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The Mammoth Book of How it Happened - America

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780337264
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of How it Happened - America written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hear the cannon roar at Valley Forge with George Washington, dance the night away at a Chicago Speakeasy during Prohibition, take a ringside seat for the gunfight at the OK Corral, ride Apollo 11 to the moon, hear Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, join with Harry S. Truman on the A-bomb deliberations, land with John Smith at Virginia, ride against Custer at Little Horn, get on down to Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, march to 'The Grapes of Wrath' at Shiloh, work your fingers to the bone at Henry Ford's car plant . . . this is America - the beautiful, the powerful, the tragic, the glorious. The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: America is the story of the making of America in the very words of those who were there, from its 'discovery' by Christopher Columbus to George W. Bush's War Against Terrorism. Composed of firsthand eye-witness accounts of the seminal moments in US history, this is an intimate, revealing, insightful guide to the greatest nation on earth. In five chronological sections, this volume tracks the main phases of American history: Discovery, including the exploration and settlement of America; Independence, the Revolution and wars against British rule; Destiny, covering expansion into the West and the split between North and South; Frontier, including the settlement of the American West and the Indian Wars; and finally Century, the 100 years that saw America becoming a superpower on the world's political stage.

The Mammoth Book of Steampunk

Author : Sean Wallace
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780331355
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Steampunk written by Sean Wallace and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology focusing on newer elements of steampunk, one which deconstructs the staples of the genre and expands on them, rather than simply repeating them, with a greater spread both in terms of location and character. This is steampunk with a modern, post-colonial sensibility. Contributors include: Jeff VanderMeer, Caitlín Kiernan, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jay Lake, Cherie Priest, Cat Rambo, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine and many more.

The Mammoth Book of Terror

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780881846225
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Terror written by Stephen Jones and published by Running PressBook Pub. This book was released on 1992-01-26 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A terrifying collection of horror fiction includes short novels by Clive Barker and Karl Edward Wagner, and stories by such masters of the genre as F. Paul Wilson, Lisa Tuttle, and Ramsey Campbell

The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness History 2000

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786707478
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness History 2000 written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Running PressBook Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a snapshot view of history from 2700 B.C. to 2000 A.D. and offers a collection of eyewitness accounts of the most memorable historical and social events taken from memoirs, diaries, letters and journals. Original.

The Mammoth Book of Native Americans

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1849015376
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Native Americans written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2004-02-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native Americans make up less than one per cent of the total US population but represent half the nation's languages and cultures. Here, in one grand sweep, is the full story of Native American society, culture and religion. Here is everything from the land-based spirituality of their early creation myths and the late rise of Indian Pride, to the 88 uses to which the Sioux put the flesh and bones of the buffalo and the practice of berdache (men adopted as women). The book offers a chronological history of America's indigenous peoples. It covers their dramatic early entry into North America, out of the now submerged continent of Beringia, then in more recent times the 'forgotten wars' of the 16th and 17th centuries, which wiped many tribes from the face of the East Coast, and finally describes to the last struggles of the Cheyenne and the Comanche. Celebrating these peoples' way of life rather than focusing narrowly on the manner of their genocide, it does not ignore uncomfortable facts of the Amerindian past - including the cannibalism believed to have been practised by some tribes and the Native Americans' part in the decimation of North America's buffalo herds.

The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1849014280
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories written by Ian Watson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has one thing in common: each features some alteration in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very different from the one we know today. As well as original stories specially commissioned from bestselling writers such as James Morrow, Stephen Baxter and Ken MacLeod, there are genre classics such as Kim Stanley Robinson's story of how World War II atomic bomber the Enola Gay, having crashed on a training flight, is replaced by the Lucky Strike with profoundly different consequences. Praise for the editors: 'Mr Watson wreaks havoc with what is accepted - and acceptable.' The Times 'One of Britain's consistently finest science fiction writers.' New Scientist

The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780332831
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John Strawson, Charles Mey, John Pimlott, and John Laffin. All the major conflicts are covered, from two world wars, through Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Chechnya, to Iraq and Afghanistan. Among the battles featured are: the Somme, Passchendaele, Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, El Alamein, Monte Cassino, Omaha Beach, Iwa Jima, Dien Bien Phu, Ia Drang, Hamburger Hill, Desert Storm, Kabul, Baghdad, and Basra.

New Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Author : Packages
Publisher : Packages
ISBN 13 : 9780785818809
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book New Sherlock Holmes Adventures written by Packages and published by Packages. This book was released on 2000-05-24 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Arthur Conan Doyle created the detective, Sherlock Holmes, many writers borrowed him to be the hero of their stories. The anthology offers a selection, old and new.

The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics

Author : Paul Gravett
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics written by Paul Gravett and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mammoth Books: From history to manga, true crime to sci-fi, these anthologies feature top-name contributors and award-winning editors.

The Mammoth Book of Westerns

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 178033916X
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Westerns written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western, though a singularly American art form, is one of the great genres of world literature with a truly global readership. It is also durable despite being often unfairly maligned. Ever since James Fenimore Cooper transformed frontier yarns into a distinct literary form, the Western has followed two paths: one populist - what Time magazine famously billed 'the American Morality Play' - capable of taking many points of view, from red to redneck, but always populist, with a sentimental attachment to the misfit; the other literary - eschewing heroism, debunking with unsettling candour many of the myths of the West. It can sometimes be difficult to draw a sure line between the two forms, but both are represented in this outstanding collection which includes stories by Rick Bass, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Larry McMurtry, Mari Sandoz, Christopher Tilghman, and Mark Twain, among many others.

