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The Life Of Thomas Jefferson: In 3 Volumes; Volume 1

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Stephens Randall (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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is i...

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Report copyright infringementby Walter Scott (Author)First published in 1808, "The Life of John Dryden" provides a comprehensive biography of the famous English poet and literary critic. Walter Scott offers thorough analysis of Dryden's literary works and his influence on English literature during the seventeenth century. This classic work is a must-read for scholars and students of English literature.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the kn...

Jeanne D Arc Maid Of Orleans Deliverer Of France

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Report copyright infringementby T. Douglas Murray (Author)A stirring biography of the legendary French heroine who led the charge against English invaders in the 15th century. T. Douglas Murray's insightful and vividly written account illuminates the life and legacy of Jeanne d'Arc, providing readers with a nuanced and captivating portrait of this iconic figure.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know i...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Smith Emery (Author)Reminiscences of a Newburyport Nonagenarian is a memoir by Sarah Smith Emery. The book recounts Emery's experiences growing up in Newburyport, Massachusetts in the early 19th century. Emery provides a vivid picture of life in a New England town during this period, including the daily routines, social customs, and religious practices of the time.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the kn...

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Report copyright infringementby Chaim Weizmann (Author)Chaim Weizmann's autobiography is a compelling account of his life, from his early years in Belarus to his leadership in the Zionist movement and eventual presidency of Israel. In this book, Weizmann reflects on the challenges he faced and the decisions he made, offering a unique perspective on modern Jewish history.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as ...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Theophilus Finck (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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is i...

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Report copyright infringementby William Whiting (Author)War Powers Under the Constitution of the United States - Tenth Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1864. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are availabl...

The House on G Street: A Cuban Family Saga

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Report copyright infringementby Lisandro P駻ez (Author)The unforgettable story of a family swept into history by the Cuban RevolutionIn The House on G Street, award-winning author Lisandro P駻ez tells Cuba's story through the lens of a single family: his own. His book relays the tales of two officers who fought against the Spanish for Cuban independence; a plantation owner who smuggles himself onto a ship; families divided by political loyalties; an orphaned boy from central Cuba who would go o...

American Legends: The Life of Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Report copyright infringementby Charles River (Author)*Includes pictures of Eisenhower and important people, places, and events in his life. *Includes a detailed analysis of Eisenhower's military planning for D-Day and the invasion itself. A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most i...

A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Rowlandson (Author)Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637 - January 5, 1711) was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed. In 1682, six years after her ordeal, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson was published. This text is considered a seminal American work in the literary genre of captivity narratives. It went through four printings in 1682 and g...

Autobiography of Hector Berlioz, member of the Institute of France, from 1803 to 1865. Comprising his travels in Italy, Germany, Russia, and England (

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Report copyright infringementby Hector Berlioz (Author), (translator Rachel Scott Russell Holmes (Author)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nat...

Time's Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World War - Paperback

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by Jeremy Eichler (Author)A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR - WINNER OF THREE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS - Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction - A stirring account of how music bears witness to history and carries forward the memory of the wartime past - SUNDAY TIMES OF LONDON HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR In 1785, when the great German poet Friedrich Schiller penned his immortal "Ode to Joy," he crystallized the deepest hopes and dreams of the European Enlighte...

Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors - Paperback

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by James Patterson (Author), Matt Eversmann (Author), Chris Mooney (With)Discover "the stories America needs to hear" (Admiral William H. McRaven, US Navy (Ret.)) with these moving and powerful recollections of war, told by the men and women who lived them. Walk in my Combat Boots is a powerful collection crafted from hundreds of original interviews by James Patterson, the world's #1 bestselling writer, and First Sergeant US Army (Ret.) Matt Eversmann, part of the Ranger unit portrayed in the...

From Salvation to Spirituality: Popular Religious Movements in Modern Japan - Paperback

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by Susumu Shimazono (Author)Susumu Shimazono, one of Japans foremost sociologists of religion, deals with the development of popular religious and spiritual movements in Japan in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. At present, it is estimated that more than ten percent of Japans total population are members of the so-called New Religions. While Buddhist and Shintoist influences remain pronounced, there are many other features common to modern Japans popular religious thinking. Through...

An Ecological View of History: Japanese Civilization in the World Context - Paperback

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by Harumi Befu (Author), Beth Cary (Author), Tadao Umesao (Author)This is the first English version of Tadao Umesao's classic, published first in Japanese in 1957, with a full description of his "ecological theory" of civilizations of Eurasia. Dividing the Eurasian continent into three major ecological zones consisting of Western Europe, Japan, and the region between them, he shows how the first two are basically similar and demonstrates fundamental differences between Japan and China. In 196...

Alarms and Excursions in Arabia: The Life and Works of Bertram Thomas in Early 20th Century Iraq and Oman - Paperback

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by Ibn Al Hamra (Compiled by), Thomas Bertram (Author)THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF BERTRAM THOMAS - who rose from an Assistant Political Officer in early 20th Century Iraq, to Minister for the Sultan of Muscat and Oman 5 years later.Alarms and Excursions in Arabia is the memoir of a man who played a role in the creation of both modern Iraq and OmanIn Iraq he describes his role as a British Political Officer (administrator) in the post World War One Iraq. Most especially his role in the 1920 Iraqi R...

France: An Adventure History - Paperback

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by Graham Robb (Author)Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes readers on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history. Frequently hilarious, always surprising, Graham Robb's France combines the stylistic versatility of a novelist with the deep understanding of a scholar.Robb's own adventures and discoveries while living, working, and traveling in France connect this tour through space and time ...

