The Underboss: The Rise and Fall of a Mafia Family, Paperback - Gerard O'Neill

Reducere. On February 26, 1986, Mafia underboss Gennaro Angiulo was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to forty-five years in prison. In The Underboss, ...

Reducere. In the early 1990s, Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and his brother, Terry "Southwest T, " rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the larg...

DANDYISM. The Rise and Fall of a Concept - Petru Stefan Ionescu

DescriptionMany people know about Wessex, the "Last Kingdom" of the Anglo-Saxons in defense against the Northmen, But another kingdom, Mercia, once...

New B-format paperback - The extraordinary history of Mercia and its rulers from the seventh century to 1066. Once the supreme Anglo-Saxon kingdom,...

Reducere. Marc Bolan was the very first superstar of the Seventies. As the seductive focus of "T Rex", he revelled in fame and fortune, released a string of ...

Reducere. Offering a rarely seen female perspective on gang life, this raw and powerful memoir tells not only of one woman s struggle to survive the streets ...

The rise and fall of an international drug ring: a thrilling international true crime adventure from the bestselling author of GANGS

Code 3: The Rise & Fall of a Private Ambulance Empire proves that people from all walks of life are attracted to the strange realm that is Emergenc...

On December 30, 2019, Carlos Ghosn became the most famous fugitive on the planet when the former chairman of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Martyn RadyNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 28Cover type: Paperback / softb...

Genoa has an incredible story to tell. It rose from an obscurity imposed by its harsh geography to become a merchant-pirate superpower that helped ...

The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger beca...

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. Ex-priest Stephen H. Donnelly's memoir, A Saint and a Sinner, is an immersive experience into the world of a Catholic priest and a brutally honest ...

Reducere. The True Story Behind The Hit Film 'Casino' From An 'Enforcer' Who Lived It Tony Spilotro was the Mob's man in Las Vegas. A feared enforcer, the bo...

Reducere. The "engrossing" (Wall Street Journal) story of the biggest con in wine history In 2002, Rudy Kurniawan, an unknown twentysomething, burst into the...

DescriptionPaul Kriwaczek begins this illuminating and immensely pleasurable chronicle of Yiddish civilization during the Roman empire, when Jewish...

The Bright Young People were one of the most extraordinary youth cults in British history. A pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blu...

Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar - Barry Eichengreen

Reducere. One of the fabled Channel Islands of Southern California, Santa Cruz was once the largest privately owned island off the coast of the continental U...

Reducere. 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 ...

The Maximalist considers Tony O'Reilly's life and influence, exploring the events and personalities behind his decline from a position of enormous ...

Reducere. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On ...

Ten-year-old Persimmony Smudge lives a boring life on the Island in the Middle of Everything, but she longs for adventure. And she soon gets it whe...

Reducere. Theda Bars's remarkable life as told by Eve Golden's heartfelt account is short of discovering a means of traveling through time and as close as we...

Reducere. With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized ...

The Irish experience of Christianity has never been simple or uncomplicated. Here, Crawford Gribben describes the ancient emergence, long dominance...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chr...

Publisher: Mortons Media GroupAuthor(s): Nick PiggottNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 217 x 304 x 23Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

Eminent Corporations. The Rise and Fall of the Great British Corporation - Andrew Simms, David Boyle

A brilliant new biography of Boris Johnson from his best biographer, Andrew GimsonPublisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Andrew GimsonIllustrati...

SIX STARRED REVIEWS Discover the dark side of Charles Lindbergh--one of America's most celebrated heroes and complicated men--in this riveting biog...

Reducere. On March 16, 2008, Alan Greenberg, former CEO and current chairman of the executive committee of Bear Stearns, found himself in the company's offic...

In 1851 Isaac Singer brought onto the market the first practical sewing machine in history. He had combined all the ideas that had gone before to m...

Reducere. It's 1990 and the World Wide Web is making its way into homes all across the world. Everyone wants in on the action, including Charles - a PhD stud...

A biography chronicling the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi. Lugosi, the tragic life story of one of horror's ...

The story of how the dollar rose to global dominance in the twentieth century - and an assessment of what the future holds for the world's most imp...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Carol LeonnigNumber of pages: 560Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 235 x 43Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth, the eminent foreign po...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chr...

Reducere. The explosive story of the illegal gold trade from South America, and the three Miami businessmen who got rich on it--until it all came crashing do...

A fascinating photographic account of the heyday of the minibus looks back at the rise and fall of the minibus in British bus services.Publisher: A...

The Rise and Fall of The British Press present a clinical and provocative overview at the past, present and immediate future of the printed newspap...

"It would be hard to write a dull book on Light-Horse Harry, and Mr. Cole's is far from it.... The book] contains passages of considerable eloquenc...

Reducere. Tigranes the Great ruled the Kingdom of Armenia from 95 to 55 BC. He formed a close alliance with Mithridates VI, Eupator and King of Pontus, to se...

The story of Roundway's rise and fall, the people who built and owned it, lived and worked there, and the house's eventual partial demolition in 1954.

The Last Giants explores the rapid decline of one of the world's favourite animals and the measures required to halt their extinction, through Levi...