Whittaker Chambers had just participated in America's trial of the century in which Chambers claimed that Alger Hiss, a full-standing member of the political establishment, was a spy for the Soviet Union. This poetic autobiography recounts the famous case, but also reveals much more. Chambers' worldview--e.g. "man without mysticism is a monster"--went on to help make political conservatism a national force.

    Lincoln's Army/Glory Road/A Stillness at Appomattox

    This fictional re-creation of the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 fulfills the standard set by his monumental history, conveying both the bloody choreography of two armies and the movements of the combatants' hearts and minds.

    Submarines are thrilling beasts, and Edward Young tells of four years' adventures in them in a good stout book with excitement on every page. He writes beautifully, economically and with humour, and in the actions he commands he manages to put the reader at the voice-pipe and the periscope so that sometimes the tension is so great that one has to put the book down'. The Sunday Times.

    Here in an abridged edition.

    He joined the Luftwaffe at the outbreak of the war, rose to the rank of commanding officer, and received the Knight’s Cross. Knoke’s account crackles with vivid accounts of air battles; and captures his utter desolation at Germany’s defeat.

    Evaluates Lincoln's ability as a director of war and his influence on the development of a modern command system.From the Trade Paperback edition.

    A. Rogers the Author of Nature Knows No Colour Line has engaged continuously in research on the Afrikan Race since 1915. Published himself his first book From Superman in 1917 after it was refused by establish Publishers He has since published 7 others good books about Afrikan People and their contribution to world civilization J.A. Rogers has left us a rich legacy Nature Knows No Colour Line is one of the legacies.

    government bank; it IS NOT controlled by Congress; it IS a privately owned Central Bank controlled by the elite financiers in their own interest. The Federal Reserve elite controls excessive interest rates, inflation, the printing of paper money, and have taken control of the depression of prosperity in the United States.

    The pattern of post-war Europe, he maintains, was determined during the fighting; he sees the shaping of events through a study of wartime diplomacy and strategy and the impact on wartime policies of the personalities of the statesmen and generals with whom the decisions lay.

    It covers the first 26 years of his life and ends with his joining the Communist Party in 1931, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his birth in shaping his destiny.In the years before 1931, Arthur Koestler lived a tumultuous and varied existence. He was a member of the duelling fraternity at the University if Vienna; a collective farm worker in Galilee; a tramp and street vendor in Haifa; the editor of a weekly paper in Cairo; the foreign correspondent of the biggest continental newspaper chain in Paris and the Middle East; a science editor in Berlin; and a member of the North Pole expedition of the Graf Zeppelin.Written with enormous zest, joie de vivre and frankness, Arrow in the Blue is a fascinating self-portrait of a remarkable young man at the heart of the events that shaped the twentieth century.The second volume of Arthur Koestler's autobiography is The Invisible Writing.

    It was to this impregnable fortress that the Germans sent all those prisoners who persisted in escaping from other camps, such as Stalag Luft III (of THE GREAT ESCAPE FAME). Once within the walls of Colditz, the Germans reasoned, escape was impossible. And yet during the four-year period when the castle was used as a prison over 300 men escaped, 31 of whom managed to complete the hazardous journey home through Germany. Prisoners from 10 different countries formed a truly international escape academy. Skeleton keys were made, German passes forged, maps drafted, and all manner of tools and machinery constructed out of whatever the prisoners had to hand. The ingenuity of the escape artists knew no bounds: they tried everything from tunnelling, to hiding in rubbish sacks, disguising themselves as German officers, and leaping acrobatically from the castle walls.

    Compressed within the Draconian economy of the six Walgreen lectures is a complete theory of man, society, and history, presented at the most profound and intellectual level. . . . Voegelin's [work] stands out in bold relief from much of what has passed under the name of political science in recent decades. . . . The New Science is aptly titled, for Voegelin makes clear at the outset that a 'return to the specific content' of premodern political theory is out of the question. . . . The subtitle of the book, An Introduction, clearly indicates that The New Science of Politics is an invitation to join the search for the recovery of our full humanity."—From the new Foreword by Dante Germino "This book must be considered one of the most enlightening essays on the character of European politics that has appeared in half a century. . . . This is a book powerful and vivid enough to make agreement or disagreement with even its main thesis relatively unimportant."—Times Literary Supplement "Voegelin . . . is one of the most distinguished interpreters to Americans of the non-liberal streams of European thought. . . . He brings a remarkable breadth of knowledge, and a historical imagination that ranges frequently into brilliant insights and generalizations."—Francis G. Wilson, American Political Science Review "This book is beautifully constructed . . . his erudition constantly brings a startling illumination."—Martin Wright, International Affairs "A ledestar to thinking men who seek a restoration of political science on the classic and Christian basis . . . a significant accomplishment in the retheorization of our age."—Anthony Harrigan, Christian Century

    Recommended in Laura Berquist Second Grade Syllabus Author: Edgar D Aulaire Grade: 1-6 Pages: 42, Paperback Publisher: Beautiful Feet Books ISBN: 0-9643803-7-4

    Their target was the Stone of Destiny, the throne of Scottish Kings for centuries and taken by Edward Longshanks to be used in English monarchs' coronations in 1296. Now, over 650 years later, Hamilton and the others planned to take it home to Scotland.Heralded as national heroes by some, vandals and criminals by others, the 'theft' sparked a nationwide police hunt that lasted months and caused uproar amongst the highest levels of the English establishment.Over 50 years later, Hamilton's story of what happened that night is as gripping as any thriller.

    Yeo-Thomas, aka “The White Rabbit,” parachuted into France to aid the Resistance; two years later the Gestapo seized him and unleashed all their power to make him give up information…  Chilling and unforgettable.

    The story of his triumphs, tragedies, successes & failures.

    volume I of Mao

    In this treatise, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn argues that it reduced to one simple and very dangerous idea: equality of political power as embodied in democracy. He marshals the strongest possible case that democratic equality is the very basis not of liberty, as is commonly believed, but the total state.He uses national socialism as his prime example. He further argues the old notion of government by law is upheld in old monarchies, restrained by a noble elite. Aristocracy, not democracy, gave us liberty. On his side in this argument, he includes the whole of the old liberal tradition, and offers overwhelming evidence for his case. In our times, war and totalitarianism do indeed sail under the democratic flag. This book, capable of overturning most of what you thought you knew about political systems, was first published in 1952.

    Her life was one of peace and happiness in which she and her husband served faithfully their people. When World War I comes, her quiet world is shattered and, following the Treaty of Versailles, nothing is the same for her or for her beloved country as economic and political upheavals threaten and destroy the customs of ages.

    And Wash had seen Lizzie only two or three times- never for than a moment or so at that. But Wash needed a wife to fit into the plan he had; and as for Lizzie, she wouldn't have hurt his feelings for the world.So they married and set out on a long and dangerous winter journey by covered wagon from Pennsylvania down the Valley of Virginia, to establish a home, a farm and a family in the wilderness of Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains.Give Us This Valley is the story of the young couple's adventures, of their quarrel with Rafe Williams who had joined up with them for Georgia, of the terrible storm which almost crippled Wash and of the amazing Yancey family who settled the feud between the Stonecypher and the Williams kin. But most of all it is the tender and entrancing story of how Lizzie came to know and love 'Mr. Stonecypher', as she always called him, and of how at last she made him aware of the depth of her feelings for him.This is a warm, uniquely American novel which owes its quality to the old virtue of storytelling. It is rich in the authentic details of early pioneer life, a novel whose characters glow with the true light of human nature. It is a story to read and remember.

    Originally published in France in 1952, during the years of Prince Youssoupoff's exile from Russia, Lost Splendor has all the excitement of a thriller. Born to great riches, lord of vast feudal estates and many palaces, Felix Youssoupoff led the life of a grand seigneur in the days before the Russian Revolution. Married to the niece of Czar Nicholas II, he could observe at close range the rampant corruption and intrigues of the imperial court, which culminated in the rise to power of the sinister monk Rasputin. Finally, impelled by patriotism and his love for the Romanoff dynasty, which he felt was in danger of destroying itself and Russia, he killed Rasputin in 1916 with the help of the Grand Duke Dimitri and others. More than any other single event, this deed helped to bring about the cataclysmic upheaval that ended in the advent of the Soviet regime.~The author describes the luxury and glamour of his upbringing, fantastic episodes at nightclubs and with the gypsies in St. Petersburg, grand tours of Europe, dabbling in spiritualism and occultism, and an occasional conscience-stricken attempt to alleviate the lot of the poor.~Prince Youssoupoff was an aristocrat of character. When the moment for action came, when the monk's evil influence over the czar and czarina became unbearable, he and his friends decided that they must get rid of the monster. He tells how Rasputin courted him and tried to hypnotize him, and how finally they decoyed him to the basement of the prince's palace. Prince Youssoupoff...is perfectly objective, remarkably modern and as accurate as human fallibility allows. His book is therefore readable, of historical value and intimately tragic. It is as if Count Fersen had written a detailed account of the last years of Marie Antoinette. --Harold Nicholson, on the first English edition, 1955 By Prince Felix Youssoupoff. Hardcover, 5.25 x 8.25 in./300 pgs / 0 color 14 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20143

    Compelling narrative of Norman Bethune, revolutionary doctor in Mao's China.

    

    Starting with the 1848 rebellion and ending with the 1881 assassination of Alexander II, it examines Russia's internal and external problems, the ideals and beliefs of her subjects, and, most importantly, the conspiracies and struggles through which populism expressed itself. With a revised author's introduction. "The most thorough survey of the Russian revolutionary movement before 1881...penetrating and readable, with an admirable balance between biography, theory and action."--TLS."...profound and wide-ranging..."--C.V. Wedgwood.

    Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr’s masterpiece on the incongruity between personal ideals and political reality is both an indictment of American moral complacency and a warning against the arrogance of virtue. Impassioned, eloquent, and deeply perceptive, Niebuhr’s wisdom will cause readers to rethink their assumptions about right and wrong, war and peace. “[Niebuhr] is one of my favorite philosophers. I take away [from his works] the compelling idea that there’s serious evil in the world, and hardship and pain. And we should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those things. But we shouldn’t use that as an excuse for cynicism and inaction. I take away . . . the sense we have to make these efforts knowing they are hard.”—President Barack Obama  “The supreme American theologian of the twentieth century.”—Arthur Schlesinger Jr., New York Times“Niebuhr is important for the left today precisely because he warned about America’s tendency—including the left’s tendency—to do bad things in the name of idealism. His thought offers a much better understanding of where the Bush administration went wrong in Iraq.”—Kevin Mattson, The Good Society “Irony provides the master key to understanding the myths and delusions that underpin American statecraft. . . . The most important book ever written on USforeign policy.”—Andrew J. Bacevich, from the Introduction

    In 1952 the book was published by Princeton University Press in an English translation by the distinguished scholar of Chinese history, Derk Bodde, the dedicated translator of Fung Yu-lan's huge history of Chinese philosophy (New York Times Book Review). Available for the first time in paperback, it remains the most complete work on the subject in any language.Volume I covers the period of the philosophers, from the beginnings to around 100 B.C., a philosophical period as remarkable as that of ancient Greece. Volume II discusses a period lesser known in the West--the period of classical learning, from the second century B.C. to the twentieth century.

    Contents:The History of HerodotusThe History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

    

    a dark (and most likely not appreciated) nickname that came about in the 1920's after being the scene of a bloody massacre, brutal battles with the Klan, and a fantastic Prohibition war between battling bootleggers. Regardless of how you look at it, the moniker of "Bloody" is something that Williamson County has earned!

    German doctor on the Russian front in WWII

    These two currents have existed side by side ever since the eighteenth century. The tension between them has constituted an important chapter in modern history, and has now become the most vital issue of our time.It would of course be an exaggeration to suggest that the whole of the period can be summed up in terms of this conflict. Nevertheless it was always present, although usually confused and obscured by other issues, which may have seemed clearer to contemporaries, but viewed from the standpoint of the present day seem incidental and even trivial. Indeed, from the vantage point of the mid-twentieth century the history of the last hundred and fifty years looks like a systematic preparation for the headlong collision between empirical and liberal democracy on the one hand, and totalitarian Messianic democracy on the other, in which the world crisis of to-day consists.

    

    BEAUTIFUL colorful pictures throughout, includes the miracle of the sea, face of the land, canopy of air, creatures of the sea, the age of mammals, the coral reef, the arctic barrens, the rain forest, the woods of home, the starry universe, the face of the land, the pageant of life, lovely, pages and pages of fold out pictures.