The Race to Space: Countdown to Liftoff (Epic Fails #2) - Paperback

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by Ben Thompson (Author), Erik Slader (Author), Tim Foley (Illustrator)In this second installment of the Epic Fails series, explore the many failures that made up the Race to Space, paving the way for humanity's eventual success at reaching the stars. Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong's famous words as he first set foot on the moon: "one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." He made it look easy, but America's journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, when...

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle - Paperback

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by Jody Rosen (Author)A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world "Excellent . . . calls to mind Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly at odds with our age of smartphones and ride-sharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the ...

The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke (1784) - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby John Filson (Author)John Filson's account of the geography and early history of Kentucky includes the first published story of the adventures of Daniel Boone, hunter, explorer, and frontiersman. The book is an optimistic description of the region west of the Appalachians and south of the Ohio, where Filson had acquired large land holdings. Scarcely two years after a bloody British and Indian invasion in 1782, he portrayed Kentucky emergent as a natural paradise...

The Holy Bible: Oldest Manuscripts in English: The Leningrad Codex and The Codex Sinaiticus

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Simmons (Author) Number of Pages: 1046 Dimensions: 2.34 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 06, 2025

Hear the Bugles Calling: My Three Wars as a Combat Infantryman - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Lionel F. Pinn (Author), Frank Sikora (With)Sergeant Lionel "Chooch" Pinn was an American warrior, an Osage Indian whose career as an army sergeant met the high standards set by his father's example as a World War I veteran. Reared in the crucible of the Great Depression and case-hardened in hand-to-hand combat against the Imperial Japanese Army in WWII, Pinn went on to fight as a foot soldier in Korea, Laos, and Vietnam. Pinn recounts these wars as only an inf...

The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist

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Report copyright infringementby Donna T. Haverty-Stacke (Author)Shares the story of the revolutionary Marxist and Catholic Grace Holmes Carlson and her life-long dedication to challenging social and economic inequality On December 8, 1941, Grace Holmes Carlson, the only female defendant among eighteen Trotskyists convicted under the Smith Act, was sentenced to sixteen months in federal prison for advocating the violent overthrow of the government. After serving a year in Alderson prison, Carl...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Bliss (Author)William Osler, who was a brilliant, innovative teacher and a scholar of the natural history of disease, revolutionized the art of practicing medicine at the bedside of his patients. He was idolized by two generations of medical students and practitioners for whom he came to personify the ideal doctor. But much more than a physician, Osler was a fiercely intelligent humanist.In both his writings and his personal life--and through the prism ...

The Antisemite, Martin Luther: On the Jews and Their Lies

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Report copyright infringementby Matthew Simmons (Author) Number of Pages: 46 Dimensions: 0.11 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 04, 2025

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by Bill Shields (Joint Author), Kenny Anderson (Joint Author)Embarking on a new business venture can be a daunting and unpredictable journey, much like rolling the dice in a game of chance. In 1967, two bold young men, Les Marino and Kenny Anderson, fearlessly stepped into the world of Heavy Construction, boldly declaring that they would one day become the largest contracting firm in the world. Oblivious to the challenges that lay ahead, they hung their shingle on the door of a modest one-roo...

Harmony of the Four Gospels, in the Words of the Authorised Version, Following the Harmony of the Gospels in Greek by Edward Robinson; With Explanator

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin Davies (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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is importan...

The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Covenant, Commonly Called the Old and New Testament; Volume 1

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Thomson (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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is importan...

A Brief History Of The Joy Family (1876) - Paperback

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by One of Them (Author), Cornelia C. Joy Dyer (Author)A Brief History Of The Joy Family (1876) is a book written by an anonymous author who identifies themselves as ""One Of Them."" The book is a historical account of the Joy family, tracing their lineage back to the 17th century. The author provides details about the family's origins, their migration to America, and their contributions to society. The book is divided into chapters that focus on different members of the Joy family, including ...

The Assault On Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863: The Memorable Charge Of The Fifty-Fourth Regiment Of Massachusetts Volunteers (1887) - Paperback

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by Luis Fenollosa Emilio (Author)The Assault On Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863: The Memorable Charge Of The Fifty-Fourth Regiment Of Massachusetts Volunteers is a historical account of the events that took place during the American Civil War. The book was written by Luis Fenollosa Emilio and was first published in 1887. The book describes the events leading up to the assault on Fort Wagner, which was a Confederate fortification located on Morris Island in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The as...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Pickering (Author)It is 1650 and something is very wrong in your house. Pots and pans are flying through the air. Invisible hands are pelting your family with stones. Doors slam shut on their own, and strange knockings echo through the walls at all hours. Your neighbours whisper about demons, your servants flee in terror, and you don't know where to turn. Welcome to the world of the early modern poltergeist. While tales of witches and witchcraft have bee...

Jake's Travel Guides: Istanbul, Turkey - Paperback

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by Jake Jefferson (Author)Nestled at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Istanbul is a city where continents meet and cultures converge, creating a tapestry of experiences that is nothing short of mesmerizing. This comprehensive travel guide takes you on an unforgettable journey through Istanbul's vibrant streets, majestic palaces, and bustling bazaars. Whether you're planning your first visit or returning to uncover more hidden gems, "Istanbul Unveiled" is packed with insider tips, detailed m...