Robert E : 1478 books

Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas's famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans opposed slavery in the West, they did so partly...

Robert E. Shaffer has always been a poet, but it took some time for him to find his true voice. As a young man, he enlisted in the Army and served in Vietnam. He came home discouraged and disillusioned, which is when the words began to truly flow. What followed was a career working with youth, and...

C’est avec ce cycle que Robert E. Howard a pose les bases de la forme moderne de la Fantasy. Barbare et roi, guerrier tourmente, trahi et rejete par les siens, Kull est un personnage complexe, l’une des creations les plus fascinantes de l’auteur qui nous a donne Conan le Cimmerien. Cette edition...

Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history. Robert E. Stillman explores this paradox in relation to Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy, the first Renaissance text to argue for...

The collected stories of Bran Mak Morn by Robert E. Howard, an essential to the library of any fantasy lover! Featuring: Kings of the Night, Worms of the Earth, and The Children of the Night

Conan the Barbarian, also known as Conan the Cimmerian in some stories, is the swashbuckling hero created by master of the sword-and-sorcery genre Robert E. Howard. In the story "Queen of the Black Coast," Conan pairs up with a formidable female warrior, Bêlit, and attacks several villages along the Black Coast of Kush in a series of brutal raids.

Probably no feature of the American political system has been subject to more sustained criticism over the last twenty-five years than the process by which we choose our presidents. In Choosing Our Choices, Robert E. DiClerico and James W. Davis debate the question: should we retain the present, primary...

One of Robert E. Howards boxing tales featuring Steve Costigan. Costigan is entering into a grudge match against another boxer in South Africa 

The revolution of 1905 in the Russian-ruled Kingdom of Poland marked the consolidation of major new influences on the political scene. As he examines the emergence of a mass political culture in Poland, Robert E. Blobaum offers the first history in any Western language of this watershed period. Drawing...

Media Control: News as an Institution of Power and Social Control challenges traditional (and even some radical) perceptions of how the news works. While it's clear that journalists don't operate objectively – reporters don't just cover news, but they make it – Media Control goes a step further...

As a young and impoverished child, author Dr. Robert E. Burke knew his lifes purpose was to become a physician. However, no one could have predicted the tortuous path he would travel in that quest and beyond. In Beyond the Quest to Become a Physician, he provides perspective on his life as he narrates...

After his previous mission fails to go to plan, Lucas Wright finds himself once again being promoted for no reason. Suspecting things are far from on the level, he begins his own private investigation into the group for whom he is working.His findings will lead him to a neighbouring city, where people...

Let us understand good Christian poetry and how it relates to you. 1) Born of biological parents, you are, naturally speaking, a member of the human species. That's nice! You have responsibilities to be the best you can be. 2) You have a human brain that houses an intellect, a human will and human...

Coinciding with the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Baptist movement, this book explores and assesses the cultural sources of Baptist beliefs and practices. Although the movement has been embraced, enriched, and revised by numerous cultural heritages, the Baptist movement has focused...