ilość książek w kategorii: 334653
Fullerton: The Boom Years
ISBN: 9781540209467 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Battle of Hubbardton: The Rear Guard Action That Saved America
ISBN: 9781540209504 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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138,05 zł |
The Perilous St. Croix River Valley Frontier
ISBN: 9781540209566 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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138,05 zł |
Growing Up in San Francisco's Western Neighborhoods: Boomer Memories from Kezar Stadium to Zim's Hamburgers
ISBN: 9781540209740 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Newcomers and visitors can still enjoy iconic San Francisco with activities like riding a cable car or taking in the view from Twin Peaks. But San Franciscans cherish memories of a place quite different. They reminisce about seafood dinners at A. Sabella s on Fisherman s Wharf, the enormous Christmas tree in Union Square s City of Paris department store and taking a handful of dimes to Playland-at-the-Beach for arcade games and cotton candy. In his second volume of these unforgettable stories, local author and historian Frank Dunnigan vividly recalls the many details that made life special in...
Newcomers and visitors can still enjoy iconic San Francisco with activities like riding a cable car or taking in the view from Twin Peaks. But San Fra...
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138,05 zł |
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
ISBN: 9781540209771 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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138,05 zł |
A History of Westfield, Indiana: The Promise of the Land
ISBN: 9781540209825 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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142,37 zł |
The Civil War Along Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau
ISBN: 9781540209849 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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138,05 zł |
The Maine Lobster Industry: A History of Culture, Conservation & Commerce
ISBN: 9781540209856 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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138,05 zł |
The Oregon Shanghaiers: Columbia River Crimping from Astoria to Portland
ISBN: 9781540209917 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the hardscrabble early days of Portland's seaport, shanghaiing" or "crimping" ran rampant. The proprietors of crooked saloons and sailors' boardinghouses coerced unwitting patrons to work on commercial ships. Shanghaiers like James Turk, Bunko Kelley and Billy Smith unashamedly forced men into service and stole the wages of their victims. By the 1890s, these shanghaiers had become powerful enough to influence the politics of Astoria and Portland, charging sea captains outrageous fees for unskilled laborers and shaping maritime trade around a merciless black market. For nearly a century,...
In the hardscrabble early days of Portland's seaport, shanghaiing" or "crimping" ran rampant. The proprietors of crooked saloons and sailors' boarding...
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138,05 zł |
North Texas Beer: A Full-Bodied History of Brewing in Dallas, Fort Worth and Beyond
ISBN: 9781540209924 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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155,32 zł |
The Homefront in Civil War Missouri
ISBN: 9781540209931 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Over one thousand Civil War engagements were fought in Missouri, and the conflict could not be quarantined from civilian life. In the countryside, the wives and mothers of absent soldiers had to cope with marauders from both sides. Children saw their fathers and brothers beaten, hanged or shot. In the cities, a cheer for Jeff Davis could land a young boy in jail, and a letter to a sweetheart in the Confederate army could get a girl banished from the state. Women volunteered to care for the flood of wounded and sick soldiers. Slavery crumbled and created new opportunities for black men to...
Over one thousand Civil War engagements were fought in Missouri, and the conflict could not be quarantined from civilian life. In the countryside, the...
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The Juke Joint King of the Mississippi Hills: The Raucous Reign of Tillman Branch
ISBN: 9781540209955 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the swamps and juke joints of Holmes County, Mississippi, Edward Tillman Branch built his empire. Tillman's clubs were legendary. Moonshine flowed as patrons enjoyed craps games and well-known blues acts. Across from his Goodman establishment, prostitutes in a trysting trailer entertained men, including the married Tillman himself. A threat to law enforcement and anyone who crossed his path, Branch rose from modest beginnings to become the ruler of a treacherous kingdom in the hills that became his own end. Author Janice Branch Tracy reveals the man behind the story and the path that led...
In the swamps and juke joints of Holmes County, Mississippi, Edward Tillman Branch built his empire. Tillman's clubs were legendary. Moonshine flowed ...
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Haunted Hotels of the California Gold Country
ISBN: 9781540209962 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Step across the threshold of a haunted hotel in California's renowned Gold Country and encounter phantom figures of yesteryear. Wispy apparitions of gentleman guests in Victorian coats and ladies in fashionable flapper gowns glide through the walls, while unexplained sobs and choking gasps disturb the night. There's Stan, the Cary House's eternal desk clerk, and bachelor ghost Lyle, who tidies the Groveland Hotel. Flo tosses pots and pans in the National's kitchen, while the once-scorned spirit of Isabella ties the Sierra Nevada House's curtains in knots. From suicidal gamblers to murdered...
