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It might not be in your lifetime', said the Chief Justice of the United States when asked whether the files on the assassination of President Kennedy would be made public. If the President was killed by a lone gunman, as the first official enquiry claimed, why can we still not see all relevant records? Fifty years on and the murder of the century remains unsolved. Drawing on thirty years of investigation, Anthony Summers examines the case in compelling, forensic detail. He analyses the evidence ...

Data di rilascio : 2013-10-10 Genere:Storia 1,99 €

1860-1890: è il trentennio della «soluzione finale» del problema indiano, con la distruzione della cultura e della civiltà dei pellerossa. In questo periodo nascono tutti i grandi miti del West, un'epopea a esclusivo beneficio degli uomini bianchi. I racconti dei commercianti di pellicce, dei missionari, dei cercatori d'oro, delle Giacche Blu, degli avventurieri, dei costruttori di ferrovie e di città stendono una fitta coltre che nasconde la versione indiana sulla conquista del West. I pel...

Data di rilascio : 2017-11-28 7,99 €

Dal primo contatto tra europei e indiani alle nuove influenze nel panorama politico mondiale. Quella del Canada è una storia da principio fatta di indiani e di Inuit, poi di francesi, poi di britannici, poi di immigrati provenienti da ogni parte del mondo, tutti ugualmente “canadesi”, diversi tanto dai loro antenati asiatici o europei quanto dai loro vicini statunitensi. Il caso canadese viene perciò continuamente comparato con le madrepatrie europee e con quello, spesso opposto, degli Sta...

Data di rilascio : 2018-03-14 6,99 €

The original 9/11 Revealed attracted lavish praise from reviewers in the Daily Mail and Sunday Times for the 'huge gaps' it exposed in the official 9/11 story. It became a non-fiction bestseller despite a wall of silence by the broadcast media and condemnation in a special web page set up by the US State Department. Since then the story has produced many sinister new twists, including: Pentagon whistleblowers have accused the 'Independent 9/11 Commission' of lying; long-suppressed eyewitness tes...

Data di rilascio : 2021-09-09 2,99 €

The Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. Between 1492 and about 1870, ten million or more black slaves were carried from Africa to one port or another of the Americas. In this wide-ranging book, Hugh Thomas follows the development of this massive shift of human lives across the centuries until the slave trade's abolition in the late nineteenth century.

Data di rilascio : 2015-11-12 3,99 €

The explosive, untold story of the Cold War's biggest secret. The REAL X-Files. It is the most famous military installation in the world. And no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside of it. Until now. This is the first book based on interviews with scientists, pilots, and engineers - 58 in total - who provide an unprecedented look into the mysterious activities of a top-secret base, from the Cold War to today. With a jaw-dropping ending, it proves that facts are ofte...

Data di rilascio : 2011-05-17 4,49 €

La storia, le tradizioni e i valori dei nativi americani - la venerazione per la Natura, il rispetto per i propri simili, il forte senso di appartenenza alla famiglia, alla comunità, alla nazione, la profonda ritualità che caratterizza le loro cerimonie - suscitano un interesse crescente perché suggeriscono un modo di affrontare l'esistenza diverso da quello contemporaneo, più ricco e in armonia con i cicli della Natura. Ma qual è la loro vera filosofia di vita? Come è potuta sopravvivere ...

Data di rilascio : 2013-07-04 12,99 €

'An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction' TIME OUT One was an architect. The other a serial killer. This is the incredible story of these two men and their realization of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and its amazing 'White City'; one of the wonders of the world. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer w...

Data di rilascio : 2010-09-30 9,49 €

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492—from “a remarkably engaging writer” ( The New York Times Book Review).   Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The asto...

Data di rilascio : 2005-08-09 10,99 €

«La nuova frontiera» non è solo la formula – memorabile – nella quale John F. Kennedy decise di racchiudere il senso e la sfida della sua presidenza. Quando, nel luglio del 1960, la pronunciò per la prima volta, l’America si trovava in un passaggio difficile della sua storia, non tanto per i rischi di una perdita della supremazia strategica, in un mondo dominato dalla guerra fredda, quanto per una sorta di insicurezza, di calo di fiducia nel proprio potenziale e nei propri destini. A e...

