Francis: 3998 books

Ce qui rend le roi Louis IX unique, c'est qu'il fut l'unique saint du Trône de France. Et, pour que l'Église, sept ans seulement après sa mort, ait statué d'une manière définitive et l'ait placé dans le Ciel, nous n'avons aucun scrupule à essayer...

IN 1974, Capitol Records issued an unremarkable hard-rock album. Receiving a low-key release and promoted through an underground marketing campaign, the album received limited—sometimes scoffing, sometime favorable—press attention for its eerie similarities to a famed rock ‘n’ roll icon who...

Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists This edition features  • illustrations  • a linked Table of Contents   CONTENTS Introduction     The Technic of Operatic Production     What the American Girl...

The following Companion outlines in some detail the works collected together as The Ostraka Plays, together with some observations behind the writing process and a larger overview of the theatre these plays occupy. Each play is discussed in some detail and all are grouped together under the rubric...

The leading actors and events in Boston in the 1770s - Samuel Adams, John Hancock, the Boston Tea Party, Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill - have assumed a cherished place in history. Yet, with the passage of time, a layer of legend has obscured the true picture. Here, from award-winning author Francis Russell, is the bloody story of the early days of the American Revolution.

Ben is a fallen reporter. He have serious family problems and has just been fired from his job. He ends up creating a debt with the local mafia, who threaten his daughter and his ex-wife. So Ben is forced to make a deal with a killer, that will protect his family. But in exchange, Ben will have to...

Young America is a star-spangled account of the perilous, exuberant, dissension-filled first six decades of the United States. The book opens with George Washington's triumphant journey to New York City for his inauguration as first president of the United States. It ends with Abraham Lincoln's solemn...

All of these pieces have been rejected by various magazines, newspapers and internet sites. I thought they were worth retrieving and giving them a place, hence, Refugees. They might not all be good and they might not all be to your taste but, I like them. You might as well. Poems, short stories, prose pieces, rhymes and others I'm not quite sure what.

In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what actually happened in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history. After surviving the shoot-down of his reconnaissance plane and his capture on May 1,...

First published in 1988, Alison Brown's The Renaissance soon established itself as one of the most popular and useful books on this complex topic. For this expanded Second Edition the author has rewritten the text entirely in the light of the wealth of literature published over the past decade. It...

John Winthrop's effort to create a Puritan "City on a Hill" has had a lasting effect on American values, and many remember this phrase famously quoted by the late Ronald Reagan. However, most know very little about the first American to speak these words. In John Winthrop, Francis J. Bremer...

“The history of the sword,” the author writes in his introduction, “is the history of humanity.” For centuries, the sword has been a symbol of power, strength, liberty, and courage. In the Middle Ages, the image of a sword was used to signify the word of God. Nearly every culture in history...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of state In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in...

A RECORD OF HIS WORK IN A SERIES OF HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS EDITED BY FRANCIS DARWIN, FELLOW OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE,