Florence: 1074 books

The Iliad contains two direct references to the Amazons:--namely, in the story of Bellerophon1 and in a passage from the famous teichoscopy.2 The context to which the first of these belongs is classed by critics as an "echo" from the pre-Homeric saga, and therefore it may be inferred that the Amazon...

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

  Mona was an eight-year old colored girl who was raised in Wisconsin during the 1950's. Her father was an electrician and her mother raised her and her siblings in a segregated environment. This book describes her life in a family that is trying to make ends meet in a post-world war two era....

The story is of Dorcas and Orville and their life in a coal camp in the late 1940s. Orville is killed in a roof fall, and Dorcas is left to struggle with rearing her two tiny children in a hostile environment. There are threats on all sides that she must face and conquer if she is to survive.

This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such writings over time, examines...

De son passé, Shandra ne se rappelle que les nombreuses années à l'Académie, entre sa formation de maître et sa dévotion à la déesse Ashara. Bientôt, elle affrontera l'épreuve qui lui permettra d'intégrer les rangs des « ombres du palais », comme on nomme les guerriers au service des...

Take Archimedes one step further. This book is your ultimate resource for Archimedes. Here you will find the most up-to-date 174 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Archimedes's Early...

Cette nouvelle édition met à jour l’ouvrage suite à la 1re session du concours et à la publication des rapports de jury. Elle permet également le passage de l’ouvrage de la marque Sedes à la marque Armand Colin (nouvelle collection “Horizon”) Pour réussir au Capes il faut réunir : Une...

Pour réussir au Capes il faut réunir : Une parfaite connaissance des épreuves écrites et orales et des attentes du jury. Voilà pourquoi vous trouverez de façon récurrente, au fil de l’ouvrage, des références aux textes de cadrage définissant le format et l’esprit des épreuves. Une maîtrise...

The Art Of Laundry Work Practically Demonstrated' covers every conceivable element of the laundering process: washing, wringing, mangling, "blueing", ironing, starching, folding, and the methods of cleaning every type of garment from a boy’s sailor suit to muslin chemise and toilet covers… The...

Décryptez La Vague de Todd Strasser avec l’analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir de La Vague, le célèbre roman s'inspirant de faits réels ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée. Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche...

A group of seniors, members of a poetry class in Mosholu-Montefiore Senior Center, has created a collection of poems; exciting, humorous, and tender as nature. These poems will make the readers look at life in a different way. The new perspective will be to celebrate life, and invite others to join...

A pancake is a flat cake, often thin, and round, prepared from a starch-based batter that may also contain eggs, milk and butter and cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or frying pan, often with oil or butter. In Britain, pancakes are often unleavened, and resemble a crêpe. In North America,...

Originally published in 1929. This balanced combination of fieldwork, statistical measurement, and realistic applications shows a synthesis of economics and political science in a conception of an organic relationship between the two sciences that involves functional analysis, institutional interpretation,...