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by VERY REV. J. B. O'Connor, Wyatt North
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This book comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section.Like his contemporary, Francis of Assisi, Dominic saw the need for a new type of organization, and the quick growth of the Dominicans and Franciscans during their first century of existence confirms that the orders...
A Rebel War Clerk's Diary
At the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1: April 1861-July 1863
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2015
Amidst the vast literature of the Civil War, one of the most significant and enlightening documents remains largely unknown. A day-by-day, uninterrupted, four-year chronicle by a mature, keenly observant clerk in the War Department of the Confederacy, the wartime diary of John Beauchamp Jones was...
The Deadly Snakes
Real Rock and Roll Tonight
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The Deadly Snakes: Real Rock and Roll Tonight charts the rise and gentle fall of Canada’s greatest band. Unwilling to bow to industry demands, the Deadly Snakes instead made records they were proud of and played music by their own rules. From their chaotic teenage beginnings to the band’s exquisite...
The Fart Book
The Disgusting Adventures of Milo Snotrocket
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Whether you're a "professional" butt-whistler . . . or simply can't resist impressing your friends every now and then with a face-melting fart . . . you'll laugh out loud at this hilarious book with dozens of amazing illustrations.
Learn from the master of bottom-burping disaster himself, Milo...
Italian Venice
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice—not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle époque and the dark underbelly of modernization,...
by J. B. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
London has been one of the world's great cities for over 2,000 years and has produced countless scholars, artists, rogues and wits, each of whom left their mark on the metropolis by their words or deeds. The Wit and Wisdom of London brings together their best and most memorable quotations, a treasury...
by J.B. Bury
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
The Cambridge Medieval History collection on the Eastern Roman Empire is a must-have for anyone interested in the history of the Eastern Empire, from the Balkans to Armenia. The collection is an exhaustive resource, discussing the empire from 500 1500 A.D. Topics such as the history of the Bulgarian...
by J.B. Bury
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Cambridge Medieval History: Germany and the Western Empire is an expansive treatise on Western civilization after the fall of Rome. From 800 to 1000 A.D. ,the rise of the Franks, Germanic tribes, and the Viking invasions of Europe are all covered in great detail. A table of contents is included for easier navigation.
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XV
The Eastern Roman Empire from Isaac I to Andronicus
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
WHILE the Germans impressed their characteristic stamp on both the medieval and modern history of Western Europe, it was reserved for the Eastern Slays, the Russians, to build a great empire on the borderlands of Europe and Asia. But the work of civilization was far more difficult for the Russians...
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XIV
The Eastern Roman Empire from Leo III to the Macedonian Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
THE history of the Byzantine Empire under the rule of the Isaurian dynasty is one of the periods in the prolonged evolution of the monarchy least easy of comprehension. The work of the sovereigns usually called the Iconoclast Emperors has been, in fact, recorded for us practically only by opponents...
by C.J.B. Gaskoin
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
In September, 1714, seven weeks after Queen Anne died, the first king of a new royal House landed in England.
Sophia of Hanover, daughter of the Elizabeth Stuart who was once for a few months Queen of Bohemia, had been named by the Act of Settlement (1701) as successor to her cousin Anne. And...
by J. B. Bury
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
THE present series of lectures is designed to give a broad and general view of the long sequence of the migratory movements of the northern barbarians which began in the third and fourth centuries A. D. and cannot be said to have terminated till the ninth. This long process shaped Europe into its...
Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima
Historians and the Second World War, 1945-1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
On a More Serious Note
Poems: a Coffee Cream Collection, Both Light and Dark.
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
This book has some rather more serious content than Its A Funny Old Life, however, there is still room for much lighter musings. So much of life can be pigeon-holed into different categories. It is necessary to be serious some of the time but never forget to relax and find a laugh. It makes the world...