Model Number: BBR0375506810DLDA
Author: OBREGON, MAURICIO
The story of Jason and the Argonauts and Homer's tales of Ulysses' wanderings are among the greatest of the ancient epics, but they are not merely fiction. Following the clues in the classical texts, Mauricio Obregón here maps the likely routes of these adventurers and reveals the remaining traces of ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1554459400DLDA
Author: Franklin, John
John Franklin, born in 1786. Many naval experiences, including Trafalgar, before heading an expedition across northern Canada in 1819. Elected F.R.S. and knighted after a second expedition. Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land, 1836 to 1843. Last expedition, 1845, was lost, and Franklin died in 1847 ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412107814DLDA
Author: HENTY, G. A.
You may be told perhaps that there is no good to be obtained from tales of fighting and bloodshed, - that there is no moral to be drawn from such histories. Believe it not. War has its lessons as well as Peace. You will learn from tales like this that determination and enthusiasm can accomplish marvels ...more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASE_24629DLDA
Author: Pirntke, Gunter
Die katholischen Gläubigen haben ein neues Oberhaupt. Benedickt XVI. alias Joseph Ratzinger. Wer ist der neue Papst, wer waren seine Vorgänger, was verbirgt sich hinter dem Vatikan, was verstehen wir unter Konklave, Gegenpapst usw. Fragen über Fragen. Ganz aktuell nach der Papstwahl gibt dieses ...more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASE_2164DLDA
Author: Lafargue, Paul
En 1880, Paul Lafargue, le gendre de Marx, publiait ce court texte dénonçant les profondes inégalités sociales de l'époque : Une étrange folie possède les classes ouvrières des nations où règne la civilisation capitaliste...Cette folie est l'amour du travail, la passion moribonde du travail, poussée ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1554490197DLDA
Author: Bossuet, Jacques-Benigne
Quand l'histoire seroit inutile aux autres hommes, il faudroit la faire lire aux princes. Il n'y a pas de meilleur moyen de leur découvrir ce que peuvent les passions et les interests, les temps et les conjonctures, les bons et les mauvais conseils. Les histoires ne sont composées que des actions qui ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412132061DLDA
Author: Williams, Albert Rhys
The horrible and incomprehensible hates and brutalities of the European War! Unspeakable atrocities! Men blood-lusting like a lot of tigers! Horrible they are indeed. But my experiences in the war zone render them no longer incomprehensible. For, while over there, in my own blood I felt the same ...more »
Model Number: BBPTEBBASE_27542DLDA
Author: Burke, Edmund
This ebooks is included in the Ultimate Handheld US History Library CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT OVER 55,000 WORKS! Simply the largest ebook library of American history ever published for your handheld device. For less than $0.01 per work its the most affordable. Vindication of ...more »
Model Number: BBPTEBBASE_27543DLDA
Author: Burke, Edmund
This ebooks is included in the Ultimate Handheld US History Library CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT OVER 55,000 WORKS! Simply the largest ebook library of American history ever published for your handheld device. For less than $0.01 per work its the most affordable. Reflections on ...more »
Model Number: BBAL1412112915DLDA
Author: Jessop, Augustus
King Richard of England, whom men call the Lion-hearted, was wasting his time at Messina, after his boisterous fashion, in the winter of 1190, he heard of the fame of Abbot Joachim, and sent for that renowned personage, that he might hear from his own lips the words of prophecy and their interpretation ...more »
