knopf doubleday publishing group nov 2010 (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In these moving stories if Angelina Grimké Weld, wife of abolitionist Theodore Weld, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day. Their stories, taken together, help reconstruct the era of the Civil War with a greater depth and complexity by adding women's experiences and voices to their male counterparts.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experiencedand helped to winthe most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost. Focusing on the citizens of four townsLuverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, AlabamaThe War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration campsbut we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa. Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, including many never published before, this is an intimate, profoundly affecting chronicle of the war that shaped our world.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 480 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Isaac Asimov's seminal Foundation trilogy-one of the cornerstones of modern speculative fiction-in a single hardcover volume.It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store-a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and violence that will last for thirty thousand years. Gathering a band of courageous men and women, Seldon leads them to a hidden location at the edge of the galaxy, where he hopes they can preserve human knowledge and wisdom through the age of darkness.In 1966, the Foundation trilogy received a Hugo Award for Best All-Time Series, and it remains the only fiction series to have been so honored. More than fifty years after their original publication, the three Foundation novels stand as classics of thrilling, provocative, and inspired world-building.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experiencedand helped to winthe most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost. Focusing on the citizens of four townsLuverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, AlabamaThe War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration campsbut we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa. Enriched by maps and hundreds of photographs, including many never published before, this is an intimate, profoundly affecting chronicle of the war that shaped our world.