Yankees 1936-39, Baseball's Greatest Dynasty: Lou Gehrig, Joe Dimaggio and the Birth of a New Era, Hardcover

Reducere. An entertaining read about the greatest baseball team, the 1927 New York Yankees, who beat up on American League rivals during the regular season a...

DescriptionThis book gives an overview of key themes domestically and internationally from the 19th Communist Party Congress held in Beijing in Oct...

Publisher: Temple Lodge PublishingAuthor(s): Adalbert Graf Von KeyserlingkIllustration(s): IllustrationsTranslator: John M. WoodNumber of pages: 24...

When the ancient Greeks saw deposits of giant fossils, they knew they had discovered the battle fields where the gods had vanquished the Titans. Wh...

Encompassing both tragedy and humour, it brings immediacy and intimacy to a moment of deep historical transformation - with consequences that echo ...

The characters who defined the inter-war years are considered in terms of the connections between them, including stories about the inter-war traje...

Reducere. Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right?...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Bruno MacaesNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 354 x 327 x 24Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. Lou Gehrig's perseverance is legendary. During fourteen years as a first baseman for the New York Yankees, he played in a record 2, 130 consecutive...

Reducere. Author Claude "Paradise" Gray was raised in the South Bronx. He was cofounder of the X Clan, whose 1990 album To the East, Blackwards is an Afrocen...

Reducere. Plasat in perioada antebelica din Sud, Nasterea Unei Natiuni il urmareste pe Nat Turner (Nate Parker), un sclav predicator autodidact, al carui pro...

Reducere. In this gripping historical novel, Dick Lehr tells the story of one protester in particular: Monroe Trotter, a black journalist who fought passiona...

Reducere. 2020 SABR Seymour Medal 2019 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year Buck O'Neil once described him as "Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker...

Reducere. The real story behind a very private American fashion icon--Lilly PulitzerToday, Lilly Pulitzer's iconic brand of clean-cut, vibrantly printed clot...

Reducere. Lou Gehrig's perseverance is legendary. During fourteen years as a first baseman for the New York Yankees, he played in a record 2, 130 consecutive...

Publisher: Triumph BooksAuthor(s): Mark FeinsandNumber of pages: 256Collection: The FranchisePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 150 x 223 x 38Cover ...

Contributor(s): Author: Joanne SouzaAuthor: Paul M. BinghamA new biological theory of human uniqueness and theory of everything based in human evol...

With 2018 marking 200 years since }Frankenstein{'s first publication, Levy provides an engrossing insight into the fascinating world of science in ...

Reducere. SummaryWe spend most of our lives in buildings and see new ones being created around us all the time. But the number of people and disciplines invo...

DescriptionAlmost Yankees is a poignant and nostalgic narrative of the lives and travails of Minor League Baseball, focusing on the 1981 championsh...

Reducere. So begins The Birth of a Universe, a profound exegesis by Apabyan Tew, a K'iche Maya midwife and daykeeper. We are bound to the ancient 260-day May...

Reducere. Winner of the SABR Seymour MedalCasey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year by Spitball Magazine Winner of SABR's Larry Ritter and Robert Peters...

DescriptionHarry Caray is one of the most famous and beloved sports broadcasters of all time, with a career that lasted over 50 years. Always a bas...

Reducere. Calling all Yankees fans The Ultimate New York Yankees Trivia Book is a staple for anyone who loves baseball, sports trivia, and the Bronx Bombers....

'A delightful and utterly fascinating work of intellectual history.' - Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with EinsteinIllustrations: 16 pages full...

Reducere. What was the "Classical Revolution" in Greek art? What were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This book introduces students to these qu...

The techniques of early astrology are shown to have been at the foundation of science in this reclaiming of the alleged pseudoscience's value acros...

This study is devoted to the work of two early British filmmakers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the films that they made around 19...

Anna Held was America's most popular musical comedy star during the two decades preceding World War I. In the colorful world of New York theater du...

DescriptionOver one hundred years since it premiered on cinema screens, D. W. Griffith's controversial photoplay The Birth of a Nation continues to...

DescriptionDating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from pop...

Reducere. In 1942, Pete Reiser was on the road to baseball superstardom. Then, he crashed into a wall - an unpadded, concrete outfield wall as tried to make ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard Ben CramerJoe DiMaggio was, at every turn, one man we could look at who made us feel good. In the hard-knuckled thi...

Reducere. "Kagan, faithful to his lifelong fascination with Pericles . . . gives us an accessible and invaluable account of his life and deeds."--Allan Bloom...

The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The scuba-d...

Reducere. DescriptionLast Ride of the Iron Horse tells the tale of Lou Gehrig's final year in the Yankee lineup, as he dealt with early effects of the paraly...

While the birth of global economic governance is conventionally dated to the end of World War II, Jamie Martin shows how its roots lie in World War...

Reducere. Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding moun...

Reducere. DescriptionUntil the sixteenth century, people believed in magic as a way of explaining how the world worked. Indeed Queen Elizabeth I had a court ...

The story behind the origins of Anna Karenina and the turbulent life and times of Leo Tolstoy.Illustrations: 16 pages of B&W photographs

Late in AD 937, four armies met in a place called Brunanburh. On one side stood the shield-wall of the expanding kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons. On th...

Reducere. Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind's essential link to the animal world. --The Ne...

Reducere. When was the last time you wrote a letter? Not a text or a tweet but a pen-to-paper or hand-typed message of gratitude, reflection, or expression o...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book Named a best book of the year by Amazon, Wall Street Journal...

DescriptionA illustrated biographical tale that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling's rise to fame in the Golden Age of Television, and his...