Written shortly after World War I by Calvert School's first Head Master, Virgil Hillyer, this history storybook combines charm with facts to stimulate young minds and leave them yearning for more information. This volume of A Child's History of the World contains 79 stories that start at the beginning of time and reach to the present. With many illustrations by Carle Michel Book and M.S. Wright.

    This book reveals the keys to finding God's purpose for your life. Discover how you can: find supernatural wisdom and strength, prepare to enter into your ministry, see God's power miraculously at work, be spiritually productive, have God's approval, know the will of God concerning your life, and find your eternal reward in heaven.

    Dan Breen was to become the best known of them. At first they were condemned on all sides. They became outlaws and My Fight describes graphically what life was like 'on the run, ' with 'an army at one's heels and a thousand pounds on one's head'. A burning belief in their cause sustained them through many a dark and bitter day and slowly support came from the people

    The work has been criticised for its quality and pro-imperial bias, but it has concise essays on Roman colonies and provinces, and some effective portrayals of characters.The "Res Gestae Divi Augusti" is a short account of the great achievements of the emperor Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. This document was circulated throughout the Empire, and was reproduced many times. It is a unique document giving short details of his public offices and honours; his benefactions to the empire, to the people, and to the soldiers; and his services as a soldier and as an administrator. Arguably, it does gloss over his less pleasant acts. The best preserved copy (Latin and Greek) was engraved by the Galatians on the walls of the temple of Augustus at Ancyra (Ankara). This is a Loeb edition. The left page of the text contains the original Latin, the right page, an English translation.