R J 帕拉秋: 3742 books
by J.R. Hutchinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The press-gang. An unmitigated evil, or the savior of a nation? You decide.
Impressment was nothing new for the Royal Navy. It had been used as early as 1664 as a way of obtaining crews for warships. In many respects, impressment was inevitable. The number of trained sailors was finite, and...
Pirate Tales for Children (9 Books in One Edition)
Treasure Island, Gold-Bug, Peter Pan and Wendy, Captain Singleton, Captain Sharkey, Coral Island, Captain Boldheart, Master Key and Robinson Crusoe
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This unique collection of "Pirate Tales for Children (9 Books in One Edition)" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) Gold-Bug (Edgar Allan Poe) Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) Captain Singleton (Daniel Defoe)...
by Robert Conroy, J. R. Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
New Alternate History from a Master of the Form: Robert Conroy was an unalloyed master of alternate history. Now, J.R. Dunn completes one of his final novels.
LEE STRIKES BACK!
After a terrible setback at Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee does not retreat across the Potomac and his...
The Adventure MEGAPACK ®
25 Classic Adventure Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Hours of great reading await, with adventure tales culled from the pulp magazines of the early 20th century by some of the most renowned pulp authors, including Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian), Harold Lamb, William Hope Hodgson, Dorothy Quick, E. Hoffmann Price, and many more! More...
Maximum Velocity
The Best of the Full-Throttle Space Tales
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The Full-Throttle Space Tales series collected action-packed, high octane, science fiction stories across the full potential of the genre. Here, the original editors have teamed up to pick the very best of Full-Throttle Space Tales, eighteen stories collected here for the first time.
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The NSA Report
Liberty and Security in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
"We cannot discount the risk, in light of the lessons of our own history, that at some point in the future, high-level government officials will decide that this massive database of extraordinarily sensitive private information is there for the plucking. Americans must never make the mistake...
Secession Winter
When the Union Fell Apart
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states from the Union. The essays...
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Contents
THE PROPHETIC PICTURES
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
By Washington Irving
THE GOLD-BUG
By Edgar Allan Poe
CORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER (From "The Oak Openings")
By J. Fenimore Cooper
UNCLE JIM...
The Great War
A World War I Historical Collection
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The Great War offers a gripping narrative, richly illustrated by seldom-seen images. Learn the story of the Great War as only award-winning military historians Robert J. Dalessandro and Erin R. Mahan could tell it. Contents: Our Last Summer—The world stage before August 1914: a political and socio-economic...
Compact, Contract, Covenant
Aboriginal Treaty-Making in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2009
One of Canada's longest unresolved issues is the historical and present-day failure of the country's governments to recognize treaties made between Aboriginal peoples and the Crown. Compact, Contract, Covenant is renowned historian of Native-newcomer relations J.R. Miller's exploration and explanation...
by Alastair Gunn, William Mudford, John Yonge Akerman
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018
Twenty ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the ninth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 9 in the series contains stories published between 1841 and 1899,...
Contract and Consent
Representation and the Jury in Anglo-American Legal History
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
In Contract and Consent, the renowned legal historian J. R. Pole posits that legal history has become highly specialized, while mainstream political and social historians frequently ignore cases that figure prominently in the legal literature. Pole makes a start at remedying the situation with a series...
by Stewart L. Bennett, Andrew S. Bledsoe, John J Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood’s ill-fated 1864 campaign against Union forces in Tennessee. In the first-ever anthology on the subject, The Tennessee Campaign of 1864, edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles...
by J. R. Ackerley
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah’s fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his...