To honor the magnificent career of Jack Vance, one unparalleled in achievement and impact, George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, with the full cooperation of Jack Vance, his family, and his agents, have created a Jack Vance tribute anthology: "Songs of the Dying Earth." The best of today's fantasy[...]

#1 New York Times BestsellerWith the warm-hearted patriotism and passion he brought to his beautiful volume "Abraham Lincoln s Gettysburg Address Illustrated," Jack E. Levin now illuminates a profound turning point of the American Revolution: the decisive Battle of Trenton and its prelude General Ge[...]

Win one for The Gipper. Has there ever been a better-known and widely-used exhortative phrase in sports? Not likely. But who was the "Gipper," this mythical-like sports figure whose nickname has aroused, in turn, awe, wonderment, curiosity, and amusement since the second decade of the twentieth cent[...]

The personal story of a British tank sergeant's war, from the fall of France in 1940, through the bloody campaigns against Rommel's forces in North Africa, the hard-fought drive up Italy, D-Day and the battles for France and the low countries, and the invasion of the German heartland itself. George [...]

This features over 400 vehicles and 1200 wartime and modern photographs. It features A - Z visual directories of tank destroyers, command versions, specialized tanks, armoured cars, armoured personnel carriers and self-propelled artillery. It is an illustrated history of the world's most important t[...]

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road," published as Kerouac originally composed it
IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of "On the Road"--typed as a single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper, which he later taped together to form[...]

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road," published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it
Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become "On the Road" as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street [...]

Berlitz Bryssel esittelee kaupungin tärkeimmät ja mielenkiintoisimmat kohteet upein valokuvin ja selkein kartoin. Oppaassa yhdistyvät historia, nähtävyydet sekä käytännön matkustusvinkit - ostoksia, ruokia, huvittelua sekä ravintoloita ja hotelleja unohtamatta. Taskukokoinen opas kulkee k�[...]