Bernard: 3655 books

True, first-hand accounts of combat and soldiering from the men who fought for Napoleon Bonparte and the First French Empire: “Fascinating stuff” (Stuart Asquith, author of Military Modelling).   The French side of the Napoleonic Wars is often presented from a strategic point of view, or in terms...

"Home is an idea," Meghan Daum writes in her foreword, "a story we tell ourselves about who we are and who and what we want closest in our midst." In The American Idea of Home, documentary filmmaker Bernard Friedman interviews more than thirty leaders in the field of architecture about a constellation...

Classic short story. According to Wikipedia: "George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces...

John Bull's Other Island is a comedy about Ireland, written by George Bernard Shaw in 1904. Shaw himself was born in Dublin, yet this is one of only two plays of his where he thematically returned to his homeland, the other being O'Flaherty V.C.

Roughly twenty five years ago, Switters traveled to Japan to teach English for a year. That year has stretched into twenty five. Along the way, he has lived and worked in eight different countries, usually taking the road less traveled, moving from exotic-but-safe locations like Japan to exotic-but-dangerous...

Land, Chiefs, Mining explores aspects of the experience of the Batswana in the thornveld and bushveld regions of the North-West Province, shedding light on defi ning issues, moments and individuals in this lesser known region of South Africa. Some of the focuses are: an important Tswana kgosi (chief...

This collection of short stories by Bernard Malamud includes: Idiots First Black Is My Favorite Color Still Life The Death of Me A Choice of Profession Life Is Better Than Death The Jewbird Naked Nude The Cost of Living The Maid's Shoes Suppose a Wedding The German Refugee

In December 1995, three key members of the infamous Essex Boys firm were executed in their Range Rover after being lured to a deserted farm track by the promise of a lucrative drug deal. The police predicted that the void left as a result of the murders would cause a gangland war that would extend...

Nono secolo dopo Cristo. La terra degli Angli è dominata da un fragile regno di guerrieri sassoni retto dal pio re Alfredo. Uhtred, giovane erede legittimo del titolo di aldermanno di Bebbanburg, allevato dai danesi ma tornato tra le braccia della fede cristiana, ha combattuto duramente per il suo...

Può, chi nasce sotto una cattiva stella, sfidare la sorte e vincere? Può, un solo uomo, tener testa a un intero esercito e cambiare l’esito di una guerra? Quella di Azincourt è una delle battaglie più famose della storia, teatro di uno scontro disperato tra l’esercito inglese e quello francese....

“Gli dei parlano per mezzo di segni: il cadere di una foglia in estate, il lamento di un animale in agonia o uno squarcio tra le nubi. Quel giorno gli dei mandarono una violenta tempesta, di quelle che restano impresse nella memoria; fu il giorno in cui a Ratharryn giunse lo Straniero. E con lui...

  I, the author, created this book as the result of a lecture series that 1 gave for several years in Southern California, and evolved as the result of my answering the many questions that 1 have been asked about my religion and my people. It has been patterned after a book that was written...

“[The Israeli Republic] suggests how the Iranian and Israeli leaders who feel such intense mutual hostility today actually mirror one another in certain ways, particularly in their foundational attitudes toward religious authority, political and economic populism, and the West. That a writer such...

From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays that reflects a lifetime of erudition and accomplishments in history. The past has always been elusive: How can we understand people whose worlds were utterly different from...