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How in the World?: A Fascinating Journey Through the World of Human Ingenuity

3 reviews
Reader's Digest

Readers Digest, 1990

A Great Book for All Ages!
I first saw this book at a friend's house and really enjoyed looking at it. Even children who are not able to read yet can learn lots of things just by looking at the pictures. It tells about everything from the ball in a ball-point pen, to how people figure out what the speed-limit should be for cars on high-ways, etc. I would encourage anyone who likes to learn about different things to ...

Fury: 1825-1826 (The Great Awakenings Series #4)

4 reviews
Bill Bright, Jack Cavanaugh

Howard Books, 2006

An incredible tale of courage and revival...
Fury starts out with a bang and doesn't let up! Set in 1825-1826, Fury captures the message of repentence and forgiveness through Charles Finney's preaching, when the revival now referred to as "The Great Awakening" shakes upstate New York. The main character, Daniel, is running for his life. As the reader, your pulse will pound with his as he tries to evade a killer hot on his trail. If only he ...

Amadeus

33 reviews
Peter Shaffer

Signet, 1988

Well, then, there it is...
Like a newspaper article, theatre has to convey its story with an economy of words. In this way, great playwriting is a rare skill much like land the penny toss at the carnival and Shaffer is that rare playwriter who accomplishes his task so seemingly effortlessly. Deftly, Shaffer tosses his Amadeus and Saliere together and in so doing plays each against their type rendering his Amadeus ...

Bouguereau

13 reviews
Fronia E. Wissman, Adolphe-William Bouguereau

Pomegranate Communications, 1996

Best (and only) book-length Bouguereau in print
Wissman did a great job providing a fair and balanced view of French painter Bouguereau's career. And it's a good thing too! Everything else related to the artist is either out of print or a flimsy postcard book. How could this be? Well, the unfortunate stereotype of Bougeureau buffs is that they "don't know much about art but know what they like." It may be that many editors assume that if you ...

The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner

5 reviews
John Nicol, Tim Flannery

Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1999

The ordinary life in an extraordinary time
This is the life of an ordinary seaman at the time of the beginning of scientific exploration. John Nicol a seaman on the voyages of discovery and later trade to Australia, the Americas and to Africa. He observed life of the captains, the ordinary men at sea and the people of the lands he visited. He went to sea at an early age was imprisoned, married and lived to 94 and died in England. The ...

Healing for Damaged Emotions

21 reviews
David A Seamands

Victor Books, 1981

Removing the hindrances to normal spiritual growth
As a pastor and spiritual director, I've been using this book as a regular give-away to believers when it becomes obvious that they are stuck - some old wound is yet hindering them from normal spiritual growth in Christ. Having ministered among Native People for several years, as well as those dealing with addictions (even as Christians), I found the truths and principles Dr. Seamands expounds on ...

Guerra Y Paz

31 reviews
Leo Tolstoy, Francisco Jose Alcantara, ...

Planeta Pub Corp, 2003

Una obra incomparable.
Sin duda es una de las mejores novelas que jamás se han escrito. En ella se puede encontrar un relato sobre las guerras napoleónicas y la participación de Rusia en ellas, pero también un retrato de la vida de la alta sociedad rusa de la época. Estas situaciones tan diversas están narradas con una gran viveza. Aprovechando el trasfondo histórico de la novela, Tolstoi nos proporciona también sus ...

The Bourbons of Naples: (1734-1825) (Prion Lost Treasures)

4 reviews
Harold Acton

Trafalgar Square Publishing, 1998

Great book !
Mr. Acton relates almost a century of Neapolitan history (1730 to 1825). A large part of the text is made of original letters written by contemporaries, which makes it very vivid. The book covers life at the court of the Two-Sicilies, from the most trivial incidents of everyday life through to major political events, the discovery of Pompei and Herculanum, artistic life, war against the ...

Morning River: A Novel of the Great Missouri Wilderness in 1825 (Man From Boston)

13 reviews
W. Michael Gear

Forge Books, 2006

WONDERFUL STORY
I absolutely LOVED this book. I was transfixed, spellbound, couldnt put it down and felt like I was living the story as I read it. The characters are incredible and the story was wonderful. I bought the sequal "Coyote Summer" the instant it was available and have since been in correspondence with Mr Gear begging him to write a 3rd sequel. I cant stand not knowing where life took his characters. ...

TYRANNY UNMASKED

5 reviews
JOHN OF CAROLINE TAYLOR

Liberty Fund Inc., 1992

A Jeffersonian Must Read
John Taylor of Caroline's " Tyranny Unmasked" is a brilliant analysis of enonomic and political economy in the early 1820's. Taylor points out the injustice and folly of protective tariffs and their effects. He astutely shows how by " protecting" an industry from competition you effectively raise the price of the product and foster a government- business alliance destructive of liberty. He shows ...

The Civil War Reminiscences of Major Silas T. Grisamore, C.S.A.

2 reviews
Silas

Louisiana State University Press, 1993

This is an extremely important Civil War source book.
Grisamore's memoir is an important source of information on the Western and Trans-Mississippi theaters of the Civil War. Because he was a quartermaster, his story is a unique one because few quartermaster officers left memoirs. The book is full of humor as well as little known episodes of the war. Grisamore was a native of Indiana but felt strongly enough about the Confederate war effort to ...

The Youngest Lady in Waiting.

3 reviews
Mara. Kay

John Day Co, 1971

Mara Kay's Youngest Lady in Waiting
This is a tremendous book. I read this book over and over as a young girl, and my daughter has done the same. When she is out of news books to read, she often picks this one up and reads it again! Actually, this book is the sequel to Masha, which tells the story of the Youngest Lady in Waiting - Masha Fredericks. Masha tells the story of how young Maria Fredericks came to be a students at the ...

Basic History of the United States: The Beginning of the Republic, 1775-1825

2 reviews
Clarence B. Carson

Blackstone Audiobooks, 1993

The best modern history of the U.S. in my opinion
By the late 1970s, conservative historian Clarence B. Carson was known as the author of several volumes on American intellectual, political and economic history, including *The Fateful Turn*, which chronicled America's abandonment of individualism in favour of collectivism in the years 1880-1960 and *The War on the Poor*, an examination of the disastrous effects of government programs to "help ...

Thomas Henry Huxley: The Evolution of a Scientist

3 reviews
Sherrie L. Lyons

Prometheus Books, 1999

Best biography on Thomas Henry Huxley to date
This splendid, relatively terse, tome on the life and career of Thomas Henry Huxley, the celebrated 19th Century English biologist, is a masterpiece of splendid scholarship and prose by its author, Sherrie L. Lyons. Lyons makes a persuasive case showing how Huxley's strict adherence to the scientific method led eventually to the acrimonious feud between him and Richard Owen, the eminent anatomist ...

A Provisional Dictator: James Stephens and the Fenian Movement

3 reviews
Marta Ramon

University College Dublin Press, 2007

First-rate
Required reading for anyone interested in the fascinating history of the Fenian movement. This will be the authoritative Stephens biography for some time to come. It is thorough, precise, enormously detailed, and altogether entertaining at the same time.

Seven Pines: Its occupants and their letters, 1825-1872

3 reviews
Camilla Davis Trammell

Southern Methodist University Press, 1987

Amazingly complete compilation of letters between family.
It covers the early 1800 settlement of Southern Louisiana and Southeast Texas by the O'Bryan, Berwick and allied families. One of the members - Capt James W. O'Bryan was the first mayor of Lake Charles, LA.

John Quincy Adams (American Profiles)

3 reviews
Lynn Hudson Parsons

Madison House Publishers, Inc., 1998

A highly recommended, easy reading bio of the 6th President
Lynn H. Parsons has written a biography that is blessedly free from 'academic speak' or the sense that he is only writing for other historians. This is definitely a biography for even the most casual lover of history. Parsons' familiarity with JQA allows him to introduce us to that prickly character as one would introduce an eccentric friend--always aware of the eccentricities but never ...

Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias

3 reviews
W. Bruce Lincoln

Northern Illinois University Press, 1989

A standard work on Russia's most-ignored Tsar
Nicholas I has always had a bad press in Russia as well as abroad. The Russians considered his regime to be harsh, riddled with contemptuous foreigners, in short 'un-Russian'. This image was created by exiles such as Herzen and Bakunin, and reinforced in communist times. In the West, Nicholas rigorous opposition to political novelties like constitutions and republics did little to improve his ...

Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany To America (Ghi Studies in German History)

2 reviews

Berghahn Books, 2005

Enigmatic Adolf Cluss
The only person to be personal friends with both Ulysses S. Grant and Karl Marx, the enigmatic architect Adolph Cluss lived in two worlds: the Germany of his youth, which he left after the failure of the 1848 revolutions, and the young American republic, where he came to organize workers and stayed to rebuild its capital city. Scholarly yet accessible, this eloquently illustrated volume ...

Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician (S ...

3 reviews
John Patrick Deveney

State University of New York Press, 1996

The Ansairetic Mystery, or a New Revelation Concerning SEX!
Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825-1875)was one of the first well-known Afro-American Novelists (if not THE FIRST), of whom Frederick Douglas was an admirer, and one of the most famous as well as sincere mediums of the Spiritualist movement, famous for his speeches of whom President Johnson was a fan, and a KEY figure in bridging the gap between that nec-romantic movement flowering dangerously into ...

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