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This is the story of the lineage of Boxing's World Heavyweight Championship from 1882-1915 and how it explains a cultural attitude toward race and identity in that era. <br><br>The first true national and international sports celebrities were boxers in the late 1800s. Soon after the abolishment of slavery in the United States the first World Champions of the sport were crowned. As the Champion of the World these boxing heavyweights were held on a pedestal of athletic...
| Автор | Ian Carey |
In this beautifully illustrated book, three experts examine the history, production and uses of textiles in Balinese society. Many fine pieces are presented, their raw materials and methods of weaving and dyeing are described, and the complex symbolism and ritual functions of each are explained in detail.
| Автор | Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff |
In 1942, as American blood is about to be spilled in far-off Guadalcanal, a young man boards a train and blindly heads towards his destiny: boot camp with the United States Marine Corps. These tragic times of World War II were the defining years for millions of cowboys and plowboys. This book is a compelling chronicle about these years and one not-so-ordinary young man. <br><br>'The War Years' is a heartwarming saga about Dutch Clarke who, over the objections of his...
| Автор | Brian Psy.D. Ratty |
The year: 1580. The scene: Queen Elizabeth's glittering Court. Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, has just lost his heart to the Queen's newest maid of honor. Their forbidden love inspires him to compose 25 sonnets and a 5-hour play about his Dark Lady.<br><br>Yet, this tempestuous love story is ripped from history's pages, creating literature's greatest mystery. Told in her own words, the Dark Lady's stunning story climaxes with a surprisingly...
| Автор | Dan Walker |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Rafael Sabatini <br><br>SCARAMOUCHE<br><br>THE SEA-HAWK<br><br>CAPTAIN BLOOD<br><br>THE TAVERN KNIGHT<br><br>THE SHAME OF MOTLEY<br><br>BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT<br><br>THE HISTORICAL NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT<br><br>-First Series<br><br>-Second Series<br><br>THE LIFE OF CESARE BORGIA<br><br>THE...
| Автор | Rafael Sabatini |
Ex-U.S. Army intelligence officer, Michael Hazzard, and the only foreign private detective in Japan, is offered $10,000 to deliver a cheap $5.00 string of Buddhist prayer beads to someone in Saigon, who will be identified by the phrase, “There is terror in the bamboo only for the wicked.” When he finally agrees, he finds himself the target in a bizarre plot of Oriental intrigue when he is taken hostage and brought to a guerrilla camp in the jungles of North Viet Nam.
| Автор | William Ross |
Sabine Martin Die Henkerin gelesen von Nicole Engeln Esslingen, 1325: Melisande ist noch ein Kind, als ihre Familie in einem Hinterhalt brutal gemeuchelt wird. Dass sie überlebt, verdankt sie allein Raimund. Dem Henker. Er nimmt sie zu sich, gibt sie als seinen stummen Neffen aus, lehrt sie sogar sein Handwerk. Dennoch findet Melisandes verletzte Seele keine Ruhe, hat sie ihrer sterbenden Mutter doch eines versprochen: sie zu rächen.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Speed Wilson and Hattie Willis Wilson answered their own calling during the civil war. Arrested for harboring a Confederate recruiting officer, Speed faced the prospect of military service against his conscience or leaving Hattie with six children and crops in the field. Farmer Speed must play the surprising role of nurse to survive Gratiot Street Prison in Saint Louis, Missouri while Hattie manages farm and family through a brutal winter. Reunited, their love is challenged by the death of a...
| Автор | Richard Boone's Black |
A novel based on the history of Topsail Island, NC, beginning with the final days of piracy in the era dominated by the infamous Blackbeard. The story winds its way through a suspicious search for Blackbeard's treasure in The Dirty Thirties, the subsequent use of the island as a US Military Rocket Testing Facility after World War 2, through the tourism boom in the 1990's, the real estate crash of 2008 and culminating in the island's subsequent...
| Автор | Paul Boardman |
High atop the Southern mountains lived the Appalachian settlers. They were people unconcerned with convention who lived removed from the throes of civilization for more than a century. From mighty blacksmiths to prized basket-makers, their crafts were well suited to a remote existence, giving them 'the tools to tame the wilderness.'<br><br>Hand thrown pottery preserved and transported food. Cornhusk dolls lent amusement to children's playtime. Chair making and...
| Автор | Caron Caswell Lazar |
Will prayer and providence bring a family together after years apart? Can it possibly heal the broken connections? Set in the late 1800's in Colorado, Prayer Trilogy is the story of the Jenkins and Davidson families, one nearly starving on their farm and the other a prosperous business family in the city of Denver. Neither family is perfect but both know the power and comfort of prayer that sustains their relationship with God. These stories provide a wonderful reminder that prayer is...
| Автор | Kimberly Gordon |
Im Tempel des Lichts dienen die Priesterinnen Domaris und Deoris, bis die Kräfte der Finsternis das Alte Reich bedrohen. Eine geheimnisvolle Bruderschaft will die Macht über die Elemente an sich reißen.
| Автор | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
Mit Ranunkeln und Wiesenklee besucht Marie das Grab ihrer Großmutter im Westerwald … Je mehr sie in die Welt der Apollonia eintaucht, desto deutlicher kehrt auch die Erinnerung an ihre eigene Jugend zurück, vor allem an Jim, den GI. Mit ihrem neuen Roman ist Annegret Held ganz eng bei ihren Leuten. Atmosphärisch dicht und mit unbändiger Fabulierlust erzählt sie die Geschichte ihrer Großmutter, die zugleich die Geschichte eines Dorfes und eines ganzen Jahrhunderts ist.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the younger Pharaoh begins to dream new and terrifying dreams.<br /> <br />Ptah-hotep, a young peasant boy studying to be a scribe, wants to live a simple life in a Nile hut with his lover Kheperren and their dog Wolf. But Amenhotep IV appoints him as Great Royal Scribe. Surrounded by bitterly envious rivals and enemies, how long will Ptah-hotep survive?<br />...
| Автор | Kerry Greenwood |
This story deserves to be told. Garry Willmott creates graphic and quite horrifying insights into unseen and 'unsung' aspects of World War 1, where so many Australian, Canadian, British, New Zealander, American and French soldiers were slaughtered and still, today, lie uninterred in forgotten furrows of French fields.<br /> <br />The author tells this story in a simple direct style which has an immediate impact. Garry Willmott's ancestors are among those who lost their...
| Автор | G. S. Willmott |
The Personality of War – A volume comprising five pieces.<br /> <br />Dresden.<br />Now an old man, a onetime Air Force flyer recalls his time in the night sky during the bombing of Dresden.<br />For the incineration of a hundred and forty thousand souls, if things went right, for the destruction of a graceful city, of its old walls and obedient gardens, they flew east. He was the navigator.<br /> <br />Rehearsals for the Death of Taipei.<br />One day...
| Автор | John Bryson |
