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Report copyright infringementby William Hutton (Author)William Hutton's "The Battle of Bosworth Field" meticulously recounts the pivotal clash between Richard III and Henry, Earl of Richmond, on August 22, 1485. Published in 1788, this historical account details the movements of both armies, offering a plan of the battlefield that allows readers to visualize the engagement. Hutton explores the battle's profound consequences, examining the fall, treatment, and character of Richard III, the las...

Carlos Lehder: The Rise and Fall of a Smuggler King

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Report copyright infringementby Mafia Library (Author)From a turbulent childhood to becoming one of the most powerful and flamboyant drug traffickers in history, this gripping biography explores the life of Carlos Lehder, co-founder of the infamous Medellín Cartel.Follow his journey from early struggles and a violent upbringing to his transformation inside a U.S. prison, where a fateful alliance with George Jung would launch him into the cocaine trade. As Lehder rises through the criminal und...

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Report copyright infringementby Kostya Kennedy (Author)"Better than any previous account. Kennedy leaves no doubt about Rose's greatness as a player or his guilt as a gambler." --Allen Barra, The Boston Globe Pete Rose had 4,256 hits in his Major League career. But despite being MLB's all-time leader in base hits, Rose isn't in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Banished from the game in August 1989 amid accusations of gambling, he was ruled ineligible for Cooperstown. Today, the question of whether...

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Report copyright infringementby Ian Pindar (Author), Terry Eagleton (Introduction by)A timeless study of a man who revolutionized the literary landscape. James Joyce (1882-1941) is hailed as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Rejecting his homeland and its religion as a young man, Joyce went on to reinvent the Dublin of his youth in his fiction. His masterpiece, Ulysses--once banned in Britain and the United States--redefined the modern novel and has become a canonical cla...

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Report copyright infringementby Edwin John Dingle (Author)Across China On Foot This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography,...

Blazing the Way: Match Girls, Mill Girls and Other Fiery Females Whose Strikes Sparked a Revolution in Women's Rights

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Report copyright infringementby Elise Baker (Author)Unlock the untold stories of remarkable women leaders who defied societal norms and ignited a movement for women's rights. Through Blazing The Way, readers will gain a deeper appreciation for the sacrifices and determination exhibited by these unsung heroines and draw inspiration from their indomitable spirit to empower themselves. This book will provide readers with- A powerful look into the lives of extraordinary activists who fearlessly f...

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Report copyright infringementby Peter N. Gregory (Author)This study of Tsung-mi is part of the Studies in East Asian Buddhism series. Author Peter Gregory makes extensive use of Japanese secondary sources, which complements his work on the complex Chinese materials that form the basis of the study. Number of Pages: 384 Dimensions: 0.92 x 9.04 x 6.18 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: April 30, 2002

The Worst School in England: The rise and fall off Hackney Downs - the 'Jewish Eton'

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Dowley (Author)The extraordinary story of an influential school that in its short life - 1870-1995 - progressed through an astonishing sequence of phases. Established as a fee-paying grammar by the Grocers' Company, Hackney Downs became one of London's leading schools, achieving outstanding academic results.After a disastrous fire in 1963, the school converted early and successfully to comprehensive. During the 1980s, for political and demographic reasons, ...

The Last Train From Djibouti: Africa Beckons Me, But America is My Home

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Report copyright infringementby Otis L. Jr. Lee (Author)"The Last Train from Djibouti is an odyssey you will not forget." --Larry Bechtel, author of The Tinsmith's Apprentice and sculptorOtis Lee begins this story in the most innocuous of locations: a train from Charlottesville, Virginia, to Penn Station in New York City. But for Otis this journey brings to mind another train, from long ago and far away--representative of a past to which there can be no return. Based on the true experiences o...

William B. Smith: In the Shadow of a Prophet

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Report copyright infringementby Kyle R. Walker (Author)As the younger brother of the Mormon Prophet, William B. Smith was one of the most colorful characters in LDS history. After making extensive efforts as a missionary, and being appointed a member of the original Quorum of Twelve Apostles and Church Patriarch, simmering tensions between him and his fellow apostles boiled over, and he was excommunicated in a dramatic break with Brigham Young and the main body of Mormons in October 1845. Aft...

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Report copyright infringementby Miller K. Reading (Author)William Bowne, Of Yorkshire, England: And His Descendants (1903) is a book that explores the genealogy of William Bowne and his descendants. The book is written by Miller K. Reading and provides a comprehensive account of the Bowne family's history, from their origins in Yorkshire, England, to their migration to America and their subsequent generations. The book includes detailed information on the family's lineage, including birth and...

