The Life, Times and Scientific Labours of the Second Marquis of Worcester
by Henry Dircks and Edward Somerset Worcester
A semi-autobiographical piece, this coming-of-age story follows the life of high school senior Oliver Priddy's journey through America's prison system and the irreversible choices he makes to survive. After a stint in reform school ends in murder when Oliver kills a vicious bully who brutally assaults him, the headstrong boy is sent to Pittsburgh's notorious Riverview Penitentiary (the mirror image of Western Penitentiary) with a life sentence. But even a lifer needs hope, and Oliver finds his s...
Maestro billy come back special (My Life, #1)
by Maestro William Mozar Simpkin McCaughey
Wer Ist Dea Aphrodite-Kali? Oder "I Fioretti Di San Francesco D'Assisi"
by Dea Aphrodite-Kali
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...
Three Sides of the Coin - A Daughter's Memoir of Parental Alienation
by Fannie-Rose Oxman
Ehemaliger Senior in Frankfurt am Main
by Christian Julius Wilhelm Mosche
The Education of Henry Adams (Modern Library) (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)
by Henry Adams
Adams was a historian, an intellectual born into the fourth generation of a family of distinguished politicians, diplomats and statesmen that included two presidents of the United States. His "Education" is thus steeped in history, that of his family and of the American politics, culture and identity they helped to shape. At the same time he elaborates his own 'dynamic theory of history' as the product of what he calls the conflict between the Virgin and the Dynamo: 'All the steam in the world c...
Albericus Gentilis und seine Bedeutung für das Völkerrecht
by Melchior Thamm
