A Child of Christian Blood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 (1) A Jewish factory worker is falsely accused of ritually murdering a Christian boy in Russia in 1911, and his trial becomes an international cause célèbre. On March 20, ... Verifica stoc
History of Britain Book IV History of Britain ♡ 14 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 Povestind povestea istoriei britanice într-o narațiune cronologică simplă, „A History of Britain” acoperă matricea istoriei britanice, inclusiv evenimentele de peste măr...
Bill of the Century ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically
Stonehouse ♡ 8 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 This is the definitive biography of John Stonehouse, Labour cabinet minister and Privy counsellor, spy for the Czech State Security (StB), and convicted fraudster. Stoneh...
Peace in the Making ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Last Man Out ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 The author of Praying for Sheetrock retells the fantastic story of how an incredibly lucky group of miners managed to live through the worst mining
More Noble Than War ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 By turns tragic and hopeful, the history of Israel and Palestine through the lens of the world's most popular sport. Football has never been shy
From Eton Manor to the Olympics : More Lea Valley Secrets Revealed ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 With a wealth of information regarding the Lea Valley's history, this guide provides a special emphasis on the regions past, and forthcoming 2012, Olympic connecti...
My Thoughts Be Bloody ♡ 15 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 My Thoughts Be Bloody, a sweeping family saga, revives an extraordinary figure whose name has been missing, until now, from the story of President Lincoln’s
How To Win a Roman Chariot Race ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Profesorul de limbi clasice de la Oxford, Jane Hood, propune o incursiune în istoria, cultura, literatura, mitologia și filozofia Greciei antice, Romei și Egiptului. Hoo...
Showers Brothers Furniture Company ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Când familia Showers a sosit în Bloomington, Indiana, calea ferată venise de curând în oraș și o universitate modestă se lupta să supraviețuiască. După ce
1915 The First World War in Photographs: Setbacks & Failures ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 The Western Front was in stalemate, with the troops entrenched and little in the way of advance or retreat to counter the thousands of lives
A Safe Haven ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Pe 14 mai 1948, sub conducerea președintelui Harry S. Truman, Statele Unite au devenit prima națiune care a recunoscut Statul Israel -- la doar câteva
The Value of Worthless Lives ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 There are many good books on Italian immigration to the United States, including success biographies, field researches and historical investigations. What is lacking howe...
Thrift ♡ 10 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 'In this lively and engaging book, Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of a national movement that promoted an amalgam of values and practices ranging
Arena of Ambition ♡ 10 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Older than fourteen colleges and the Boat Race, the Cambridge Union has been an important part of university life at Cambridge since its foundation in
Understanding Thomas Jefferson ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Recent biographies of Thomas Jefferson have stressed the sphinxlike puzzles of his character—famous champion of freedom yet lifelong slaveholder, foe of miscegenation ye...
The Early Art of Coventry, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, and Lesser Sites in Warwickshire ♡ 14 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 The study of the early art of England can be frustrating for scholars, as the destruction by iconoclasm and neglect was very thorough in certain
Game Change : Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Povestea captivantă din interiorul alegerilor prezidențiale din 2008, scrisă de doi dintre cei mai buni reporteri politici din țară. 'Este una dintre cele mai bune
1919 A Land Fit for Heroes : Britain at Peace ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 The year 1919 has often been ignored in historians' dizzy haste to enter the world of the Roaring Twenties but it was a year of
A New Birth of Freedom ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 The book presents a powerful case for reviewing and renewing the basis of our most important human rights.
A Brief History of The British Army ♡ 15 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken
Fandango at the Wall ♡ 10 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 It's a history that has involved periods of great friendship with robust trade and loose immigration policies. But the US-Mexican relationship has also been beset
Three Days at the Brink : Young Readers' Edition ♡ 14 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 This young readers' edition from New York Times bestselling author and Fox News anchor Bret Baier dives into the first of the secret World War
Two Old French Satires on the power of the Keys ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 These thirteenth-century French comic texts, L'Escommeniement au lecheor and Le Pardon de foutre, are two of the earliest satires on the Church's power to 'loosen
Pacific Futures ♡ 10 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 The Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms, which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work undertaken in the discipline. But
Establishment and Meritocracy ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Like so many of the postwar generation in Britain, Peter Hennessy climbed the ladders of opportunity set up by the 1944 Education Act designed to
Plowed Under ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 During the Great Depression, with thousands on bread lines, farmers were instructed by the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act to produce less food in order
Facts, Legends & Mysteries: Pyramids of Giza ♡ 15 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 Piramidele din Giza sunt singura din cele Șapte Minuni ale Lumii care a rezistat tipului. Sfidând secolele, aceste monumente funerare gigantice construite cu mai mult
Grant's Final Victory ♡ 18 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.95/5 Shortly after losing all of his wealth in a terrible 1884 swindle, Ulysses S. Grant learned he had terminal throat and mouth cancer. Destitute and
Deepfakes ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Everything you need to know about 'deep fake' image manipulation and what could become the biggest information and communications meltdown in world history. In a
Liberty and Conscience ♡ 9 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans have long struggled to reconcile their
After Vietnam ♡ 10 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Efforts to understand the impact of the Vietnam War on America began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. In After
Reader's Digest and The Royals : A Jubilee Celebration of the British Royal Family ♡ 10 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 The Reader’s Digest Magazine has a long and close association with the Royal Family. This book, reproduced from the magazine archives, features the best of
Telling Tales ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Anita Leslie (1914-85), best known for the popular biographies of her extraordinary relatives, including Jennie Churchill (Winston's mother) and sculptor Clare Sheridan, ...
Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture ♡ 8 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Focusing on portrayals of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Stalin's Russia in U.S. films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches, and other texts...
Full Steam Ahead ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Full Steam Ahead reveals how the world we live in today is entirely shaped by the rail network, charting the glorious evolution of rail transportation
A Higher Form of Killing ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Between April 22 and May 31, 1915, Western civilization was shocked. World War I was already appalling in its brutality, but until then it had
Women warriors for Allah ♡ 10 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Dutch investigative journalists Janny Groen and Annieke Kranenberg offer an indispensable corrective to the conventional view that Muslim women in jihad are either pacifi...
Scotland Vs England ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 For 300 years, Scotland and England have stood together, united in glorious kinship. This text is full of angry jibes and gentle jokes between the
An American Body-politic ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 A reflection on the metaphor of the body politic throughout American history
A Republic in Time ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
Aisne 1914 ♡ 10 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 The 1914 Battle of the Aisne, officially from 12 – 15 September, came about as a result of the German retirement from the Battle of
Lusitania : The Cultural History of a Catastrophe ♡ 14 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast. Nearly 1,200 people, including
Conservatism ♡ 14 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 Roger Scruton looks at the central ideas of conservatism over the centuries. He examines conservative thinking on civil society, the rule of law and the
Angels of mercy ♡ 11 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 William Seraile uncovers the history of the colored orphan asylum, founded in New York City in 1836 as the nation's first orphanage for African American
Calling All Cars ♡ 10 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Calling All Cars shows how radio played a key role in an emerging form of policing during the turbulent years of the Depression. Until this
From here to there ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 This collection of unpublished talks and hard-to-find essays from legendary activist-historian Staughton Lynd blends themes that encourage the rejection of capitalist imp...
Great Britain : Let's Get Quizzical 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.75/5 A fun collection of puzzles, quiz questions, mazes, spot-the-differences, and more, all with a British theme Get ready for a brain-teasing trip through the best
The American South in a Global World ♡ 10 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 These snapshots of globalization across a broad southern ground help redirect the study of the South in response to how the South itself is being
The Emperor's Shadow ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, he was sent into exile on St Helena, arriving in October 1815. For the six years
New Harmony then and now ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Intellectuals as well as artisans are drawn to this place of science and spirit.
Mary Ball Washington ♡ 13 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 The Mother of the Father of our Country. Mary Ball Washington was an unlikely candidate to be the mother of history's most famous revolutionary. In
Great Upheaval ♡ 9 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast
Fighting monsters ♡ 9 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Against the backdrop of the British-American law- and war-making of the first decade of the millennium, Fighting Monsters considers how the way we think about
Dangerous convictions ♡ 10 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 'The debt-ceiling debacle of 2011 was clear evidence of the dangerous polarization of American politics. Heedless of the warnings of economists, a majority of Republicans...
The Reproach of Hunger ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Based on meticulous research and on-the-ground reporting, an expert in the field explores whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is within our reach as
From Tax Populism to Ethnic Nationalism ♡ 16 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.94/5 During the last 15-20 years a new party family of radical right-wing populism (RRP) has emerged in Western Europe, consisting of parties such as the
Courage ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Courage: The Politics of Life and Limb is a compelling and highly original study of the paradox of courage. Richard Avramenko contends that courage is
Patriotic Betrayal ♡ 12 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Overview: In this revelatory book, Karen M. Paget shows how the CIA turned the National Student Association into an intelligence asset during the Cold War,
Love and Deception ♡ 10 14 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Love and Deception is the extraordinary story of Eleanor, an able, cultured American woman living in the espionage hot spot of 1950s Beirut and -