    During the first decades of its existence, the Staff was led by idealists with constructive political conceptions. The emergence later of anonymous technicians, whose political convictions were either nonexistent or based on ambition, only aggravated a militaristic national temperament. Hitler's hostility caused many Staff members to be torn between their ethical responsibilities & the traditional military obedience dictated by their oath of office. In the end, Hitler succeeded in destroying the German General Staff, perhaps because it had become composed of so many different political and intellectual strains. Based on research & interviews with military staff who survived WWII.

    Here are graphic portrayals of the fortifications, the terrain over which battles were fought, the part that Native Americans played, the technology of gunnery and the hundreds of details that go to make up the broad scope of this epochal struggle that created the United States of America.

    Karl Ker�nyi's careful rendering of the many aspects of her mythos demonstrates a profound understanding of feminine intelligence both in its fierceness and it darker animal nature - especially apparent in the symbolism of owl, goat, horse, and Gorgon. The archetypal image of Athene provides a mythological background of communal and political consciousness, individuality, and the power of mind.

    The work is divided into three broad divisions of the natural course of cultural development in Ancient India: (1) From the prehistoric age to 600 B.C., (2) From 600 B.C. to 300 A.D., (3) From 300 A.D. to 1200 A.D.The work describes the political, economic, religious and cultural conditions of the country, the expansionist activities, the colonisation schemes of her rulers in the Far East. Political theories and administrative organizations are also discussed but more stress has been laid on the religious, literary and cultural aspects of Ancient India.Among the more important additions may be mentioned the chapters on the prehistoric age, including the Indus Valley Civilization, more detailed account of the ancient republican clans and the various medieval local dynasties, specially those of the south and the development of art and colonisation. Important changes, though much less extensive, have been made in chapters dealing with political theory and administrative system, as well as social and economic condition and an entirely new section on coins has been added. Considerable other modifications and rearrangements, involving re-grouping of chapters, have been made and more copious footnotes and fuller bibliography have been added for the guidance of advanced students.The book is of a more advanced type. It would meet the needs not only of general readers but also of earnest students who require a thorough grasp of the essential facts and features before taking up specialized study in any branch of the subject. It would also fulfil requirements of the candidates for competitive examinations in which Ancient Indian History and culture is a prescribed subject.

    

    

    Excellent history based on the author's The Delaware Continentals, 1776-1783.

    

    With passion and verve, Joseph Kinsey Howard, author of the best-selling Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome, narrates the tragic story of Riel, the Metis people, and their struggle for a homeland on the plains of the U.S.-Canada border.

    Creative Southerners substituted sawdust for soap, pigs' tails and ears for Christmas tree ornaments, leaves for mattress stuffing, okra seeds for coffee beans, and gourds for cups. Women made clothing from scraps of material, blankets from carpets, shoes from leather saddles and furniture, and battle flags from wedding dresses.Despite the Confederates' penchant for "making do" and "doing without," Massey's research reveals the devastating impact of war's shortages on the South's civilian population. Overly optimistic that they could easily transform a rural economy into a self-sufficient manufacturing power, Southerners suffered from both disappointment and hardship as it became clear that their expectations were unrealistic. Ersatz in the Confederacy's lasting significance lies in Masseys clearly documented conclusion that despite the resourcefulness of the Southern people, the Confederate cause was lost not at Gettysburg nor in any other military engagement but much earlier and more decisively in the homefront battle against scarcity and deprivation.

    

    

    The twenty chapters cover such topics as: algebra, number theory, logic, probability, infinite sets and the foundations of mathematics, rings, matrices, transformations, groups, geometry, and topology. Mathematics was republished in 1987 with corrections and an added foreword by Martin Gardner.

    Study of how FDR helped cause WWII.

    He presents advances in navigation in chronological order, revealing humanity's progress in travelling the seas.

    IntroductionTo Wait Upon the LordThe Light within as ExperiencedThe Light within as Thought AboutThe Meeting for WorshipVocal MinistryReaching DecisionsThe Meeting CommunityThe Meeting & the WorldThe Four Periods of Quaker HistoryQuaker Thought & the PresentAppendix: The Philadelphia Queries of 1946NotesIndex

