American century and beyond

American Century and Beyond

U.S. Foreign Relations from 1893 to the Present is the second part of From Colony to Superpower, an international narrative blends political, diplomat

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York Notes Companions Twentieth Century American Literature and Beyond

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We Are Not Ourselves

LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD A stunning, heartbreaking debut - 'We Are Not Ourselves' is both the intimate story of a family and an epic of the American Century. Raised in the 1940s in the mostly Irish neighbourhood of Jackson Heights, Queens, by an alcoholic mother and a union-wage father, Eileen yearns for more from an early age. Driven by this longing, ...

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The Everything War

'Riveting and explosive. This is the business story of our time.'Christopher Leonard, New York Times Bestselling Author of Kochland and The Lords of Easy Money---From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is the first untold, devastating expose of Amazon's endless strategic greed, its pursuit of total domination, by any means necessary, a...

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The Overstory : Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 - Powers Richard

Anotace: The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond: An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same d...

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The Overstory : Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 - Richard Powers

<p>The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond: An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same do...

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me - Taupin Bernie

Anotace: An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, the lyrical master and longtime collaborator of Elton John. This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits, a...

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me, 1. vydání - Bernie Taupin

<p>"I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . . . The thing is good, bad or indifferent I never stopped writing, it was as addictive as any drug."This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half...

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me - Taupin Bernie

Anotace: `This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.` -Elton John`Orgasmic. Every page of Scattershot is a delight, a joy, a name-dropper fan`s delight. Divine. I couldn`t put it down.` -Pete Townshend`In Bernie Taupin`s miraculous memoir Scattershot you`ll meet legends, cowboys, geniuses, unforgettable faces in the night, shady p...

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me, 1. vydání - Bernie Taupin

<p>'This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John'Orgasmic. Every page of Scattershot is a delight, a joy, a name-dropper fan's delight. Divine. I couldn't put it down.' -Pete Townshend'In Bernie Taupin's miraculous memoir Scattershot you'll meet legends, cowboys, geniuses, unforgettable faces in the night, shady pu...

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