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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 17.12

  • 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

    CHF 10.98

  • These Truths

    A History of the United States

    par Jill Lepore ...
    **New York Times BestsellerIn the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history.**Written in elegiac prose, Lepore’s groundbreaking investigation places truth itself—a devotion to ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.53

  • 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 21.02

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 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 5.84

  • 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

  • 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 0.78

  • 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 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

  • 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 10.87

  • 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 7.89

  • 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 6.31

  • 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

  • Fire Island

    Heroes & Villains on Long Island's Wild Shore

    par Jack Whitehouse ...
    Fire Island, or Great South Beach as it is also known, is a 32-mile long sliver of a barrier beach located just off the South Shore of Long Island. Always a wild, lonely and untamed wilderness, its shores, waterways and the lands surrounding it have given us innumerable stories -- some inspirational, some frightening, but all of them intriguing. The stories in this book portray people and events ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.02 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Secret Pittsburgh: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

    par Karyn Locke ...
    Pittsburgh, PA is affectionately known as The Steel City and The ‘Burgh to locals, but there’s so much more to the renaissance city than just nicknames—and that includes all of the weird, wonderful, and obscure locations that make it an ideal place to visit and call home. Where can you find a road paved solely with wood or public steps that have actual street names? Is there a place in The Golden ... En savoir plus

    CHF 10.26

  • The Tornado

    Collection Livre 83 - Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
    The Tornado gives account of one of the world’s most terrifying natural disasters. Twisters have left their wake of freakish consequences throughout the United States and the world, and The Tornado vividly describes some of the most bizarre from around the country—houseboats sailing through the air; cars flown to a landing half a cornfield away; an entire house lifted and demolished, leaving only ... En savoir plus

    CHF 6.86

  • Varieties of Southern Religious Experiences

    Modifié par Samuel S. Hill ...
    Over the past twenty years there has been a dramatic increase in the number, scope, and quality of studies of religion in the American South. This new work has been inspired and furthered by a growing acknowledgment of the importance of religious studies in general, by the conviction that religion has always been basic to popular discourse in the South, and by an awareness of the bearing of ... En savoir plus

    CHF 14.97

  • Chatham

    From the Second World War to the Age of Aquarius

    par Debra Lawless ...
    Picking up where Chatham in the Jazz Age left off, this exciting new book by Debra Lawless explores the history of Chatham, from the beginning of the Second World War to the end of the 1960s. Meet a brave group of people who rationed their food and mourned the loss of their sons, including Robert Scott Brown, the only soldier from Cape Cod killed at Pearl Harbor. As the military took over the ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.02 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Prohibition in Southwestern Michigan

    Even in law-abiding southwestern Michigan, the Eighteenth Amendment turned ordinary citizens into scofflaws and sparked unprecedented unrest. Betta Holloway reached her breaking point when her husband, a Portland cop, was shot pursuing a rumrunner. She relieved his pain with a neighbor's homebrew. As farmers across the region fermented their fruit to make a living, gangsters like Al Capone amassed ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.02 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Lost Suwannee County

    par Eric Musgrove ...
    Suwannee County is filled with forgotten echoes of its lost past, from demolished pioneer homes to defunct railroads to lost forts from the Seminole Wars. In the 1830s, ecotourism arrived. Local sulfur springs, with their grand hotels and health resorts, drew travelers from around the world for a dip in the same healing waters of the Suwannee River traversed by steamboats. Thundering iron horses ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.02 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus