First published in 1954, this is a true story of love and adventure which traces the history of Dawson City through the eyes of a young schoolteacher from Canada and the penniless Yukon miner she married.
Eva March Tappan's "e;A Friend in the Library"e; series is a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
En Archivo, testimonio y huella: aproximaciones interdisciplinares a Colonia Dignidad convergen autoras/es de Chile y Alemania de vasta trayectoria en la investigación desde la filosofía, la ética, la historia, la pedagogía, la psicología, las ciencias forenses, políticas y jurídicas, convocados para analizar la multidimensionalidad del horror.
First published in 1951, this book is a recollection of the memories of the pioneer days in Horse Heaven Hills, gleaned from letter correspondence between the author and early settlers.
This book is a history of controversies that have surrounded the growth of the United States Army, controversies that have flared over the inextricably related questions of how to attain maximum military security for the United States and how to form an army that will be appropriate to and not subversive of American democratic society.
Originally published in 1947, this book by New Orleans native Harnett Kane provides over 300 pages of detailed history of the Natchez area in Mississippi.
The myth of the Trickster-ambiguous creator and destroyer, cheater and cheated, subhuman and superhuman-is one of the earliest and most universal expressions of mankind.
Navigate through the sacred, the impossible, and the unexpected in these hard-won reflections on parenting with humility, connection, resilience and joy.
Originally published in 1936, this classic collection of Canadian yarns harkens to a simpler time, a time when we were closer to the natural world around us.
"e;The original purpose of this monograph was to tell the European half of the story of William Penn's relations with the Dutch Quakers who emigrated to Pennsylvania.
'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, the life of conflict and battle; and, fifthly, the life of victory, if not complete, at least assured.
La frontera internacional surgida en el suroeste de la actual Bolivia y en el noroeste de la actual Argentina a partir de las guerras de independencia separó en dos un área que hasta entonces había estado integrada en lo social, económico e histórico.
Based on the only interviews ever carried out with the two main conspirators of the 11th September attacks, MASTERMINDS OF TERROR is the incredible account of how Ramzi Binalshibh and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed plotted the assaults on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Capitol Hill in 2001.
Los movimientos independentistas que, a lo largo del siglo XIX, pusieron fin al dominio ibérico en América constituyen una épica apasionante y llena de claroscuros.
Considered to be one of the definitive biographies on John Humphrey Noyes, an American preacher, radical religious philosopher, and utopian socialist who founded the Putney, Oneida, and Wallingford Communities and is credited for having coined the term "e;free love"e;.
Until the publication of this first volume in 1941, Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), the 12th President of the United States, was strangely overlooked by modern-day biographers.
Dale Van Every's soaring adventure saga of the untamed Kentucky wilderness, a savage woman and the young frontiersman who set out to conquer them both.
Respuestas a la oración es el testimonio público de George Müller sobre el poder de la oración, la espiritualidad y una fuerte relación personal con Dios.
Hopefully MEMORIES of One-Room Schools will be enjoyed by anyone that ever attended these schools, knows of anyone that did or is interested in history.
En el marco de los debates sobre memoria y materialidad en la era digital, esta investigación se pregunta por los futuros posibles del arte de los medios, introduciendo la 'ecología de prácticas' como una herramienta de pensamiento a través de la cual reconocer y explicar un terreno de divergencias y pluralidades.
This book, which was first published in 1938, began as a biography of Calvin Coolidge, but author William Allen White found early in his task that he was writing the story of the growth and rise of economic America from the seventies until the crash of the Coolidge bull market in the autumn of 1929.
Retrucanos de los tiempos idos es una obra nacida de evocaciones y recuerdos del autor, y de pasajes histricos y crnicas surgidas de las prolficas plumas de personajes por cuyas venas corrieron y corren, como filn inagotable, el amor por el terruo enmarcado en la otrora villa de San Miguel de Culiacn, una parcela perdida y olvidada por la corona espaola que se fue acomodando, en los tiempos, de acuerdo a los diversos aconteceres que sucedieron en el transcurrir de las aejas centurias.
Lo que describen los ensayos de este libro es una cultura obrera y popular que ha permitido la persistencia de una izquierda, en su sentido más amplio, en la Argentina.
As the US wrestles with its growing fiscal crisis, Northern Light examines what lessons Americans and their political leaders might draw from how Canada in the 1990s slew its deficit dragon, balanced the budget, fixed public pensions and social welfare and in so doing helped forge a national consensus in favour of responsible public finances that endures to this day.
Thomas Paine is most famous for writing Common Sense, a pamphlet distributed during the American Revolution advocating for colonial Americas independence from Great Britain.
Este libro reúne textos narrativos y poéticos que construyen figuraciones del Río de la Plata con el fin de dar cuenta del impacto estético que tuvo el arrojo de cuerpos al estuario durante la última dictadura cívico-militar argentina.
