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Volume VI discusses the Commonwealth established by Oliver Cromwell, the Stuart Restoration, making Charles II king, succeeded by his brother, James II, the abdication of James, and Parliament's offer of the Act of Settlement, and the accession of William and Mary.
| Автор | David Hume |
In Letters of Note: Sex, Shaun Usher collects together some of the most noteworthy missives ever written on the subject, from euphemism-laden, flirtatious exchanges and desire-driven expressions of passion to sincere and thoughtful meditations on the meaning of sex. Includes letters by: John Cheever, Dorothy Day, Frida Kahlo, Margaret Mead, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Mae West & many more
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In Letters of Note: Grief, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about grief, from the heart-wrenching pain of losing a loved one to reliving fond memories of those who have passed on. Includes letters by: Audre Lorde, Robert Frost, Nick Cave, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Kahlil Gibran, Edith Wharton, Mary Wortley Montagu, Seungsahn Haengwon & many more
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Empire, love, war, betrayal and Spanish Influenza meet youthful naiveté. Set in the political melting pot of Australia's early Federation, a nation and its youth must overcome personal and global adversity to build a life of integrity, justice and a fair go for all. Joseph Hill is a passionate idealist. He believes in socialism and peace. But life is complicated. Joe Hill is also in love with his best mate's girl, friends with the 'treacherous' Russian...
| Автор | Mark Svendsen |
From the moment Columbus gazed out from his Santa Maria and hailed ‘the most beautiful land human eyes have seen’, Cuba has been a magnet for fantasies – and for historic drama. In recent years, Fidel Castro’s longtime communist feif has been roiled by new momentous shifts – Castro’s death; détente with the United States; the ascent of a new leader in Havana. Now comes an essential and timely portrait of Cuba from one of the island’s leading chroniclers. Cuba Then, Cuba Now offers selected...
| Автор | Joshua Jelly-Schapiro |
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere is a timely and inspiring call to arms by one of Britain’s most acclaimed and important writers. Whilst recognising how far women have come in the hundred years since getting the vote, Jeanette Winterson also insists that we must all do much more if we are to achieve true gender equality. Examining recent women’s rights movements, the worlds of politics, technology and social media and changes in the law, Winterson calls out all the ways in which women...
| Автор | Jeanette Winterson |
In this epic poem, Paul Nelson re-enacts the history of Auburn, Washington, originally known as the town of Slaughter. Written in the spirit of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, and Michael McClure, A Time Before Slaughter explores the history of this Northwestern place from the myths of Native people to the xenophobia toward Japanese-Americans, from the urge to control to the hunger for liberation. Set against the backdrop of a towering dormant volcano (Mt. Rainier), the beauty of the...
| Автор | Paul E. Nelson |
Between the two World Wars, the most famous employee of the British Museum was a cat called Mike. For some twenty years, Mike made it his home and his friend was a most irregular Egyptologist, Wallis Budge, a freebooting fieldworker and smuggler of antiquities. It was a time when the wildest spiritualist ideas were in full resurgence, when ghosts, mummies and lethal curses were held to stalk the earth and many leading scientists, writers and thinkers saw no contradiction between science and...
| Автор | Nigel Barley |
Second in the Drago Mystery Series. <br><br>A man literally in a tree puts Nick <br>on the trail of a hundred-year-old mystery that reaches into the present and brings bedlam to Bandon. <br><br>Nick Drago never was a cop. <br>Never a private detective. Didn't spy on the country's enemies or graduate law school. <br><br>Drago has been a logger, bouncer and DJ. Woodworker, welder and pilot. <br><br>The Oregon coastal town...
| Автор | Art LLC Spinella |
It may have been the greatest injustice of all.<br><br>A nation was uprooted.<br><br>A nation was ripped apart from its ancestral lands with its peoples' feet pointed west. So many died along the way.<br><br>The Five Civilized Tribes – the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole – rose to power on the land of their fathers, atop great smoky mountains, deep within vast timbered forests, lost among the mangroves, palmettos,...
| Автор | Caleb Pirtle III |
Guns. Women. Coal. Gold.<br><br>Nick and Sal have their hands full. <br><br>When gold was discovered in trees, Nick and Sal found themselves in the midst of a thousand year old question of who first settled the Northwest.<br><br>It ended badly with bystanders suffering the result of greed and mayhem (#2a).<br><br>A year later, Nick and Sal begin their hunt for the face behind the Tree Man crimes and get tangled in a new web of...
| Автор | Art Inc. Spinella |
The Warm Heart of Africa, fifty years in the making, is the story of Susan, one of the first Peace Corps Volunteers. It is also the story of Peter, a ninety-two year old African who became her salvation. She meets him soon after attempting to quit the Peace Corps…but failing. Peter is at first reticent to talk of his past, for fear of opening old wounds. With time, he learns to trust and slowly shares his stories with Susan, beginning with, "My father was the first man to see...
| Автор | Kevin M. Denny |
One hundred years ago a great Canadian, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, predicted that the twentieth century would belong to Canada. He had a plan to make it so. What happened? Canada lost sight of Laurier's plan and failed to claim its century, dwelling instead in the long shadow of the United States. <br><br>No more! Co-authors Brian Crowley, Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis envision Canada's emergence as an economic and social power. They argue, while the United States was...
| Автор | Brian Lee Crowley |
Thirty seven years after the end of the Vietnam War an historic event occurred at busy Da Nang Airport, an Agent Orange hot spot where tonnes of the infamous herbicide were decanted and reloaded on to cargo planes for spraying across the country's lush fields and forests. Dioxin, the accidental contaminant in Agent Orange responsible for many tens of thousands of birth defects and early deaths, is regarded as probably the most poisonous of all the compounds ever devised by man. This...
| Автор | John Stapleton |
In the 1960s, Canada began a seismic shift away from the core policies and values upon which the country had been built. A nation of "makers" transformed itself into a nation of "takers". Crowley argues that the time has come for the pendulum to swing back – back to a time when Canadians were less willing to rely on the state for support; when people went where the work was rather than waiting for the work to come to them....
| Автор | Brian Lee Crowley |
MLK: Nonviolent Coward or Shrewd Mastermind? is more than a book on Dr. Martin Luther King–it is a treatise on battlefield strategy from the mastermind perspective, as well as an excursion into uncharted reality. <br><br>Was Martin Luther King truly a coward? Are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson political house Negroes demolishing Dr. King's dream by way of bootlicking and racial exploitation? Are Sharpton and Jackson pure examples of weak leaders? What was the...
| Автор | Cornell Martin |
Uno sguardo breve, divertente e conciso sulla storia dell'Irlanda. Fin dall'inizio dei tempi, gli Irlandesi hanno sempre affascinato il mondo. Dal loro comportamento allegro e felice ai loro conflitti con l'Inghilterra e la tesa divisione tra Nord e Sud. Entra in questo libro conciso e impara tutto ciò che devi sapere per la tua prossima visita all'Isola di Smeraldo.
| Автор | History Nerds |
Przegląd najważniejszych wydarzeń II wojny światowej. Druga wojna światowa wybuchła 1 września 1939 r. Już od pierwszych strzałów wiadomo było, że konflikt ten narzuci niespotykane wcześniej tempo działań militarnych. Całkowicie przebiła I wojnę światową pod względem skali i złożoności. W tej książce opisaliśmy najważniejsze momenty II wojny, czyli wydarzenia współczesnej historii, które zdecydowały o dalszym losie całego świata.
| Автор | History Nerds |