The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action

Author : Maxim Jakubowski
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 9781841192888
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action written by Maxim Jakubowski and published by Constable. This book was released on 2001 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We now live in enlightened times that reassure us that, far from being a lower form of literature, pulp fiction is the term for what the best storytelling provides - pyrotechnic thrills, shocks galore and excitement by the bucketload! From cops, both straight and crooked, to ruthless bigshots, shady operators, femmes fatales and damsels in distress. Including gangsters, drifters, common crooks, shady attomeys to molls with a heart of gold, enjoy a rollercoaster ride through popular literature's best pulp writers. The MBO of Pulp Action includes the talents of Charles Willeford, Ed McBain, Bill Pronzini, Ed Gorman, Lawrence Block, John D. Macdonald, William Campbell Gault, Bruno Fischer, Mark Timlin, Joe R. Lansdale and many of the classic Black Mask magazine...

The Mammoth Book of Bikers

Author : Arthur Veno
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780334044
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Bikers written by Arthur Veno and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive collection of first-hand accounts of the world's outlaw motorcycle gangs, with contributions by Sonny Barger, Hunter S. Thompson, Ed Winterhalder, William Queen and many more Outlaw bikers consider themselves 'the last free people in society', unconstrained by the regulations that hem in ordinary citizens. And they guard their privacy jealously. Drawing on seventeen years of studying and participating in biker culture, the author has compiled this one-of-a-kind collection of original biker writing. Here are insider accounts of landmark incidents in biker folklore, including reprints of classic writing from biker-originated magazines, handouts, websites and books. Gangs featured include the Bandidos, the Hells Angels, Henchmen MC, the Outlaws, the Mongols, the Annihilators, the Diablos, the Gypsy Jokers, the Rebels, the Straight Satans and the Vagos. And with contributors such as Freewheelin' Frank (one-time secretary of the Hells Angels), Edward Winterhalder (among the most powerful members of the Bandidos) and Sonny Barger (founder of the Hells Angels). Also included are those rare accounts by outsiders who have succeeded in 'looking in' on the gangs: Hunter S. Thompson's Hells Angels: A Strange and Terrible Modern Saga; writing by William Queen, the undercover agent who infiltrated America's violent outlaw motorcycle gang the Mongols; and Daniel R. Wolf's account of riding with the Rebels.

The Mammoth Book of how it Happened

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Constable & Robinson Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781841198033
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of how it Happened written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Constable & Robinson Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents over 300 first-hand accounts of the 1914-1918 conflagration, from the trenches of Flanders to the staffrooms of the Imperial Germany Army, from T.E. Lawrence in the desert to the Red Baron in the air, from Land Girls in England to German U-boat crews in the Atlantic.

The Mammoth Book of Vampires

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780332807
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Vampires written by Stephen Jones and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern masters of the macabre bring the dead to life in this specially re-vamped edition of the classic compilation every horror fan will want to sink their teeth into. From an award-winning editor who knows the genre backwards, here is the very best in vampire fiction: from tales of tempting sirens to contemporary serial killers; from the dark origins of fairy tales to a modern reinterpretation of the King of the Undead himself, Count Dracula. This revised edition features over a dozen new stories, including Tina Rath's A Trick of the Dark and Kim Newman's Andy Warhol's Dracula, as well as classic novellas such as Hugh B. Cave's Stragella and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Investigating Jericho. There are contributions by Nancy Kilpatrick, Christopher Fowler, Paul Mcauley, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Tina Rath, Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison and Kim Newman.

The Mammoth Book Of Cult Comics

Author : ILYA
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472120450
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book Of Cult Comics written by ILYA and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by comic artist ILYA, whose stories are published in the US (Marvel, DC, Dark Horse), Japan (Kodansha) and Europe, The Mammoth Book of Cult Comics brings together for the first time in a single volume lost classics from recent decades of underground and independent British and American comic strip art. It includes the miraculous-in-the-mundane diary comics of John Welding (Goathland), and Paul O’Connell’s chilling yet darkly funny cut-ups, The Sound of Drowning. Also Through the Habitrails, the little-known masterpiece by Jeff Nicholson. A chance to catch up on previously unseen hidden gems.

The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 184901535X
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction written by Mike Ashley and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2010-07-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are 25 stories of science fiction that push the envelope, by the biggest names in an emerging new crop of high-tech futuristic SF - including Charles Stross, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton and Neal Asher. High-tech SF has made a significant comeback in the last decade, as bestselling authors successfully blend the super-science of 'hard science fiction' with real characters in an understandable scenario. It is perhaps a reflection of how technologically controlled our world is that readers increasingly look for science fiction that considers the fates of mankind as a result of increasing scientific domination. This anthology brings together the most extreme examples of the new high-tech, far-future science fiction, pushing the limits way beyond normal boundaries. The stories include: "A Perpetual War Fought Within a Cosmic String", "A Weapon That Could Destroy the Universe", "A Machine That Detects Alternate Worlds and Creates a Choice of Christs", "An Immortal Dead Man Sent To The End of the Universe", "Murder in Virtual Reality", "A Spaceship So Large That There is An Entire Planetary System Within It", and "An Analytical Engine At The End of Time", and "Encountering the Untouchable."

The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness America

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786711673
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness America written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Running PressBook Pub. This book was released on 2003 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of the history of the United States charts the evolution of America through the testimony of eyewitnesses who bring to life such momentous events as the Lewis and Clark expedition, Paul Revere's ride, the moon landing, and more through the eyes of such notables as Neil Armstrong, George Washington, Lillian Hellman, Frederick Douglas, and others. Original.