Various Artists: 29 books
by William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at special days of celebration through the eyes and minds of...
Civil War Four Pack (Illustrated)
Andersonville, Co. Aytch, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Life of General Robert E. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Civil War Four Pack presents four key primary texts for Civil War buffs and historians:
Andersonville - A Story of Rebel Military Prisons - Fifteen months a guest of the so-called Southern Confederacy - A private soldier’s experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshear...
by Various Artists
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
"Apocrypha … books which are not regarded as equal to the holy Scriptures, and yet are profitable and good to read." ~ Martin Luther
Thirteen examples of biblical pseudepigrapha including the rarely read Living Oracles translation of the Book of Revelation, the Apocalypse of Abraham...
Horrors Of War (Volume 1)
Death, Atrocity And Battle Card Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Bayoneted, beheaded, blasted to bits by bombs – death and bloody carnage were the highlights of the infamous 1938 trading card series “Horrors Of Warâ€, which depicted alternating scenes from three contemporary conflicts: the Sino-Japanese War, the Spanish Civil War, and Mussolini’s...
Strategy Six Pack 12 (Illustrated)
A Short History of Rome, Nero, The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813, The Rights of Man, Nat Turner and Travels into Bokhara
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
“Hidden talent counts for nothing.”
- Nero.
Strategy Six Pack 12 presents six historical texts spanning two millennia and three continents. Ancient Rome and the Americas get two books each: Mary Platt Parmele’s A Short History of Rome is paired with Jacob Abbott’s biography of Emperor...
Founding Fathers Four Pack
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Essay on John Jay
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Founding Fathers Four Pack includes the American classic The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the lesser-known concise Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, the biography Alexander Hamilton by Charles A. Conant and an insightful essay on John Jay by Elbert Hubbard.
Slave Narrative Six Pack 2 (Illustrated)
Six Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Slave Narrative Six Pack 2 presents six classics of the genre:
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William Craft and Ellen Craft.
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois.
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley.
The Life of Josiah...
Slave Narrative Six Pack 7 (Illustrated)
My Life in the South, The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Army Life in a Black Regiment, John Brown, An Anti-Slavery Crusade and Henry Ward Beecher
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Slave Narrative Six Pack 7 presents six more essential texts:
My Life in the South by Jacob Stroyer.
The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. by Lunsford Lane.
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David...
Stoic Six Pack 3 (Illustrated)
Six Essential Texts
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
- Epicurus.
Founded in the fourth century BC, Epicureanism was the main alternative philosophy to Stoicism. Based upon the teachings of Greek philosopher Epicurus, the philosophy propounded...
Strategy Six Pack 13 (Illustrated)
Six Strategy Texts
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
“Give me liberty or give me death!”
- Patrick Henry.
Strategy Six Pack 13 includes Thomas De Quincey’s classic study of Rome’s first leaders, The Caesars, two essays by Elbert Hubbard (on Patrick Henry and Anne Hutchinson), Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar by Emily Ruete...
Stoic Six Pack 7 (Illustrated)
Memoirs of Socrates, Euthydemus, Stoic Self-control, Gorgias, Protagoras and Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
- Socrates.
Two centuries before the Stoics lived The Sophists, star philosophers who roamed Athens during the fifth century B.C. commanding large fees for speaking and private lessons. They offered practical education, speculation...
Shipwrecked Six Pack (Illustrated)
Six Castaway Classics
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2016
“Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest! Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island.
‘Billy’ Bones, Robinson Crusoe, Friday, Lemuel Gulliver, Long John Silver, Captain Flint and the...
The Book of Job
Five Different Versions
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
"How great is God – beyond our understanding!"
~ Job 36:26
The Book of Job is one of the most celebrated pieces of biblical literature, probing profound questions about faith. It is a beautifully written work, combining two literary forms, framing forty chapters...
US Military in WW2: The Submarines
Rendezvous by Submarine, USS Seawolf - Submarine Raider of the Pacific and Sink ‘Em All,
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
US Military in WW2: The Submarines presents three classic first-hand accounts of life aboard a US Navy submarine during World War 2.
Rendezvous by Submarine - The Story of Charles Parsons and the Guerrilla-Soldiers in the Philippines by Travis Ingham tells how American-led guerrilla forces...