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History of the Americas
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Alycat wakes up to seafood gumbo for breakfast, and even though her house is the first stop for the school bus, the bus is already full when she boards. Alycat's whole day is turning topsy-turvy. What is happening? Young readers will tag along on A..
19.71£
Brand: ORO Editions
A bold expression of a fledgling republic's aspirations and bravado, the American bald eagle has been designed, drawn, illustrated, stamped, engraved, painted, sculpted, carved, photographed, and etched by thousands of artists and artisans since 178..
104.32£
Once an icon of American industry, railroads fell into a long decline beginning around the turn of the twentieth century. Overburdened with regulation and often displaced by barge traffic on government-maintained waterways, trucking on interstate hi..
31.57£
ISBN: 9781945187643Publisher: Applewood BooksImprint: Grab a Pencil PressPublished date: 17 Apr 2022Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 264Weight: 748gHeight: 272mmWidth: 213mmSpine width: 20mm..
21.00£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Named for the famous Spanish explorer who was said to have discovered the Fountain of Youth, Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Avenue began as a simple country road that conveyed visitors to the famous healing springs.Now, few motorists realize that the aven..
23.79£
ISBN: 9780874223699Publisher: Washington State University PressImprint: Washington State University PressPublished date: 01 Oct 2019DEWEY: 388.46097977DEWEY edition: 23Language: EnglishNumber of pages: x, 170Weight: 295gHeight: 229mmWidth: 152mmSpine..
28.23£
Brand: Countryman Press
From the Chicago and Territorial roads, home of a historic and scenic railroad, to the Lower Peninsula's Chain of Lakes area, Backroads & Byways of Michigan is the shortest route a visitor can take to knowing the state like a local. This fourth edi..
26.43£
"Solid history and archaeology combines with an understated call to preserve Bears Ears—all of it, not just a sliver." —KIRKUS REVIEWS FOREWORD INDIES WINNER, EDITOR'S CHOICE PRIZE NONFICTION For more than twelve thousand years, the redrock landscap..
24.52£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
The Lehigh Valley Railroad established the Bethlehem Iron Company in 1860 along the Lehigh River in South Bethlehem. The Bethlehem Iron Company manufactured the largest steel axle to date to support the first Ferris wheel at the 1893 World's Fair...
24.83£
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices R..
37.53£
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Celebrities live their lives in constant dialogue with stories about them. But when these stories are shaped by durable racist myths, they wield undue power to ruin lives and obliterate communities. Black Legend is the haunting story of an Afro-Arge..
32.53£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Author Geoffrey Reynolds explores the story of Holland, Michigan's unique legacy of maritime craftsmanship.Holland's boat-building tradition took root in the 1840s, as Dutch immigrants crafted flatboats and watercraft for residents. Just a century ..
23.26£
Brand: Harvard University Press
An Entrepreneur Best Book of the YearFacebook makes us lonely. Selfies breed narcissism. On Twitter, hostility reigns. Pundits and psychologists warn that digital technologies substantially alter our emotional states, but in this lively investigatio..
23.45£
Born in South LA: 100+ Remarkable African Americans Who Were Born, Raised, Lived or Died in South LA documents the stories, struggles, accomplishments and events of significance of a few of the amazing people who have contributed to the community kn..
20.16£
Spot the differences in more than 112 picture puzzles themed around the 1950s.Vintage photographs and plenty of '50s fads, fashions, trends, and inventions.The book is divided into 4 levels of increasing difficulty. As the levels get harder, the num..
19.93£
Brand: University of Georgia Press
Building Beloved Communities traces the life of Rev. Dr. Paul Smith (b. 1935), an iconoclastic black minister who has channeled his civil rights work into establishing multi-racial churches in four cities-Buffalo, NY; Atlanta, GA; St. Louis, MO; Bro..
34.88£
Brand: Indiana University Press
At the beginning of the 20th century, the street railway industry was one of the largest in the nation. Once ubiquitously visible on the city streets, by mid-century the streetcar was nothing more than a distant memory. Ohio was home to several larg..
53.70£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Kate, a tall-tale heroine born on a Mississippi River shanty boat, frustrates her ma's attempts to tame her until she astounds everyone by defeating a hurricane through the blaring cacophony of a truly American instrument--the steamboat calliope. A..
18.93£
Brand: McFarland Publishers
The Caraleigh neighborhood in south Raleigh was founded in 1892 with the opening of a cotton mill, fertilizer plant and workers' town. The old textile complex, with its "immense" brick structures continue to evoke a strong impression of a bygone per..
59.23£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Established in 1922, the Champlain Valley Exposition held its first four-day fair at the Essex Junction, Vermont, fairgrounds in 1923. In its early years, the grounds included a racetrack, grandstand capable of holding 4,000 people, racing stables,..
24.83£
Brand: Native Study LLC
This two-volume series is a new reprint of the 1997 edition which hasn't been available for eleven years or more. The format has been revised to 5.5" x 8.5", with a new cover, updated introduction, a limited index, and now includes a copy of the ori..
42.46£
Brand: Arcadia Publishing
Incorporated on June 18, 1957, the City of Industry is located 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. The city's founding was based on providing a dedicated area for industrial employment in between two major railroad lines. Starting with about 50 ..
24.83£
ISBN: 9780956787255Publisher: Red Moon Productions LtdImprint: Red Moon Productions Ltd.Published date: 16 Nov 2015DEWEY: 629.222097291DEWEY edition: 23Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 160Weight: 700gHeight: 264mmWidth: 212mmSpine width: 19mm..
45.70£
A city guy who aspired to be a farmer, John Byron Plato took a three-month winter course in agriculture at Cornell before starting high school, which he left a year before graduation to fight in the Spanish-American War. He worked as a draftsman, ra..
23.33£