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Series
Publisher
Sound Room Publishers, Inc
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Early in the Civil War, 19-year-old Belle Boyd risks capture to spy for the South and her native state of Virginia. On the eve of battle, she races to the Confederate camp to deliver important information to General Stonewall Jackson. Thanks in part to Belle's courage, the Confederates drive the Federal forces from Front Royal, Virginia, and win a major victory on May 23, 1862.
2) The prince
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
THE PRINCE (Italian: Il Principe) is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). However, the printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope Clement VII, but "long before...
3) On war
Author
Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1976
Language
English
Description
On War (German: Vom Kriege) is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife Marie von Brühl in 1832. It is one of the most important treatises on political-military analysis and strategy ever written, and remains both controversial and influential on strategic thinking.
On War is an unfinished work. Clausewitz...
Author
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
Bilingual ed.
Language
English
Description
"En face bilingual edition of only extant Latin American slave narrative written during slavery era. Original Spanish punctuation, spelling, and syntax corrected and modernized by Schulman; translation is of this new version of text. Introduction, notes, chronology give extensive background. Excellent for undergraduate classroom use. Scholars may prefer original text"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Author
Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
And so begins the HooDoo Western by Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo Jumbo and one of America's most innovative and celebrated writers. Reed demolishes white American history and folklore as well as Christian myth in this masterful satire of contemporary American life.
In addition to the black, satanic Loop Garoo Kid, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down features Drag Gibson (a rich, slovenly cattleman), Mustache Sal (his nymphomaniac
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Series
Publisher
Cosimo Classics
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The Beasts of Tarzan is the third adventure of the jungle lord and displays the author's mythic hero at his most loyal, as he struggles through terrible trials to reunite his family, and his most savage, as he confronts the men who dared tear his family apart.
Edgar Rice Burroughs returns to the chronicles of one of the world's most celebrated fictional characters, Tarzan of the Apes. Old enemies resurface to torment Tarzan while he's in England,...
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Classics
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Claiming he had discovered the "royal road to the unconscious," Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams at the turn of the twentieth century, and thus laid the foundation for his innovative technique of psychoanalysis. Largely ignored at first, the book would eventually be considered his most important work, one that revolutionized the way human beings view themselves. Spurred on by the death of his father, Freud began analyzing his own dreams,...
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The Iliad: Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to Avenge the death of Patroclus. Here is a story of love and war, hope and despair, and honor and glory. The recent major motion picture Helen of Troy starring Brad Pitt proves that this epic is as relevant today as it was twenty five hundred years ago when it was first written. So journey back to the Trojan War with Homer and relive the grandest adventure of all times. The Odyssey:...
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Provides background on the life of American author Harper Lee and the influences that shaped her life, features twelve articles that explore racism as portrayed in her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," and examines the ongoing issue of racism in the early twenty-first century.
Author
Series
Publisher
Philosophical Library/Open Road
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
The eighteenth-century philosopher’s landmark treatise against monarchy that inspired the French and American Revolutions.
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
With these stirring words, Jean-Jacques Rousseau begins The Social Contract—the first shot in a battle of ideas that would set the stage for the American War of Independence and the French Revolution....
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
With these stirring words, Jean-Jacques Rousseau begins The Social Contract—the first shot in a battle of ideas that would set the stage for the American War of Independence and the French Revolution....
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In 1831, the then twenty-seven year old Alexis de Tocqueville, was sent with Gustave de Beaumont to America by the French Government to study and make a report on the American prison system. Over a period of nine months the two traveled all over America making notes not only on the prison systems but on all aspects of American society and government. From these notes, Tocqueville wrote "Democracy in America", an exhaustive analysis of the successes...
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Provides background on the life of English novelist George Orwell and his influences, features eleven articles that explore politics in his novel "Animal Farm," and examines contemporary perspectives on the political issues addressed in the novel.
17) Utopia
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Utopia (1516) is a work of political satire by Thomas More. Published in Latin while More was serving as Privy Counsellor under King Henry VIII, the text is stylized as a true account of a new civilization discovered in the New World by traveler Raphael Hythlodaeus. While there have been varying interpretations of Utopia over the centuries, it is most consistently regarded as a work of political philosophy in the tradition of Plato's Republic that...
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Each title in this series examines an important literary work through the lens of a major social issue with which the work is deeply entwined and includes biographical and critical information about the author, helping students navigate the intersection between literature and social studies and supporting cross-curricular studies of the world's enduring masterworks.
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Provides background on the life of american novelist s. e. hinton and her influences, features sixteen articles that explore teenager issues in her novel "the outsiders," and examines teenage issues in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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