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Victorian & Edwardian Oxfordshire illustrates through words and pictures the county in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was a time of change for all levels of society. In the countryside, agriculture was becoming increasingly mechanized and there were bitter struggles over...

Is a collection of poems about struggle and life good choices and bad ones choosing faith and turning your back on it.

Fictional Females is a book about books--specifically, about more than 160 American novels that had female protagonists, appeared between the immediate post-Revolutionary period and the beginning of World War II, and shaped as well as reflected womens lives. All 80 authors, both men and women, were...

With this fantastic book, you will enjoy the most terrifying stories about ghosts. We are sure that you read many ghosts stories, but anyone like these ones.

Luther was a monk, professor of theology. He criticized the practices of the Catholic Church, such as the sale of indulgences; it is contrary to the teaching of the Bible. Excommunicated in 1521 by Pope Leo X, it is protected by the German prince, Frederick the Wise. With this protector, he can develop...

Shaggy herds of mammoths still roam the Great Plains-to the delight of President Thomas Jefferson-in this imaginative alternative history in which the beasts thunder over the grasslands as living symbols of the oncoming struggle between the Native peoples and the European invaders. This unforgettable...

The basis of ancient Chinese science was the theory of the immutable five elements; fire, water, metal, wood, earth, equally applicable to all aspects of the cosmos determined by the theory of analogous synonyms.Long dismissed by Western scientists as 'primitive science' by a 'primitive people', the...

Jean-Pierre e Le Sue Amiche Le avventure amorose che accaddero nel maggio del 1968 ad Jean-Pierre Delvaux quando si recò in visita, nel dipartimento della Val-d'Oise nella regione dell'Île-de-France, dalle sue amiche che, in seguito, avrebbe definito simpatiche puttanelle di provincia, ma puttanelle...

After being rejected on the doorstep of her unfiancé, former theatre director Enna Petersen finds herself stranded in Pennsylvania in the dead of winter without a place to stay, a job, or even a warm jacket. She was supposed to be reconciled with Cole, not alone and searching for a new path. With...

ONCE A MAYOR -- NOW A HERO On September 11, 2001, our nation watched in horror as the United States came under siege. In the aftermath, New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani rose to the forefront as a strong and compassionate leader -- offering candid information, comforting those in pain,...

The debut of a brand-new civics series for high school seniors and college freshmen, that clearly, concisely and cleverly explains how the United States elects its president Selecting a President explains the nuts and bolts of our presidential electoral system while drawing on rich historical...

This life story of Kailash Puri, a Punjabi author and advice columnist, connects the narrative of her life to the history of Punjabi diaspora and themes in Sikh studies. Beginning with her memories of childhood in West Punjab, the work evokes the rural customs and religious practices consistent with...

This book is about my many battles with cancer. I have had cancer six times and I am currently on chemo as maintenance for precaution measures. In addition to cancer, I have had other health issues over the years including two complete knee replacements. This book is also about my life and my children...

From Baja California to the Arctic pack ice, Eyes of the Wild takes the reader on an epic, personal journey to meet whales and wolves, bears and wild horses, guided by outstanding biologists and other observers who are renewing an ancient way of connection with the wild. Their scientific research...