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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks,...

This book examines the phenomenon of 'the male gaze', a concept which has spread beyond academia and become a staple of cultural conversations across disciplinary boundaries.Male gazing has typically...

""Eulogies And Orations On The Life And Death Of General George Washington, First President Of The United States Of America"" is a book published in 1800 by Manning and Loring Publisher. The book...

On a six-week trek across Europe before starting a new job, American citizen Norman Lake has a seemingly chance encounter in Sardinia with a stunning French woman in a nightclub. Francoise D'Arcy is...

Title: A collection of voyages and travels.<br /><br />Author: John Churchill<br /><br />Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana <br /><br />Description:...

Experience a new reality through wondrous visions of the Enochian angelsEnochian magick, a system of angelic evocation, is one of the oldest forms of ceremonial magick in the Western world, and...

The Woodneys: An American Family is a historical novel written by John Breckenridge Ellis and published in 1914. The book is set in the early 19th century and chronicles the lives of the Woodney...

"I am nothing, but I may be everything," John Adams, the first vice president, wrote of his office. And for most of American history, the "nothing" part of Adams's formulation accurately captured the...

In the small Saskatchewan town of Glenmere, sixteen-year-old Amy Young wants nothing more than to save enough money from her summer jobs to try to build a future for herself somewhere else. Anywhere...

Frank Gaffney was a 33-year-old papermaker from Western New York when America entered the Great War in 1917. While his age exempted him from serving in the military, Gaffney ran to the colors anyway...

After the Civil War, black people in the New Orleans region did not have adequate medical care, causing a health care crisis which lasted for almost two decades. In 1889 an institution emerged in...

Embark on a journeythrough the Old and New Testament with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson asthey explore exotic and spice-laden places in search of clues.  The detective and the doctor travel...

What makes news patriotic? How is photojournalism used in wartime?In a national crisis, the press operates under various forms of censorship. Within these constraints, it continues to produce news in...

Was Walt Whitman--celebrated poet of freedom and democracy--a determinist at heart? A close study of Leaves of Grass shows that Whitman consistently acknowledges the inevitability of all things. As...

Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign was a period marked not only by professional achievement and advancement for Custer, but also by a rapidly emerging personal maturity as the steadying influence...

“The history of Schenectady during the troublesome times of the Revolution is so closely linked with the affairs of the whole Mohawk Valley, and with the tides of the Border Wars that laid...

Is he MAD? Mark Arnold, author of If You're Cracked, You're Happy, Volumes Won and Too, has done it again with the very first COMPLETE MAD history since the 1990s. He's UNCONDITIONALLY...

""In my continuing spiritual journey I have become increasingly convinced of two truths: first, that each individual has the capacity to be touched by the divine and thereby to be made whole; second,...

Title: A collection of voyages and travels.<br /><br />Author: John Churchill<br /><br />Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana <br /><br />Description:...

Editors Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson present an authoritative collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. Comparing the term...

Delaware's Forgotten FolkThe Story of the Moors and NanticokesC. A. Weslager. Photographs by L. T. Alexander. Drawings by John Swientochowski"In 1943, Weslager's book helped Delaware's American...

Moll Pitcher, the Psychic of Lynn, advisor, and spy, worked tirelessly as the Colonial Army's secret weapon. From Marblehead to Lynn to world-wide renown, her story is sure to enthrall any...

"O magnify the Lord with me" (Ps. 34:3). One effective way to closely examine and worth-ship God is to meditate on what the Scriptures testify that God is. As the Holy Spirit opens the God is...

""Home Sweet Home"" is a novel written by John Howard Payne and first published in 1880. The story follows the life of a young woman named Grace Ashburn, who is forced to leave her comfortable home...

In February 1990, Oregon State Police arrested John Sosnovske and Laverne Pavlinac for the vicious rape and murder of 23-year-old Taunja Bennett. Pavlinac had come forth and confessed, implicating...

Title: Suplément au Ministère de Mr. Pitt : avec une récapitulation exacte de toutes les démarches de ce sage politique depuis le 5 septembre 1761, qu'il quitta le...

Title: Biography of the signers to the Declaration of independence.<br /><br />Author: John Sanderson<br /><br />Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana <br /><br...

Title: Biography of the signers to the Declaration of independence.<br /><br />Author: John Sanderson<br /><br />Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana <br /><br...

Title: Biography of the signers to the Declaration of independence.<br /><br />Author: John Sanderson<br /><br />Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana <br /><br...

Letters to Michelangelo from Wyoming is a collection of epistolary or letter poems to the Masters of the Italian Renaissance: Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Leonardo DaVinci and others. These letter poems...