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  • Three Voyages

    Traduit par Charles E. Bennett ...
    This translation of an eyewitness account by a major participant offers valuable information about all three attempts to establish a French colony on the south Atlantic coast of North America.Rene Laudonniere's account of the three attempts by France to colonize what is now the United States is uniquely valuable becausehe played a major role in each of the ventures—first, in 1562, as second in ... En savoir plus

    CHF 17.43

  • Hillbilly Elegy

    A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    par J. D. Vance ...
    Hillbilly Elegy recounts Vice President J.D. Vance's powerful origin story...From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as the Vice President of the United States, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class.THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"You will not read a more importa... ... En savoir plus

    Avant CHF 10.98 Après CHF 7.20

  • These Truths

    A History of the United States

    par Jill Lepore ...
    **This "Jubilee Edition" includes a brand-new chapter on the Age of TrumpA New York Times, a Independent Press Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the YearIn the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation on its 250th anniversary.**Two hundred fifty years after the ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.84

  • La Corporation

    par T.J. English ...
    Traduit par Pierre Guglielmina ...
    Collection series Documents, témoignages et essais d’actualité
    La Corporation, c’est le nom que s’est elle-même donné l’organisation mafieuse la plus prospère des États-Unis au cours de la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle. S’appuyant sur la communauté cubaine exilée en Floride, profondément humiliée par la déroute de la baie des Cochons, un ancien policier de La Havane, Pedro Miguel Battle, a bâti un empire financier à la vitesse de l’éclair à partir d’une ... En savoir plus

    CHF 11.00

  • The Flight

    Charles Lindbergh's Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing

    par Dan Hampton ...
    "GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT." — WALL STREET JOURNAL • From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history comes a masterful account of Lindbergh’s death-defying nonstop transatlantic flight in Spirit of St. LouisOn the rainy morning of May 20, 1927, a little-known American pilot named Charles A. Lindbergh climbed into his single-engine monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, and prepared ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.99

  • Gotham

    A History of New York City to 1898

    Collection series The History of NYC Series
    To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the ... En savoir plus

    CHF 22.56

  • American Political History

    A Very Short Introduction

    Collection series Very Short Introductions
    The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those features. In American Political History: A Very Short Introduction, Donald Critchlow takes on this contradiction between original theory and actual ... En savoir plus

    CHF 6.44

  • Henry Hudson, un navigateur maudit

    L’exploration de la côte Est des Amériques

    Collection Livre 9 - Grandes Découvertes
    Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Henry Hudson et l’exploration de la côte Est des Amériques en moins d’une heure !Au début du mois de mai 1607, Henry Hudson, jeune capitaine anglais, lève l’ancre, chargé par la compagnie de Moscovie de trouver une nouvelle voie menant à l’Extrême-Orient par le nord-est. C’est le début d’une longue série d’expéditions qui mèneront l’explorateur aux ... En savoir plus

    CHF 15.00 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • We Carry Their Bones

    The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

    par Erin Kimmerle ...
    "With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice." –Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground RailroadForensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.05

  • A Summer on the Plains, Illustrated.

    An Eastern Correspondent spends the summer on duty with Hancock's 1867 Indian Expedition, following Hancock and Custer as they attempt to make peace with the warring Indians on the plains. Good examples of real life in the Indian Wars. ... En savoir plus

    CHF 0.80

  • Historic Walks in San Francisco

    18 Trails Through the City's Past

    par Rand Richards ...
    Eighteen self-guided walking tours down city streets that will take you back in time, with colorful stories about the buildings along the way and the people associated with them. Easy-to-follow maps, and dozens of historic photographs.You will read tales about such well-known figures as Jack London, Mark Twain, Ulysses S. Grant, the Emperor Norton, Lenny Bruce, and Janis Joplin, all of who played ... En savoir plus

    CHF 8.05

  • Bath Massacre

    America's First School Bombing

    par Arnie Bernstein ...
    "With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storyteller's eye for human drama, Bernstein shines a beam of truth on a forgotten American tragedy. Heartbreaking and riveting."---Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling author of Starvation Heights"A chilling and historic character study of the unfathomable suffering that desperation and fury, once unleashed inside a twisted mind, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 11.07

  • The Big Fella

    Babe Ruth and the World He Created

    par Jane Leavy ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive Babe Ruth biography—the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity."A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:The Boston Globe | Publishers Weekly | Kirkus | Newsweek | The Philadelphia Inquirer | The ProgressiveWinner of the 2019 SABR Seymour Medal | ... En savoir plus

    CHF 12.12

  • Five Points

    The Nineteenth-Century New York City Neighborhood

    par Tyler Anbinder ...
    The very letters of the two words seem, as they are written, to redden with the blood-stains of unavenged crime. There is Murder in every syllable, and Want, Misery and Pestilence take startling form and crowd upon the imagination as the pen traces the words." So wrote a reporter about Five Points, the most infamous neighborhood in nineteenth-century America, the place where "slumming" was ... En savoir plus