    Dupree October 15, 2008Probably few appreciators of French culture younger than 50 will be familiar with this book, but it deserves their notice as a beautiful compendium of knowledge, culinary and otherwise, about the country -- much of it first-hand. Chamberlain was in turn well loved by Frenchmen who knew him (among the latter, doubtless many chefs). The book is a culinary travelogue, a generous and representative exploration of French food and wine by region, from the ground up to its delectation. Along the way, one is effortlessly acquainted with some pertinent pieces of history, history relevant to whatever is at hand.Chamberlain was both jovial and staid, serious and light-hearted, practical and idealistic. Rather a universal man. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre for service to France as an ambulance driver during WW1 , lived in France during most of the intervening years before WW2, and was awarded the Legion d'honneur for his service in that war. His association with Gourmet Magazine was long and fruitful, leading eventually to the first edition of Boquet de France in 1952. Samuel Chamberlain's numerous drawings, etchings, and photographs illustrating the book (340 indexed in the 1966 edition (which has a somewhat different selection of photos, a third more recipes, and a general updating)) have an architectural solidity combined with a dreamy sensibility that reflects , I think, the French aesthetic of physical beauty and well represents the beauty of the French landscape. Doubtless, some of the scenes are with us now only as history and do not exist outside the pages of the book.This handsomly printed and bound hardcover is suited to its large 7"X10" format. The "66 edition is 670 pages.(I recommend one buy the "52 edition as well, for the different photos). Finally, the picture that Amazon uses to advertise the book is a picture of the title page, not of the cover or spine, both of which make a better invitation to the delights one finds inside. Other Reference Data: Hardcover: 1825 pages (three Volume Set)Publisher: Gourmet Distribution Corp.; First American Edition edition (1952)Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.1 x 1.7 inchesASIN: B000OLDO3U (Probably the 3-book set)ASIN: B000OJKWBE ??First Edition: ASIN: B001L4DCJAFirst Edition ISBN:ISBN-10: 0241900735ISBN-13: 978-0241900734

    Book 1: table of contents of the others and of authorities; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: geography and ethnography of the known world; 7: anthropology and the physiology of man; 8-11: zoology; 12-19: botany, agriculture, and horticulture; 20-27: plant products as used in medicine; 28-32: medical zoology; 33-37: minerals (and medicine), the fine arts, and gemstones.The Loeb Classical Library edition of Natural History is in ten volumes.

    80-20 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called "Library of History, " in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BCE); history to 54 BCE. Of this we have complete Books I-V (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books XI-XX (Greek history 480-302 BCE); and fragments of the rest. He was an uncritical compiler, but used good sources and reproduced them faithfully. He is valuable for details unrecorded elsewhere, and as evidence for works now lost, especially writings of Ephorus, Apollodorus, Agatharchides, Philistus, and Timaeus.The Loeb Classical Library edition of Diodorus Siculus is in twelve volumes.

    

    

    

    

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    Fred Bradna recalls his 40 years with the greatest show on Earth.

    He analyzes the spirit and contribution of the Byzantine Empire, Israel, Greece, and Rome; Western Christendom, including the Age of the Enlightenment; 'Holy Russia,' Byzantine and Marxist; and the mysticism of India and the humanism of China. In his final chapter he presents a challenge and a credo for the present. Professor Muller is in the Department of English, Indiana University.

    A biography of the Marquis de Sade, the French aristocrat & writer who "Sadism" is named after.

    

    

    

    Townsend from writing this biography saying that as a friend he was apt to be prejudiced in his favor. As was probably noted by Professor Frank Tannenbaum in his foreword to this book, he states that "it is difficult for anyone who has known General Cardenas to write about him dispassionately."General Cardenas is represented as a man of honor, nobility,, integrity, tact, idealism, moderation, modesty, sincerity, liberalism, tolerance, vision-and countless other virtues. As page after page was read, and as the number of the virtues mounted, one might search for some confession of shortcoming, some fall from virtuous grace. On the very few occasions when the fact of error was conceded, this was defended by the author as an extenuating circumstance. For example, when President Cardenas, who stood for honest elections and noninterference by the Executive (sic), winked at the fraudulent counting of the votes after the Almazan-Camacho election, it was because Almazan's threat to revolt had caused the President "to lose concern about the counting of the votes."William Cameron Townsend, who has spent most of his adult life among Indian tribes of Mexico and Guatemala, first became acquainted with Lazaro Cardenas in 1935 when the President of Mexico discovered Mr. and Mrs. Townsend living in an Indian village in Morelos teaching the Indians to read in their native Aztec language. A long and intimate friendship developed, affording Mr. Townsend an excellent opportunity to become well acquainted with Lazaro Cardenas, the man. The particular value of this book, therefore, is to be found in the warm, sympathetic character delineation of General Cardenas rather than in the sketchy, disjointed, and thoroughly inadequate chapters on the Cardenas administration. For a more penetrating, comprehensive, and orderly view of the problems and achievements of the Cardenas administration we must still rely on the Weyls' Reconquest of Mexico.

    A biography of the Yugoslavian leader by a colleague from pre-WW2 days, telling his story from his early life, his captivity in Russia, organisation of Communist cells in Yugoslavia, the epic story of the Partisan War 1941-45 and his break with Stalin.

    Winston Adventure Series

    

    Three months later, he came back to civilization alone, guarding the terrible secret of what he had done there. To this day, no one knows what really happened on that fateful expedition except Packer himself. This book contains first hand accounts and legal proceedings regarding of those involved. The book has numerous pictures of Packer himself, the "crime scene" and court documents.

    A sober fifteen-year-old French youth joins an unlikely party of voyageurs bound for the Mississippi boundary of Illinois, to search for a new home for his family and to prove himself to his father.

    This book tells how the authorities in the Boston Archdiocese and the Society of Jesus ("Loyolas") teamed up with the Boston Yankee Masons ("Cabots") to silence a priest whose "embarrassing" insistence on Catholic doctrine disturbed their liberal agenda. An inspiring story, well told.

    Biography of a pecunious, eccentric, and cruel woman who lived in turn-of-the-century Whitesboro, New York, written by the great-niece who suffered under her roof.

    Eric Goldman tells a story of the wise and the shortsighted, the bold and the timid, the generous and the grasping men and women who are the stuff of American reform. He begins in the years after the Civil War, when our tradition of dissent was fueled by industrialization and urbanization. He deals not with theories, alien or native, but with the lives of the dissenters, Populist and Progressive, with their political organizations and schemes, their popular support, the newspapers and newspapermen who controlled them or followed them, the several dramatic flood tides of reform, and the subsequent ebbing. Mr. Goldman has the gift of personal portraiture; by returning directly to men and events, he shows that reform groups have often been patched-up alliances of planners and libertarians, centralizers and decentralizers. The tradition of freedom and the tradition of welfare-both passing as liberal-haphazardly merged in the New Deal, where only Franklin Roosevelt's political skill held them together. They began to revert to their natural opposition during the administration of Harry Truman."One of the most learned, one of the most enlightening, and one of the best-written historical works in a long time."-New York Times. "A continuous narrative....The author stops the action occasionally to insert significant and brilliant sketches of the leading actors...and illuminates his story with anecdotes. He has wit and erudition."-New Yorker.

    Velikovsky had put forward his ideas briefly in Theses for the Reconstruction of Ancient History in 1945, but Ages in Chaos was his first full-length work on the subject.A second volume was due for publication shortly after this but was postponed. Instead it was followed eight years later by Oedipus and Akhnaton. In the last two years of his life Velikovsky published a further two works on ancient history: Peoples of the Sea and Rameses II and His Time. At the time of his death he considered that completing his reconstruction of ancient history would require a further two volumes: The Assyrian Conquest and The Dark Age of Greece; these were never published in English, but the manuscripts have long been available online at the Velikovsky archive. [1]Velikovsky claimed in Ages in Chaos that the histories of Ancient Egypt and Ancient Israel are five centuries out of step. His starting point was that the Exodus took place not, as orthodoxy has it, at some point during the Egyptian New Kingdom, but at the fall of the Middle Kingdom. Velikovsky made heavy use in this and later works on ancient history of the concept of "ghost doubles": historical figures who were known by different names in two different sources (e.g. Egyptian and Greek) and were conventionally considered to be entirely different people living in different centuries, but who he proposed to be actually erroneously dated accounts of the same individuals and events.Velikovsky's work has been harshly criticised, including by fellow chronological revisionists such as Peter James. In 1984 fringe science expert Henry H. Bauer wrote Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy, which Time described as "the definitive treatise debunking Immanuel Velikovsky".

