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Even as Americans devour books about our Founding Fathers, the focus seldom extends past a half dozen or so icons—Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton. Many of the men (and women) who made prodigious contributions to the American founding have been all but forgotten.   America’s...

Curas ilustrados y con hijos, boticarios de pueblo, músicos, licenciados,notarios, pequeños comerciantes, administradores de correos, soldados que nunca habían hecho guerras, un arsenal de una docena de lanzas: una conspiración que parecía condenada al fracaso, repleta de indecisos y rodeada...

Aquí se cuenta la vida de un hombre que solía despertarse, casi siempre, en un lugar diferente del que originalmente había elegido para dormir. Tenía este extraño hábito porque más de la mitad de su vida adulta, 17 años de los 30 que vivió antes de sumarse a una revolución, había sido prófugo...

Kaiser William II was the last Emperor of Germany, and ruled that country and the kingdom of Prussia during the tumultuous period that marked the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth. Known as an impetuous and highly opinionated leader, William holds nothing back in this detailed autobiography.

This short book contains a number of highly relevant topics that all young college women need to know. Our topics include Sexuality, Vehicle Safety, Social Networking, Eating Issues, Living Arrangements, Security and Safety, among others. This is a must have guide for any young woman who is heading to her first year of college and likely her first year away from home.

In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradictory...

Poetry is an urge. It's a bottled up feeling. It gets out but then then has to be arranged or contained, displayed, adjusted.poetry is song. poetry is emotion.(women,birds,trees). Most of it rhymes. With poetrythere's a certain sentiment you want to expressand rhyming is the challenge.

In the authors words...."Over the years, I have often thought of how I arrived in Korea approximately eight months after my seventeenth birthday. I distinctly remember what happened while I was there, and how those experiences affected me up through this day and age. Even at that, I wonder if my life...

THE DEPARTURE portrays a story of Sirleaf; a high school graduate who attains a scholarship to a college in America. During the four hour wait before his departure, a conversation ensues among his father Siafa, Uncle Sekou, Aunt Zoya and Varney; their US-born son. A book written to enlighten, entertain...

The Sutra of 108 Songs - Sutra(經) means Buddhist Canon. - Song(頌) means Gatha. - It has 25 Chapters + 108 Songs = 133 Verses . It is a Chong-Gyuhng(總經) which means Comprehensive Canon. - Comprehensive Canon means it is...

As the most famous and important political leader in Athenian history, Pericles has featured prominently in descriptions and analysis of Athenian democracy from antiquity to the present day. Although contemporary historians have tended to treat him as representative of values like liberty and equality,...

The epic story of the scientists through the ages who have sought answers to life’s biggest mystery: How did it begin? In this essential and illuminating history of Western science, Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II seek to answer the most crucial question in science: How did life begin?...

Personal stories show men how to make the right decisions for themselves, with medical insights from a leading Johns Hopkins authority on prostate cancer If you or someone you know has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, you want to know the facts about treatment options as well as what to...

Here is an essay giving the facts about being a freemason and how there not part of the Illuminati. and many other facts too. Plus there is a good sources to prove my claims.