer. He was 10 years old when he rolled under barbed wire and escaped the rou...

Reducere. Florida's famous swamps--from the Everglades to Mosquito Lagoon to Tate's Hell--serve as fitting backdrops for these chilling original stories. May...

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejec...

Reducere. Today the salary cap is an NBA institution, something fans take for granted as part of the fabric of the league or an obstacle to their favorite te...

DescriptionFor many, "going back to the land" brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s-hippie communes and the Summer of Love, The Whole Earth Catalog an...

DescriptionBeginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. ...

Reducere. DescriptionAll academics need to write, but many struggle to finish their dissertations, articles, books, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work ...

Entrepreneurs, business owners, investors: here is the rare, no-nonsense advice you haven't heard---straight from Paychex founder and billionaire p...

DescriptionHow the rise of the car, the symbol of American personal freedom, inadvertently led to ever more intrusive policing--with disastrous con...

Reducere. "In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester's previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, o...

Reducere. "In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester's previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, o...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Simon WinchesterNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 202 x 31Cover type: PaperbackRedesco...

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Amber Tambourine is a sad, lonely little girl who has moved far away from her friends. Then one day, she and her doggies, Bandit and Roxy, encounte...

Reducere. A helpful compendium of tips and tricks to land the perfect job In The Big Book of Job-Hunting Hacks, experienced job-hunting professionals offer d...

Description Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar...

DescriptionThe generational and social thinking changes that caused an unprecedented shift toward support for gay marriage How did gay marriage--so...

Reducere. In 2018 we co-authored The Seller's Challenge: How Top Performers Master 10 Deal Killing Obstacles in B2B Sales. Our motive in writing that book wa...

Manufacturing Decline argues that antigovernment conservatives capitalized on-and perpetuated-Rust Belt cities' misfortunes by stoking racial resen...

Reducere. DescriptionImagine that a natural disaster results in a blackout lasting not days, but weeks. Imagine a cyber attack by a terrorist group or rouge ...

Reducere. A New York Times BestsellerFor almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with t...

Reducere. From the same creative team that brought you The Night The World Turned Royal Blue comes the long awaited sequel thirty years in the making The Yea...

Reducere. "Shows how colonialism and slavery created sustained critiques of American capitalism and created the conditions for chronic resistance. These comm...

Reducere. "On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites are inherently ""unequal"" and,...

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Reducere. "Hype is the best kind of nonfiction: juicy, sharp, savage and wildly entertaining, with a celebrity behaving badly on every page. What more could ...