Barber: 563 books
Edward III and the Triumph of England
The Battle of Crécy and the Company of the Garter
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
A fascinating recreation of the world of one of England's most charismatic monarchs, from award-winning author and historian Richard Barber
The destruction of the French army at Crécy in 1346 and the subsequent siege and capture of Calais marked a new era in European history. The most powerful,...
Barber's Turn-of-the-Century Houses
Elevations and Floor Plans
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
At the turn of the twentieth century, George F. Barber ran a successful architectural firm. Today, surviving examples of Barber's signature designs are the pride of their communities. This architectural snapshot from 1901 features working floor plans and fine drawings of more than eighty of Barber's...
The Third Reconstruction
How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.
Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions...
by Benjamin Barber
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
In this brilliant, controversial, and profoundly original book, Benjamin R. Barber fundamentally alters the terms of the current debate over the value of opportunity in American education, politics, and culture.
Barber argues that the fashionable rallying cries of cultural literacy and political correctness...
Shakespeare's Festive Comedy
A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly interweaving anthropology, social history, and literary criticism, Barber traces the inward...
Army Memoirs of Lucius W. Barber, Company "D," 15th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
May 24, 1861, to Sept. 30, 1865
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Army Memoirs of Lucius W. Barber is the autobiography of Lucius Barber, who fought in the 15th Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.
by Benjamin R. Barber
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2001
Ideas and the presidency flirt with each other, but can they really get along?
President Clinton had a romance with big ideas. He intently cultivated intellectuals, seducing them with his characteristic charm and with the promise of real influence on the political stage. Yet most often he disappointed...
Forward Together
A Moral Message for the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
In the spring of 2013, seventeen people gathered at the North Carolina state legislature to protest extreme legislation passed by the General Assembly attacking health insurance, unemployment insurance, labor, and voting rights. The ministers, labor, and human rights activists began praying, singing,...
by Margaret Barber
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
3 works of Margaret Barber English Christian writer (1869-1901)
This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Margaret Barber. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: Gathering of Brother Hilarius The Gray Brethren and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse The Roadmender
Six Words You Never Knew Had Something To Do With Pigs
and Other Fascinating Facts about the Language from Canada's Word Lady
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Did you know that the word "travel" is derived from an instrument of torture? That "tragedy" originally was something to do with goats? That "grammar" and "glamour" started out as one and the same word? These and many other fascinating and surprising tidbits about the history of words are revealed in...
by Sotirios Barber
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Americans err in thinking that while their politics may be ailing, their Constitution is fine. Sick politics is a sure sign of constitutional failure. This is Sotirios Barber's message in Constitutional Failure. Public attitudes fostered by a consumer culture, constitution worship, the lack of a trusted...
Holding the Line
The Third Tennesse Regiment 1861-1864
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
FLAVEL C. BARBER’S memoir of his service with the Third Tennessee provides a rare contemporary history of a Confederate regiment. Major Barber’s imprisonment after the surrender of Fort Donelson spurred him to take pen in hand. What began as a way to “while away the tedious hours of imprisonment”...
Revive Us Again
Vision and Action in Moral Organizing
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
A collection of sermons and speeches that lay out a groundbreaking vision for intersectional organizing, paired with inspirational and practical essays from activists in today’s Poor People’s Campaign
The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II has been called “the closest person we have to Martin...
One-Pot Wonders
James Barber's Recipes for Land and Sea
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2019
James Barber—who was Canada’s most famous television chef and author of more than fourteen bestselling cookbooks—wrote One-Pot Wonders for people who are wet and cold and want dinner in a hurry.
Over the years, Barber whipped up meals while cruising on seiners, yachts and even a wee Davidson...