Tales of Emigrants and EmpireThe compelling story of the great Irish pioneers who left their homeland and in the process profoundly influenced their adoptive countries.From the first voyages of Saint Brendan i...9999903220732Turtle Bunbury
London; Thames & Hudson
miércoles, 13 de noviembre de 2024
"The Death of Yugoslavia is the first account to go behind the public face of battle and into the closed worlds of the key players in the war. Laura Silber, Balkans correspondent f...9999903219804Laura Silber Allan Little
Penguin Books Ltd
martes, 12 de noviembre de 2024
A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth CenturyThe past is a foreign country; they do things differently there... Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see, and hear, and smell? Where would you...9999903215165Ian Mortimer,
Editors Varis
miércoles, 6 de noviembre de 2024
The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. By turns shocking and lyrical, u...9999903214687Eldridge Cleaver
Mcgraw-Hill
miércoles, 6 de noviembre de 2024
How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760-1785In The Long Fuse, Don Cook investigates the American Revolution from the British side, throwing new light on this colorful age and its players. He draws from a multitude of primary...9999903214595Don Cook
Atlantic Monthly Press
miércoles, 6 de noviembre de 2024
How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption are Undermining AmericaWho filled the trough? Who set the table at the banquet of greed? How has it been possible for corporate pigs to gorge themselves on grossly inflated pay packages and heaping helpi...9999903214427Arianna Stassinopoulos Hu...
Vintage
miércoles, 6 de noviembre de 2024
Confessions of a Political Junkie"Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants."--The Philadelphia InquirerSince his 1972 trailb...9999903214410Hunter S. Thompson
Ballantine Books
miércoles, 6 de noviembre de 2024
The Dark Side of the All-American MealExplores the homogenization of American society and the impact of the fast food industry on modern-day health, economics, politics, popular culture, entertainment, and food product...9999903213765Eric Schlosser; [with a n...
New York, NY : Perennial, 2002.
sábado, 2 de noviembre de 2024
No group of slaves anywhere, in any era, has left such prolific testimony to the horror of bondage as African-American slaves. Here are four of the most notable narratives: The Lif...9999903213642Henry Louis Gates
Signet
sábado, 2 de noviembre de 2024
How America Went Haywire : a 500-year HistoryNow entering fantasyland -- Part I. The conjuring of America: 1517-1789 -- I believe, therefore I am right: the Protestants -- All that glitters: the gold-seekers -- Building our o...9999903213536Kurt Andersen
Editors Varis
sábado, 2 de noviembre de 2024
Its Rise and FallIt was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, ar...9999903213512Christopher Hibbert
William Morrow & Co
sábado, 2 de noviembre de 2024
As Robert Peston shows in his fascinating new book, the seeds for the collapse of Northern Rock and the upheavals in the financial markets were sown years before. WHO RUNS BRITAIN?...9999903213215Robert Peston
Editors Varis
sábado, 2 de noviembre de 2024
Three Seventeenth-century LivesAs she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. As women living in the...9999903210993Natalie Zemon Davis
Harvard University Press
viernes, 1 de noviembre de 2024
How Russia Helped Trump Win the White HouseMOSCOW, July 1987. Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump visits Soviet Russia for the first time at the invitation of the government. LONDON, December 2016. Luke Harding meets former MI6...9999903209751Luke Harding
Guardian Books
jueves, 31 de octubre de 2024
An A-Z Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency in the Past 100 YearsThis is an A-Z guide to the most appalling presidency of the past 100 years. Books like Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men," Greg Palast's "Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and Vincent...9999903209218Jack Huberman,
Granta Books
jueves, 31 de octubre de 2024
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