Data di rilascio : 2012-07-11 4,99 €

L’Autore in questo volume ha l’intento di  chiarire le ragioni dei Sudisti e le loro vere aspirazioni, per poi comprendere meglio la Confederazione Sudista e fare luce sulle reali cause del conflitto. La Guerra Civile Americana ha portato infatti alla nascita degli Stati Uniti moderni, la contrapposizione tra la Confederazione e la sua antieconomica e obsoleta “peculiare istituzione” (la schiavitù) e l’Unione, la cui esplosione industriale ed economica mise il “Vecchio Sud” n...

Data di rilascio : 2013-01-01 8,49 €

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply engaging history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world—from the highly acclaimed author of 1491 . • "Fascinating...Lively...A convincing explanation of why our world is the way it is." — The New York Times Book Review Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the post-Columbian network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe...

Data di rilascio : 2011-08-09 7,49 €

The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Hondu...

Data di rilascio : 2017-01-03 Genere:Storia 10,99 €

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1. Don't judge a book by its cover - Good read, wonderful first half of the book and an amazing story. I'm a little bit put off by what feels like a lot of extra information that i wasn't sure I wanted to know in the second half of the book, and very put off by the silly title and book cover that do a great work making this book seem less serious than it really is. Thanks for the references to the rare ancient texts written by locals. They were available in the Apple Store too, will read!
2017-01-06

"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C."  —H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations and decisions, it is the only book...

Data di rilascio : 2011-03-01 Genere:Storia 11,99 €

*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award* This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revelation…will leave dust and blood on your jeans” ( The New York Times Book Review ). Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing ...

Data di rilascio : 2010-05-25 15,99 €

***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** 'Hancock's books provide a fascinating, alternative version of prehistory. America Before, detailed and wide-ranging, turns what was myth and legend into a new story of the past.' Daily Mail Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author and television presenter, has made it his life's work to find out -- and in America Before, he draws on the latest...

Data di rilascio : 2019-04-02 3,99 €

The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway’s Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the Author When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and goodw...

Data di rilascio : 2011-07-12 Genere:Storia 10,99 €

A bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today. Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about, but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark. Parenti shows how "rational fascism" renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowe...

Data di rilascio : 2020-09-09 Genere:Storia 10,99 €

Nel 1939 Stefan Zweig fu costretto a lasciare L’Europa, ormai sull’orlo della guerra, in cerca di un luogo nel quale ricostruire la propria esistenza. Si orientò inizialmente verso gli Stati Uniti, ma a poco a poco la città che aveva accolto molti esuli del tempo, New York, si rivelò incompatibile per lo scrittore austriaco A partire dal 1941, Zweig si stabilì con la seconda moglie a Petropolis, vicino a Rio de Janeiro, nonostante a un primo impatto, avvenuto nel 1936, lo scrittore avess...

Data di rilascio : 2013-03-20 8,99 €

In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-cont...

Data di rilascio : 2016-11-17 Genere:Storia 14,99 €

This may well be the most important 85 pages you will ever read. The book is written on the simple premise that the men who wrote this document (along with the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights, which together are the definitive founding documents of our country and the Rule of Law in America) were highly intelligent and experienced Statesmen who had lived under the yoke of tyranny under King George III. The distinction here is that they were Statesmen, not politicians. The wor...

Data di rilascio : 2013-01-12 0,99 €

The “fascinating” #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West ( The Wall Street Journal ). First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by American Indians betwe...

Data di rilascio : 2012-10-23 13,99 €

WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.   Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives ...

Data di rilascio : 2012-11-13 10,99 €

The Battle for the Falklands is a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in modern British history from journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings and political editor Simon Jenkins. Ten weeks. 28,000 soldiers. 8,000 miles from home. The Falklands War in 1982 was one of the strangest in British history. At the time, many Britons saw it as a tragic absurdity - thousands of men sent overseas for a tiny relic of empire - but the British victory over the Argentinians not ...

Data di rilascio : 2012-03-22 Genere:Storia 7,49 €

Era trascorso un secolo esatto dalla scoperta dell'America quando morì Michel de Montaigne, il primo dei moderni a registrare, come un sismografo ultrasensibile, la dirompenza di quell'evento sugli spalti mentali dell'Occidente. Con la geografia planetaria, ne uscì scossa l'idea stessa di umanità. Senza condividere il fremito religioso di chi acclamava nell'impresa un'occasione cristianissima, ma senza neppure arruolarsi tra i precursori dell'antietnocentrismo ingenuo, Montaigne ispezionò at...