Step across the threshold of a haunted hotel in California's renowned Gold Country and encounter phantom figures of yesteryear. Wispy apparitions of g...
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138,05 zł |
Capital Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in Washington, D.C.
ISBN: 9781540209979 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Imagine the jubilation of thirsty citizens in 1796 when the Washington Brewery--the city's first brewery--opened. Yet the English-style ales produced by the early breweries in the capital and in nearby Arlington and Alexandria sat heavy on the tongue in the oppressive Potomac summers. By the 1850s, an influx of German immigrants gave a frosty reprieve to their new home in the form of light but flavorful lagers. Brewer barons like Christian Heurich and Albert Carry dominated the taps of city saloons until production ground to a halt with the dry days of Prohibition. Only Heurich survived, and...
Imagine the jubilation of thirsty citizens in 1796 when the Washington Brewery--the city's first brewery--opened. Yet the English-style ales produced ...
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155,32 zł |
Lost Capitals of Alabama
ISBN: 9781540209986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Alabama's capital has roots all over the state. It first emerged in St. Stephens in 1799, a small fort acquired from the Spanish atop a tall limestone bluff overlooking the Tombigbee River. Next came Huntsville in the Tennessee Valley, where the state constitution emerged. Cahawba was the capital to receive a visit from the Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving general of the American Revolution. In 1826, Tuscaloosa took the reins for twenty years before the final move to Montgomery. Discover the leaders and events that established the state and the fates of each dynamic governmental...
Alabama's capital has roots all over the state. It first emerged in St. Stephens in 1799, a small fort acquired from the Spanish atop a tall limestone...
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Windsor Mountain School: A Beloved Berkshire Institution
ISBN: 9781540209993 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When their Jewish heritage and progressive philosophies made the Bondy family a target of the Nazi regime, they were forced to sell their school and start anew in America. Max and Gertrud Bondy first opened their innovative school in Windsor, Vermont, and moved the campus to Lenox, Massachusetts, in 1944. Windsor Mountain School was ahead of its time--the faculty honored diversity, and it became the first co-ed integrated boarding school in Berkshire County. Families like the Belafontes, Poitiers and Campanellas were attracted to the school for its multicultural and international curriculum....
When their Jewish heritage and progressive philosophies made the Bondy family a target of the Nazi regime, they were forced to sell their school and s...
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138,05 zł |
Wurlitzer of Cincinnati: The Name That Means Music to Millions
ISBN: 9781540210005 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Established in Cincinnati in 1856 by German immigrant Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer, the music dealer became the largest outlet for band instruments in the United States by 1865. During the silent film era in the early twentieth century, Wurlitzer manufactured nearly 2,250 theater organs, affectionately dubbed "Mighty Wurlitzers." Many of these instruments still provide concert music today. During the Big Band era of the 1930s to 1950s, the company's colorful coin-operated jukeboxes were such popular fixtures in bars and dance halls that the U.S. Postal Service honored them with a commemorative...
Established in Cincinnati in 1856 by German immigrant Franz Rudolph Wurlitzer, the music dealer became the largest outlet for band instruments in the ...
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Alaska Beer: Liquid Gold in the Land of the Midnight Sun
ISBN: 9781540210029 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Alaska's fermented legacy retains the fiercely independent spirit that propelled the state's beer drinkers through the gold rush and sustained them through Prohibition. Today, craft brewers produce outstanding suds in some of the harshest and most remote locations on the planet. And while the beer scene in Alaska has roots that trace back to days when spirits had to have "medicinal, mechanical, and scientific purposes," the contemporary crop of breweries can thank industry pioneers like the Alaskan Brewing Company for staying on the cutting edge of beer-making technology. Join beer columnist...
Alaska's fermented legacy retains the fiercely independent spirit that propelled the state's beer drinkers through the gold rush and sustained them th...
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Hidden History of Milwaukee
ISBN: 9781540210043 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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138,05 zł |
The Franco-Americans of Lewiston-Auburn
ISBN: 9781540210098 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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138,05 zł |