The Women of the Mayflower and Women of Plymouth Colony

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Report copyright infringementby Ethel J. R. C. (Ethel Jane Rus Noyes (Author), Anne Rogers Minor (Author)"The Women of the Mayflower and Women of Plymouth Colony," by Ethel Jane Russell Chesebrough Noyes, offers a compelling look into the lives of the women who shaped early American history. This meticulously researched work examines the experiences of the women aboard the Mayflower and those who established and persevered in Plymouth Colony. Delve into the challenges and triumphs of these pi...

Times New Romanian: Voices and narrative from Romania

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Report copyright infringementby James Nigel Shakespear (Editor)Living and working in Bucharest since 1996 Romanians would ask me 'What do you think of our country?' I found 38 Westerners making a life there and asked them to tell me how they found Romania and its people. This oral history, first published in 2014, comes from interviews with Western writers, social workers, travel guides, entrepreneurs, restaurateurs and NGO chartiy workers; some of them were married to Romanians. Their experi...

Building Beloved Communities: The Life and Work of Rev. Dr. Paul Smith

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Report copyright infringementby Hildi Hendrickson (Author)Building Beloved Communities traces the life of Rev. Dr. Paul Smith (b. 1935), an iconoclastic black minister who has channeled his civil rights work into establishing multi-racial churches in four cities--Buffalo, NY; Atlanta, GA; St. Louis, MO; Brooklyn, NY--over a six-decade career. Following the lead of his mentor, Dr. Howard Thurman (who was also a key influence on Martin Luther King Jr.), Smith has concentrated on building thrivi...

Red Sapphire: The Woman Who Beat the Blacklist

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Bricklin (Author)In 1950, facing artistic and legal persecution by Senator Joe McCarthy because of her inclusion on Louis Budenz's list of four hundred concealed communists, single mother Hannah Weinstein fled to Europe. There, she built a television studio and established her own production company, Sapphire Films, then surreptitiously hired scores of such blacklisted writers as Waldo Salt, Ian McLellan Hunter, Adrian Scott, and Ring Lardner Jr., and "Tr...

The Battle Cruisers at the Action of the Falkland Islands

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Report copyright infringementby Rudolf Henry Cole Verner (Author)This title gives Commander Verner's narrative of the sinking of the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in 1914, along with an account from the point of view of the cruiser Gneisenau - of the German Kaiserliche Marine - as described by its German officers. The second half of the book includes a detailed memoir that transcribes his diary of 1914 with operations in the Dardanelles in February and March 1915 up to when he was killed in actio...

Lifting the Silence: A World War II Rcaf Bomber Pilot Reunites with His Past

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Report copyright infringementby David Scott Smith (Author), Sydney Percival Smith (Author)At a time of great sacrifice in Canadian history, we are welcomed into the homes, the hearts, and the minds of mothers, sons, fathers, and friends as we follow Syd Smith and his high-school brotherhood of 13 when they answer the call to duty in 1941.Author BiographySydney Percival Smith served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War and returned to graduate from the University of Toro...

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Report copyright infringementby Norman P. Grubb (Author)""With C. T. Studd In Congo Forests"" is a book written by Norman P. Grubb about the life and adventures of Charles Thomas Studd, a British missionary who dedicated his life to spreading the Christian faith in the Congo forests. The book provides a detailed account of Studd's journey to the Congo, his encounters with the local people, and his efforts to establish a mission in the heart of the African continent. Grubb's narrative is based...

American Frontier Women: the Exploits of Dozens of Pioneer Women of the United States

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Report copyright infringementby William W. Fowler (Author)The exceptional women who helped build a nation There can be little doubt in the minds of anyone who has an interest in the history of the pioneers of the emergent American nation of the huge, significant and vital role played by its redoubtable women. Whilst it might be appropriate to claim that beside every good man there stands a good woman, in the case of the women of the American frontier from its earliest days among the eastern f...

Whose Man in Havana?: Adventures from the Far Side of Diplomacy

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Report copyright infringementby John W. Graham (Author), Robert Bothwell (Foreword by)In Whose Man in Havana? the author offers an unconventional, often dark, but more often hilarious view of diplomacy in settings as varied as Haiti, London, the Dominican Republic, the Balkans, Palestine, Paraguay, Guyana, and Kyrgyzstan, including covert monitoring of Soviet military operations in Cuba on behalf of the CIA with the blessing of President Kennedy and Prime Minister Pearson. In a career that sp...

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Report copyright infringementby John Bakeless (Author), Michael Lofaro (Introduction by)In his introduction to this edition of Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness, Michael A. Lofaro, a professor of English at the University of Tennessee and the author of The Life and Adventures of Daniel Boone, assesses John Bakeless's achievement: "After fifty years his is still the standard by which all other biographies of the frontiersman are judged." Number of Pages: 495 Dime...

