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by John Rae
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Scottish doctor and explorer John Rae is a controversial figure in the history of the Arctic. He began his career with the Hudson's Bay Company as a surgeon in Moose Factory, Ontario, where he learned to survey, live off the land, and travel great distances on snowshoes. These skills served him well...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Headed "Fascinating Tour of the 1940s for Movie Buffs", the following review by Maria Trefely-Deutch appeared in The Sunday Telegraph: John Howard Reid’s latest offering is every bit as idiosyncratic as his previous books in this series, and equally compulsive reading for film buffs. The...
Bipolar by Koehler
And Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Bipolar by Koehler is about a man who never gave up. John Koehler is a uniquely gifted man who was humbled at the age of thirty by seasonal depression and bipolar syndrome. The story elaborates John’s frustration as well as his tenacity for solving his own equation. How he relied on his wife and...
A Simple Act of Gratitude
How Learning to Say Thank You Changed My Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
One recent December, at age 53, John Kralik found his life at a terrible, frightening low: his small law firm was failing; he was struggling through a painful second divorce; he had grown distant from his two older children and was afraid he might lose contact with his young daughter; he was living...
by John Hodgman
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In the great tradition of the American almanac, The Areas of My Expertise is a brilliant and hilarious compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom on all topics large and small. Although bestsellers such as Poor Richard’s Almanack and The Book of Lists were certainly...
by Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2018
The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce A Prisoner in Fairyland - Algernon Blackwood The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories - Algernon Blackwood The Willows - Algernon Blackwood Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown The Keeper of Cademuir - John Buchan No-man's-land - John Buchan The...
Tunnelling to Freedom
The Story of the World's Most Persistent Escaper
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
John Fancy, who died in September 2008, aged 95, was the most prolific escaper of the Second World War. Nicknamed 'the Mole' he dug eight tunnels at the various camps in which he was held, in East Prussia, Poland and Germany. Some were 40 feet below the surface and only 2 feet square. He escaped three...
by John C. Inscoe
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Among the most pervasive of stereotypes imposed upon southern highlanders is that they were white, opposed slavery, and supported the Union before and during the Civil War, but the historical record suggests far different realities. John C. Inscoe has spent much of his scholarly career exploring the...
Captured by Pirates
22 Firsthand Accounts of Murder and Mayhem on the High Seas
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Pirates are primarily known for their swashbuckling attitudes, their freebooting lifestyle, their high-seas adventures and their stolen treasure, but their victims tend to be forgotten. These are the innocent and not-so-innocent voyagers who find themselves suddenly snatched up, brutalized, and franticly...
The John MacArthur Collection Volume 1
Alone with God, Standing Strong, Anxious for Nothing, The Silent Shepherd
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Now available! Four of John MacArthur's spiritual classics on one edition. Grow in your journey of faith with practical, Biblical insights from pastor and teacher John MacArthur. This collection contains:
Alone With God: We all know that spending time with God is essential to an intimate, growing...
The Lost Art of Enochian Magic
Angels, Invocations, and the Secrets Revealed to Dr. John Dee
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2010
A practical guide to Dr. John Dee’s angelic magic
• Contains instructions for performing Enochian magic meditations
• Examines John Dee’s original diaries from the British Library
Enochian magic is a powerful, ancient system for opening portals to heavenly realms and enabling...
The Subjection of Women - La servitù delle donne
Bilingual parallel text - Bilingue con testo inglese a fronte: English - Italian / Inglese - Italiano (Dual Language Easy Reader)
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
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In questo libro, scritto nel 1869 ma ancora di attualità sotto molti aspetti in molti Paesi del mondo, John Stuart Mill rivendica la parità dei sessi nel diritto di famiglia e il suffragio universale, sostenendo che ciò migliorerà anche gli uomini,...
by John Mill
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
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John Stuart Mill made essential contributions to social theory, political theory and political economy. He has been called "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century"....
by John Mill
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter.
John Stuart Mill made essential contributions to social theory, political theory and political economy. He has been called "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century"....