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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645117806Author Bill FlemingFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Bill FlemingPublisher Bill FlemingWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615149844Author Calmo RoseFormat PaperbackImprint Duende BooksPublisher Duende BooksWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578958446Author Charles O SummerourFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Charles Ober SummerourPublisher Charles Ober SummerourWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578943466Author Alison Hill PenfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Trevor Hill PressPublisher Trevor Hill PressWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578659183Author Cheryl S JusticeFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Cheryl S. JusticePublisher Cheryl S. JusticeWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578286693Author Nikki Guy LathamFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint John Nixon Guy LathamPublisher John Nixon Guy LathamWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578280479Author Daniel McDonald JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Daniel McDonald JohnsonPublisher Daniel McDonald JohnsonWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313220531Author Frederic TrautmannFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674432321Author David Tod RoyFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 540g

French explorer Marion Dufresne was the man who reached Tasmania before the English. His expedition was the first to encounter the Tasmanian Aborigines and was a precursor of the great voyages of La Pérouse, d'Entrecasteaux, Baudin and d'Urville. To...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385507028Author Professor of Ancient History Alan LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703966Author Douglas L. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329g

They were the children of France's most celebrated men of nineteenth-century letters and science, the celebrity heirs and heiresses of their day. Their lives were the subject of scandal, gossip, and fascination. Leon Daudet was the son of the popular...

The first of five volumes in a full-length biography of Jefferson.Book InformationISBN 9780316544726Author Dumas MaloneFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Little, Brown and CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above...

In this groundbreaking and controversial critique of the selections of Nobel Peace Prize winners, an eminent Norwegian lawyer and peace activist calls for its return to legal and moral compliance with the will of Alfred Nobel who wished to support...

This biography provides a concise, accurate, and lively account of one of the best known yet least understood figures of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee, depicting him as a human being instead of a legend, making him accessible as a person. Robert E. Lee: A...

This fresh biography unearths previously unpublished nuances about Malcolm X's life. Malcolm X: A Biography is a historical and political analysis of the black leader's life and times, offering a detailed treatment of its subject's multifaceted story...

This simple narrative of an extraordinary life explores the power of a disinterested commitment to right and truth. Sojourner Truth: A Biography traces this remarkable woman's life from her birth through adulthood and to her death in 1883. Drawing from...

This book offers a revealing look at Rosa Parks, whose role as an activist and struggle with racism began long before her historic 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus ride. Rosa Parks: A Biography captures the story of this remarkable woman like no other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312655327Author Maryalice HugginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint St. Martins Press-3plPublisher St. Martins Press-3plWeight(grams) 263g

These are the firsthand accounts of sisters Helen and Barbara Shores growing up with their father, Arthur Shores, a prominent Civil Rights attorney, during the 60s in the Jim Crow south Birmingham district-a frequent target of the Ku Klux Klan. Between...

Adventurous and wilful, the swashbuckling Martin Frobisher was both a brave sea-commander who served Elizabeth I with distinction and a privateer who single-mindedly pursued his own interests. This highly entertaining biography provides the first...

John Davenport, who cofounded the colony of New Haven, has been neglected in studies that view early New England primarily from a Massachusetts viewpoint. Francis J. Bremer restores the clergyman to importance by examining Davenport’s crucial role as an...

"A splendid piece of Americana, for Perlot was a witty, gingery, intelligent man with a sharp eye for significant detail. . . . His book . . . has been translated and thoroughly annotated by the late Helen Harding Bretnor, who deserves the gratitude...

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."-Lord Acton, 1887 Lord Acton (1834-1902), numbered among the most esteemed Victorian historical thinkers, was much respected for his vast learning, his ideas on politics and...

Knighted in 1911 for distinguished service as a British foreign officer, hanged five years later for high treason to the Crown, Roger Casement is one of the most enigmatic figures in the long history of troubles between England and Ireland. His true...

A masterly re-evaluation of a self-made Elizabethan hero, and a fascinating re-creation of the man and his era. Sir Francis Drake: pirate, explorer and Protestant zealot, a man princely in his bearing, heroic if sometimes foolhardy in his enterprise, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743252553Author Robin F. CookFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 708g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228825586Author William McArthurFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 748g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228824992Author Scott J BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 626g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228817956Author Harvey MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228817970Author Harvey MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 445g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228807049Author Adina-Hay Nissan And Ari DerinFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 204g

Civil War officer, Reconstruction "carpetbagger," best-selling novelist, and relentless champion of equal rights, Albion Tourgee battled his entire life for racial justice. Now, in this engaging biography, Mark Elliott offers an insightful...

Landon Carter, a Virginia planter patriarch, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this astonishingly rich biography, Rhys Isaac mines this remarkable document-and many other sources-to reconstruct Carter's interior world as...

Because history is as fallible as the people who record it, many of the figures who have shaped our country have receded from public memory. In order to celebrate and call attention to these lives, Oxford University Press asked fifty accomplished...

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This book offers portraits of twenty of the secondary theologians of the Reformation period. In addition to describing a particular theologian, each portrait explores one problem in 16th-century Christian thought. Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, and...

Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the throne, and writing the Alexiad, an epic history of her father Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) that is a key historical source for the era of the First...