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by John S. Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
What is man, apart from the things of his life, apart from loving and fighting and dying?
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In his exploration of that fundamental question, John S. Dunne considers the different ways in which man strives throughout his life for immortality.
Growing out of the 1971 Yale University Thomas...
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
First published in 1850 and considered some of the finest love lyrics in the English language, Sonnets from the Portuguese comprise 44 interlocking poems that Elizabeth Barrett Browning composed for her husband, Robert Browning. This wonderful illustrated edition includes 22 additional works as well.
The Sea at Truro
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
From the acclaimed poet of In the Salt Marsh comes a dazzling collection about the magic hiding in the ordinary days of our past and present. Willard turns a keen eye on the natural world that witnesses these revelations, and the myriad, often surprising ways in which it intersects with our own human...
Lord Churchill's Coup
The Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
In LORD CHURCHILL’S COUP, Stephen Saunders Webb further advances his revisionist interpretation of the British Empire in the seventeenth century. Having earlier demonstrates that the Anglo=American empire was classic in its form, administered by an army, committed to territorial expansion, and motivated...
The Magnificent Century
The Pageant of England, Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
The Magnificent Century, the second volume of Costain's A History of the Plantagenets, covers Henry III's long and turbulent reign, from 1216 to 1272.
During his lifetime Henry was frequently unpopular, unreliable and inconsistent. Yet his reign saw spectacular advancement in the arts, sciences...
A World Without Women
The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
In this groundbreaking work of history, David Noble examines the origins and implications of the masculine culture of Western science and technology. He begins by asking why women have figure so little in the development of science, and then proceeds—in a fascinating and radical analysis—to trace...
by Richard Marius
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Most previous biographers of Thomas More have sought to prove him a saint; in this, the first full-scale biography of More in half a century, Richard Marius, a leading Reformation historian, seeks to restore the man. More’s life spanned a tumultuous period in Western history. He was born in 1478...
by Sigurd F Olson
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
The author of The Singing Wilderness and Listening Point begins this grand adventure: “There are few places left on the North American continent where men can still see the country as it was before Europeans came and know some of the challenges and freedoms of those who saw it first, but in the...
by Haruki Murakami
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library.
Opening the flaps on this unique little book, readers will find themselves immersed in the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination....
The Pride and the Pressure
A Season Inside the New York Yankee Fishbowl
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Derek Jeter
Jason Giambi
Bernie Williams
Gary Sheffield
Alex Rodriguez
Johnny Damon
Melky Cabrera
Hideki Matsui
Bobby Abreu
Jorge Posada
Mariano Rivera
Chien-Ming Wang
Robinson Cano
Mike Mussina
Randy Johnson
“The Yankees always said they valued players who could handle the white-hot spotlight,...
Quarterback
Inside the Most Important Position in the National Football League
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A major new book from #1 New York Times bestseller and sports-writing legend John Feinstein, QUARTERBACK dives deep into the most coveted and hallowed position in the NFL - exploring the stories of five top quarterbacks and taking readers inside their unique experiences of playing the position and...
by Lynne Cox
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Grayson is Lynne Cox’s first book since Swimming to Antarctica (“Riveting”—Sports Illustrated; “Pitch-perfect”—Outside). In it she tells the story of a miraculous ocean encounter that happened to her when she was seventeen and in training for a big swim (she had already swum the English...
Native American Son
The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
The first comprehensive biography of the legendary figure who defined excellence in American sports: Jim Thorpe, arguably the greatest all-around athlete the United States has ever seen.
With clarity and a fine eye for detail, Kate Buford traces the pivotal moments of Thorpe’s incomparable...
Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica
A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, America's "Sport of the Future" Since 1972
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The essential guide to world soccer—the history, the players, the fan culture—from the phenomenally popular duo from NBC Sports.
The Men in Blazers are two English-born, soccer-obsessed broadcasters who have savored the dizzying growth of the game along with millions of Americans. Now they...