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Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006) was one of most imposing and influential European intellectual historians in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and transgressing the boundaries of mainstream historical writing, he created numerous highly innovative approaches, absorbing influences from other academic disciplines as represented in the work...

Finding Betty is a memoir of Helen Stanley's life from the day she married to her divorce spanning 23 years. The chapters take you through a process of events that gradually and unknowing lead her down a path to suicide. The book explains her...

Among Golden Age Hollywood film stars of European heritage known for playing characters from the East--Chinese, Southeast Asians, Indians and Middle Easterners--Anglo-Indian actor Boris Karloff had deep roots there. Based on extensive new research, this biography and career study of Karloff's "eastern" films provides...

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A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the RebellionAuthor: Walt WhitmanISBN-10: 1986599663ISBN-13: 9781986599665Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/17/2018Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.30d

Jane Kenyon, who was married to the poet Donald Hall, earned wide acclaim for her clear, vivid, deeply spiritual lyrics, many of them written in the face of her own -mortality.During the year of her dying, Carruth's faithful correspondence, collected here, is a testament...

What does a dementia diagnosis mean for an individual's sense of self? Christine Bryden shares her insider view on living with dementia and explains how a continuing sense of self is possible after diagnosis and as the condition develops. Encouraging a deeper understanding of...

In the early years of the 19th century, before the Great Famine, a disparate group of Irish immigrants congregated around the church of St Patrick, in the tumult of Edinburgh's Old Town. They brought to this 'Little Ireland' a riot of living, of love...

Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 - October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple...

City Streets to Destiny offers hope for a better life for anyone facing overwhelming odds and challenges. Here, I take you on a journey into the threshold of my life down the corridors of darkness, despair, and destruction into the realm of light, life,...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Walter SichelISBN-10: 1544282788ISBN-13: 9781544282787Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

This is a book about my wife's nearly seven-year battle against stage 4 breast cancer. From my perspective as husband and caregiver, the book attempts to describe how my wife responded to her cancer diagnosis and then fought against the disease with grace, courage,...

The diary of a World War One U-Boat commander. As well as being a fascinating glimpse of life on the German U-boats during the intense submarine blockade, this also reminds us there were humans involved - on both sides of the action - as...

This second edition by Gettys and Howlett reveals new research on James Gettys's role as a Pennsylvania rifleman serving under George Washington in the Battle of Brooklyn during the American Revolutionary War. James and other local men went missing in action, and they were...

Two decades ago, I saw three everywhere. Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Beginning, middle, end. Proton, neutron, electron. Mind, heart, body. Yesterday, today, tomorrow. Mother, father, child. I was settled in three. The triangle is the most stable shape, and my God was entirely stable....

An analysis of how much one can endure mentally when confronting the adversities of life. An autobiography saturated with emotions and a struggle to remain sane amidst overwhelming negativety. A testimony of the constant hope that love will conquer all in spite of foundamental...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Napoleon IIIISBN-10: 1523778784ISBN-13: 9781523778782Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Moses Coit TylerISBN-10: 1514660016ISBN-13: 9781514660010Publisher: Createspace Independent...

"Thomas De Witt Talmage" from Thomas De Witt Talmage. American preacher, clergyman and divine (1832-1902).Author: The Perfect Library, Thomas De Witt TalmageISBN-10: 1514600757ISBN-13: 9781514600757Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/17/2015Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: HimselfISBN-10: 1511882441ISBN-13: 9781511882446Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

"I have known John Hogue for fifteen years. If his predictions weren't so uncannily accurate, they'd be uncannily terrifying. Better give his book a careful read. Real careful." -WHITLEY STRIEBER, AUTHOR OF "COMMUNION" Never has Nostradamus "come into the clear" like this, naming names,...

In 1990 Mark Beach began a quest for meaning and clarity of direction in his life. What he found would change everything about the way he viewed the world and his place in it. There weren't any books available at that time that could...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Margaret Fuller OssoliISBN-10: 1499596200ISBN-13: 9781499596205Publisher: Createspace...

My true life stories of growing up in the Bronx in the 1930's and 1940's.Author: Christina Lynch-HilgenbergISBN-10: 1499256930ISBN-13: 9781499256932Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/24/2015Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.36d

Author: Cheryl Miles-StevensonISBN-10: 1499043813ISBN-13: 9781499043815Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2014Pages: 68Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

He had the opportunity of meeting Oswald and New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. After having read the 26 Volumes of the Warren Commission and almost 50 years of investigation he presents a clear vision of the assassination of President Kennedy and he brings...

