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As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin
ISBN: 9780306806759 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 702 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was unable to read or write music and could only play the piano in the key of F-sharp major; yet, for the first half of the twentieth century he was America's most successful and most representative songwriter, composing such hits as "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Cheek to Cheek," "Let's Face the Music and Dance," "Puttin' on the Ritz," "White Christmas," "Anything You Can Do," "There's No Business Like Show Business," and "God Bless America." As Thousands Cheer, winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, explores with precision and sensitivity Berlin's...
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was unable to read or write music and could only play the piano in the key of F-sharp major; yet, for the first half of the ...
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165,89 |
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Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life
ISBN: 9780767901567 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Louis Armstrong was the founding father of jazz and one of this century's towering cultural figures, yet the full story of his extravagant life has never been told.
Born in 1901 to the sixteen-year-old daughter of a slave, he came of age among the prostitutes, pimps, and rag-and-bone merchants of New Orleans.He married four times and enjoyed countless romantic involvements in and around his marriages.A believer in marijuana for the head and laxatives for the bowels, he was also a prolific diarist and correspondent, a devoted friend to celebrities from Bing Crosby to Ella Fitzgerald, a... Louis Armstrong was the founding father of jazz and one of this century's towering cultural figures, yet the full story of his extravagant life has ne...
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102,63 |
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Casanova: The World of a Seductive Genius
ISBN: 9781476716503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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76,02 |
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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
ISBN: 9781400078806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) As the first European to travel extensively throughout Asia, Marco Polo was the earliest bridge between East and West. His famous journeys took him across the boundaries of the known world, along the dangerous Silk Road, and into the court of Kublai Kahn, where he won the trust of the most feared and reviled leader of his day. Polo introduced the cultural riches of China to Europe, spawning centuries of Western fascination with Asia.
In this lively blend of history, biography, and travelogue, acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen separates myth from history, creating the most... As the first European to travel extensively throughout Asia, Marco Polo was the earliest bridge between East and West. His famous journeys took him... |
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102,63 |
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Capone: The Man and the Era
ISBN: 9780684824475 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In this brilliant history of Prohibition and its most notorious gangster, acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen takes us to the gritty streets of Chicago where Al Capone forged his sinister empire. Bergreen shows the seedy and glamorous sides of the age, the rise of Prohibition, the illicit liquor trade, the battlefield that was Chicago. Delving beyond the Capone mythology. Bergreen finds a paradox: a coldblooded killer, thief, pimp, and racketeer who was also a devoted son and father; a self-styled Robin Hood who rose to the top of organized crime. Capone is a masterful portrait of an...
In this brilliant history of Prohibition and its most notorious gangster, acclaimed biographer Laurence Bergreen takes us to the gritty streets of Chi...
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87,38 |
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Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504
ISBN: 9780143122104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made 3 more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. Laurence Bergreen re-creates each of these adventures as well as the historical background of Columbus's celebrated, controversial career.
Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a ...
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65,37 |
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
ISBN: 9780062890481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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83,58 |
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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
ISBN: 9781847247674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Laurence Bergreen presents this thrilling and masterly reconstruction of the life and wanderings of one of the great adventurers of world history - Marco Polo.
Laurence Bergreen presents this thrilling and masterly reconstruction of the life and wanderings of one of the great adventurers of world history - Ma...
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75,44 |
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In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
ISBN: 9780062875365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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75,98 |
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