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  • Grave

    podle Allison C. Meier ...
    Série série Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Grave takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they continue to change. As a cemetery tour guide, Allison C. Meier has spent more time walking among tombstones than most. Even for her, the grave has largely been invisible, an out of the way and ... Přečtěte si více

    141,56 Kč

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  • Ghostland

    An American History in Haunted Places

    podle Colin Dickey ...
    **One of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016“A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing…[and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers on a road trip through some of the country’s most infamously haunted places—and deep into the dark side of our ... Přečtěte si více

    217,49 Kč

  • The Trayvon Generation

    From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing meditation on the power of art and culture to illuminate America's unresolved problem with race.*Named a Most Anticipated Title of 2022 by TIME magazine, New York Times, Bustle, and more*In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 and following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and ... Přečtěte si více

    183,79 Kč

  • New York City's Hart Island

    A Cemetery of Strangers

    podle Michael T. Keene ...
    Série série Landmarks
    The story of the nation's largest mass graveyard and the nearly one million people buried there—based on new documents and advances in DNA technology.Once a Civil War prison and training site and later a psychiatric hospital, among other incarnations, Hart Island, just off the coast of the Bronx in the Long Island Sound, eventually became the repository for New York City's unclaimed dead. The ... Přečtěte si více

    277,69 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • The Design of Childhood

    How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids—Featuring the Author's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays

    **From the Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism ** Now Updated with New Material**"[Lange] might be the most influential design critic writing now." -The Los Angeles Review of BooksFrom building blocks to city blocks, an eye-opening exploration of the ways children's playthings and surroundings affect their development-now featuring the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning essays.Parent... ... Přečtěte si více

    291,39 Kč

  • What Is the Statue of Liberty?

    podle Joan Holub, Who HQ ...
    Ilustroval/a John Hinderliter ...
    Série série What Was?
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Learn how the Statue of Liberty made her way to New York Harbor in this fascinating history for young readers, part of the beloved What Was? series. The perfect way to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary!In 1876, France decided to give the United States a very big and very special present: the Statue of Liberty! Proposed by Edouard de Laboulaye and designed by ... Přečtěte si více

    97,59 Kč

  • Over My Dead Body

    Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries

    podle Greg Melville ...
    Journalist Greg Melville’s Over My Dead Body is an “astonishing . . . fascinating . . . powerful” (New York Times Book Review) tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our dead.“You hold in your hands a treasure map, a gentle, sly, and poignant presence leading us to places in America and in our lives that have been hiding in plain sight. This tale is ... Přečtěte si více

    244,39 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • American Eden

    From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are

    podle Wade Graham ...
    “American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literature, biography, and design theory. . . . fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose.” —Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge“Informative and absolutely engrossing.” —Ross King, author of Brunelleschi's DomeGarden designer and historian Wade Graham offers a unique vision ... Přečtěte si více

    240,89 Kč

  • New England Icons

    Shaker Villages, Saltboxes, Stone Walls and Steeples

    podle Bruce Irving ...
    Connect with the original New England.We tend to think of icons as simple, graphic, stone or wooden objects without much depth or life, left overs from bygone eras. But Bruce Irving, former producer of the popular PBS show This Old House, will have none of that. In a collection of short essays, Irving taps into our collective consciousness by extolling the comforting sense of place we associate ... Přečtěte si více

    628,49 Kč

  • Learn Something New Every Day

    365 Facts to Fulfill Your Life

    podle Kee Malesky ...
    Learn something new with 366 fascinating facts from NPR librarian Kee MaleskyWhat was the greatest thing before sliced bread?1 What color did carrots used to be?2 Why do many American spellings differ from their British counterparts?3 What does it mean "to have one's eyes lined with ham"? 4 If you know the answers to these questions, then you're John Hodgman. If you had to look for them below, you ... Přečtěte si více

    219,99 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Real Hauntings 4-Book Bundle

    Creepy Capital / Spooky Sudbury / Haunted Hamilton / Tomes of Terror

    Experience a ghostly thrill with Mark Leslie’s four books on strange supernatural happenings.Creepy CapitalTrue stories of ghostly encounters and creepy locales lurk throughout the Ottawa region. Come along with Canada’s paranormal raconteur extraordinaire, Mark Leslie, and discover the first-person accounts of ghostly happenings at landmarks throughout the historic city and surrounding towns ... Přečtěte si více

    352,69 Kč

  • Inside the Lost Museum

    Curating, Past and Present

    podle Steven Lubar ...
    Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage of discovery that also tells an essential story. Collecting captures the past in a way useful to the present and the future. Exhibits play to our senses and orchestrate our impressions, balancing presentation and preservation, information and emotion. Curators consider visitors’ interactions with ... Přečtěte si více

    514,59 Kč