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Albertosaurus: death of a predator (Discoveries in palaeontology, #1)
Par Monique Keiran. 1999
Some 75 million years ago, one dinosaur ended its life. The dinosaur was an Albertosaurus -- distant cousin to the…
ferocious, meat-eating predator Tyrannosaurus Rex. But its death was also a beginning -- the start of its transformation into a fossil, which lay undiscovered for millennia until the forces of erosion brought the young dinosaur, once again, to light. Grades 4-7. 1999.Above & beyond: John F. Kennedy and America's most dangerous Cold War spy mission
Par Casey Sherman, Mike Tougias. 2018
This book tells the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of three characters: Kennedy, and two U-2…
pilots, Rudy Anderson and Charles Maultsby, who found themselves in the crosshairs of history, on the worst and most intense day of the crisis. 2018.Adrift: a true story of tragedy in the icy Atlantic and the one who lived to tell about it
Par Brian Murphy, Toula Vlahou. 2018
The small ship making the Liverpool to New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of…
dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with a few blankets, some water and biscuits, and thirteen souls. Only one would survive. This is his story. 2018.Adams vs. Jefferson: the tumultuous election of 1800 (Pivotal moments in American history)
Par John E Ferling. 2004
In 1800 the nation was struggling to its feet amidst an array of threats from foreign governments and a host…
of constitutional struggles. Against this backdrop, President John Adams, an elite, strong-willed Federalist, set to square off against his vice president, Thomas Jefferson, a populist Republican. 2004.Michael Farquhar ransacked the archives to rescue 30 almost-famous Americans from the dust bin of obscurity. These colourful figures range…
from Mayflower Murderer John Billington (1624) to Dick Fosbury, father of the "Flop" (1968). 2008.From the unhappy family relationships of prominent Americans to the feuds, smear campaigns, duels, and infamous sex scandals that have…
punctuated our history, we see our founding fathers and other American heroes in the course of their all-too-human events. Ineffectual presidents, lazy generals, traitors; treacherous fathers, nagging mothers, ungrateful children, embarrassing siblings; and stories about insanity, death, and disturbing postmortems are all here, as are disagreeable marriages, vile habits, and, of course, sex: good sex, bad sex, and good-bad sex too. 2004.A million little pieces
Par James Frey. 2005
Memoir by a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, whose parents checked him into a Minnesota rehabilitation clinic as a last-step…
measure when he was twenty-three. Discusses his experiences there, including treatment methods he accepted and rejected to regain sobriety. This recording includes the publisher's and author's notes issued in response to the controversy over the accuracy of the book. Strong language. Bestseller. 2005.A house reunited: how America survived the Civil War (The modern scholar)
Par Jay Winik. 2003
Professor Winik examines the events leading to the end of the Civil War and ponders some of the unthinkable alternatives…
that might have prevented the formation of the country as we know it today. 2003.A history of the American people
Par Paul Johnson. 1998
A social narrative and interpretation of the history of the United States from colonial times to the Clinton era. Includes…
material gleaned from diaries, letters, and recorded conversations; character analyses of primary achievers of each era; as well as extensive and sometimes critical comments by the author, a British conservative. Bestseller. 1998. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.A good year to die: the story of the great Sioux War
Par Charles M Robinson. 1995
Narrative history of the Great Sioux War of 1876, focussing on the efforts of the United States Army, led by…
George Crook, Alfred Terry, George Armstrong Custer, and Ranald Mackenzie, to conquer the western Native American tribes led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Robinson uses accounts from diaries, manuscripts, and newspapers to document the battles, rivalries, and competing cultures. Violence. 1995.A girl stands at the door: the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools
Par Rachel Devlin. 2018
A generation of sociopaths: how the baby boomers betrayed America
Par Bruce Gibney. 2017
Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity.…
A former partner in a leading venture capital firm, Gibney examines the disastrous policies of the most powerful generation in modern history, showing how the Boomers ruthlessly enriched themselves at the expense of future generations. Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts--acting, in other words, as sociopaths--the Boomers turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipartisan fiasco. The Boomers have set a time bomb for the 2030s, when damage to Social Security, public finances, and the environment will become catastrophic and possibly irreversible--and when, not coincidentally, Boomers will be dying off. Gibney argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the Boomers accountable and begin restoring America. 2017.A crack in the edge of the world: America and the great California earthquake of 1906
Par Simon Winchester. 2005
Winchester brings his storytelling abilities, as well as his understanding of geology, to the extraordinary San Francisco Earthquake, exploring not…
only what happened in northern California in 1906 that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion, but what we have learned since about the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake. He also positions the quake's significance along the earth's geological timeline and shows the effect it had on the rest of 20th-century California and American history. 2005.1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a world on the brink
Par Taylor Downing. 2018
Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1983 nearly brought the world to the point of nuclear…
Armageddon. Downing draws on previously unpublished interviews and over a thousand pages of secret documents recently released by Washington to tell the story. 2018.30 days a black man: the forgotten story that exposed the Jim Crow south
Par Bill Steigerwald. 2017
In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust life was for the ten million African…
Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and lived as a black man in the Jim Crow South. 2017.1776: America and Britain at war
Par David G McCullough. 2006
America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America.…
"1776" tells two stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire tried to stop them. 2006.Alcohol (Talking points)
Par Emma Haughton. 1998
Looks at the place of alcoholic drinks in cultures around the world and seeks to examine the many social and…
moral issues surrounding it. Includes questions such as "What is alcohol and what happens to your body when you drink it?" and "Why do so many people abuse alcohol, and what are the effects?"Alcool, une approche centrée sur la solution
Par Insoo Kim Berg, Scott D Miller. 1998
Le lynchage aux Etats-Unis
Par Joël Michel. 2008
"Le 7 juin 1998, on découvre, devant le plus vieux cimetière noir de la ville de Jasper, Texas, les restes…
d'un homme ; les genoux et les organes génitaux ont été rabotés, la tête et le bras droit arrachés. Les traces de sang permettent de retrouver un dentier, des clés et, un kilomètre plus loin, le bras et la tête dans un fossé. C'est un lynchage, celui de James Byrd, le dernier exemple de lynchage traditionnel. Il est l'oeuvre de trois hommes, qui veulent venger un Blanc assassiné en donnant une leçon à tous les Noirs. Depuis la guerre de Sécession, Jasper est, selon la communauté noire du lieu, "un endroit où les choses arrivent longtemps après leur temps". Aux États-Unis, le racisme ne se cantonne pas aux ghettos urbains. Dans le Sud profond, il ressurgit parfois, avec une violence qu'on voulait croire oubliée. Précis dans ses références, pointu dans ses analyses, effrayant dans ses descriptions, cet essai s'appuie sur les publications récentes d'historiens américains : jusque dans les années 1990, le lynchage était un sujet tabou. En France, c'est le premier livre qui lui est consacré." -- 4e de couv.