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Feeding the Mother Road: My Journey Through Route 66 This book, Feeding the Mother Road, delves into the historical and cultural significance of Route 66, tracing its journey from Chicago to Santa M……続きを見る

Federal Hill: A Fork in the Story Recipes, Raids, and the Real "Little Italy" This book delves into the rich and complex history of Federal Hill, a neighborhood that has evolved from its agricultura……続きを見る

Wie kann eine winzige, unbemerkte und defekte Kontrolllampe in einem hochmodernen Kernkraftwerk eine fatale Kettenreaktion menschlicher Fehlinterpretationen auslösen, die letztendlich zur partiellen……続きを見る

For fans of James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me, a bold new popular history exposing the hidden truths about race long omitted from our school textbooks Following in the tradition of James Loewen……続きを見る

Taking North America as its focus, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of humanity’s evolving relationship with energy. As humans have sought to live and develop the North American continen……続きを見る

How does a visionary inventor manage to excavate and build a fully functional, luxurious subway line directly beneath the busiest street in New York City without the corrupt politicians who ran the ……続きを見る

Ein Unternehmer aus Boston verwandelte gefrorene Seen in eine Ware für tropische Märkte. Daraus entstand eines der ungewöhnlichsten Handelsnetze des 19. Jahrhunderts. Frederic Tudor verband natürlic……続きを見る

In the 1920s and 30s, criminal interrogations were brutal, imprecise, and frequently yielded false confessions. Enter Leonarde Keeler, an eccentric, obsessive criminologist who believed that the hum……続きを見る

How did a campy, low-budget video game featuring B-movie actors and fake vampires provoke a massive federal moral panic, forcing the United States Senate to threaten the outright censorship of an en……続きを見る

How do you catch a meticulous, ghost-like serial killer who terrorized a state for a decade and successfully evaded the FBI for over forty years? You don't use traditional police work; you use the c……続きを見る

They dragged more than two hundred thousand trees across fifty miles of desert to raise a canyon full of great houses where almost no one seems to have lived. Welcome to the Ancestral Pueblo world. ……続きを見る

ZWISCHEN ZWEI WELTEN ー Conrad Weiser 1696–1760 Die Geschichte eines Mannes, den Deutschland vergessen hat ー und Amerika nicht Im Sommer 1709 starb in einem württembergischen Dorf eine Frau an ihre……続きを見る

How does an eleven-man crew successfully infiltrate the purportedly impenetrable Brink's armored car depot in Boston, tie up the guards, and walk away with nearly three million dollars in cash, chec……続きを見る

What happens when an entire American town is trapped inside a toxic, inescapable cloud of poisonous industrial gas for five continuous days, while the corporation responsible refuses to shut down it……続きを見る

What happens when a wooden passenger ship, loaded with women and children for a church picnic, catches fire in the middle of a major river, and the safety equipment turns out to be entirely fake? Th……続きを見る

What happens when the newly formed government of the United States imposes a crushing tax on the exact citizens who just fought a bloody revolution to escape taxation? The result was the Whiskey Reb……続きを見る

How does a simple, peaceful labor rally demanding an eight-hour workday end with a bomb blast, police firing into crowds, and the execution of men who never even threw the explosive? The Haymarket A……続きを見る

What happens when an uninspected, decaying earthen dam built for a defunct power plant is left to quietly rot above a college campus? The terrifying answer came crashing down in the dead of night du……続きを見る

How did a peaceful student protest against the Vietnam War on the streets of New York suddenly transform into a violent, bloody brawl perpetrated by hundreds of mobilized construction workers? The H……続きを見る

This collection of essays explores New England as it was in the 19th century and first half of the 20th century. The 19th century chapters illustrate the spawning of ideas and inventions which made ……続きを見る

History of Chicago: The Astonishing Tale of a City That Refused to Sit Down and Behave Chicago begins like a geological argument that refused to settle down politely. It is a city assembled from wat……続きを見る

Puisqu’Haïti, longtemps en marche, n’est jamais parvenue à destination, son fils bien-aimé, Alcindor Guillaume, qui n’a jamais cessé d’écrire pour elle, lui consacre ce livre comme une offrande de v……続きを見る

How can a massive, heavily trafficked steel suspension bridge suddenly and violently disintegrate into a freezing river in a matter of seconds? The terrifying collapse of the Silver Bridge in 1967 r……続きを見る

How does a desperate, peaceful religious movement promising spiritual salvation ultimately provoke one of the deadliest military massacres in American history? In the late nineteenth century, indige……続きを見る

How do you completely dominate a political rival and assert absolute authority over a region without ever drawing a weapon or shedding a single drop of blood? For the indigenous tribes of the Pacifi……続きを見る

What happens when the Secretary of the Interior secretly sells off the United States Navy's emergency fuel supply to private oil barons in exchange for a briefcase full of cash? Before Watergate, th……続きを見る

How do you build a massively expensive transcontinental railroad when the actual construction operates at a severe financial loss? In the Gilded Age, the solution was not to improve efficiency, but ……続きを見る

How could nearly five hundred people die in a matter of minutes inside a popular, crowded nightclub without the building ever actually burning to the ground? The horrific Cocoanut Grove fire of 1942……続きを見る

"Trumpus Nerone" accosta Donald Trump all'imperatore romano Nerone (37‑68 d.C.), analizzando analogie nel populismo, nell'uso dei media e nella gestione spettacolare del potere. Il tema centrale è l……続きを見る

The Dead Tree Syndrome is not a self‑help book ー it's a mirror.It exposes the quiet epidemic of people who look alive but have stopped living.Alander Pulliam dissects the psychology of decay ー the……続きを見る