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Author: Ray Jones
Publisher: Alpha Books
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780028623030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Complete Idiot's Travel Guides the perfect choice for readers who are unfamiliar with a destination, for inexperieced traveler's -- or for travelers who just want extremely, opinionated advice that's easy to scan and enjoyable to read.
Author: Jerry Capeci
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005-01-04
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781592573059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a comprehensive overview of the world's most notorious criminal organization, tracing the history of the Mafia, changes in the ranks and power following the conviction of key members, and their diverse roles in cities across the United States.
Author: Alan Axelrod
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780028627311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the origins and history of jazz, its major artists, and its stylistic varieties, and offers suggestions for assembling a recording collection
Author: Alan Axelrod
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780028633855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an overview of the people, events, and ideas that shaped the twentieth century, covering wars and political conflicts, innovations in technology, and the contributions of such great minds as Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein
Author: Christopher Passante
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-09-13
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1440626030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt'll blow readers away. CD-ROM included! The past few years have delivered some of the most awesome and destructive weather patterns in history. From blistering heat and icy blasts, to hurricane winds and the Greenhouse Effect, The Compete Idiot's Guide® to Extreme Weather enables readers to experience the incredible ferocity of big, bad weather without getting soaked, wind-tossed, thunderstruck, or frozen. And with the CD-ROM that accompanies the book, they'll learn what it's like to be a real- life storm tracker. * Includes a CD-ROM that explores extreme weather in all its frightening glory * Features a listing of record-book extremes, from the worst storms in history to the wettest, hottest, coldest, driest, and snowiest places on Earth
Author: Gail Selinger
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-04-04
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1440696500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA view of pirate life—from the crow’s nest. Pirate lore has captured our fancy for centuries. Here is the first series book that gives readers a comprehensive yet entertaining history of those swashbuckling brigands. It offers portraits of such infamous men and women as Blackbeard, Captain Anne Bonny, Captain Kidd, and Jean LaFitte, with a full history of pirates through the ages, even modern day, high-tech scavengers of the South Seas. For mateys young and old.
Author: Christine Adamec
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1997-12-01
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780028621081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers advice on making an adoption application stand out, the latest adoption trends, and ways to spot scams, with profiles of real-life adopters and adoptees
Author: Mike Flanagan
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780028629452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLittle known lore about pioneers, easy to understand explanations of land agreements, fascinating adventures of Native Americans, and photos the people of the ole West.
Author: Walter Fleming
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2003-04-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1440650640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the peoples who are now known as the First Americans. Author Walter C. Fleming covers the many different tribes that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including compelling biographies of their greatest leaders. He examines the beliefs, customs, legends and the myriad contributions Native Americans have given to modern society, and details the often tragic history of their conquest by European invaders, their treatment—both historical and recent—under the US government, and the harsh reality of life on today's reservations.
Author: Alan Axelrod, PhD
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2009-06-02
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 1101057580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe compact history of a giant country. American history is one of those subjects that students frequently labor over and can seem like a random collection of names, dates, and events. Understood as a collective biography and free of the cheerleading found in many text books, the fully updated fifth edition of The Complete Idiot's Guide® to American History explains the changing tides in America's most pivotal periods. ? From a seasoned author and researcher ? The most current and comprehensive series title on American history ? Heightened interest right now in the question of how America got where we are - a question that can only be answered by an understanding of history
