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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
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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Philippe Labro rend hommage à l'Amérique et ses étoiles. Cinquante portraits d'hommes et de femmes marquants et admirables : l'audace de Mohamed Ali, le génie de Billie Holiday, le symbole Bob Dylan, la plume de Truman Capote, le courage de Marylin Monroe, la légende Al Capone, l'aura de JFK... Il retrace avec passion leurs combats, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 752 páginas
PVP: 43,20 €
ISBN 978-0-375-42322-2
EAN 9780375423222
On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with officials for improved conditions during the four long days and nights that followed. On September 13, the state abruptly sent hundreds of heavily ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-06-256120-6
EAN 9780062561206
Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks-the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger-the pilot who miraculously landed a crippled US Airways Flight 1549 in New York's Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew. On January 15, 2009, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-97565-7
EAN 9780241975657
Guy Lawson's Arms and the Dudes is the page-turning, inside account of how three kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders - and how the US government turned on them. In January of 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach won a 300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 306 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-19-874538-9
EAN 9780198745389
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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
PVP: 19,00 €
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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,65 €
ISBN 978-1-63149-162-7
EAN 9781631491627
The explosive account of how Republican legislators and political operatives fundamentally rigged our American democracy through redistricting. With Barack Obama's historic election in 2008, pundits proclaimed the Republicans as dead as the Whigs of yesteryear. Yet even as Democrats swooned, a small cadre of Republican operatives, including Karl Rove, Ed Gillespie, and Chris Jankowski began ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 23,65 €
ISBN 978-0-19-977756-3
EAN 9780199777563
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 25,10 €
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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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 dura · 608 páginas
PVP: 35,75 €
ISBN 978-0-8129-9334-9
EAN 9780812993349
History remembers Robert F. Kennedy as a racial healer, a tribune for the poor, and the last progressive knight. But Kennedy'nurtured on the rightist orthodoxies of his dynasty-building father'started his public life as counsel to the left-baiting, table-thumping Senator Joseph McCarthy. A bare-knuckled political operative who masterminded his brothers whatever-it-takes bids for senator and president, ...
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In the first years of the Civil War, Southern arms won spectacular victories on the battlefield; however, cooler heads in the Confederacy recognized the demographic and industrial weight pitted against them, and counted on British intervention to even those scales in order to deny the United States victory. Bluff, Bluster Lies and Spies is a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 9,60 €
ISBN 978-0-19-045816-4
EAN 9780190458164
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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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PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21974-6
EAN 9780300219746
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