ilość książek w kategorii: 5576
DK Chicago
ISBN: 9780241253526 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this historic city. Admire Impressionist masterpieces at the Art Institute of Chicago, window shop on the Magnificent Mile, get a bird's eye view of four states from the Skydeck of Willis Tower or cruise along the river for for a great view of Chicago's landmark architecture: everything you need to know is clearly laid out within colour-coded chapters. Discover the best of Chicago with this indispensable travel guide. Inside DK Eyewitness Travel Guide...
The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this historic...
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61,62 zł |
Hauntings of the Underground Railroad: Ghosts of the Midwest
ISBN: 9780253031280 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before the Civil War, a network of secret routes and safe houses crisscrossed the Midwest to help African Americans travel north to escape slavery. Although many slaves were able to escape to the safety of Canada, others met untimely deaths on the treacherous journey--and some of these unfortunates still linger, unable to rest in peace. InHauntings of the Underground Railroad: Ghosts of the Midwest, Jane Simon Ammeson investigates unforgettable and chilling tales of these restless ghosts that still walk the night. This unique collection includes true and gruesome stories, like the story of... Before the Civil War, a network of secret routes and safe houses crisscrossed the Midwest to help African Americans travel north to escape slavery.... |
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272,48 zł |
Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago
ISBN: 9781442272262 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gangsters and Nymphs: The Fight for Chicago and the 1933 Worlds Fair is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days of the Great Depression. The story of Chicago fighting the hold that organized crime had on the city to be able to put on The 1933 Worlds Fair. William Hazelgrove provides the exciting and sprawling history behind the 1933 Worlds Fair, the last of the golden age. He reveals the story of the six millionaire businessmen, dubbed The Secret Six, who beat Al Capone at his own game, ending the gangster era as the prohibition was repealed. The story an intriguing woman, Sally...
Gangsters and Nymphs: The Fight for Chicago and the 1933 Worlds Fair is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days of the Great Depression. ...
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201,63 zł |
The Rockwell Heist: The Extraordinary Theft of Seven Norman Rockwell Paintings and a Phony Renoir--And the 20-Year Chase for Their Recover
ISBN: 9781681340739 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1978 seven Norman Rockwell paintings and a supposed Renoir, later discovered to be a forgery, were stolen from Elayne Galleries in St. Louis Park. It is still the biggest theft in Minnesota history, and no one was ever convicted for the crime. This is the story of the theft, the investigation, and the twenty-year quest to return the art to its rightful owners.
The FBI suspected an inside job. Was it the scrappy working mother who owned the gallery? The owner of one of the paintings, who had a checkered past? Was a band of well-known and very talented Minneapolis burglars... In 1978 seven Norman Rockwell paintings and a supposed Renoir, later discovered to be a forgery, were stolen from Elayne Galleries in St. Louis Park. ...
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74,63 zł |
Missouri Word Search: Word Search and Other Puzzles about Missouri Places and People
ISBN: 9781542969376 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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43,44 zł |
Greetings from Detroit: Historic Postcards from the Motor City
ISBN: 9780814344118 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Greetings from Detroit: Historic Postcards from the Motor City offers a glimpse into the past through more than two hundred historic postcards of Detroit from the early 1900s to the 1950s, compiled and presented in full color by Dan Austin of HistoricDetroit.org. From familiar sights to long lost landmarks, this book pairs vintage views with rich stories from the Motor City's yesteryear. In the era before cameras became commonplace, postcard shops were everywhere-allowing folks to send snapshots of their travels to friends and family, or to take home as mementos. Many of these... Greetings from Detroit: Historic Postcards from the Motor City offers a glimpse into the past through more than two hundred historic postcar... |
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109,11 zł |
All Our Yesterdays: A Brief History of Detroit
ISBN: 9780814344439 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traces Detroit's history from its earliest settlement into the 1960s.
Traces Detroit's history from its earliest settlement into the 1960s.