The Howard Genealogy: Descendants Of John Howard Of Bridgewater, Massachusetts From 1643 To 1903

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Report copyright infringementby Heman Howard (Author)""The Howard Genealogy: Descendants Of John Howard Of Bridgewater, Massachusetts From 1643 To 1903"" by Heman Howard is a comprehensive genealogical record of the descendants of John Howard, who arrived in Bridgewater, Massachusetts in 1643. The book covers over 250 years of Howard family history, tracing the lineage of John Howard's descendants through the American Revolution and beyond. The author provides detailed information on each gen...

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Report copyright infringementby Penrose Halson (Author)A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after World War II--a heart-warming, touching, and thoroughly absorbing true story of a world gone by.In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London's Bond Street and set about the delicate business of matchmaking. Drawing on the bureau's exten...

U.S. Marshals: Inside America's Most Storied Law Enforcement Agency

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Report copyright infringementby Mike Earp (Author), David Fisher (Author)Blending history and memoir, retired U.S. Marshal Mike Earp--a descendant of the legendary lawman Wyatt Earp--offers an exclusive and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the most storied law enforcement agency in America, illuminating its vital role in the nation's development for more than two hundred years.Mike Earp spent his career with the U.S. Marshals Service, reaching the number three position in the organizatio...

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Report copyright infringementby Gary John Gentile (Author)VETERANS ADMINISTRATION'S MISTREATMENT OF WOUNDED VIETNAM VETERANSIn my teenage years, I read a novel by H. G. Wells called The Island of Dr. Moreau. The strength of the book lay in its vivid descriptions of the eponymous doctor's shocking treatment of wild animals during his attempts, by means of vivisection, to change them into human beings. In the book, the House of Pain referred to the laboratory in which Moreau conducted his hideo...

The Writings of George Washington; Volume I

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Report copyright infringementby George Washington (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the wor...

Friedrich Schleiermacher: The Evolution of a Nationalist

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Report copyright infringementby Jerry F. Dawson (Author)Nationalism was a driving, moving spirit in the nineteenth-century Germany of Friedrich Schleiermacher. Jerry F. Dawson, through his thoughtful and well-wrought study of Friedrich Schleiermacher, provides an insight into contemporary nationalistic movements and the people who have a part in them. Schleiermacher, a prominent theologian and educator, was also a leading contributor to the tide of nationalism which swept Germany during the N...

The War Diaries of Louis E. Wren: One Man's Journey in the British Merchant Navy and Royal Air Force (RAF) in WWII

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Wren (Author), Louis E. Wren (Author)After my father passed away, we discovered two handwritten journals that he had painstakingly maintained during the six years he spent in WWll. When war broke out he was engineer aboard an oil tanker in the British Merchant Navy. The diary describes harrowing convoy trips across the Atlantic Ocean in severe weather while zigzagging to avoid U-boat attacks. Losses of ships and merchant sailors were very high. Desp...

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Report copyright infringementby Donald S. Lopez (Author)From one of the world's leading Buddhist scholars, a deeply researched and unprecedented portrait of the Buddha Like Jesus and Muhammad, the Buddha is one of the most significant figures in history. But is he a historical figure? In this revelatory book, Donald S. Lopez Jr. explores this question and considers what is at stake in the answer. Using stories of the Buddha's life--drawn from the earliest biographies, the work of other schol...

Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

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Report copyright infringementby Leo Damrosch (Author)From a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson's life, a story as romantic and adventurous as his fiction "Damrosch brings to Stevenson's life the calm, humane interpretive powers that he deployed with such success in . . . The Club. . . . [An] excellent book."--Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal "This magnificent biography of Robert Louis Stevenson reveals much about a writer that we think we ...

When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation Proclamation

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa Waller Rogers (Author)During the three decades before the American Civil War, Southern slaveholders tried to end the anti-slavery movement. They exerted their influence by censoring the press and the mail, attacking and killing abolitionists, burning buildings, drafting frightening new laws and repealing others, and terrorizing and abducting Northern free Blacks. Northerners began to realize that the Slave Power would not rest until slavery was allowed to ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Ruden (Author)An intimate and human portrait of Perpetua, a third-century woman author who was idealized as a Christian martyr On March 7, 203, in the monumental amphitheater at Carthage, Vibia Perpetua was one of five Christians who met their deaths after refusing to venerate the Roman emperor Septimius Severus and his son. Perpetua stood out from the other four, and in fact from all the other martyrs of her era and before: she was an aristocratic marri...