Verlag: Ticknor & Fields, 1989
ISBN 10: 0899199100 ISBN 13: 9780899199108
Anbieter: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Calvin Trillin is about to skip town, and he\'s taking Alice and the girls with him. Don\'t worry--you\'re going too. --Whether in Tuscany or in Guadeloupe, you may be traveling at an unfamiliar pace if you\'re among those American who \"drive across the country as if someone\'s chasing them.\" Your itinerary may include some whimsical destination: Alice likes to visit places in song titles, and her husband is still searching for the Italian West Indies. --Along the way Trillin offers his daughter some views on traveling--the view, for instance, that the presence of an $800 -per-person customs exemption in St. Thomas does not mean that each person is required to spend $800. His daughters offers some views in return: \"Daddy, I hope you\'re not going to make a scene about how absolutely fascinating it would be to eat bat stew.\" --You may find yourself confronted by some unusual travel questions. HJow authentic are the fast-food hamburgers at the Champs-Elysees Burget King, Masion du Whopper? COuCoulde sport tareaux piscine really combine bulls with a swimming pool? If your children admit to the immigration man at John F. Kennedy Airport that they have spent a month in Europe without seeing one certified major sight, will he confiscate your passport? --You\'ll be happy you were along.
Verlag: Ticknor & Fields, 1993
ISBN 10: 0395615933 ISBN 13: 9780395615935
Anbieter: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. A social history of American cuisine combines the traditions of Calvin Trillin and M.F.K. Fisher, taking readers back through four decades of eating in America.
Verlag: Ticknor & Fields, 1985
ISBN 10: 0899193625 ISBN 13: 9780899193625
Anbieter: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. Slight wear to cover. Small tear near corner of first end page. Pages are clean. Binding is tight.
Verlag: Ticknor & Fields, 1994
ISBN 10: 0395621453 ISBN 13: 9780395621455
Anbieter: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Describes 1950s Baltimore, offers profiles of famous Colts players of the era, and recounts the author\'s relationship with his father.
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Verlag: Ticknor & Fields, 1992
ISBN 10: 0899197906 ISBN 13: 9780899197906
Anbieter: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. An account of the largest campaign of the Civil War weaves together narrative, military analysis, and firsthand testimony from the diaries and letters of Union and Confederate soldiers to reflect on the influence of individuals on events. 25,000 first printing.
Verlag: Ticknor & Fields, 1992
ISBN 10: 0395599245 ISBN 13: 9780395599242
Anbieter: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Tennozan offers a stunning account of the battle of Okinawa, the last major campaign of World War II and the largest land-sea-air engagement in history. In examining the disastrous collision of three disparate cultures--American, Japanese, and Okinawan--the book provides an unforgettable picture of men at war and also the context for understanding one of the most ominous events of this century: the decision to drop the atom bomb.Drawing on more than ten years of research and interviews, George Feifer recreates the drama and horror of the last engagement before the invasion of the Japanese homeland. In three appalling months during which the Japanese lost the fight but refused to surrender, the death toll mounted to 23,000 Amercans, 91,000 Japanese, and 150,000 Okinawan civilians--more than the losses of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. The book makes vividly real those tenets of Japanese culture--its emphasis on honor and its horror of losing face--which allowed this campaign to become a great human tragedy.In its magisterial narrative of the conflict, Tennozan weaves together the personal experiences of both soldiers and civilians, from the highest-ranking officers on down. Specifically, it follows the lives of three men: Dick Whitaker, a U.S. Marine with the 6th Marine Division; Captain Tadashi Kojo, a twenty-three-year-old battalion commander in Japan\'s crack 22nd Regiment; and Masahide Ota, a student at Okinawa\'s prestigious Normal School, now governor of the prefecture of Okinawa. But in going beyond military history to recount the fate of the astounding number of Okinawan civilians caught in the maelstrom of the war, Tennozan calls to public attention a little heralded but devastating disaster.Tennozan is a major work of historical narrative that brings us as close to the actual experience of war as the printed page can achieve. It also highlights aspects of Japanese culture that remain of deep historical and contemporary importance. And in recreating the context in which the decision to use the atom bomb was made, it provides invaluable background for assessing one of the most fateful events of the twentieth century.
