wyszukanych pozycji: 11
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The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
ISBN: 9781324094081 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On the morning of 4 November 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of road in northern Mexico controlled by the Sinaloa drug cartel. Firing semi-automatic weapons, the attackers killed nine people and gravely injured five more. The victims were members of the LeBaron and La Mora communities—fundamentalist Mormons whose forebears broke from the LDS Church and settled in Mexico when their religion outlawed polygamy in the late nineteenth century. The massacre produced international headlines for weeks and prompted President...
On the morning of 4 November 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of road in northern...
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73,13 zł |
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The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World
ISBN: 9781476706474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. From the bestselling coauthor of The Money and the Power, the "compelling corporate history" (The National Book Review) and inside story of the Bechtel family and the empire they've controlled since the construction of the Hoover Dam. The tale of the Bechtel family dynasty is a classic American business story. It begins with Warren A. "Dad" Bechtel, who led a consortium that constructed the Hoover Dam. They would go on to "build the world," from the construction of airports in Hong Kong and Doha, to pipelines and tunnels in Alaska and Europe, to mining and energy operations...
From the bestselling coauthor of The Money and the Power, the "compelling corporate history" (The National Book Review) and inside story...
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85,55 zł |
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The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas
ISBN: 9781733658010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,13 zł |
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The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land
ISBN: 9781631498077 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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109,37 zł |
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Passion and Principle: John and Jessie Fremont, the Couple Whose Power, Politics, and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century America
ISBN: 9780803213685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. John Charles Fremont was the illegitimate child of a Virginia aristocrat and a working-class French immigrant; Jessie Benton was the daughter of the most powerful pre-Civil War U.S. senator, Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, and, her gender notwithstanding, had been groomed as much as any young man to be president. Senator Benton unwittingly brought the two together, never imagining that his daughter would fall in love with Fremont. Despite their disparate backgrounds, however, John and Jessie's marriage was one of the most storied events of the nineteenth century. And indeed, Jessie and John...
John Charles Fremont was the illegitimate child of a Virginia aristocrat and a working-class French immigrant; Jessie Benton was the daughter of the m...
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101,65 zł |
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Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman's Passage in the American West
ISBN: 9781400034734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. Traveling across the Atlantic by steamer, up the Mississippi by riverboat, and westward by wagon, Rio kept a detailed diary of her extraordinary journey.In Faith and Betrayal, Sally Denton, an award-winning journalist and Rio s great-great-granddaughter, uses the long-lost diary to re-create Rio s experience. While she marvels at the great natural beauty of Utah, Rio s enthusiasm for her new life turns to disillusionment over Mormon polygamy and violence...
In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. Traveling across...
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77,41 zł |
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La Colonia Lebarón / The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land (Spanish Edition)
ISBN: 9786070791901 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2022 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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52,76 zł |
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The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs & Murder
ISBN: 9781523824625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When Kentucky Blueblood Drew Thornton parachuted to his death in September 1985 carrying thousands in cash and 150 pounds of cocaine, the gruesome end of his startling life blew open a scandal that reached to the most secret circles of the U.S. government. The story of Thornton and The Company he served, and the lone heroic fight of State Policeman Ralph Ross against an international web of corruption, is one of the most portentous tales of the 20th century.
When Kentucky Blueblood Drew Thornton parachuted to his death in September 1985 carrying thousands in cash and 150 pounds of cocaine, the gruesome end...
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72,93 zł |
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The Plots Against the President: FDR, A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right
ISBN: 9781733658003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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73,13 zł |
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American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
ISBN: 9780375726361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an open field called Mountain Meadows has ever since been the focus of passionate debate: Is it possible that official Mormon dignitaries were responsible for the massacre? In her riveting book, Sally Denton makes a fiercely convincing argument that they were. The author-herself of Mormon descent-first traces the extraordinary emergence of the Mormons and the little-known nineteenth-century...
In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under ...
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85,55 zł |
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The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America
ISBN: 9780375701269 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Las Vegas the name evokes images of divorce and dice, gangsters and glitz. But beneath it all is a sordid history that is much more insidious and far-reaching than ever imagined. The Money and the Poweris the most comprehensive look yet at Las Vegas and its breadth of influence.Based on five years of intensive research and interviewing, Sally Denton and Roger Morris reveal the city s historic network of links to Wall Street, international drug traffickers, and the CIA. In doing so, they expose the disturbing connections amongst politicians, businessmen, and the criminals that harness...
Las Vegas the name evokes images of divorce and dice, gangsters and glitz. But beneath it all is a sordid history that is much more insidious and far-...
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81,48 zł |