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Societies in Eclipse
Archaeology of the Eastern Woodlands Indians, A.D. 1400-1700
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2005
While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse, archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography,...
by H. C. B. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1990
Many books have been written about Napoleon and his campaigns, but very little about the soldiers of his armies and of the organization and conditions under which they lived and served. In this classic study, now reissued in paperback, H.C.B. Rogers examines Napoleon's army in terms of its staff systems,...
The Boar and the Leopard
A Novel of Napoleon, Wellington, and the Struggle of Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
The Boar and The Leopard is a work of creative non-fiction that takes a look at the Battle of Waterloo from the lens of fictional characters. Highlighting the brilliant careers of both Napoleon and Wellington, the novel gives a view of the atmosphere of war enveloped Europe in the early 19th century....
by H. C. Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
" Marsh King's Daughter " is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. The tale was first published December 1858 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
An Egyptian princess falls into the evil power of the Marsh King. A child is born to her and is taken to be raised by a Viking woman. Beautiful...
by H. C. Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Hans Christian Andersen (1805 – 1875) was a Danish fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. During his lifetime he was acclaimed for having delighted children worldwide, and was feted by royalty. His poetry and stories have been translated into more than 150 languages. Andersen’s...
River Derwent
From Sea to Source
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The River Derwent in Cumbria is one of the fastest rivers in Europe. It is also one of the most beautiful, and it flows through fantastic and varied countryside from its source in the heart of the Lake District. The name Derwent translates as 'oak river' and/or 'river of oaks'; it is an ancient name....
Shovel Ready
Archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Shovel Ready provides a comprehensive lens through which to view the New Deal period, a fascinating and prolific time in American archaeology.
In this collection of diverse essays united by a common theme, Bernard K. Means and his contributors deliver a valuable research tool for...
by D. H. C. Carter
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
The Foundation of Heaven is a historical fictional work about the fall of the Aztec empire (old Mexico). Using his familiar style of mixing historical narrative with literary fiction, author D.H.C. Carter takes us into the world of the early 16th century and shows the collision of cultures that takes...
by Brian C. Hales, Laura H. Hales
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In the last several years a wealth of information has been published on Joseph Smith's practice of polygamy. For some who were already well aware of this aspect of early Mormon history, the availability of new research and discovered documents has been a wellspring of further insight and knowledge...
by H. C. Ivison
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
The first book to explore, in depth, the complete range of paranormal phenomena reported in Cumbria. Here you will find accounts of well-known hauntings, as well as many previously undiscovered locations. This fascinating account of local 'sightings' looks at traditional historical legends as well...
STORGY
2014 Short Story Prize Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The 2014 STORGY Short Story Competition Anthology celebrates the continued resurgence of the short story genre and showcases some of the most talented up-and-coming authors from across the world. This outstanding collection features all fourteen finalists and competitions winners, as judged by critically-acclaimed...
Beyond Kuhn
Scientific Explanation, Theory Structure, Incommensurability and Physical Necessity
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Thomas Kuhn's celebrated work, 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions' revolutionized thinking in the philosophy of science and to a large extent his 'paradigm shift' view has replaced logical positivism and the philosophy of Karl Popper. This book goes beyond Kuhn by explicating the non-deductive...
The Returns of Fetishism
Charles de Brosses and the Afterlives of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
For more than 250 years, Charles de Brosses’s term “fetishism” has exerted great influence over our most ambitious thinkers. Used as an alternative to “magic,” but nonetheless expressing the material force of magical thought, de Brosses’s term has proved indispensable to thinkers as diverse...
Blacks and Blackness in Central America
Between Race and Place
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Many of the earliest Africans to arrive in the Americas came to Central America with Spanish colonists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and people of African descent constituted the majority of nonindigenous populations in the region long thereafter. Yet in the development of national identities...