    He sought out the hot spots of racial tension--including Columbia, Tennessee, the scene of a 1946 race riot, and Birmingham, Alabama, which he found to be a brutally racist city--and returned to the setting of his more personal trials: McMinnville, Tennessee, his boyhood home. In this "balance sheet of American race relations," Rowan plots the racial mood of the South and describes simply but vividly the discrimination he encountered daily at hotels, restaurants, and railroad stations, on trains and on buses.Originally published in 1952 and long out of print, South of Freedom is a first-rate account of what it was like to live as a second-class citizen, to experience the segregation, humiliation, danger, stereotypes, economic exploitation, and taboos that were all part of life for African Americans in the 1940s and 1950s. For this edition, Douglas Brinkley provides a new introduction, incorporating recent interviews with Rowan to place the work in the context of its time.An engaging, disturbing look at the opinions of the time on the "Negro problem," Rowan's tales of travel in the South under Jim Crow are especially valuable today as a means of seeing how far we have advanced--and fallen short--in forty-five years.

    

    

    The Monongahela Richard Bissell describes his experiences as a pilot on the Coal Queen with historical facts and anecdotes about the boats and men who made the Monongahela River in West Virginia into one of America’s greatest workhorses.

    It is a controversial work written around 450 against the Semi-Pelagians, probably at Rome.

    Michael Calvert, a devoted disciple of General Orde Wingate, accompanied Wingate on the first controversial expedition behind the Japanese lines in Burma.

    Created by Albert Kanter, the series began publication in 1941 and finished its first run in 1971, producing 169 issues. Following the series' demise, various companies reprinted its titles.The first five titles were published irregularly under the banner "Classic Comics Presents" while issues six and seven were published under the banner "Classic Comics Library" with a ten-cent cover price. Arabian Nights (issue 8), illustrated by Lillian Chestney, is the first issue to use the "Classics Comics" banner.With the fourth issue, The Last of the Mohicans, in 1942, Kanter moved the operation to different offices and the corporate identity was changed to the Gilberton Company, Inc.. Reprints of previous titles began in 1943. Wartime paper shortages forced Kanter to reduce the 64-page format to 56 pages.

    . . [his] book is magnificent." — Ashley Montagu, Saturday ReviewAlthough science did not begin in ancient Greece (millennia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and other regions preceded Greek efforts) it is nevertheless true that methodic, rational investigation of the natural universe originated largely with early Hellenic thinkers. Thus, the major part of this book is of necessity devoted to Greece. Drawing wherever possible on original sources, Dr. Sarton, one of the world's foremost historians of science, paints a vivid and illuminating picture of mathematics, astronomy, physics, biology, medicine, and other sciences as they emerged from the mists of prehistory and ultimately flourished within the context of Greek society.The book is divided into three parts. Part One begins with the earliest evidence of prehistoric mathematics, astronomy, and other science. Dr. Sarton then describes the achievements of Egypt and Mesopotamia, the dawn of Greek culture and the remarkable flowering of Ionian science in the sixth century B.C. Thales of Miletos, Anaximandrox, and Xenophanes are among the important figures discussed. An entire chapter focuses on the influential doctrines of Pythagoras.Part Two opens with the glory of Athens in the fifth century B.C. and its magnificent achievements in poetry and the arts, philosophy, and science. Described in lucid detail are groundbreaking contributions of Heracleitos, Anaxagoras, Protagoras, Zenon of Elea, Parmenides, Democritos, and many others. Also included in this section are perceptive discussions of geographers and historians of the fifth century (Herodotos, Thucydides, and others) and Greek medicine of the fifth century (chiefly Hippocratic). Part Three focuses on the extraordinary Greek thinkers of the fourth century B.C.: Plato and the Academy, Aristotle, Xenophon and many others, including such important schools of thought as the cynics, stoics, skeptics, and epicureans. Major attention is given to mathematics, astronomy and physics, natural sciences and medicine, Aristotelian humanities, and historiography and other topics. "Of great value to the general historian and an exciting, arresting story for the lay reader. — The Yale Review

    

    

    The amazing adventures of Sandamara - the black-tracker who turned outlaw and tried to drive the white man out of the Kimberleys.

    The 1984 edition has an introduction by David Pocock (of Mass Observation) which covers meal-times from 1953 to the early 1980s.

    Mrs Chadwick discusses the universal reverence accorded to poets, musicians, seers, or prophets, the training they underwent, the methods of ecstasy, and the remarkable similarities of their messages in remote and different parts of the world.

    

    

    It takes notice of the fact that concertos, overtures, ballets, and suits- often overlooked or minimized in other books on symphonic music- are also parts of the literature.