Wild Ride: The Rise and Fall of Calumet Farm Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty, Paperback - Ann Hagedorn Auerbach

Reducere. An award-winning writer chronicles the tragic story behind the downfall of horse racing's crown jewel.Founded in 1924 by Chicago mogul William Monr...

Reducere. In 1853, a young American arrived in the new colony of Victoria hoping to make his fortune from the world's greatest gold rush. He soon realised wh...

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

Reducere. Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fenc...

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. DescriptionBased on unprecedented access to the Chandler dynasty, the acclaimed story of a media mogul extraordinaire--"thoroughly reported and eng...

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. The "golden age of Islam" in the eighth and ninth centuries was as significant to world history as the Roman Empire was in the first and second cen...

In the late eighteenth century, Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari wrote an account of religious and political conflicts in the Tarim Basin, part of present-...

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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. 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...

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...

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 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...

Fresh off of X-MEN: DEADLY GENESIS, Ed Brubaker (CAPTAIN AMERICA) takes the helm of Marvel's mighty mutants! And his incredible saga won't just aff...

Reducere. Binga is the definitive full-length biography of Jesse Binga, the first black banker in Chicago. Born into a large family in Detroit, Binga arrived...

Reducere. In How Markets Fail, veteran New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy offers a provocative take on the misguided economic thinking that produced the 20...

When Batman alone isn't strong enough to save the world...could a team of heroes-in-training help? Batman: Detective Comics Omnibus collects togeth...

The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee, a writer and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture--at a steep personal...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Abraham RiesmanIllustration(s): 8-PG 4C InsertNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 133 x...

Reducere. High White Notes is a critical examination of the writing of Hunter S. Thompson. It is arranged biographically in order to connect life events with...

The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 - John Darwin

The compelling story of what really happened inside the famous prison walls of the Narcotic Farm.Illustrations: 141 b&w photos

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

Reducere. A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America's most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the US Constitution was amended to...

"Ancient Rome" is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Focusing on six turning points in Roman history, Simon Baker's absorbi...

DescriptionHaving a good, stable job used to be the bedrock of the American Dream. Not anymore. In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick ...