Model Number: BBAL1412147859DLDA
Author: Raisin, Jacob S.
To the lover of mankind the history of the Russo-Jewish renaissance is an encouraging and inspiring phenomenon. Seldom has a people made such rapid strides forward as the Russian Jews. From the melancholy regularity that marked their existence a little more than two generations ago, from the darkness ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412147697DLDA
Author: Abbott, John S.C.
The studies of the author of this work, for the last ten years, in writing the History of Napoleon Bonaparte, and The French Revolution of 1789, have necessarily made him quite familiar with the monarchies of Europe. He has met with so much that was strange and romantic in their career, that he has been ...more »
Model Number: BBPTEBBASE_6039DLDA
Author: Hamilton, Alexander
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, was originally published anonymously in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated, and open to often controversial interpretations ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412119545DLDA
Author: Lowell, Edward J.
There are two ways in which the French Revolution may be considered. We may look at the great events which astonished and horrified Europe and America: the storming of the Bastille, the march on Versailles, the massacres of September, the Terror, and the restoration of order by Napoleon. The study of ...more »
Model Number: BBAL141211957XDLDA
Author: Lowe, Samuel
King Arthur, who held sway in Camelot with his Knights of the Round Table, was supposedly a king of Britain hundreds of years ago. Most of the stories about him are probably not historically true, but there was perhaps a real king named Arthur, or with a name very much like Arthur, who ruled somewhere ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412102367DLDA
Author: Farrand, Max
The United States of America! It was in the Declaration of Independence that this name was first and formally proclaimed to the world, and to maintain its verity the war of the Revolution was fought. Americans like to think that they were then assuming among the Powers of the Earth the equal and independent ...more »
Model Number: BBAL141214809XDLDA
Author: Lang, Andrew
If we could see in a magic mirror the country now called Scotland as it was when the Romans under Agricola (81 A.D.) crossed the Border, we should recognise little but the familiar hills and mountains. The rivers, in the plains, overflowed their present banks; dense forests of oak and pine, haunted by ...more »
Model Number: BBAL3980885208DLDA
Author: Hengy, Symone
Eine einzige Kerze auf jedem Grab, in dem das Opfer eines ungesühnten Verbrechens liegt, und der Friedhof wäre nachts taghell erleuchtet... Eindringlich hallen diese Worte, die Vater vor vielen Jahren ausgesprochen hatte, in Ruth wieder. Weiß sie doch, dass unter diesen Voraussetzungen auch das Grab ...more »
Model Number: BBAL3980885224DLDA
Author: Hengy, Symone
Eine DDR-Geschichte aus der Wendezeit 1989/90, in der eine private Beziehungskrise mit den politischen und gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen dieser beiden Jahre verwoben ist. Erinnert an den momentanen Bestseller von Jana Hensel und auch an den Erfolg vom Film Good bye, Lenin. more »