Verlag: Ticknor & Fields, 1990
ISBN 10: 0899199569 ISBN 13: 9780899199566
Anbieter: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. A writer and historian describes his journey from 1930s Hungary to the United States, intellectual life in New York City, and his settling in Philadelphia, examining, along the way, fascism, communism, democracy, anti-Semitism, and Christian realism.
Verlag: Ticknor & Fields, 1983
ISBN 10: 0899191983 ISBN 13: 9780899191980
Anbieter: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. In 1806 President Jefferson commissions an expedition to explore the Arkansas River and discover its source.
Verlag: Ticknor & Fields, 1994
ISBN 10: 0395689449 ISBN 13: 9780395689448
Anbieter: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. Text and drawings explain how flowers mature into seed-bearing fruit.
Verlag: NY: TICKNOR & FIELDS. 1987, 1987
ISBN 10: 0899194567 ISBN 13: 9780899194561
Anbieter: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Turn-of-the-century Vienna. The trenches of World War I and the dark slide to Nazi Europe. The intellectual lights of Cambridge University and the nabobs on the outskirts of Bloomsbury. Marriage and domestic life. These are just a few of the worlds entered in this exhilarating novel of ideas, romance, and imagination. Irreverently trespassing into the orchards of history, biography, and philosophy, The World As I Found It is the tale of three wildly different men adrift in the twentieth century. At center is Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most magnetic philosophers of our time -- brilliant, tortured, mercurial, forging his own solitary path while leaving a permanent mark on the lives of all around him. Playing in counterpoint are Wittgenstein\'s two reluctant mentors: Bertrand Russell, the gadabout, philandering freethinker; and G. E. Moore, the great Cambridge don, wide of girth and pure of thought until, late in life, he discovers the joys of passion, marriage, and fatherhood. Bruce Duffy nimbly braids these lives together, interweaving telling glimpses of such contemporaries as Freud, D. H. Lawrence, Lady Ottoline Morrell, and Karl Kraus. The result is fiction that illuminates life, an atmospheric novel rich in humor and tragedy, lust and violence, spirit and striving.
Verlag: Ticknor amp; Fields, 1992
ISBN 10: 0395605164 ISBN 13: 9780395605165
Anbieter: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, USA
Zustand: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Verlag: Ticknor & Fields, 1981
ISBN 10: 0899190456 ISBN 13: 9780899190457
Anbieter: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Twenty stories tell of baffling crimes, disappearing footprints, vanishing criminals, and amazing thefts.
Verlag: Ticknor & Fields, 1985
ISBN 10: 0899193986 ISBN 13: 9780899193984
Anbieter: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Book by Wind, Herbert Warren.
Verlag: Ticknor & Fields, 1992
ISBN 10: 0899199089 ISBN 13: 9780899199085
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: New. Fifteen chapters of an unfinished sequel to the best-selling novel Cold Sassy Tree are drawn to a conclusion by Burns's editor who also reflects on the inspiring life of Olive Ann Burns. 75,000 first printing.
Verlag: Ticknor amp; Fields., New York, 1992
ISBN 10: 0395593514 ISBN 13: 9780395593516
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Verlag: Ticknor & Fields, 1988
ISBN 10: 0899198171 ISBN 13: 9780899198170
Anbieter: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry, this serious, ambitious, and graceful book-length poem is the masterwork of one of America\'s foremost contemporary poets.
Verlag: Ticknor amp; Fields, 1993
ISBN 10: 0899199801 ISBN 13: 9780899199801
Anbieter: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, USA
Zustand: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Verlag: Ticknor & Fields, 1994
ISBN 10: 0395692504 ISBN 13: 9780395692509
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Di Wu (illustrator). First Edition. A general and his army flatten a Burmese village's school playground, and the general announces to the unarmed farmers and children that he will now make all the laws, but one young rebel has other ideas. By the author of Little Brother.
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Verlag: Ticknor & Fields, 1989
ISBN 10: 0899196578 ISBN 13: 9780899196572
Anbieter: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Traces the tumultuous career of a baseball superstar who has also seen his share of trouble--from ongoing wars with the baseball establishment to on-the-field brawls, to his experience as the first black player in Arkansas.