Bookbot

Kelly Knauer

    150th Anniversary Tribute: Time Gettysburg
    TIME: Great Events of the 20th Century
    TIME: Great Discoveries
    • 150th Anniversary Tribute: Time Gettysburg

      Turning Point of the Civil War

      • 186pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      History was made on the first three days of July 1863 at Gettysburg, Pa., where Confederate General Robert E. Lee waged a final desperate gamble to win the Civil War-and lost. Now TIME celebrates the 150th anniversary of this pivotal battle in a freshly reported, incisively written and beautifully illustrated volume. TIME has enlisted a brilliant roster of writers to offer fresh perspectives on this iconic battle. Best-selling novelist Jeff Shaara will create a fictional portrait of a Southern soldier in the ranks, and military historian David Eisenhower will examine the strategy of the battle. Noted TIME weekly writers include Richard Lacayo on photography in the war, Jeff Kluger on medicine on the battlefield, David Von Drehle on Lincoln and his generals, and critic Richard Corliss on the war on film, while veteran TIME cartographer Jackson Dykman is creating all new maps for the book. This oversized hardcover edition will offer a magnificent canvas for classic war photographs and other images from the period.

      150th Anniversary Tribute: Time Gettysburg2013
      3,8
    • TIME: Great Discoveries

      Explorations That Changed History

      • 144pagine
      • 6 ore di lettura

      This book is crafted to inspire, challenge, and engage readers, from armchair travelers to those ready to explore. The editors of Time have curated exciting discoveries in geography, paleontology, astronomy, and archaeology, blending them with classic exploration tales. It features updates on remarkable fossilized dinosaur-birds from China, recent archaeological digs in Egypt, and new findings from missions exploring Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn's moons. The journey spans locations like Siberia's Yamal Peninsula, where a 40,000-year-old baby mammoth carcass named Lyuba was found, to a cave in Indonesia's Flores Island, home to a unique species of miniature early humans known as "the hobbits." Notable figures include Chinese paleontologist Xing Xu, Egypt's renowned Zahi Hawass, and NASA's Martian rovers, Opportunity and Spirit. Readers will discover surprising new information about familiar topics, such as the Titanic wreck and the Pueblo cliff-dwellers of the American Southwest. Alongside its insightful narratives, the book is filled with striking photographs, offering a visual panorama of Earth's most powerful forces and exotic regions. Welcome aboard—and bon voyage!

      TIME: Great Discoveries2009
      4,1
    • Since 1923, one magazine -- TIME -- has taken the pulse of the century week by week, and the result is an unparalleled chronicle of our times. Now, the editors of TIME have opened their archives to create this lasting portrait of one of history's most turbulent and memorable eras. From the death throes of Hitler's Nazi Reich to the birth pains of Israel, from the advent of the Iron Curtain to the toppling of the Berlin Wall.

      TIME: Great Events of the 20th Century1997
      3,9