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  • Black Patriots and Loyalists

    Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence

    de Alan Gilbert ...
    A surprising look at the roles of African Americans in the Revolutionary War: "An elegant and passionate writer, Alan Gilbert pulls no punches."— HistorianWe think of the American Revolution as the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population—African Americans would still be bound in slavery for ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Cookbook for Revenge

    Revenge is a Process

    de Gilbert-Alan Sanchez ...
    After working in the hospitality industry all his life, Aaron had seen and endured so much abuse of power and people that the pleasure the industry used to give to him was gone and replaced with anger and resentment. What he thought he could never do finally happened. His fantasies of getting revenge finally came to the surface, and he decided to create a cookbook of recipes—recipes for revenge. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • In Search of a Home

    Rental and Shared Housing in Latin America

    de Alan Gilbert ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Housing
    Originally published in 1993, In Search of a Home filled a conspicuous gap in the literature on housing in the developing world at the time. For many years, self-help settlement and the owner-occupier had commanded the attention of governments and researchers, leaving huge numbers of tenants and sharers invisible. However, the assumption that every family both wished and was able to become an ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Urban Informality

    Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia

    de Asef Bayat, Ray Bromley, Alan Gilbert, Arif Hasan, Janice E. Perlman, Ahmed M. Soliman, Peter M. Ward, Haim Yakobi, Oren Yiftachel ...
    Series series Transnational Perspectives on Space and Place
    The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trends. The contributions reveal that informal housing is no longer the domain of the urban poor; rather it is a significant ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • All That Rhymes with Love

    A Collection of Evocative Poetry

    de Alan Gilbert ...
    Poetry is an ageless form of art. It speaks to our soul, gives rise to a myriad of emotions, and lays a foundation of intellectual stimulation that lasts long after we finish reading. Alan Gilbert delivers such fine poetry in his collection, All that Rhymes with Love. Influenced not only by the poets of the Romantic Era, but also more contemporary writers such as Phillip Larkin, Gilbert has ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Landlord and Tenant

    Housing the Poor in Urban Mexico

    de Alan Gilbert, Ann Varley ...
    This ground-breaking work employs survey data and in-depth interviews to compile a detailed picture of landlords and tenants in developing countries. Focusing on Mexico the authors examine the state's housing policy, with its clear bias towards increasing home ownership, and explores the possibilities of improving the quality and increasing the stock of rented accommodation in the developing World ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Weighing Washington Chardonnays

    Vine Talk Episode 104

    de Vine Talk ...
    Narrado por Stanley Tucci, Jennifer Coolidge, Alan Gilbert, Steven Raichlen ...
    Series Audiolibro 104 - Season One

    Completo

    27 minutos

    Stylish, trend-setting, and bold, Vine Talk's host Stanley Tucci invites a panel of celebrity friends to join him for engaging conversation and blind taste-tests from different selections of world famous wineries each week. Regardless of personal expertise, all can enjoy the intriguing dialogue from each diverse panel. ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Beginning Or the End

    How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    de Greg Mitchell ...
    The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production.Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called “the most important story” he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new weapon ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Charles I's Executioners

    Civil War, Regicide & the Republic

    de James Hobson ...
    This biographical history of the English Civil War profiles the lives and ultimate fates of the nearly 60 men who sentenced their king to death.On January 30th, 1649, King Charles I was executed on a scaffold outside the Banqueting House of Whitehall. The parliamentarian High Court of Justice declared him guilty of treason, disregarding the Divine Right of Kings. Fifty-nine commissioners signed ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Gettysburg's Peach Orchard

    Longstreet, Sickles, and the Bloody Fight for the "Commanding Ground" Along the Emmitsburg Road

    de James A. Hessler, Britt C. Isenberg ...
    A "fascinating illumination of little-known accounts and personalities" by two experts on the Battle of Gettysburg ( Civil War News).The historiography of Gettysburg's second day is usually dominated by the Union's successful defense of Little Round Top—but the day's most influential action occurred nearly one mile west along the Emmitsburg Road, in farmer Joseph Sherfy's peach orchard. This is ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Water Tossing Boulders

    How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools inthe Jim Crow South

    de Adrienne Berard ...
    A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never toldOn September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Wall, Watchtower, and Pencil Stub

    Writing During World War II

    de John R. Carpenter ...
    It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature—Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others—can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD