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  • American Pandemic

    The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

    von Nancy Bristow …
    Between the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a forgotten moment in our nation's past. American Pandemic offers a much-needed corrective to the silence surrounding the influenza outbreak. It … Mehr lesen

    € 37,06

  • 1918 - Die Welt im Fieber

    Wie die Spanische Grippe die Gesellschaft veränderte

    von Laura Spinney …
    Übersetzt von Sabine Hübner …
    Gleichen sich die Corona-Pandemie und das Schicksalsjahr 1918? Laura Spinney in ihrem Bestseller über die Spanische Grippe als weltumspannendes gesellschaftliches PhänomenDer Erste Weltkrieg geht zu Ende, und eine weitere Katastrophe fordert viele Millionen Tote: die Spanische Grippe. Binnen weniger Wochen erkrankt ein Drittel der Weltbevölkerung. Trotzdem sind die Auswirkungen auf Gesellschaft, … Mehr lesen

    € 13,99

  • Hillbilly Elegy: The Internationally Bestselling Memoir from Trump’s Future Vice-President of the United States

    von J. D. Vance …
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER / OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLDTHE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT'S ORIGIN STORY‘Essential reading for this moment in history’ New York Times'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist‘Brilliant … offers an acute insight into the reasons voters have put their trust in Trump’ ObserverJ. D. V... … Mehr lesen

    € 7,79

  • Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

    von Margot Lee Shetterly …
    The Top 10 Sunday Times BestsellerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplaySet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program.Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as ‘Human Computers’, calculating … Mehr lesen

    € 6,99

  • One Summer

    America 1927

    von Bill Bryson …
    Serien Buch 2 - Bryson
    In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous man on earth.It was the summer that saw the birth of talking pictures, the invention of television, the peak of Al Capone’s reign … Mehr lesen

    € 9,49

  • Just Kids

    An Autobiography

    von Patti Smith …
    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDIt was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the … Mehr lesen

    Zuvor € 8,89 Jetzt € 2,89

  • Hitlers Helferinnen

    Deutsche Frauen im Holocaust

    von Wendy Lower …
    Übersetzt von Andreas Wirthensohn …
    Sie waren jung und sie waren ehrgeizig. Den deutschen Truppen, die in Polen, in die Ukraine und in Weißrussland einmarschierten, folgten Hunderttausende von Frauen. Krankenschwestern waren dabei, Bürokräfte, aber auch die Ehefrauen von SS-Männern. Vielen von ihnen war eine Unterstützung im Hintergrund nicht genug. Sie griffen selbst zur Waffe, folterten und töteten Unschuldige. Nach dem Krieg … Mehr lesen

    € 11,99

  • The Boys in the Boat

    Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

    von Daniel James Brown …
    **Now a Major Motion Picture Directed by George ClooneyThe #1 New York Times–bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany—from the author of Facing the Mountain.**For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine … Mehr lesen

    Zuvor € 11,76 Jetzt € 7,69

  • Killing Kennedy

    The End of Camelot

    von Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard …
    Series series Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series
    A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln.The basis for the 2013 television movie of the same name starring Rob Lowe as JFK.More than a million readers have thrilled to Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, the page-turning work of nonfiction about the shocking … Mehr lesen

    € 10,66

  • The Nix

    von Nathan Hill …
    'The best new writer of fiction in America. The best.' – **John Irving'The best thing a reviewer can do when faced with a novel of this calibre and breadth is to urge you to read it for yourselves.' – The Guardian**Nathan Hill's brilliant debut, The Nix, journeys from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street; from Chicago in 1968, to wartime Norway: home of the … Mehr lesen

    € 13,52

  • Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent

    Eine Geschichte des neoliberalen Europa

    von Philipp Ther …
    Als im November 1989 die Mauer fiel, begann ein Großexperiment kontinentalen Ausmaßes: Die ehemaligen Staatendes »Ostblocks« wurden binnen kurzer Zeit auf eine neoliberale Ordnung getrimmt und dem Regime der Privatisierungund Liberalisierung unterworfen. Diese Transformation brachte Gewinner und Verlierer hervor: Russland glitt in ein wirtschaftliches Chaos ab, auf dem Präsident Putin sein … Mehr lesen

    € 15,99

  • Kissinger

    1923-1968: The Idealist

    von Niall Ferguson …
    SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY TIMES and FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Hailed by some as the "indispensable man", whose advice has been sought by every president from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush, Kissinger has also attracted immense hostility from critics who have cast him as an amoral … Mehr lesen

