There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America, Hardcover - Amy Argetsinger

A Washington Post Style editor's fascinating and irresistible look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary. The sas...

Reducere. On the day the Nazis march down the rue de Belleville, fourteen-year-old Maral Pegorian is living with her family in Paris, where, like many other ...

Reducere. The success of books such as Elaine Pagels's Gnostic Gospels and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code proves beyond a doubt that there is a tremendous thirst ...

Ninjutsu is the most renowned and misunderstood of all martial arts. The long history of ninjutstu is often murky; surrounded by mystery and legend...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking and now famous work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling tour of our world's secret histories. Starting from a dangerous pr...

Reducere. "Jessi Kirby's books just keep getting better and better, and The Secret History of Us is her best yet. It beautifully touches on all the most impo...

Reducere. A history that is equal parts science and mythology, Sacred Sites offers a rare and poetic vision of a world composed of dynamic natural forces and...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Linda AlchinMany nursery rhymes are believed to be associated with actual events in history, and include references to murd...

Reducere. In Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry, Clinton Heylin examines the entire modern history of this underground culture: from...

Reducere. Type is the bridge between writer and reader, between thought and understanding. Type is the message bearer: an art-form that impinges upon every l...

The Secret History of the New World Order outlines the historical evolution of a secret organization which has the final goal of creating a planeta...

Reducere. The six stories in Andrew Boden's debut collection comprise a reinvented history of the town of Cranbrook, British Columbia, from its birth in the ...

The Raphael Trail. The Secret History of One of the World's Most Precious Works of Art - Joanna Pitman

The defining experience of author's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and ...

Description'She wanted to be thinner. She found a grey hair. She felt the eyes of others...' Take a journey through contemporary womanhood with Ber...

A personal investigation into the history that surrounds us, from the historian and award-winning author of The Hidden WaysPublisher: Canongate Boo...

Reducere. From the loremaster who brought us THE SECRET HISTORY OF GIANTS comes an intriguing new chronicle revealing the mysterious ways of merfolk. Since a...

The sometimes shocking, always fascinating history of brainwashing, from the bestselling author of COCAINE

Reducere. The story of the Sackler Dynasty, Purdue Pharma, and their involvement in the opioid crisis that has created millions of addicts, even as it genera...

Reducere. In The Yamato Dynasty, Sterling Seagrave, who divulged the secrets of Mao Tse-tung and the ruthlessness of Chiang Kai-shek in the New York Times be...

Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trouser...

Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trouser...

Reducere. A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose...

The story of the Sackler dynasty, their company Purdue Pharma, its bestselling drug OxyContin, their immensely generous philanthropy and their invo...

An exhilarating dive into the secret history of humankind's race to the moon, from acclaimed author Amy Cherrix. This fascinating and immersive rea...

Reducere. Meet Popsy, the new chick in the neighborcoop, in this new funny farm book for kids Another wonderful adventure on Critter Creek Farm, an animal fa...

From the loremaster who brought us THE SECRET HISTORY OF GIANTS comes an intriguing new chronicle revealing the mysterious ways of merfolk. Since a...

Reveals evidence of visionary plants in Christianity and the life of Jesus found in medieval art and biblical scripture--hidden in plain sight for ...

An exploration of the historical origins of the "witches' ointment" and medieval hallucinogenic drug practices based on the earliest sources - Deta...

The Secret History of the Gnostics offers long-awaited illumination on the mystical movement that teaches 'gnosis' - knowledge of God as opposed to...

Tells the story of the world's elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all. In this title, the author himself a forme...

A biography of Eve Babitz, who started out as an icon on art and sex in the 1960s and went on to design album covers and write seven books.

The Secret History of Here is the story of a single place, a farm in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat's farm now stands has ...