The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero (Canellos Peter S.)(Pevná vazba)

The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero (Canellos Peter S.)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive, sweeping biography of an American hero who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. They say that history is written by the victors. But not in the case of the most famous dissenter

John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court (Brookhiser Richard)(Pevná vazba)

The life of John Marshall, Founding Father and America's premier chief justice. In 1801, a genial and brilliant Revolutionary War veteran and politician became the fourth chief justice of the United States. He would hold the post for 34 years (still a record), expounding the Constitution he loved

Irreconcilable Founders: Spencer Roane, John Marshall, and the Nature of America's Constitutional Republic (Johnson David)(Pevná vazba)

Virginians dominate the early history of the United States, with Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Patrick Henry, George Mason, George Wythe, and John Marshall figuring prominently in that narrative. Fellow Virginian Spencer Roane (1762-1822), an influential jurist and political thinker, was

Henry Harwood: Hero of the River Plate (Hore Peter)(Pevná vazba)

The first biography of this great WWII British

Saving the Countryside: The Story of Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit (Marshall Linda)(Pevná vazba)

World Magazine's Picture Book of the Year 2020 'Fans of Beatrix Potter will delight in this tribute to her dedication and talent, encapsulating a legacy that reaches far beyond the pages of her beloved books.'-Foreword Reviews in a STARRED REVIEW 'Empowering and fresh.'-School Library Journal 'The

Peter Wyngarde: A Life Amongst Strangers (Wyngarde-Hopkins Tina)(Pevná vazba)

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, THE LIFE STORY OF ONE OF THE GREAT TELEVISION AND STYLE ICONS Peter Wyngarde: the name elicits memories of an actor with worldwide renown and instantly adhesive star quality, who was to hit his professional zenith via his starring roles in the smash hit TV series,

Walkabout (Marshall James Vance)(Paperback / softback)

Walkabout is a survival story for children written by James Vance Marshall.Mary and her young brother Peter are the only survivors of an aircrash in the middle of the Australian outback. Facing death from exhaustion and starvation, they meet an aboriginal boy who helps them to survive, and guides

A Separate Peace (Knowles John)(Pevná vazba)

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. Set at

USS Missouri (Bb-63): America's Last Battleship (Doyle David)(Pevná vazba)

The story of the USS Missouri, one of America's most famous warships of the twentieth century, and the world's last battleship, is told from her inception in 1940, through WWII kamikaze attacks, to her being the location of the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay, on September 2, 1945. Missouri's

Maritime Delimitation as a Judicial Process (Lando Massimo)(Pevná vazba)

Maritime Delimitation as a Judicial Process is the first comprehensive analysis of judicial decisions, state practice and academic opinions on maritime boundary delimitation. For ease of reading and clarity, it follows this three-stage approach in its structure. Massimo Lando analyses the

Fourteenth Colony: The Forgotten Story of the Gulf South During America's Revolutionary Era (Bunn Mike)(Pevná vazba)

The Lenin Plot: The Unknown Story of America's War Against Russia (Carr Barnes)(Pevná vazba)

The surprising story of perhaps the darkest episode in American espionage history: the 'midnight war' to depose Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin. It remains the most audacious spy plot in American history--a bold and extremely dangerous operation to invade Russia, defeat the Red Army, and mount a coup

Edging Towards Darkness - The story of the last timeless Test (Lazenby John)(Pevná vazba)

Lenin Plot - The Untold Story of America's Midnight War Against Russia (Carr Barnes)(Pevná vazba)

The surprising story of one of the darkest episodes in espionage history: the 'midnight war' devised by America and Allied powers to depose Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin and invade

The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Bront Wrote Her Masterpiece (Pfordresher John)(Pevná vazba)

Why did Charlotte Bront go to such great lengths on the publication of her acclaimed, best-selling novel, Jane Eyre, to conceal its authorship from her family, close friends, and the press? In The Secret History of Jane Eyre, John Pfordresher tells the enthralling story of Bront 's compulsion to

Godsend (Wray John)(Pevná vazba)

Inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh, the 'American Taliban,' Whiting Award-winning author John Wray explores the circumstances that could impel a young American to abandon identity and home to become an Islamist militant. Like many other eighteen-year-olds, Aden Sawyer is intently focused on

John Updike: Novels 1978-1984 (Loa #339): The Coup / Rabbit Is Rich / The Witches of Eastwick (Updike John)(Pevná vazba)

The third volume of Library of America's five-volume edition of Updike's novels features the continuation of the renowned Rabbit saga and two wickedly funny satires set in the charged realms of sex, politics, and family. The third volume in our five-volume selected edition of the novels of John

Neon Road Trip (Barnes John)(Pevná vazba)

Take to the road to discover the history and artistry of North America's disappearing neon signs.Neon Road Trip chronicles the history of the commercial neon sign with a curated collection of photographs capturing the most colorful and iconic neon still surviving today.The vivid photographs are

Railway Breakdown Cranes - The Story of Steam Breakdown Cranes on the Railways of Britain (Tatlow Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Grapes Of Wrath (Steinbeck John)(Pevná vazba)

An epic story of the nineteen-thirties' Depression which traces the story of one destitute family among the thousands who fled the Dust Bowl to the promise of California, THE GRAPES OF WRATH awakened the conscience of a

The Old Way: A Story of the First People (Thomas Elizabeth Marshall)(Paperback)

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas was nineteen when her father took his family to live among the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Fifty years later, after a life of writing and study, Thomas returns to her experiences with the Bushmen, one of the last hunter-gatherer societies on earth, and discovers among them an

John Ryan's Express - One of the UK's Largest O Gauge Layouts (Ryan John)(Pevná vazba)

The story behind one of the UK's largest O gauge model railway

Mozart - The Man Revealed (Suchet John)(Pevná vazba)

The illustrated life story of the world's most beloved

The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America (Letts Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

The triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion 'The gift Elizabeth Letts has is that she makes you feel you are