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Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1810-1850) received a broad education and early felt a deep interest in social questions. She learned French, German and the classics, and her associates in Cambridge were persons of culture, experience and advanced ideas. In 1833 the family removed to Groton, Mass.,...

This Master-Plan gives you the incalculable new power to dominate, command and manipulate people around you! Add new STRENGTH to your WILL! Get new AUTHORITY in your MANNER! New POWER to COMMAND! New-won MASTERY of LIFE! DON’T put off for one more day your decision....

Leading appraisers of fine musical instruments agree that in the art of making violins, no one has ever gone beyond the achievement of Antonio Stradivari. The incomparable visual beauty of his instruments and the infinite variety and magnificence of tone of which they are capable have by this time...

This rather long book is definitely an historical novel. The main action takes place in the years around 1780. There are some rather strange aspects to the narration. For example, the hero's name is Hurry, except that on two occasions in Chapter 8 and one in Chapter 9, his name is mysteriously change...

Office of United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Washington, D. C., November 1, 1877. The collection of photographic portraits of North American Indians described in the following "Catalogue" is undoubtedly the largest and most valuable one extant. It has been made at great...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation. Famous Missions of California is a short history of the many missions to California.

In submitting this little book the author does not attempt to edit a history of the rebellion, nor does he assume to be correct in the date of events to a day. He does not hope or expect to make a hero of himself by writing it, for he was far from doing anything heroic, believing, as he does, that...

In Bingaman’s stellar memoir, his boyish obsession with flight blossoms into a grueling but rewarding career in the U.S. military, leading him into the uncertainties of war. Bingaman returns to his Iowa roots in this collection of anecdotes, reminiscences and close calls among fighter pilots and...

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War is a joyful, myth-busting, rebel yell that shatters today’s Leftist and demeaning stereotypes about the South and the Civil War.

An absorbing, first-person Civil War memoir from the perspective of a foot soldier looking back some thirty years later.

It was one of the pivotal times of the twentieth century--during George Bush's presidency, an extraordinary series of international events took place that materially changed the face of the world. Now, former President Bush and his national security advisor, Brent Scowcroft, tell the story of those...

Extremely rare engravings after illustrations of mid-19th-century America by eminent English artist. Superb, detailed views of Mount Vernon, Saratoga Lake, Faneuil Hall in Boston, Niagara Falls, West Point, The Colonnade of Congress Hall, and much more. All royalty-free. 121 black-and-white illustrations.

The Worlds Fair at Chicago in 1893 was the place to be. These are four reports from the fair that were published contemporaneously. These give a good flavor to the excitement that the nation felt about the achievement.