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151,77 zł |
Carrying Coal to Columbus: Mining in the Hocking Valley
ISBN: 9781540214621 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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133,01 zł |
Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad
ISBN: 9781531699741 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad was a short line running 16 miles from downtown Chicago to Dolton, Illinois, the first suburb south of Chicago, with another line running southeast from Eighty-First Street to the Indiana state line. Built in the 1880s, it was owned by five trunk line railroads that used it as an efficient and inexpensive route into downtown Chicago. Like many 19th-century railroads, the C&WI reached its traffic peak in the middle of the 20th century. After World War II, passenger travel and shipping moved to airlines and over-the-road trucking. The need for rail access...
The Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad was a short line running 16 miles from downtown Chicago to Dolton, Illinois, the first suburb south of Chicago,...
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133,01 zł |
Wright Field
ISBN: 9781531697549 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From its founding in 1927 until the establishment of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1948, Wright Field played a vital role keeping the Army Air Force positioned as the world's leader in aircraft design and development. The Second World War catapulted it into the forefront of America's war effort, as virtually every new aircraft produced for the Army Air Force was developed and tested in Dayton. Wright Field's testing program also had the fascinating task of studying captured enemy aircraft, including some powered by jet engines, which engineers at the installation were also developing....
From its founding in 1927 until the establishment of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1948, Wright Field played a vital role keeping the Army Air Fo...
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133,01 zł |
White Birch, Red Hawthorn: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781517901325 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A personal investigation into the multigenerational cost of immigration and genocide in the American heartland
A personal investigation into the multigenerational cost of immigration and genocide in the American heartland
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77,61 zł |
U.P. Reader -- Issue #1: Bringing Upper Michigan Literature to the World
ISBN: 9781615993369 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michigan's Upper Peninsula is blessed with a treasure chest of writers and poets, all seeking to capture the diverse experiences of Yooper Life. Now U.P. Reader offers a rich collection of their voices that embraces the U.P.'s natural beauty and way of life, along with a few surprises. The twenty-eight works in this first annual volume take readers on a U.P. road trip from the Mackinac Bridge to Menominee. Every page is rich with descriptions of the characters and culture that make the Upper Peninsula worth living in and writing about. Whether you're a native Yooper or... Michigan's Upper Peninsula is blessed with a treasure chest of writers and poets, all seeking to capture the diverse experiences of Yooper Life. No... |
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62,16 zł |
Haunted Bachelors Grove
ISBN: 9781540200563 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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133,01 zł |
Akron Railroads
ISBN: 9781540200846 / Angielski / Twarda / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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133,01 zł |
Miles Lord: The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice
ISBN: 9781517902315 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice.
The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice.
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134,55 zł |
Voices of Rondo: Oral Histories of Saint Paul's Historic Black Community
ISBN: 9781517903435 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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82,78 zł |
Haunted Franklin Castle
ISBN: 9781467137430 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than half a century, the Franklin Castle's dark facade has lured curiosity seekers from around the world. Behind its iron gates, this Victorian-era structure harbors rumors of everything from insanity to mass murder. Disembodied voices echo from empty rooms, doors open and close of their own accord and cold spots drift about the manse. Witnesses swear to sightings of a woman in black and a young girl in white, believed to be the ghostly apparitions of the wife and daughter of the original owner, Hannes Tiedemann. Using previously unpublished photographs, interviews, family accounts,...
For more than half a century, the Franklin Castle's dark facade has lured curiosity seekers from around the world. Behind its iron gates, this Victori...
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91,43 zł |
A History of Jewish Youngstown and the Steel Valley
ISBN: 9781540215611 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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149,65 zł |
Kane County: The War Years
ISBN: 9781540215758 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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133,01 zł |
Inside Allerton: The Essential Guide to Robert Allerton Park
ISBN: 9780692867402 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Named one of the Seven Wonders of Illinois, Robert Allerton Park is visited by nearly 100,000 people annually. Allerton, a wealthy Chicago philanthropist and art collector, donated his palatial country estate to the University of Illinois in 1946 with the intent that it should be maintained as a wildlife preserve and an example of landscape gardening. Today Robert Allerton Park is both a National Historic Site and National Natural Landmark. Take a tour of the home and gardens, led by architecture graduate student David L. Finnigan. Beautiful color photography and original architect's... Named one of the Seven Wonders of Illinois, Robert Allerton Park is visited by nearly 100,000 people annually. Allerton, a wealthy Chicago philanth... |
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162,95 zł |