Bury: 137 books

The early twentieth century saw the transformation of the southern Irish Protestants from a once strong people into an isolated, pacified community. Their influence, status and numbers had all but disappeared by the end of the civil war in 1923 and they were to form a quiescent minority up to modern...

Cambridge Medieval History: Germany and the Western Empire, covers the period from 800 to 1000 A.D.

L’Allemagne, avons-nous besoin de le dire ici ? nous a toujours été chère. S’il existe pour l’homme, en dehors du sol natal, une seconde patrie que l’âme et l’intelligence, obéissant à l’irrésistible loi des premières sensations,...

Mr. First, eternal protector of mankind, faces his greatest enemy in Mr. First #0. In the First Age, an era of monsters and gods, Daryan Adan was created first of all mankind. Now he fights a losing battle for the Children of Light against the forces of shadow and chaos. Will the abomination Aram...

The only thing Keira Zeleznovova wants is to be an apprentice at Mage, Inc., but her curmudgeon-y mentor always has one more Intent To Use Magic file to fill out. Through mishaps and trials as an unpaid intern, Keira quickly realizes that there’s more paperwork and near death experiences to magic than she could ever imagine. Maybe one day she'll become a powerful mage in her own right. 

The Cambridge Modern History is a comprehensive modern history of the world, beginning with the 15th century Age of Discovery.  The first series was planned by Lord Acton and edited by him with Stanley Leathes, Adolphus Ward and George Prothero.  The Cambridge Modern History Collection...

Xerxes' return to Sardes after Salamis was not a flight, but was due to a fresh revolt of Babylon, where one Shamash-erba had assumed the crown, with the full royal title of King of Babylon and King of the Lands; from Sardes Xerxes could keep touch both with Babylon and Mardonius. Babylon's final...

“At present, in the most civilized countries, freedom of speech is taken as a matter of course and seems a perfectly simple thing. We are so accustomed to it that we look on it as a natural right. But this right has been acquired only in quite recent times, and the way to its attainment has lain through...

BnF collection ebooks - "Ah ! philosophie, jurisprudence et médecine pour mon malheur ! théologie aussi, j'ai tout approfondi avec une ardeur laborieuse ; et maintenant me voici là, pauvre fou ! aussi sage qu'auparavant. Je m'intitule, il est vrai, maître, docteur, et, depuis dix ans, deçà,...

Deux nouvelles, deux enfants qui s’éveillent à la vie. Sans mère ni père, sortis des éprouvettes de la science à cause de la folie des hommes : quelles seront leurs premières sensations ? Quel sera leur rapport avec le monde ? Quel est le but de leur existence ? Deux expérimentations, deux clones, deux façons de vivre ou de mourir.

Plongé dans le chaos, pris entre chimères et réalité, le monde est au bord de la destruction. Acculés et sans espoir, les hommes se résignent à réveiller la seule créature capable de les sauver : la Bête ! Emprisonnée depuis de longues années, décidera-t-elle d'aider l'humanité ou son désir de vengeance sera-t-il plus fort que tout ?

Attendant ses amis pour fêter dignement Halloween, Lucas, un adolescent non voyant, garde avec attention sa petite sœur, Clémentine, qui dort à poings fermés dans son berceau. Soudain, le téléphone sonne et le monde de Lucas bascule. Sa petite amie, Karine, le prévient d’un danger imminent...

SALAMIS and Plataea settled that Persia should not expand into Europe. Her European conquests could no longer be held; in 479 she lost Sestos and the Hellespont, in 478 Byzantium and the Bosporus; with the fall of Eion soon afterwards Thrace and Macedonia recovered their independence, Doriscus and...

IN the period upon which we are about to enter, the peoples of south-west Asia, Egypt and south-east Europe were brought Into very close contact one with another. Peaceful trading-journeys, ambitious wars by land and by sea, and some sweeping ethnical movements, which had the profoundest consequences...