Revenant: 35 books

Fear has quietly and insidiously woven its way throughout the very fabric of how we do business in Technology. Our goals are driven by failure, rather than success. Design Thinking is a powerful adjustment in how you approach change, helping you to address this fear by becoming an Activator...

Daniel Day Lewis' portrayal of the sixteenth president of the United States shows a mature statesman at the height of his powers. But Lincoln's story starts long before that with a struggling country lawyer whose future was by no means assured. Browne's biography begins "in a rude cabin in a...

This novel, which has inspired not only numerous retellings on-screen, but innumerable other tales of people stranded on islands, was first published on April 25, 1719. Robinson Crusoe himself was then credited as its author, and its original title was much longer: "The Life and Strange Surprizing...

This semi-autobiographical novel was first serialised in the magazine The Egoist from 1914 to 1915, and published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch, New York. The first English edition was published by the Egoist Press in February 1917. It describes the formative years of the life of...

This is a seventeenth century translation of a "Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias", an impassioned tirade against Spanish behavior across South America and the Caribbean, recording a litany of horrors committed against the indigenous people there. In...

"The object of this book is to lay before the public a short history of Afghanistan, which, can be read in a few hours, and will give, the author trusts, an accurate account of the history of a country at the present time attracting considerable attention from the importance of its position...

** The Memoirs of Paris Past collection presents fiction and non-fiction – travelers' guides, journals, histories,etc. - which wholly or in part shows Paris as it was at different points in history. If you love Paris and want to virtually stroll its streets in past times, search for “Memoirs...

Sinbad the Sailor, Aladdin and his lamp, Ali Baba - these are only some of the more famous and enduring tales from this rich collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from...

The pirates of Somalia have given new relevance to old accounts of being captured by pirates. In 1821, Captain Barnabas Lincoln of Hingham Massachusetts was captured by pirates in the Caribbean, left with his men on a desert island and lived to tell the tale. Part "Treasure Island", part...

Tales of the knights of the Round Table have thrilled countless generations and given rise to not only movies and television shows based on Merlin, Arthur, etc, but to innumerable similar tales copying the themes of knighthood and chivalry.

"This is one of the most practical books of its kind, containing only tried Receipts, and such as are compounded of materials within the reach of every housekeeper."; "As a widow in 1845, Betsy published a famous book of recipes and domestic hints called Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts and Hints to Young Housekeepers."

"Miss Leslie's next cookbook was, however, decidedly not American. In 1832 she published Domestic French Cookery, Chiefly Translated from Sulpice Barué. This book went through at least six printings in 23 years." The Penguin Companion to Food. Did Barué in fact exist? No one...

** The “Memoirs of Paris Past” collection presents fiction and non-fiction – travelers' guides, journals, histories,etc. - which wholly or in part shows Paris as it was at different points in history. If you love Paris and want to virtually stroll its streets in past times, search for “Memoirs...

** The “Memoirs of Paris Past” collection presents fiction and non-fiction – travelers' guides, journals, histories, etc. - which wholly or in part shows Paris as it was at different points in history. If you love Paris and want to virtually stroll its streets in past times, search for “Memoirs...