The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world.After winning the struggle for ascendency in the late 13th century, the Republic enjoyed centuries of unprecedented glory and built a trading empire which at its apogee rea…
By profiling some of the most celebrated personalities of European history, including Marco Polo, Galileo, Titian, Petrarch, Vivaldi and Casanova, this vibrant history of the Republic of Venice reveals how it became the first great economic, cultural and naval power of the moder…
A young girl growing up in rural Pennsylvania eschews her Japanese heritage until she learns the details of the time her grandmother spent in an internment camp along with 112,000 other Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
A young girl growing up in rural Pennsylvania eschews her Japanese heritage until she learns the details of the time her grandmother spent in an internment camp along with 112,000 other Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The poignant story of a Japanese-American woman's journey through one of the most shameful chapters in American history.
A young girl growing up in rural Pennsylvania eschews her Japanese heritage until she learns the details of the time her grandmother spent in an internment camp along with 112,000 other Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
In Russian literary marriages the wives of some of the most famous authors of all time played a vital role in the creation of some of the greatest literary works in history. From Sophia Tolstoy to Vera Nabokov, Elena Bulgakov, Nadezdha Mandelstam, Anna Dostevsky, and Natalya Sol…
A biographical look at the intellectual relationships between some of Russia's greatest writers and their wives.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
A biographical look at the intellectual relationships between some of Russia's greatest writers and their wives.
Muses and editors, saviors and publishers: Meet the women behind the greatest works of Russian literature & ldquo;Behind every good man is a good woman & rdquo; is a common saying, but when it comes to literature, the relationship between spouses is even that much more complex. …
A biographical look at the intellectual relationships between some of Russia's greatest writers and their wives.
Chronicles the uses of and modifications to Buckingham Palace from 1763, when King George III acquired the house and gave it to Queen Charlotte, to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
A biography of the world & rsquo;s most famous house and the story of its vital role in the history of a nation In this social history of Buckingham Palace, Edna Healey mines the royal archives to take the reader into its moonlit gardens, up the grand staircase, and inside its t…
In Cocaine Nation, Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and Tijuana to London and New York, meeting Medellin hitmen, U.S. kingpins, Brazilian traffickers, and talking to soldiers and narcotics officers who fight the gangs and cartels. He traces …
Cutting through the myths about the white trade, this is the story of cocaine as it's never been told before.