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How to Achieve True Greatness

by Baldesar Castiglione

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war, and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged,...


Martin's Dream

by Clayborne Carson

On August 28, 1963 hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flocked to the nation’s capital for the  March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have...


Gravestones, Tombs & Memorials

by Trevor Yorke

If you explore our churchyards and cemeteries, you will be astonished at how much you can discover, not only about the people who are buried there and their standing in the local community but also about the...


Beggar's Chicken: Stories from Shanghai

by Ulrich Baer

An exciting and moving collection of stories, this book introduces denizens of the wildly disparate worlds populating China's most vibrant city: Shanghai. Different and unique, these spirited stories are united...


Acceptable Loss: An Infantry Soldier's Perspective

by Kregg P. Jorgenson

The true-to-life story of a Ranger who volunteered to serve on a Blue Team in the Air Cavalry, racing to the aid of soldiers who faced the same dangers he had barely survived in the jungles of Vietnam. Whether...


Read My Heart

by Jane Dunn

When Sir William Temple (1628–99) and Dorothy Osborne (1627–95) began their passionate love affair, civil war was raging in Britain, and their families—parliamentarians and royalists, respectively—did...


Moyers on Democracy

by Bill Moyers

People know Bill Moyers from his many years of path-breaking journalism on television. But he is also one of America's most sought-after public speakers. In this collection of speeches, Moyers celebrates the...


Monte Cassino: The Hardest-Fought Battle of World War II

by Matthew Parker

Monte Cassino is the true story of one of the bitterest and bloodiest of the Allied struggles against the Nazi army. Long neglected by historians, the horrific conflict saw over 350,000 casualties, while the...


What This Cruel War Was Over

by Chandra Manning

In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning uses letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take the reader inside the minds of Civil War soldiers-black and white, Northern and Southern-as they fought...


Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution

by Robert H. Patton

In this lively narrative history, Robert H. Patton, grandson of the World War II battlefield legend, tells a sweeping tale of courage, capitalism, naval warfare, and international political intrigue set on the...


The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean

by John Julius Norwich

This lively and dramatic book brings roaring to life the grand sweep of 5,000 years of history in the cradle of civilization.A wonderfullyillustrated account of the civilizations that rose and fell on the lands...


Crime, Courtrooms and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1700-1850

by David Lemmings

Focusing on the 'long eighteenth century' this collection of essays charts the transition of British legal proceedings from early scenes of noise and disorder, to a much more rigid and solemn atmosphere by the...


Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe: A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590)

by Derek Massarella & by J. F. Moran

In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys to Europe. Until the arrival of the embassy in Europe, the Euro-Japanese encounter had been almost...


Ritual and the Idea of Europe in Interwar Writing

by Patrick R. Query

Query examines the ways interwar writers use three European ritual forms-verse drama, bullfighting and Roman Catholic rite-to articulate ideas of European cultural identity. Although these ritual forms were...


Dickens and Benjamin: Moments of Revelation, Fragments of Modernity

by Gillian Piggott

Placing the works of Charles Dickens and Walter Benjamin in conversation with one another, Piggott argues that the two writers display a shared vision of modernity. Her analysis of their works shows that both...


Ireland's 1916 Rising: Explorations of History-Making, Commemoration & Heritage in Modern Times

by Mark McCarthy

In light of its upcoming centenary in 2016, this book explores why, how and in what ways the memory of Ireland's 1916 Rising has persisted over the decades? It breaks new ground by offering a wide-ranging exploration...


The First Hollywood: Florida and the Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking

by Shawn C Bean

Jacksonville, Florida, was the king of the infant film industry. Devastated by fire in 1901, rebuilt in a wide variety of architectural styles, sharing the same geographic and meteorological DNA as southern...


Thunder on the River: The Civil War in Northeast Florida

by Daniel L Schafer

When the Civil War finally came to North Florida, it did so with an intermittent fury that destroyed much of Jacksonville and scattered its residents. The city was taken four separate times by Federal forces...


Female Patients in Early Modern Britain: Gender, Diagnosis, and Treatment

by Wendy D. Churchill

This investigation contributes to the existing scholarship on women and medicine in early modern Britain by examining the diagnosis and treatment of female patients by male professional medical practitioners...


The Cult of Saint Katherine of Alexandria in Late-Medieval Nuremberg: Saint and the City

by Anne Simon

Saint Katherine of Alexandria was - after the Virgin Mary - arguably the most important female religious figure within medieval Europe. Yet despite this many gaps in our knowledge remain as regards the significance...