Vanderbilt

How history was saved in seventeenth-century Mexico

Reducere. A manufactured and pre-programmed serial killer; a suicidal robot; a romantic necrophiliac; and an archaeologist who feeds the perverse desires of ...

Reducere. An elegant, witty, frank, touching, and deeply personal account of the loves both great and fleeting in the life of one of America's most celebrate...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the face of authoritarian, divisive trends and multiplying crises, when politics-as-usual is stymied, Awakening Democracy through Pub...

Reducere. Named One of the "Best Art Books of 2018" by the New York Times Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death--and at a time when race relations...

Reducere. DescriptionThe five 'Titans of Industry' discussed in this series are, without a doubt, the most influential and impactful men in American history....

Reducere. A new edition of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan's memoir--the story of the "real" Lady Grantham of Downton AbbeyConsuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautifu...

Reducere. In the harsh winter of 1779, as the leader of a flotilla of settlers, John Donelson loaded his family and thirty slaves into a forty-foot flatboat ...

Reducere. After its initial publication in 1993, Mary A. Bufwack and Robert K. Oermann's Finding Her Voice: The Saga of Women in Country Music quickly became...

Reducere. Cornelius Vanderbilt I had no illusions about his life. He didn't start out with grand plans and ungodly greed. He merely stepped in this world one...

Reducere. In these personal reflections on his thirty years of clinical work with victims of genocide, torture, and abuse in the United States, Cambodia, Bos...

Reducere. Blues Hall of Fame Inductee--Named a "Classic of Blues Literature" by the Blues Foundation, 2019 This remarkable book recovers three invaluable per...

Forensic science provides information and data behind the circumstances of a particular death, but it is culture that provides death with meaning. ...

Evaluates the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco d...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes the business magnates' quotes about life and work *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Th...

Out of a slave rebellion, Haiti was forged as an independent nation. This fact, in and of itself, should have been enough to perpetuate an image of...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes the business magnates' quotes about life and work *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Th...

Reducere. When Consuelo Vanderbilt's grandfather died, he was the richest man in America. Her father soon started to spend the family fortune, enthusiastical...

On a bright October morning in 1904, thousands of people flocked to Nassau County on rural Long Island to witness the first international motor spo...

Reducere. The New Yorker called him, "probably the richest and most famous private chef in the world, " and there is every reason to believe that Mrs. Twombl...

Reducere. Coup is the behind-the-scenes story of an abrupt political transition, unprecedented in US history. Based on 163 interviews, Hunt describes how col...