![]() | The Day the World Came to Town Jim DeFede |
The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway’s Smash Hit Musical Come from AwayWhen 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000 ... Number of pages: 244 | Publication Date: 2003-08-14 | ISBN-13: 9780060559717 |
![]() | Seven Days That Divide the World John C. Lennox |
What did the writer of Genesis mean by “the first day”? Is it a literal week or a series of time periods? If I believe that the earth is 4.5 billion years old, am I denying the authority of Scripture?In response to the continuing controversy over the interpretation of the creation narrative in Genesis, John Lennox proposes a succinct method of ... Number of pages: 192 | Publication Date: 2011-08-27 | ISBN-13: 9780310492177 |
![]() | How to Travel the World on $50 a Day Matt Kepnes |
****THIS THIRD EDITION HAS BEEN UPDATED FOR 2017. ****New York Times Bestseller For over a decade, Matt Kepnes (aka Nomadic Matt) has used his massively populartravel blog to teach readers how to travel the world on a budget. Traditional media shows you expensive hotels, resorts, cruises, and packagesbecause that's what makes them money. They ... Number of pages: 368 | Publication Date: 2015-01-06 | ISBN-13: 9780399173288 |
![]() | Around the World in 80 Days Jules Verne |
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set ... Number of pages: 130 | Publication Date: 2018-11-01 | ISBN-13: 9781503215153 |
![]() | Seven Days in the Art World Sarah Thornton |
"An indelible portrait of a peculiar society." ―VogueSarah Thornton's vivid ethnography―an international hit, now available in twenty translations―reveals the inner workings of the sophisticated subcultures that make up the contemporary art world. In a series of day-in-the-life narratives set in New York, Los Angeles, London, Basel, Venice, a ... Number of pages: 320 | Publication Date: 2009-11-02 | ISBN-13: 9780393337129 |
![]() | 28 Days Charles R. Smith Jr. |
Each day features a different influential figure in African-American history, from Crispus Attucks, the first man shot in the Boston Massacre, sparking the Revolutionary War, to Madame C. J. Walker, who after years of adversity became the wealthiest black woman in the country, as well as one of the wealthiest black Americans, to Barack Obama, the c ... Number of pages: 56 | Publication Date: 2015-01-13 | ISBN-13: 9781596438200 |
![]() | Ten Days That Shook the World (Penguin Classics) John Reed |
An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in March 2017 An American journalist and revolutionary writer, John Reed became a close friend of Lenin and was an eyewitness to the 1917 revolution in Russia. Ten Days That Shook the World is Reed's extraordinary record of that event. Writing in the ... Number of pages: 368 | Publication Date: 2007-08-28 | ISBN-13: 9780141442129 |
![]() | Around the World in Eighty Days (Illustrated First Edition) Jules Verne |
A beautiful unabridged edition with 55 illustrations from the 1873 English first edition. Use Amazon's Lookinside feature to compare this edition with others. You'll be impressed by the differences. Don't be fooled by other versions that have no illustrations or contain very small print. Reading our edition will make you feel that you are traveling ... Number of pages: 252 | Publication Date: 2019-01-16 | ISBN-13: 9781949460858 |
![]() | Around the World in 80 Days Jules Verne |
Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of V ... Number of pages: 130 | Publication Date: 2017-11-25 | ISBN-13: 9781514683682 |
![]() | Dorothy Day Kate Hennessy |
“An intimate, revealing and sometimes wrenching family memoir of the journalist and social advocate who is now being considered for canonization” (The New York Times), told with illuminating detail by her granddaughter.Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a prominent Catholic, writer, social activist, and co-founder of a movement dedicated to serving th ... Number of pages: 400 | Publication Date: 2017-11-07 | ISBN-13: 9781501133978 |