Theodore: 1024 books
by Theodore R Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Denver was a small town at the foot of the mountains when Theodore Davis took a stagecoach across the plains on the Smoky Hill Route from Atchison, Kansas. Herds of Buffalo and unfriendly Indians made the journey both exhilarating and dangerous, with a cavalry escort on parts of the trail. "...
The Philosophy of Art
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
The Philosophy of Art is a highly accessible introduction to current key issues and debates in aesthetics and philosophy of art. Chapters on standard topics are balanced by topics of interest to today's students, including creativity, authenticity, cultural appropriation, and the distinction between...
by Paul Kennedy, Bernie Lucht, Lister Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
An electrifying collection of thought-provoking interviews from recent broadcasts of CBC Radios Ideas. In these remarkable dialogues most of them in the company of Ideas host Paul Kennedy some of the great intellectuals of our time reflect, interject, and project on the course of human civilization,...
Wild Yosemite
25 Tales of Adventure and Discovery from America's Most Beloved Writers
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
“Experience one of the country’s first national parks. . . . Its Giant Sequoias, close calls with avalanches, native birds, and breathtaking views” (National Geographic Traveler).
This literary collection explores the spectacular natural features of Yosemite through the eyes of some of...
Am I a Jew?
My Journey Among the Believers and Pretenders, the Lapsed and the Lost, in Searc h of Faith (Not Necessarily My Own), My Roots, and Who Knows, Even Myself
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
What makes someone Jewish?
Theodore Ross was nine years old when he moved with his mother from New York City to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Once there, his mother decided, for both personal and spiritual reasons, to have her family pretend not to be Jewish. He went to an Episcopal school, where...
The American Song Treasury
100 Favorites
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
". . . besides innumerable good old tunes running in our heads, [there's] a sense of having actually lived in the years [covered by] this book." — The International MusicianMusic has always played an important part in American life--from the hymns sung in colonial days, to partisan songs that supported...
by Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Volume 1 - from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi 1769-1776; Volume 2 - from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi 1777-1783; Volume 3 -- The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths 1784-1790; Volume 4 - Louisiana and the Northwest 1791-1807. According to Wikipedia: "Theodore Roosevelt (October...
by Theodore Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Twelve-year-old Jose Maldonado used to dream of becoming a fine artist. But this son of a poor Mexican farmer now focuses on survival, not art. After Jose’s mother died, his father left to work in the United States, leaving Jose on his own in Mexico. When it’s time for father and son to reunite,...
by Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 January 6, 1919), also known as T.R., and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the 26th President of the United States. A leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Party, he was a Governor of New York...
Alexander
A History of the Origin and Growth of the Art Of War from the Earliest Times to the Battle of Ipsus, B.C. 301, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Macedonian
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
A clazzic history of one of the world's greatest military commanders. At the age of 20, Alexander the Great inherited the near-bankrupt kingdom of Macedonia and its small but revolutionary army, built around an unbreakable infantry phalanx and a shock cavalry force. In just ten years, he led this...
The New Vichy Syndrome
Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time. On the one hand, Europeans believe they have at last created an ideal social and political system in which man can live comfortably. In many ways, things have never been better on the old continent. On the...
African Game Trails
An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Natrualist
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2001
In 1909, the Smithsonian Institution commissioned ex-President Theodore Roosevelt to collect specimens of African wildlife for the National Museum. Roosevelt went to Africa with his son Kermit, several prominent naturalists, and many journalists, thereby initiating the safari industry and setting...
by Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While he is best known for being the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt is also remembered for his immense love of nature, animals, and game hunting. "African Game Trails" is Roosevelt's memoirs about a hunting trip to Africa that he took with his son Kermit in 1908. In the text,...
by Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017
The twenty-sixth president of the United States was also a world-renowned hunter, conservationist, soldier, and scholar. In 1908 he took a long safari holiday in East Africa with his son Kermit. His account of this adventure is as remarkably fresh today as it was when these adventures on the veldt...