White Pine: American History and the Tree That Made a Nation, Paperback

Now filmed as INVICTUS directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL S...

Reducere. A celebration of American history through the music that helped to shape a nation, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and country music legend Ti...

Reducere. The American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200...

Reducere. From a towering tree, one of California's preeminent naturalists unspools a history that echoes across generations and continents. Former park rang...

Leading historians select and describe the 20 most significant events in British History.

The first book to tell the history of Britain through its headwearIllustrations: 120 Illustrations, unspecified

Reducere. From White Shield to Washington DC, new Indian wars are being fought by Ivy League-trained lawyers called Coyote Warriors--among them a Mandan/Hida...

DescriptionOn December 18, 1867, the Buffalo and Erie Railroad's eastbound New York Express derailed as it approached the high truss bridge over Bi...

Reducere. The American Gospel literally, the good news about America is that religion shapes our public life without controlling it. In this vivid book, New ...

Reducere. From a master historian comes an astonishing chronicle of life in medieval Europe and the battle that altered the course of an empire. Although alm...

Publisher: Lomond BooksAuthor(s): David RossIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 406Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 197 x 137 x 26Cover...

Reducere. American history is full of many great men and women who changed the course of the United States and even the world. They are rightfully considered...

A timely and vivid look at Scotland's long and difficult road to nationhood, re-exploring some cherished myths and unearthing a wealth of fascinati...

Reducere. DescriptionLust for Glory: An Epic Story of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation is a concise, reader friendly depiction of the "Her...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Rich BaldozaNumber of pages: 343Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 204 x 32Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. The book demonstrates love, friendship, and teamwork between a tree who wishes to see the world and the forest animals who want to help make her dr...

Reducere. Although frequently overlooked between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 tested a rising generation of American leaders; u...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of 1996It was in tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to rin...

Stuart Kelly's biography of Sir Walter Scott defies classification in terms of genre. Rather than a literary biography, or critical study, it is a ...

Reducere. This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Linda VillarosaNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 234 x 23Cover type: Paperback /...

Reducere. DescriptionStarting with the first Viking explorations and continuing to the present day, The Everything American History Book, 2nd Edition takes y...

Reducere. This captivating biography describes Henry VIII's love affairs and life at the English Court together with his political wranglings, military campa...

Reducere. "Delightful and discerning . . . In this evocative study a remarkable woman, creator of the 'first lady' role, comes vividly to life."--The New Yor...

Reducere. Although we often think of fables as intended for the enlightenment and entertainment of children, here is one that adults will want to read. Mary ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tal McTheniaAuthor: Margaret Dunbar CutrightThe spellbinding story of one of the most celebrated kidnapping cases in Americ...

Reducere. The new winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, granted by the National Poetry Series, is the author's impressionistic homage to his hometown of Colima...

Reducere. A visit from the President of the United States always brings with it excitement. In Maine, perhaps part of that excitement stems from the fact tha...

From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan--speechwriter and senior adviser to Pres...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Jack P. GreeneIn our own native land, in defence of the freedom that is our birth-right, and which we ever enjoyed till the...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizNumber of pages: 392Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 218 x 30Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. Whether dotting the coastline, guarding the banks of the Kennebec or defending the Canadian border, Maine's many forts have sheltered its towns and...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Elizabeth HintonNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 34Cover type: Paper...

What has Ireland really been talking about for the last forty years? Those iconic moments, controversies and unexpected fads that we just could not...

Reducere. Maine is well known as a land of fresh air and clean water, as the home of L.L. Bean and as one of the most popular camping and outdoor recreation ...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Ken CuthbertsonNumber of pages: 408Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 140 x 214 x 29Cover type: PaperbackRedescop...

Reducere. In this revealing social history, one remarkable White House dinner shines a powerful light on race, politics, and the lives and legacies of Theodo...

DescriptionThe extraordinary story of how an outsider candidate--an unknown technocrat and economics minister on the fringes of French politics--ma...

Reducere. In 1893 a small group of white planters and missionary descendants backed by the United States overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai'i and established a g...

Reducere. Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him, Paperback

This book offers a history of modern Britain since the late 1970s. Twelve chapters take as their starting-point one particularly important day in r...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Alex von TunzelmannNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 216 x 32Cover type: HardbackRedes...

Reducere. An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American historyIn May 1866, just a year after the Civil Wa...

From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes an eye-opening journey through American history that unearths and debunks the myths we'v...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Justin TinsleyNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 236 x 36Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farme...

From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of }The Frock-Coated Communist{ and leading UK politician, this book presents a new approach to Britain's ...

Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more c...

Reducere. The Cherokee Nation is one of the largest and most important of all the American Indian tribes. The first history of the Cherokees to appear in ove...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Jason BaileyNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 236 x 283 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecu...