The Jefferson Bible What Thomas Jefferson Selected as the Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
by Thomas Jefferson
The Life and Times of Alfred the Great; Being the Ford Lectures for 1901
by Charles Plummer
The Diary of Samuel Pepys .. (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) (Modern Library)
by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Samuel Pepys, and Mynors Bright
Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the history of its period. In spite of its significance, all previous editions were inadequately edited and suffered from a number of omissions--until Robert Latham and William Matthews went back to the 300-year-old original manuscript and deciphered each passage and phrase, no matter how obscure or indiscreet. The Diary deals with some of the most dramatic ev...
An easy-to-use source for librarians, students and other researchers, each volume in this series provides illustrated biographical profiles of approximately 75 children's authors and artists. This critically acclaimed series covers more than 12,000 individuals, ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers. Entries typically cover: personal life, career, writings, works in progress, adaptations, additional sources. A cumulative author ind...
"Our Heroes and Villains" series is a firm favourite with families and teachers. Containing many National Curriculum characters and events these collectable books provide hours of entertainment and valuable learning. Funny facts and illustrations entertain children for hours. Characters include: Robert the Bruce, Wat Tyler & the Peasants Revolt, William Caxton, Henry V, Richard III, Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey, Anne Boleyn, and William Shakespeare.
Life and Times of William McKendree, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
by Robert Paine
The publication of Jarhead launched a new career for Anthony Swofford, earning him accolades for its gritty and unexpected portraits of the soldiers who fought in the Gulf War. It spawned a Hollywood movie. It made Swofford famous and wealthy. It also nearly killed him. Now with the same unremitting intensity he brought to his first memoir, Swofford describes his search for identity, meaning, and a reconciliation with his dying father in the years after he returned from serving as a sniper in th...
Great Heroes (Atomic) (Atomic: Grade 3 (Hardcover))
by Ann Weil
Heroes are found in every walk of life, and can be human or animal. This title features a varied selection of heroic figures, from the firefighters of 9/11 and Christopher Reeve, to Scarlett the Cat who saved her kittens from a burning building. Readers w
In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America's most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times. In their distinctive ways, she argues, they exemplify what Burke two centuries ago and Trilling most recently have called the "moral imagination." Himmelfarb describes how each of these thinkers, coming from different traditions, responding to different concerns, and writing in different ge...
The 37th issue provides detailed national accounts estimates for 182 countries and areas. Estimates are arranged in tables, in terms of the United Nations System of National Accounts (SNA). The country tables are organized alphabetically in four sections: summary information, including expenditures