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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1769 edition published in Genève....

Thucydides, Gibbon, Tuchman, McCullough: to the names of the world's great historians must now be added the name of Dave Barry, who has taken a long, hard look at our new millennium (so far) and, when he stopped hyperventilating, has written it all down, because nobody would believe it otherwise.In ...

Before she became a TV icon as Donna Stone in the long-running series, The Donna Reed Show, the beauteous star from Iowa had a very successful career as an top MGM contract player. She graced the silver screen in many hit films including The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Green Dolphin Street, The Human C...

Describes the ghostly lore of Scotland's Edinburgh Castle....

This book examines the role of Greek-speaking intellectuals in nation-formation processes during the Greek Enlightenment. I explore how scholars invoked the concept of the 'nation' and issues closely related to it in order to enforce their demands either for educational reform or for national indepe...

Brighter Child English & Grammar for Grade 5 helps students master language arts skills. Practice is included for parts of speech, punctuation, vocabulary, frequently confused words, and more. School success starts here! Workbooks in the popular Brighter Child series are packed with plenty of fun ac...

Scholars have examined John Adams’s writings and beliefs for generations, but no one has brought such impressive credentials to the task as Richard Alan Ryerson in John Adams’s Republic. The editor-in-chief of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Adams Papers project for nearly two decades, Ryerso...

A clean historical western mystery romance novel . Cheyenne brave, Wild Wind, discovers that Roxie Ryder has been harboring feelings for him for a long time. Amid danger and mystery, their love grows, but can they survive outside influences that threaten to drive a wedge between them?...

ORBIT: The year is 2009. For Kip Dawson, winning a passenger seat on American Space Adventure’s first commercial spaceflight is a dream come true. One grand shot of insanity and he can return to earth fulfilled. It’s a bittersweet moment of triumph, however, muted by his wife’s terror over his accep...

Wedding Journal Bride Groom Fall Foliage paperback contains alternating blank pages and lined pages. This allows brides and brides-to-be the option to express themselves with words or images. Blank pages also provide a scrapbook-like option to paste pictures or clippings from bridal magazines, wedd...

The Memo reveals how to succeed in business using the covert WWII strategy that ultimately led to the Allied victory.Much is known about how the atomic bomb helped the United States achieve final victory in World War II. However, little is known about a weapon that was, perhaps, even more powerful—a...

This is an odyssey to democracy; these are the origins of Themistokles... When Phokion is given a mission by a dying queen in Egypt, who wants to atone for atrocities she has committed across the Libyan Desert, he meets up with his sister's family in Athens. While he is there, he is caught up in the...

Adventure, Romance, Mad Science! Heroes and villains fight for control of Mechanicsburg, as Agatha finally repairs the damaged machine that is Castle Heterodyne.Book Eleven of the Three-time Hugo Award-winning, Eisner-Nominated series!...

We all know what it is to feel discontented with our lives with what we have, how much we can get, what we do, who we live with, how we are and what the future promises.The constant hunger for something more may seem like the aches and pains of growing old something that we must just put up with in ...

The Willow Tree is a special place. You can dream and wonder about life. In book 3, we explore The Other Side of the Willow Tree....

This book highlights intricately connected issues of socio-economic status and perception and practice of reproductive health rights (RHRs) of women living in rural areas of Bangladesh. The using data are the reflection of the real life representation of women in two villages under Dacope Upazila of...

Carlo Mollino (1905-1973) was possessed of both tremendous energy and incredibly diverse abilities: famed as an architect and furniture designer, he was also a writer, photographer, race-car driver and downhill skier. His private life was no less intense. Mollino had a closely guarded obsession with...

Este libro reúne los artículos publicados por Arturo Pérez-Reverte entre los años 2005 y 2009 en la revista El Semanal, que cuenta con más de 4.500.000 de lectores. &loz, Un libro que nos presenta a un autor que rehúye de lo políticamente correcto y se enfrenta a temas de opinión incómodos. &loz, De...

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There is so much power in the words we speak. What we say today creates our tomorrow. If we want a healthy and prosperous future, then we need to use wisdom and speak words that bring positive results. Our future depends on it.To declare means:• To make known formally or officially• To state emphati...

A new series of short, specialist English courses for professions such as human resources, and marketing and advertising, and work skills such as telephoning, meetings, and presentations....

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Professional educator, Zionist activist, and feminist leader--Puah Rakovsky (1865-1955) was born under the Russian Empire and died in the independent country of Israel. No mere bystander to history, Rakovsky was an activist who assumed leadership roles in the public arenas of education and politics,...