    € 12,99

  • The Innovators

    How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

    von Walter Isaacson …
    Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a “riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving” (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? … Mehr lesen

    € 17,27

  • Five Presidents

    My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford

    von Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill …
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November reflects on his seventeen years on the Secret Service for presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford.The assassination of one president, the resignation of another, and the swearing-in of the two who followed those traumatic events. Clint Hill was there, on duty, through Five Presidents.After an … Mehr lesen

    € 16,26

  • Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers

    A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America

    von Lillian Faderman …
    As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she reclaims the history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian identity and subcultures from early networks to more recent diverse lifestyles. She draws from journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, media accounts, … Mehr lesen

    € 19,02

  • Profiles in Courage

    Deluxe Modern Classic

    von John F Kennedy …
    THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CLASSIC OF POLITICAL INTEGRITYWith a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy and introduction by Caroline KennedyJohn F. Kennedy’s enduring classic resounds with timeless lessons on the most cherished of virtues—courage and patriotism—and remains a moving, powerful, and relevant testament to the indomitable American spiritDuring 1954-55, Kennedy, then a junior senator from the … Mehr lesen

    € 11,99

  • Tiere im Nationalsozialismus

    von Jan Mohnhaupt …
    Tiere in Alltag und Ideologie der Diktatur: Jan Mohnhaupt erzählt ein bisher vernachlässigtes Kapitel der NS-Geschichte. Kartoffelkäfer als Kriegswaffe, Schweine zur „Volkserziehung“ – Tiere wurden von den Nazis vereinnahmt. Die Hundezucht diente ihnen als Vorbild für ihren Rassenwahn. Insekten waren Teil der Kriegsvorbereitung. Und der Hirsch sollte den Mythos vom „deutschen Wald“ stützen. In … Mehr lesen

    € 8,99

  • Last Call

    The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

    von Daniel Okrent …
    A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s … Mehr lesen

    € 17,27

  • Closest Companion

    The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley

    Bearbeitet von Geoffrey C. Ward …
    For the first time in paperback, the highly acclaimed, remarkably intimate, and surprisingly revealing secret diary of the woman who spent more private time with FDR than any other person during his years in the White house. At once a love story and a major contribution to history, it offers dramatic new insights into FDR—both the man and the president.• Bestselling author: Geoffrey C. Ward is an … Mehr lesen

    € 14,22

  • King

    The Life of Martin Luther King

    von Jonathan Eig …
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. – and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestsellin... … Mehr lesen

    Zuvor € 10,60 Jetzt € 5,29

  • Alexander Graham Bell

    von Edwin S. Grosvenor, Morgan Wesson …
    ". . . rarely have inventor and invention been better served than in this book." New York Times Book Review. Here, Edwin Grosvenor, American Heritage's publisher and Bell's great-grandson, tells the dramatic story of the race to invent the telephone and how Bell's patent for it would become the most valuable ever issued. He also writes of Bell's other extraordinary inventions: the first … Mehr lesen

    € 10,54

  • Engines of Change

    A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars

    von Paul Ingrassia …
    A narrative like no other: a cultural history that explores how cars have both propelled and reflected the American experience— from the Model T to the Prius.From the assembly lines of Henry Ford to the open roads of Route 66, from the lore of Jack Kerouac to the sex appeal of the Hot Rod, America’s history is a vehicular history—an idea brought brilliantly to life in this major work by Pulitzer … Mehr lesen

    € 15,24

  • Shoot for the Moon

    The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11

    von James Donovan …
    Learn why NASA astronaut Mike Collins calls this extraordinary space race story "the best book on Apollo": this inspiring and intimate ode to ingenuity celebrates one of the most daring feats in human history.When the alarm went off forty thousand feet above the moon's surface, both astronauts looked down at the computer to see 1202 flashing on the readout. Neither of them knew what it meant, and … Mehr lesen

    € 13,99

  • Preacher Behind the White Hoods: A Critical Examination of William Branham and His Message

    von John Collins …
    An in-depth look into the creation of the Post WWII Healing Revival focusing on the historical perspective of William Marrion Branham, who has been credited by some as the evangelist who both initiated and led the movement. Examine the origins of the evangelist, the men who created him, and the men who influenced his doctrine from his early years as a Southern Indiana minister in the river city of … Mehr lesen

    € 4,49