Data di rilascio : 2011-04-14 12,99 €

Terrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation. What can you do when it all hits the fan? You can learn to be self-sufficient and survive without the system. "I've started to look at the world through apocalypse eyes." So begins Neil Strauss's harrowing new book: his first full-length work since the international bestseller The Game, and one of the most original-and provocative-narratives of the year. After the last few years of vio...

Data di rilascio : 2012-05-01 Genere:Storia 10,99 €

The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this masterful portrait of the world's most controversial superpower looks backwards and forwards to understand why now, more than ever, the fate of America, and by extension the rest of the world, is hanging in the balance.

Data di rilascio : 2010-08-31 12,99 €

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION 'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have been hidden in plain sight.' Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish) Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those ...

Data di rilascio : 2021-06-01 3,99 €

Duas vezes em meados do século XVI, o mercenário e arcabuzeiro alemão Hans Staden aportou nas costas do recém-descoberto Brasil, e viveu para contar o que viu: paisagens virgens, riquezas inexploradas e a prática ritual do canibalismo, do qual por muito pouco não foi vítima. O livro com o seu relato foi publicado em 1557, em Marburgo, Alemanha, ilustrado por xilogravuras anônimas (reproduzidas nesta edição) baseadas nas suas descrições, e imediatamente tornou-se um best-seller em tod...

Data di rilascio : 2007-06-25 5,49 €

“LaRosa y Mejía han hecho algo muy útil: ofrecerle al interesado un estudio completo, actualizado, bien investigado y de lectura fluida sobre Colombia, un país que, a pesar de su tamaño, su riqueza y su importancia geopolítica, sigue siendo uno de los países menos conocidos y peor comprendidos de América Latina. Aunque ambos autores son historiadores profesionales, su libro no es un trabajo académico tradicional. Es abiertamente “presentista”, como a veces dicen los historiadores c...

Data di rilascio : 2013-05-12 5,49 €

L'Impero inca fu il più vasto impero precolombiano del continente americano. La sua esistenza va dal XIII secolo fino al XVI secolo e la sua capitale fu Cuzco, nell'attuale Perù.   L'autore Francesco Algarotti (Venezia, 11 dicembre 1712 – Pisa, 3 maggio 1764) è stato uno scrittore, saggista e collezionista d'arte italiano che ha costituito un modello di spirito illuminista, quantomai moderno e innovatore nell'epoca in cui visse.

Data di rilascio : 2015-05-28 Genere:Storia 0,99 €

¿Qué hizo que los europeos se atrevieran a viajar al Nuevo Mundo que Colón descubrió? ¿Y qué pasó cuando llegaron allí? Este pequeño libro, escrito especialmente por un historiador de renombre para los jóvenes de todas las edades, sigue los pasos de los muchos españoles que navegaron a América en el siglo después de Colón, e hicieron sus carreras y fortunas allí. Algunos llegaron a ser ricos y famosos, como Cortés y Pizarro; otros tuvieron menos ...

Data di rilascio : 2014-11-06 3,99 €

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second is the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-bl...

Data di rilascio : 2011-07-07 5,99 €

With an introduction by Kevin Powers. A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop. Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire . He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness and brutality, cutting to the quick of the conf...

Data di rilascio : 2014-12-15 Genere:Storia 5,99 €

New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples   Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocida...

Data di rilascio : 2014-09-16 11,99 €

The epic struggle for control of Los Angeles and the history of the 30s, 40s, and 50s in America's dream city. Now the FOX UK TV series MOB CITY. Mid-century Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as 'the white spot of America', a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of 'pleasure girls' and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, c...

Data di rilascio : 2014-02-13 Genere:Storia 3,99 €

Bernal Diaz was an eyewitness to one of history's most remarkable events - the conquest of the Empire of the Aztecs, and the defeat of their Emperor Montezuma. The indomitable Diaz delivers his chronicle first-hand, vividly describing the ruthless battles, the brilliant Machiavellian strategies of Cortes, and the superstitions vacillations of Montezuma that lead to the momentous overthrow of the Aztec civilization. Despite the supremacy of their weapons and armour, the Spanish "Conquistadors" ov...

