Che Guevara: Revolutionary & Icon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.88/5 (7) An iconic photo of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara was taken in 1960 that is now thought to be the most reproduced image in the history of photography. What comes to ... Verifica stoc
History of Britain Book IV History of Britain ♡ 17 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Povestind povestea istoriei britanice într-o narațiune cronologică simplă, „A History of Britain” acoperă matricea istoriei britanice, inclusiv evenimentele de peste măr...
Unleashing Demons: The Inside Story of Brexit ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 As David Cameron's director of Politics and communications, Craig Oliver was in the room at every key moment during the EU referendum - the biggest
Bill of the Century ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 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
THE ART OF WAR SUN TZU ♡ 7 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.88/5 For more than 2,000 years, Sun Tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and
Last Man Out ♡ 17 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 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
Brief History: The Dynasties of China ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 By focusing on the key colourful characters of the eight major dynasties, Bamber Gascoigne brings to life 3500 years of Chinese civilisation. His unique bird's-eye
The Briefing ♡ 12 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 As a key player during the election campaign and transition, and Donald Trump's press secretary for the first seven months in the White House, Sean
John Henry Newman ♡ 14 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 'In another world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.', From An
Plugging Into Your Past ♡ 13 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 A contributing editor to Family Tree Magazine shows readers how to navigate digitized records, CD-ROMs, and other electronic sources in the search for family information,...
Confidence Men ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping
Everything in Moderation ♡ 17 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 'I've never met Danny Finkelstein but I think I'm in love with him. His book is such good company - sane, intelligent and witty. He
Shooting Victoria ♡ 14 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 The extraordinary stories of the eight men who attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria combine to create a compellingly original portrait of the entire Victorian era.
Showers Brothers Furniture Company ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 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
Action Likely in Pacific ♡ 20 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 A story of espionage that could have changed the course of history and saved thousands of American and British lives - and millions of Asian
The Price of Freedom ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 By hiding the fugitives in the trunk of a diplomat's car, Volker G. Heinz helps more than sixty East German citizens flee to the West.
Witnessing Waterloo ♡ 14 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Midnight, Sunday, June 18, 1815. Britain holds its breath. Since Napoleon’s escape from Elba in February, Europe has been jolted from eleven months of peace
Where in the world is Osama bin Laden? ♡ 13 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Spurlock is a jittery father-to-be with a simple question: If Osama bin Laden is behind 9/11 and all the ensuing worldwide chaos, then why can't
1915 The First World War in Photographs: Setbacks & Failures ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 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
Austerity Britain: A world to build ♡ 18 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 David Kynaston's 'Austerity Britain 1945-51', the first book in his series 'Tales of a New Jerusalem', was a major 'Sunday Times' bestseller in 2007. Here
The Federalist Papers ♡ 14 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 The Federalist Papers is a collection of political essays, three United States Founding Fathers intelligently and forcefully advocate the ratification of what became thi...
Murders, Plots and Mysteries ♡ 25 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.93/5 Crime flows through history like a muddied tide, flecked with the red blood of murder.
A Safe Haven ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Pe 14 mai 1948, sub conducerea președintelui Harry S. Truman, Statele Unite au devenit prima națiune care a recunoscut Statul Israel -- la doar câteva
A Brief Fantasy History of a Himalayan ♡ 18 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Personal reminiscences of an esteemed Tibetan Buddhist master, ranging from touching memoir to humorous storytelling, from sharp cultural commentary to deeply felt...
The Value of Worthless Lives ♡ 18 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 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 ♡ 14 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 '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
The Reckoning ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 From best-selling author of Fighter Boys, a gripping true detective story into a shooting that had momentous consequences for the modern world. What happened when
WATERLOO: THE BATTLE THAT BROUGHT DOWN NAPOLEON ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 A masterly and concise reinterpretation of one of the seminal events in modern history, by one of the world's foremost military historians. The battle on
Theresa May ♡ 14 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Only the second woman to hold office at 10 Downing Street, Theresa May inherits the most difficult political mandate of recent times: to negotiate Britain’s
Understanding Thomas Jefferson ♡ 14 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Recent biographies of Thomas Jefferson have stressed the sphinxlike puzzles of his character—famous champion of freedom yet lifelong slaveholder, foe of miscegenation ye...
