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A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States
Биографии и мемуары, История

A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States

Автор: Ujifusa Steven
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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THE STORY OF A GREAT AMERICAN BUILDER At the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America’s best naval architect. His quest to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner of his time,...
In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
История, Политика

In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect

Автор: Kessler Ronald
Язык: английский
Год: 2009
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Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service. After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning...
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
История

Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

Автор: Beard Mary
Язык: английский
Год: 2009
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Pompeii explodes a number of myths – from the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; and the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one,...
Lost in the Cosmos
История, Критика

Lost in the Cosmos

Автор: Percy Walker
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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“A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke; a chapbook to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review Published at the height of the 1980s self-help boom,...