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America's World War II is most often told through the stories of its great battles, when an entire generation of our young men was suddenly thrust across the oceans to represent the New World in deadly combat against the great powers of the Old. On sea,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557788924Author J. J. KeelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Paragon House PublishersPublisher Paragon House Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555179847Author Carol Lynn PearsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 199Imprint CfiPublisher CfiWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432964603Author Ann WeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Heinemann Educational BooksPublisher Heinemann Educational BooksWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873516402Author Peg MeierFormat PaperbackPage Count 255Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873516082Author Curtiss AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society...

National book Award laureate; recipient of Special Pulitzer Prize citation; winner of the Life in America Prize the Archives of American Art Award; among many others, James Thomas Flexner has written with distinction about American history and art. He...

On April 26, 1865, as Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege paused in Union Square, New York, before being taken by rail to Springfield, Illinois, William Cullen Bryant listened as his own verse elegy for the slain president was read to a great concourse of...

The second volume of William Cullen Bryant's letters opens in 1836 as he has just returned to New York from an extended visit to Europe to resume charge of the New York Evening Post, brought near to failure during his absence by his partner William...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814103777Author Victor VillanuevaFormat PaperbackPage Count 151Imprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of...

This book is a literary biography of Shen Yueh, a statesman, historian, poet, and devout lay defender of both Buddhism and Taoism. The title "Reticient Marquis" (Yin-hou) was awarded posthumously by the Liang Emperor Wu, who, though owning his...

A loyal servant of the Ottoman Empire in his early career, Sati' al-Husri (1880-1968) became one of Arab nationalism's most articulate and influential spokesmen. His shift from Ottomanism, based on religion and the multi-national empire, to Arabism,...

Phillip Herring distinguishes the solvable problems from the truly insolvable mysteries in Joyce studies. His unusual and often witty book contains enough background material to appeal to a beginning reader of Joyce, yet it will be of the utmost...

This book is a study in depth of the rise to power of Macedonia under the astute leadership of Philip II, whose diplomatic adroitness and military skill paved the way for the career of his son and heir, Alexander the Great. J. R. Ellis has attempted to...

For this vivid description of the world of a Florentine patrician, Mark Phillips draws on Marco Parenti's private letters, ricordanze or diaries, and public history or memoir. When Cosimo de' Medici died in 1464, Parenti foresaw a return to liberty and...

The three-volume life-story of the Egyptian intellectual Tahah Husayn (1889-1973) is a landmark in modern autobiography, in Arabic letters, and in the literature of blindness. This justly celebrated text, however, has never been subjected to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671661182Author AlikiFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersPublisher Simon & Schuster Books for Young...

In the folklore of mathematics, James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) is the eccentric, hot-tempered, sword-cane-wielding, nineteenth-century British Jew who, together with the taciturn Arthur Cayley, developed a theory and language of invariants that then...

A scholarly edition of letters by Joseph Addison. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780198701163Author AddisonFormat HardbackPage Count 568Imprint...

Fanny Burney was best known in her own time as the author of Evelina and other novels. Her modern reputation, however, rests primarily on her extensive journals and letters, first published posthumously by her niece and literary executive, Mrs Charlotte...

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Florence Arnold-Forster was the adopted daughter of William Edward Forster, one of the foremost British liberals of the late 19th century with a distinguished record of social concern and political reform. In 1880-1882 she accompanied Forster when he...

Beethoven's habit of composing by making large numbers of preliminary drafts and sketches was sufficiently unusual to attract attention even during his lifetime, and his creative process has attracted a good deal more attention since. The present book...

Jean Desmarets, later Sieur de Saint-Sorlin, was a late Renaissance `universal man': first Chancellor and founder-member of the Academie-francaise, last jester of the French royal court and star performer in ballets, novelist, playwright, poet,...

The author has selected a cross-section of Cornelius Nepos' work, which shows the literary, social, political and intellectual history of the period 90 to 30 B.C. There are also fragments of Cato, Atticus and Nepos' other works. He also translates and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198124306Author Maria EdgeworthFormat HardbackPage Count 698Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)...

Of the spiritual odysseys which dominate the literature of nineteenth-century England, Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest and yet one of the most difficult. Newman wrote the Apologia in 1864, as a reply to...

Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and video works, he has created an array of shadow plays, sound pieces, installations, and magic lantern and film performances that have transformed how we look at...

Raymond D. Adams: A Life of Mind and Muscle is a contribution to the history of neurology and the history of American medicine. Adams, one of the greats of neurology, advanced the fields of neurology, neuropathology, internal medicine, psychiatry,...

The first full-length study dedicated to Schoenberg's life and music in the United States, Schoenberg's New World dispels many myths and fills significant gaps in the existing literature on Schoenberg. Drawing on much new information, the book traces...

This book is a complete biography of Camillo Golgi one of the most prominent European researcher between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth century, a period of dramatic scientific development. The life of Golgi was an extraordinary intellectual adventure...

A scholarly edition of the letters of Anthony Trollope. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Book InformationISBN 9780192121387Author Anthony TrollopeFormat HardbackPage...

Fulvia is the first full-length biography in English focused solely on Fulvia, who is best known as the wife of Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony). Born into a less prestigious branch of an aristocratic Roman clan in the last decades of the Roman Republic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190618858Author Professor of Religion Heidi MarxFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

Barack Obama is arguably the most dynamic political figure to grace the American stage since John F. Kennedy. His meteoric rise from promise to power has stunned even the cynics and inspired a legion of devout followers. For anyone who wants to know more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062298645Author David FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Chautauqua Prize 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780062241337Author Roger RosenblattFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062210869Author Michael SavageFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 192g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061721519Author Gilad SharonFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 696gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062015556Author Scott BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 292g