    CHF 16.45

  • The Bookshop

    A History of the American Bookstore

    par Evan Friss ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGoodreads Choice Award Winner in History & BiographyOne of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024"A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category." —The New York Times"It is a delight to wander through the bookstores of American history in this warm, generous book." —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author and owner of Books Are ... En savoir plus

    CHF 5.94

  • A History of New York in 101 Objects

    par Sam Roberts ...
    “Delightfully surprising….A portable virtual museum…an entertaining stroll through the history of one of the world’s great cities” (Kirkus Reviews), told through 101 distinctive objects that span the history of New York, almost all reproduced in luscious, full color.Inspired by A History of the World in 100 Objects, Sam Roberts of The New York Times chose fifty objects that embody the narrative of ... En savoir plus

    CHF 18.35

  • The Greatest and Deadliest Hurricanes of the Caribbean and the Americas

    The Stories Behind the Great Storms of the North Atlantic

    par Wayne Neely ...
    With modern weather forecasting, we can monitor, track, and predict the path of hurricanes like never before. But all you have to do is look at pictures of the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina or research the massive cleanup costs of Hurricane Sandy to realize that these storms can still have devastating consequences. Wayne Neely, a meteorologist at the Department of Meteorology in Nassau, Bahamas ... En savoir plus

    CHF 4.61

  • The Wit and Wisdom of Patrick Baude

    Exploring the Good Life in Bloomington

    par Patrick Baude ...
    "Wine," Benjamin Franklin wrote, "is proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy." The late Patrick Baude added that wine writing is not really "about wine as such" but rather "the good life to which wine might be a tool." In this wide-ranging collection, the much-loved professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law reflects on wine, spirits, beer and their relationship to that ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.02 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • 1000 Dark America History Not Fun Facts: Disturbing, Gruesome Trivia You’ll Regret Knowing

    par Andrea Febrian ...
    WARNING: If you're looking for "inspiring" history… close this page.But if you're tired of the polished, classroom-safe version of the past—and you crave the raw, unsettling truth—this book is the darkest rabbit hole you'll read all year.Most history books feel like homework. The facts are buried under lectures, dates, and "acceptable" narratives. You want dark American history that grabs you by ... En savoir plus

    CHF 5.00 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Notorious Kansas Bank Heists

    Gunslingers to Gangsters

    par Rod Beemer ...
    Bank robbers wreaked havoc in the Sunflower State. After robbing the Chautauqua State Bank in 1911, outlaw Elmer McCurdy was killed by lawmen but wasn't buried for sixty-six years. His afterlife can be described only as bizarre. Belle Starr's nephew Henry Starr claimed to have robbed twenty-one banks. The Dalton gang failed in their attempt to rob two banks simultaneously, but others accomplished ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.02 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Pioneers in Paradise

    A Historical and Biographical Record of Early Days in Three Rivers, California 1850s to 1950s

    par Sophie Britten ...
    This book tells the hundred-year history of Three Rivers, California, from the 1850s to the 1950s. Three Rivers has always been a special place, one of rolling wooded hills, nestled close to the High Sierra mountains. Those mountains feed the rivers that give the place its name. It was an ideal place for the pioneers of this story to settle.The book is divided into two basic parts. The first tells ... En savoir plus

    CHF 8.05

  • Sky Determines

    An Interpretation of the Southwest

    par Ross Calvin ...
    Desert environment leaves its stark impress upon plants, animals, and men. And Ross Calvin tells the beautifully strange story of New Mexico-its ancient culture, the coming of the Spanish friars, the Spanish occupation, pueblo life, the Apaches and their long warfare with the whites, cattle and sheep raising and cowboys and outlaws, and the old trails, and the coming of the railroads-treating all ... En savoir plus

    CHF 5.12 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Glory Years of the Pennsylvania Turnpike

    Take a journey on the Pennsylvania Turnpike - the "superhighway" that went from one generation's tourist destination to the ridicule of another's. The Pennsylvania Turnpike opened to traffic on October 1, 1940. Built using the right-of-way and unfinished tunnels of the never completed South Pennsylvania Railroad, it was a supreme achievement of civil engineering. The new highway immediately ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.02 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • A Family of Women

    The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War

    The often-stereotyped belles and matrons of the nineteenth-century South emerge as diverse personalities in this compelling account of three generations of women from a South Carolina family whose fate rose and fell with the fortunes of the state. Through vivid, interwoven life stories, the book offers a unique perspective on how these women conducted their lives, shared personal triumphs and ... En savoir plus

    CHF 21.84