Historical Biography – Bücher, Blu-ray Discs, Diverse und mehr, Seite 7

Gerrie Schipske
The Long Beach Gay Trials

How Long Beach caused the death of John A. Lamb.Immediately after his 1914 election as mayor of Long Beach, Louis Napoleon Whealton fired the chief of police and raided the city treasury. To replenish the…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

William Whyte
Oxford Jackson

This is the first biography of T. G. Jackson, an architect who transformed the image of Oxford, rebuilt public schools, and became a leading architect of the arts and crafts movement. Although many of his…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Lady Nijo,
A Tale Unasked

A new translation of one of classical Japan's greatest literary works 'It is from a desire not to let this impulse count for nothing that I have written this foolish tale of mine. I have no hope that it w…

mind. 2 Monate

Buch

Joshua D Rothman
A Pioneer in the Cause of Freedom

Descended from German Quakers who immigrated to Pennsylvania in the late seventeenth century, Elisha Tyson was born in 1749. As a young man he became wealthy in the milling business in northeastern Maryla…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Michael Attalides
Evicted From Eden

A Journey Through Cyprus: History, Memory, and the Search for Reunification.Spanning two centuries, this powerful narrative by Michael Attalides traces the intertwined story of an island and a family. Beg…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Harlan Greene
Porgy's Ghost

On the world stage, the opera Porgy and Bess is acclaimed as a distinctively American, yet universal, classic. Though scholars and the popular press have discussed it for nearly one hundred years, no one …

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Fritz Kolb,
Einzelgänger im Himalaya

Sommer 1939: Der junge Lehrer Fritz Kolb und sein Freund Ludwig Krenek erfüllen sich einen Traum. Die begeisterten Bergsteiger organisieren eine kleine Expedition ins Himalaya-Gebirge. Doch schon bald wir…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

Tamera J Buzick, Ronald M James, Michael A Bedeau
Bowers Mansion

Few estates born from the discovery of the Comstock Lode still survive. Among the grandest, Bowers Mansion, dates to the height of the Civil War. The property has a tragic history shrouded in legend, laid…

lieferbar ab 24.3.2026.

Buch

Jr. Nicholas Timko
Interwoven Journeys

In the autumn of 1989, a family, a nation, and the European continent faced profound changes. The invincible human spirits of their people brought out the best in them. However, the weight of history, par…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

William Bolitho
Twelve Against the Gods

Twelve Against the Gods by William Bolitho is a dazzling exploration of adventure, ambition, and rebellion. First published in 1929, this literary classic profiles twelve legendary figures-among them Alex…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

John A Ragosta
For the People, For the Country

In 1799, at the behest of President George Washington, Patrick Henry came out of retirement to defend the Constitution that he had once opposed and to thwart Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, whom Washi…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Michael L. Thurmond
James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia

Founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12, 1733, the Georgia colony was envisioned as a unique social welfare experiment. Administered by twenty-one original trustees, the Georgia Plan offered England's …

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

William Bolitho
Twelve Against the Gods

Twelve Against the Gods by William Bolitho is a dazzling exploration of adventure, ambition, and rebellion. First published in 1929, this literary classic profiles twelve legendary figures-among them Alex…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch

Irina Scherbakowa,
Der Schlüssel würde noch passen

Das neue Buch der renommierten und vielfach ausgezeichneten Historikerin, Publizistin und Schriftstellerin Irina ScherbakowaIn 'Der Schlüssel würde noch passen' erzählt Irina Scherbakowa von den kurzen Ja…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

Henner Kotte
Chemnitzer Köpfe in Politik und Wirtschaft

Tatsachen - Band 72

Der Reichtum Sachsens wurde - so eine landläufige Sentenz - in Chemnitz erarbeitet, in Leipzig durch Handel gemehrt und in Dresden verprasst. In "Rußchamtz" stampften und schnurrten die Maschine…

sofort lieferbar

Buch

Katy Tur
Unbelievable

No one saw it coming--- except the NBC journalist who covered (and took fire from) Donald Trump on the 2016 campaign trail. Unbelievable is that award-winning journalist's inside account of the most shock…

Artikel am Lager

Buch

Lina Haber, Schwarcz Glenn
A Refusenik's Odyssey

This is the historical biography of a fiercely communist, atheist young Soviet girl who had to revise her whole way of thinking when she was denied admission to medical school in 1973 because she was Jewi…

lieferbar ab 6.1.2026.

Buch

Pierre Guyotat,
Idiocy

An audacious, unabashedly transgressive memoir about two acts of escape by the author: rebelling aginst his family to seek a freer life in Paris and then, later, from the French military during the Algeri…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Alistair Wood
My Family and Other Spies

An extraordinary true story of growing up inside MI6, uncovering family secrets, and tracing a legacy of British espionage across half a century.'A fabulous romp of a book, part John le Carré, part Ealing…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Douglas J Slawson
The World and Work of Father John J. Burke

The World and Work of Father John J. Burke: A Mystic in Action is a full-length biography of one of the most significant, yet little-known, American Catholic public figures of the twentieth century. Burke…

lieferbar innerhalb 2-3 Wochen

Buch