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Love Letter for a Japanese War Bride is Stephen E. Price's memoir of his eternal love for his first wife, Ryuko. Set primarily in postwar Japan, the story provides a window into a new world?one that spawned cultural diversity, but one that was largely...

As a young adult, I was challenged with obedience to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. A decision changed the direction of my life, when one night I surrendered everything. From that moment on it was divine guidance. God led me to what I believed...

The Little Red Cliff portrays life in the 1950s and 1960s in Tanah Merah Kechil (Little Red Cliff) in a corner of Bedok District along the eastern coast of Singapore. Author Yeo Hong Eng chronicles the story of his family, the Yeo family, as...

Rusty Hix first developed a love of travel and adventure when he accompanied his family across the United States as a young boy. As he matured into a young man, Rusty began traveling internationally to feed his curiosity for understanding the world's greatest mysteries....

This book divulges personal stories and perspectives that I believe will enlighten people about me, why I came to America, and what I consider to be the best way for new American citizens to recognize their New American Dreams. In several conversations with friends...

Blindness A world that both horrifies and fascinates. Imagine you find your eyes aren't working quite right one day. You think you need glasses. Instead, over the next few months, while you lose your vision daily, you discover it is caused by a defect...

Marie O'Reiley is outside screaming at the world. Her children watch through the living room window as the police come and arrest her for disturbing the peace, leaving them alone in the house.Thus begins the astonishing true story of a family always living on...

The Girl from Orchard Park with Alopecia is an authentic story about a poor young black girl affected by the alopecia hair disease at a young age, living in the vicious Orchard Park projects in the violent part of Roxbury during the late '70s...

Author: Ray DiffenISBN-10: 146535672XISBN-13: 9781465356727Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/27/2011Pages: 228Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Flashback to the 1960's and 1970's and faster than you can say 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, ' accompany Glen Keough as he is drilled by Dominican nuns, enlightened by a hippie father and loved by a grandmother who easily forgave his sins. In this coming of age...

Uncovering the day-to-day routines and activities of a family with seven children should be interesting in any age, but when it covers Depression years to World War II, it's especially revealing. The narrative throughout is in rhyme, and the author is dealing mostly with...

"Short stories of former Filipino (pinoy) steward recruits, who seized marginal opportunity to switch from steward to other enlisted ratings normally reserved for whites only."--Page [30].Author: Ray L. BurdeosISBN-10: 1452066779ISBN-13: 9781452066776Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/22/2010Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

Book synopsis: In 1970, at the age of 17 and with only twenty-eight dollars in his pocket, Tony Assali flew to America to escape war in his homeland, Beirut, Lebanon. With the intention of establishing a foothold so that he can bring the rest...

Author: Paul CainISBN-10: 144901223XISBN-13: 9781449012236Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2009Pages: 132Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

""Rob Morris and the Eastern Star"" is a book written by J.A. Glidewell that explores the life and work of Rob Morris, the founder of the Order of the Eastern Star. The Order of the Eastern Star is a fraternal organization that was established...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Gouverneur MorrisISBN-10: 1443730114ISBN-13: 9781443730112Publisher: Morris...

Author: Edith Noordewier FoleyISBN-10: 1441573941ISBN-13: 9781441573940Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/07/2009Pages: 152Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Author: Cecilia CollardISBN-10: 1441550186ISBN-13: 9781441550187Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2009Pages: 50Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

THE BIRDMAN OF TREADWELL Through his diaries Edwin Warren takes you back in time over a hundred years ago as if in a time capsule. It is as if you are there by his side and can imagine you are in his place as...

Paramedic buff to burnt shows the changes of a highly decorated New York City paramedic from being a rookie to now an old timer with over 15 years on the streets.It covers some of the more interesting calls he has done over these many...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: VariousISBN-10: 1409731286ISBN-13: 9781409731283Publisher: Sturgis PressLanguage:...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

The story of my life over 60 years living with war, serving with the military world wide and working at the top level of governmentAuthor: Omm CD DentISBN-10: 1387865986ISBN-13: 9781387865987Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/11/2018Pages: 402Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.82d