Celebrated novelist, biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the worlds greatest cities in this brilliant and original work, exploring how the citys many hues have come to shape its history and identity.
La historia de El Salvador ha sido contada de diversas formas y en distintas maneras, por hombres y mujeres insignes en sus respectivos campos de conocimiento histórico, pero nunca ha sido contada por un ciudadano común y mucho menos en poesía.
Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Steven Spielbergs sci-fi classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind with this fully authorized behind-the-scenes book exploring the creation, production, and legacy of this iconic film.
The story is a lively and anecdotal factual account and a cautionary tale of the local and national events that shaped the destiny of late 1900's forest product and fishing industries in Mendocino County and the world we live in.
Estimados lectores, les mando un saludo en donde quiera que esten, y tambien les hago saber que mi libro no habla de aventuras, ni tampoco de cosas extravagantes.
Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy—from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914.
On the surface, historical scholarship might seem thoroughly incompatible with political engagement: the ideal historian, many imagine, is a disinterested observer focused exclusively on the past.
