Curtis: 1287 books
Bluegrass Renaissance
The History and Culture of Central Kentucky, 1792-1852
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Originally established in 1775 the town of Lexington, Kentucky grew quickly into a national cultural center amongst the rolling green hills of the Bluegrass Region. Nicknamed the "Athens of the West," Lexington and the surrounding area became a leader in higher education, visual arts, architecture,...
Daughters of the Puritans
A Group of Brief Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
During the first half of the nineteenth century, Miss Sedgwick would doubtless have been considered the queen of American letters, but, in the opinion of her friends, the beauty of her character surpassed the merit of her books. In 1871, Miss Mary E. Dewey, her life-long neighbor, edited a volume...
by William Eleroy Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This book is not a conventional biography. Instead, it is a collection of sketches in which an attempt is made to portray the character of Abraham Lincoln as the highest type of the American from several interesting points of view. Perhaps there is no other man of prominence in American history, or in the history of the human family, whose reputation is more firmly and clearly established.
Native American Studies: History Books, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies (22 Book Collection)
Native American Studies: History Books, Mythology, Culture & Linguistic Studies (22 Book Collection)
History of the Great Tribes, Military History, Language, Customs & Legends of Cherokee, Iroquois, Sioux, Navajo, Zuñi, Apache, Seminole and Eskimo
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
"Native American Studies" is an interdisciplinary collection which examines the history, culture, religion and language of indigenous people in North America. This meticulously edited collection explores the life of the biggest Native American tribes; including: Cherokee, Iroquois, Sioux,...
Twilight Warriors
Covert Air Operations Against the USSR
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
From the start of the Cold War to the fall of Saigon, from the Congo to Tibet, from the Bay of Pigs to North Vietnam and Nicaragua, here is a comprehensive overview of U.S. air-supported covert operations against the Soviet bloc. Twilight Warriors brings a sense of continuity to the shifting, shadowy...
by Curtis C. Roseman, Ruth Wallach, Dace Taube
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
In the early 20th century, there was no better example of a classic American downtown than Los Angeles. Since World War II, Los Angeles's Historic Core has been "passively preserved," with most of its historic buildings left intact. Recent renovations of the area for residential use and the construction...
A Man Apart
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774 - 1781
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
The American Revolution radically changed the lives of many, some of them friends of the Revolution, some not, and some who wished to have no part of it for either side. Rarely did one of these reluctant witnesses leave a narrative journal. Nicholas Cresswell, a young English gentry farmer, was one....
The Flight Of The Romanovs
A Family Saga
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
A saga of love and lust, personal tensions and rivalries, antagonisms and hatreds, The Flight of the Romanovs describes the last century of the Russian imperial dynasty-a century that saw the greatest social and political upheavals in all of recorded history. Drawing upon a wealth of untapped resources...
by Moliere,Curtis Hidden Page (Translator),Jeffrey D. Hoeper (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Tartuffe (full title: Tartuffe, or the Impostor, French: Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur) is a comedy by Molière that is arguably his most famous play. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Political Ideas of Enlightenment Women
Virtue and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This edited collection showcases the contribution of women to the development of political ideas during the Enlightenment, and presents an alternative to the male-authored canon of philosophy and political thought. Over the course of the eighteenth century increasing numbers of women went into print,...
by Jacques CURTIS
Language: French
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Voici un livre qui démontre à quel point nos politiciens peuvent faire de la France un des pires pays qui soit, à cause de son immigration massive dont ils nient la dangerosité !
L'Islam est un véritable cancer que nos sociétés ne mesurent pas, dont il faut pourtant absolument se protéger,...
Fresh Slices
A Mystery Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Slices of life beyond the tourist's view. By turns funny, tough, and somber, the twenty-one helpings of New York attitude in Fresh Slices reveal neighborhoods both rich and poor, where oldtimers desperately protect their secrets and brand new arrivals indulge dangerous appetites. There is as much...
Clio's Bastards
Or, the Wrecking of History and the Perversion of Our Historical Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Clio’s Bastards uses an examination of the discipline of history in Canadian universities as the point of entry for a much larger exploration of the intellectual, spiritual, and moral crisis confronting Western civilization today. Over the past four decades, academic history was slowly perverted as...
by Curtis F. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Divide and Perish is the product of sixty years of specialization in Arabic and the Middle East--thirty years with the US Department of State, thirty years of lecturing on Palestine, terrorism, and American Middle East policy for the Department and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (a joint...