West Like Lightning ♡ 19 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 'A GROUNDBREAKING WORK,' hails True West: The #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of American Sniper brings the Pony Express to life in this rich
The Great War In Portraits ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 In viewing the Great War through the portraits of those involved, Paul Moorhouse looks at the bitter-sweet nature of a conflict in which valour and
Game Change : Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime ♡ 17 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 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
The Accidental Capitalist ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 In the last three decades China has experienced the largest population movement in human history. Millions have left behind homes to find work and new
Unmanned ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Drones have become the controversial new weapon of choice for the US military abroad. Unmanned details the causes and deadly consequences of this terrifying new
The Sugar King of Havana ♡ 18 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 'Fascinating...A richly detailed portrait.' -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man
Spy in Moscow Station ♡ 12 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Moscow in the late 1970s: one by one, CIA assets are disappearing. The perils of American arrogance, mixed withbureaucratic infighting, had left the country unspeakably
Waterloo General ♡ 19 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 At the Battle of Waterloo Sir William Ponsonby, a man who the Duke of Wellington stated had rendered very brilliant and important services and was
A CENTURY OF CHANGE ♡ 19 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 These outstanding books bring to life the people, places and events of the past in these islands, from the earliest settlers to the present day.
Kitchener ♡ 14 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 The words 'Britons Wants You' and 'Your Country Needs You' are echoes from the First World War - a time very different from today but
Modern Women ♡ 20 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 Modern Women este o celebrare a unora dintre femeile influente și impresionante care au schimbat lumea prin viața, prin munca și prin acțiunile lor. De
The Dignity of Chartism ♡ 14 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Throughout her essays, Thompson strikes a delicate balance between on-the-ground accounts of local uprisings, snappy portraits of high-profile Chartist figures as well a...
A Brief History of Slavery ♡ 17 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 În 'A Brief History of Slavery' istoricul Jeremy Black explorează sclavia de la originile sale și până la manifestările sale contemporane, sub forma traficului de
1919 A Land Fit for Heroes : Britain at Peace ♡ 18 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 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 Strange Eventful History ♡ 17 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Susținerea privatizării de către Tony Blair înainte de alegerile generale din 1997 a stins în cele din urmă viața socialismului ca forță politică semnificativă în
ZERO SIX BRAVO ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 bestsellerul nr. 1 din Sunday Times. Aceasta este povestea adevărată și nespusă a celei mai disperate bătălii purtate de forțele speciale britanice și aliate prinse
My Friend the Mercenary ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 He wanted a war. And, for his sins, he got one. James Brabazon was an ambitious young war reporter when he entered the chaos of
Pacific Futures ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 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
A Brief History of Mutiny by Richard Woodman ♡ 14 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 The notorious uprising on the Bounty has been elevated to iconic status by Hollywood, yet Richard Woodman describes it here as a mere 'pup' among
Peace and War: Britain In 1914 ♡ 17 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war suffragette agitation was
Zero Night ♡ 12 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 A remarkable story told in full for the first time: a rip-roaring adventure story of WWII derring-do, all the more thrilling for being true. Oflag
Speaking With the Spirits of the Old Southwest ♡ 12 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 DISCOVER THE CHILLING TRUE STORIES OF THE SPIRITS WHO HAUNT THE OTHERWORLDLY LANDSCAPE OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST Out in the Arizona desert, among the crumbling
Plowed Under ♡ 14 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 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
The History of The Channel Tunnel ♡ 13 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 The Channel Tunnel, has been one of histories most protracted and at times acrimonious, construction projects. From the paranoia of the late 18th and early
Reporting on Hitler : Rothay Reynolds and the British Press in Nazi Berlin by Will Wainewright ♡ 17 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.91/5 Allegedly the only man capable of holding the Fuhrer's intense gaze, Rothay Reynolds was a leading foreign correspondent between the wars and ran the Daily
Grant's Final Victory ♡ 21 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.92/5 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
Sex and the City of Ladies ♡ 15 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 In 1405 Christine de Pisan took up the pen to defend her maligned sex. Her book, The City of Ladies , was built around preserving
Liberty and Conscience ♡ 14 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 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
To Fight Alongside Friends : The First World War Diary of Charlie May ♡ 14 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 The First World War Diaries of Manchester Pals Captain Charlie May - written and kept in secret and published now for the first time. A
Charlie Company Journeys Home ♡ 16 19 LEI info ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.90/5 Folosind nenumărate interviuri, precum și jurnale și scrisori originale, Andrew Wiest dezvăluie oroarea războiului din Vietnam pentru cei rămași în urmă și luptele durab...