Walsh: 1186 books

Greek pottery was exported around the ancient world in vast quantities over a period of several centuries. This book focuses on the Greek pottery consumed by people in the western Mediterranean and trans-Alpine Europe from 800-300 BCE, attempting to understand the distribution of vases, and particularly...

During the American Revolution the colonial troops endured bitter winter weather with inadequte military provisions, wore tattered clothing and suffered from a scarcity of food. There spirit ws severely challengedThe driving force to overcome those challenges  was their belief in General George Washington....

Lt. Billy Schauffler, pilot, First Aero Squadron, is writing this story. His letters add a fascinating human perspective to historic events. Young men of the era, Billy among them, eagerly joined the Great Adventure in the air over the Western Front. It was not all flying and fighting. He writes of...

An intelligent and spirited history of Charles II's dissolute life and surprising legacy, by two veteran historians. To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anything but private. His amorous liaisons were largely conducted in royal palaces...

What Tennyson thus said of his own first essay in the Idyls of the King, in the introduction to the Morte D'Arthur, occurs as probably the aptest expression of most men's immediate thought with regard to such a subject as The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries. Though Tennyson was confessedly only...

Bilingual texts have been left outside the mainstream of both translation theory and literary history. Yet the tradition of the bilingual writer, moving between different sign systems and audiences to create a text in two languages, is a rich and venerable one, going back at least to the Middle Ages....

Most people did not have a lot in Ireland in the 1950’s but life was good, people were kind to each other, there was very little crime and the streets the children played in were safe. Children were respectful of adults, were told to be `seen and not heard’ and generally were happy with their...

Once again Callie is dragged along on her mom’s latest crusade. They head into ranch country to camp at a protest to save a rural school. Callie hates camping and wants nothing to do with the protest. To make matters worse, Callie’s only possible ally, her cousin Del, is obsessed with her own...

Hannah Arendt is today widely regarded today as a political theorist, who sought to rescue politics from society, and political theory from the social sciences. But this view has had the effect of distracting attention from many of Arendt's most important insights concerning the constitution of society,...

Transfer of African colonies to occupation by global finance was cunningly sold as the inevitability of Black rule. Western and Soviet-backed depots were proxy armies like today’s so-called Syrian ‘rebels’. The fraud was carried out by political elites who, compromised by fiscal and sexual indiscretions,...

No one's off limits for this playboy...except his best friend's little sister. Tessa Maxwell yearns to find the kind of love movies are made about. For four years, she's been struggling as a single mom, but she hasn't given up on the idea of giving her daughter the family she deserves. Or finding...

A gripping, first-hand account of the harrowing decisions and uplifting encounters experienced by the authors in the midst of a humanitarian crisis. Co-author Oliver Johnson received an OBE following his work in Sierra Leone, with both authors being well connected in NGO and global health...