Data di rilascio : 2013-10-27 Genere:Storia 2,49 €

Howard Hughes was an obsessed man. He was obsessed with aviation and he was obsessed with sex, both conventional and bi-sexual. His relationships included some of the most famous names in Hollywood, both men and women, including Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Tyrone Power, Randolph Scott, and Jean Peters.

Data di rilascio : 2013-05-30 2,99 €

When it comes to the production and distribution of mass culture, no country in modern times has come close to rivaling the success of America. From blue jeans in central Europe to Elvis Presley’s face on a Republic of Chad postage stamp, the reach of American mass culture extends into every corner of the globe. Most believe this is a twentieth-century phenomenon, but here Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes prove that its roots are far deeper. Buffalo Bill in Bologna reveals that the process of gl...

Data di rilascio : 2010-06-15 Genere:Storia 22,99 €

The inside story of one of the major intellectual breakthroughs of our time - the last great decipherment of an ancient script. It will fascinate anyone interested in decipherment and puzzles as well as scholars of Maya civilization. The book has been revised and updated with the latest discoveries.

Data di rilascio : 2012-01-02 15,99 €

*Includes over 50 pictures of the civilizations' art, ruins, architecture, and more. *Describes everyday life for the Maya, Inca and Aztecs, from language to diet.  *Comprehensively covers the civilizations' most famous characteristics, including Mayan astronomy, the Aztecs' infamous human sacrifice rituals, and the Inca's Macchu Picchu. *Includes a Table of Contents  When the Spanish arrived in the New World, men like Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro came into contact with a vast array o...

Data di rilascio : 2012-09-10 4,99 €

Qual è l'origine dei miti americani? In che modo la storia antropologica del Nuovo mondo, a partire dalla scoperta di Colombo fino ai nostri giorni, si intreccia al suo racconto letterario e, in tempi più recenti, cinematografico? Questo saggio di Leslie A. Fiedler, uscito nell'edizione italiana all'inizio degli anni Settanta e ormai diventato un classico, indaga a fondo «quella peculiare forma di follia che consiste nel sognare e raggiungere il West»: gli archetipi della frontiera, della co...

Data di rilascio : 2011-11-03 6,49 €

With eloquent simplicity, Native American medicine man Bear Heart demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world. “As a child I was taught, ‘Chebon, the way to attain the beauty in life is through harmony. Be in harmony with all things, but most important, be in harmony with yourself first. A lot will go on in your life, some good, some bad—people may argue and some will try to take control of your life—but that one word, ha...

Data di rilascio : 1998-02-01 10,99 €

With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a poker game; and Roddy Connors, who danced away a fortune at a dollar a dance. We meet dance-hall que...

Data di rilascio : 2001-10-09 14,99 €

This story is about our near death experience in New York City. We had just visited our son in Denver and were on the way home. If certain travel plans had not been changed, we would not be survivors of 9-11-2001.

Data di rilascio : 2011-06-18 2,99 €

Authoritative and immediate, this is a brilliant account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T. R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches' rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion. Master horseback riders who lived in teepees and hunted bison, the Comanches were stunning orators, disciplined warriors, and the finest makers of arrows. They lived by a strict legal...

Data di rilascio : 2011-08-12 11,99 €

For readers of War by Sebastian Junger, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch, and The Forever War by Dexter Filkins: The Dogs Are Eating Them Now is a raw, uncensored account of the war in Afghanistan from a brilliant young reporter who for several years was the only Western journalist brave enough to live full-time in the dangerous southern region. The Dogs are Eating Them Now is a highly personal narrative of our war in Afghanistan and ho...

Data di rilascio : 2013-09-24 Genere:Storia 13,99 €

Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova Scotia where many who had served the Crown were betrayed in their promises to receive land at the war's end. Their fate became entwined with British ...

Data di rilascio : 2010-08-31 12,99 €

New York City -- what a city, what a history! If it happened anywhere in America, it probably happened in New York City. Reading the history of this city is fascinating and exciting, as if watching the people and the events, that traveled through the region and across the years. This little ebook is an annotated timeline of the major events of this incredible city.

Data di rilascio : 2010-10-22 2,99 €

In the short 1000 days of his Presidency, John F Kennedy launched the American space program and introduced the Civil Rights Act, led the nation through the greatest threat ever to its existence -- the Cuban Missile Crisis -- and then signed the first nuclear disarmament agreement with the USSR. This is an anthology of his most prominent speeches.

Data di rilascio : 2009-11-10 8,99 €