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PVP: 19,05 €
ISBN 978-0-226-42071-4
EAN 9780226420714
Christian Bagge, an Iraq War veteran, lost both his legs in a roadside bomb attack on his Humvee in 2006. Months after the accident, outfitted with sleek new prosthetic legs, he jogged alongside President Bush for a photo op at the White House. The photograph served many functions, one of them being to revive faith ...
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Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor. Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O'Reilly ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-300-22348-4
EAN 9780300223484
A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all agesHow did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated ...
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Contested Conventions
The Struggle to Establish the Constitution and Save the Union, 1787 1789
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 25,20 €
ISBN 978-1-4214-2026-4
EAN 9781421420264
There is perhaps no more critical juncture in American history than the years in which Americans drafted the federal Constitution, fiercely debated its merits and failings, and adopted it, albeit with reservations. In Contested Conventions, senior historian Melvin Yazawa examines the political and ideological clashes that accompanied the transformation of the country from a loose ...
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Who Owns the Dead?
The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-97149-3
EAN 9780674971493
After September 11, with New Yorkers reeling from the World Trade Center attack, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch proclaimed that his staff would do more than confirm the identity of the individuals who were killed. They would attempt to identify and return to families every human body part recovered from the site that was larger ...
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Blossom, James M.; Boebert, Earl
Deepwater Horizon
A Systems Analysis of the Macondo Disaster
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 204 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-54523-6
EAN 9780674545236
On April 20, 2010, the crew of the floating drill rig Deepwater Horizon lost control of the Macondo oil well forty miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Escaping gas and oil ignited, destroying the rig, killing eleven crew members, and injuring dozens more. The emergency spiraled into the worst human-made economic and ecological disaster ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 592 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-4711-6078-3
EAN 9781471160783
'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a pioneering voyage across the Great Plains and into the Rockies.It was completely uncharted territory; a wild, ...
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The Politics of Mourning
Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery
- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 416 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73724-2
EAN 9780674737242
Arlington National Cemetery is Americas most sacred shrine, a destination for four million visitors who each year tour its grounds and honor those buried there. For many, Arlingtons symbolic importance places it beyond politics. Yet as Micki McElya shows, no site in the United States plays a more political role in shaping national identity.Arlington commemorates ...
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American Heiress
The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
- Random House USA, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 34,10 €
ISBN 978-0-385-53671-4
EAN 9780385536714
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists on April 3, when the group released a tape of Patty saying ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-5011-1564-6
EAN 9781501115646
At ninety, Jimmy Carter reflects on his public and private life with a frankness that is disarming. He adds detail and emotion about his youth in rural Georgia that he described in his magnificentAn Hour Before Daylight. He writes about racism and the isolation of the Carters. He describes the brutality of the hazing regimen ...
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Trying to Float
Chronicles of a Girl in the Chelsea Hotel
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-4711-5686-1
EAN 9781471156861
"They were like balloons that had escaped a child's grasp - pointlessly floating. "Focus!" I would plead with my mother. And my father was forever being diverted." Allow us to introduce you to the Rips family: Michael, Sheila and daughter Nicolaia, the last denizens of New York's famous Chelsea Hotel.Better yet, allow Nicolaia to introduce ...
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Crucible of Command
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee: tThe War They Fought, the Peace They Forged
- Da Capo Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 629 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-306-82416-6
EAN 9780306824166
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-933555-8
EAN 9780199335558
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the "New Negro" movement, a social and political phenomenon that promoted a proud racial identity, economic independence, and progressive politics. In this Very Short Introduction, Cheryl A.Wall captures the Harlem Renaissance's zeitgeist by identifying ...
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Founders as Fathers
The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries
- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21974-6
EAN 9780300219746
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
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PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-24732-7
EAN 9780241247327
Geopolitical thought leader Ian Bremmer issues a clarion call to America: redefine your place in the world, or the world will define it for you America's identity abroad has long been defined by the second World War and years of Cold War struggle. But the new America has changed; its role and identity are in ...
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Revolutions without Borders
The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World
- Yale University Press, 2016
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PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21984-5
EAN 9780300219845
Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804. National borders were powerless to restrict the flow of enticing new visions of human rights and universal freedom. This expansive history explores how the revolutionary ideas that spurred the American and ...
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- Random House UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 832 páginas
PVP: 22,95 €
ISBN 978-0-307-95114-4
EAN 9780307951144
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Even as the discovery and exploitation of hephaestium helped bring the Civil War to its close in 1869, the arms race it engendered resulted in a cold war just as bitter and violent as the open hostilities had been. With neither side willing to rely solely upon the talents of their scientific establishments, saboteurs, double-agents, ...
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- St. Martin's Griffin, 2016
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PVP: 13,90 €
ISBN 978-1-250-09233-5
EAN 9781250092335
A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy.In this 1 New York Times Bestseller, the anchor of "The O'Reilly Factor "recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy - and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president ...
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Corruption in America
From Benjamin Franklin s Snuff Box to Citizens United
- Harvard University Press, 2016
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PVP: 20,35 €
ISBN 978-0-674-65998-8
EAN 9780674659988
When Louis XVI gave Ben Franklin a diamond-encrusted snuffbox, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to corrupt him by clouding his judgment. By contrast, in 2010 the Supreme Court gave corporations the right to spend unlimited money to influence elections. Zephyr Teachout shows that Citizens United was both bad law and bad history.
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