Solomon: 694 books
Shostakovich and Stalin
The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictato r
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that.” So said the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose first compositions in the 1920s identified him as an avant-garde wunderkind. But that same singularity became a liability a decade later...
The Cry Was Unity
Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
The Communist Party was the only political movement on the left in the late 1920s and 1930s to place racial justice and equality at the top of its agenda and to seek, and ultimately win, sympathy among African Americans. This historic effort to fuse red and black offers a rich vein of experience and...
African American Heritage Super Pack #1
Courage and Perseverance
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
The history of African Americans is a long, grim history full of injustices and brutality. But it is also filled with courage and perseverance. Gathered here in this omnibus edition are ten books that exemplify courage and a willingness to fight against all odds and at any cost for what is right....
by Solomon Volkov
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and...
FDR v. The Constitution
The Court-Packing Fight and the Triumph of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
In the wake of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide re-election of 1936, the popular president-never anything but self-confident-unaccountably overreached. Deeply frustrated by a Supreme Court that had blocked many of his New Deal initiatives, FDR proposed to enlarge it from 9 justices to 15. The...
by Abe Abel, Sol Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
This book is part of a series entitled "The Fall of Islam", which examines controversial issues connected with the religion from an informed rational point of view. Each part of the series is available as a separate low-priced e-book whilst the whole content can be got for less than the price of the...
by Abe Abel, Sol Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
This book is part of a series entitled "The Fall of Islam", which examines controversial issues connected with the religion from an informed rational point of view. Each part of the series is available as a separate e-book and the whole content can be got for a discount in one volume in our book Islamic...
Romanov Riches
Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
In a sweeping cultural history of Russia from the rise of the house of Romanov in 1613 to its downfall at the hands of the Bolsheviks in 1917, Solomon Volkov effortlessly unwinds the twisted relationship between art and the royal family.
Throughout the Romanov dynasty, Russia’s greatest artists...
by Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
What Nietzsche Really Said gives us a lucid overview -- both informative and entertaining -- of perhaps the most widely read and least understood philosopher in history.
Friedrich Nietzsche's aggressive independence, flamboyance, sarcasm, and celebration of strength have struck responsive chords...
by Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
With an Introduction by Colin Harrison, Lecturer in American Literature at Liverpool John Moores University.
‘I was sitting upon a low bench, made of rough boards, and without coat or hat. I was handcuffed. Around my ankles also were a pair of heavy fetters. One end of a chain was fastened...
Can It, Bottle It, Smoke It
And Other Kitchen Projects: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Have you ever wanted to . . .
Bottle your own soda? Press your own tofu? Smoke your own cheese? Boil your own bagels? Ferment your own miso? Can your own tomatoes? Roast your own coffee?
Can It, Bottle It, Smoke It walks you through a slew of satisfying culinary projects to stock your larder...
by Solomon Northup
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The classic 1968 edition with historical notes WITH A NEW foreword by Karolyn Smardz Frost.
Solomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly, he fell...
by Solomon Northup
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Solomon Northup è un afroamericano, libero cittadino degli Stati Uniti. Nel 1841 arriva a Washington in cerca di lavoro; qui viene ingannato con una finta proposta e trascinato con la forza negli Stati del Sud per essere venduto come schiavo. Northup trascorre così dodici anni di fatiche e umiliazioni...
The Washington Century
Three Families and the Shaping of the Nation's Capital
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
The Washington Century chronicles the hundred-year rise of the nation's capital as it grew to become the most powerful city in the world -- a story made vivid through the history of three very different families, each representing an essential aspect of Washington: the Cafritzes, headed by a real...