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The Life of Amerigo Vespucci
Biography, Letters, Narratives, Personal Accounts & Historical Documents (Including Letters to Lorenzo Di Medici, Seigneury of Venice, Pietro Soderini, Columbus, Records of Bartolomé de las Casas…)
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Life of Amerigo Vespucci" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent...
by James Grady, John J. Donohue, Christopher Bates
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Most learn about martial arts through movies and print publications, primarily fictional. “Fiction is drama, the blood of drama is conflict, and martial arts are rooted in conflict,” writes James Grady in chapter one. Good fiction uses martial arts well, while...
Empires of the Silk Road
A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires,...
His Finest Hour
A Biography of Winston Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Who was Winston Churchill? Even fifty years after his death, he is one of the most iconic figures in British history. As a young man he was a maverick journalist; his many positions in politics before 1940 marked him as a courageous but foolhardy man.
Yet it is Churchill’s record in war,...
by Christopher M. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British statesman in modern times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the nation's sea power has been mired in controversy since the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign in 1915. Today, Churchill is regarded...
by J. Christopher Herold
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The French expedition to Egypt, which Bonaparte launched in 1798, was one of the most exciting, harrowing, futile, and yet most fruitful adventures in modern times. Although the expedition was doomed, and almost everyone in it had only one wish—to go home—the impact of the three years of French...
Winston Churchill
The Flawed Genius of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
He was a legendary man of strength-but no man is without his weaknesses.
Revered for his strength of character when Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill is painted as one of World War II's most heroic figures-a characterization that overshadows his faults, which have...
At the Helm: Volume 4: A Sci-Fi Bridge Anthology
At The Helm, #4
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Conflict across the cosmos. New frontiers discovered. What it means to be human reimagined.
Dreams of tomorrow become reality in this fourth collection of bestselling authors and newly emerging writers from Sci-Fi Bridge. From the inner worlds of unforgettable characters to alien planets at...
Grist Mill Road
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
An Entertainment Weekly "Must Read" • One of the NPR Book Concierge's "Best Books of the Year"
"Twisty and told from multiple perspectives, this meaty thriller races to a satisfying finish." —People magazine
"The intensity of the storytelling is exhilarating...
by Christopher Baughman
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Sometimes justice takes a different path.For a hard-charging detective in the Pandering Investigative Team (PIT), deliverance comes in the manner of long prison sentences, humiliation, and bankruptcy for the animals who subjugate, beat, and torture women into selling their bodies, while reaping...
Summer of Deliverance
A Memoir of Father and Son
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Summer of Deliverance is a powerful and moving memoir of anger, love, and reconciliation between a son and his father. Hailed as a literary genius of his generation, James Dickey created his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion. He was a heavy drinker, a destructive husband and father,...
To Plead Our Own Cause
African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
The antislavery movement entered an important new phase when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing the Liberator in 1831—a phase marked by massive petition campaigns, the extraordinary mobilization of female activists, and the creation of organizations such as the American Anti-Slavery Society....
Hacking ISIS
How to Destroy the Cyber Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This book is written by two of the leading terrorist experts in the world - Malcolm Nance, NBC News/MSNBC terrorism analyst and Christopher Sampson, cyber-terrorist expert. Malcolm Nance is a 35 year practitioner in Middle East Special Operations and terrorism intelligence activities. Chris Sampson...
by Christopher Hibbert
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
‘Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart we hurried.’
—from ‘The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna’ by Charles Wolfe
One of the best remembered poems in the English language has served to keep alive the memory of Sir John Moore and of...