1,938円 Although widely viewed as the beginning of the legal struggle to end segregation, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Brown v. Board of Education was in fact the culmination of decades of legal challenges led by a band of lawyers intent on dismantling segregation one statute at a time. Root and Bra...

1,518円 Please note that some images were unavailable for the electronic edition. The highly praised biography of an archetypal great house and the family who lived there for over 250 years. ‘The Big House’ is the biography of a great country house and the lives of the Sykes family who lived there, with ...

993円 'Sunlight Beyond The Grave' is a classic true story of five brothers all born in Liverpool during the 1850s. Their parents arrived on the banks of the River Mersey during the Great Hunger (Irish famine) in 1847. They lived in the slums of the town close to the north docks. The boys were left to f...

2,052円 He is one of the most controversial and important world leaders currently in power. In this international bestseller, at last available in English, Hugo Chávez is captured in a critically acclaimed biography, a riveting account of the Venezuelan president who continues to influence, fascinate, an...

1,894円 A remarkable re-creation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661-1772, assembled from documents that survived his reign. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.

377円 Biographical profile of Benjamin Franklin, the most famous and highly regarded American in Europe during colonial times and the Revolutionary War. One of the Founding Fathers, Franklin was instrumental in virtually every phase of the birth, creation and establishment of the United States. However...

353円 THE anthropomorphic habit of thought manifested in the polytheism of the Greeks and the mono- theism of the early Jews has been responsible, one supposes, for the familiar expression, "the body politic." But if the capital of a country be regarded as its head, there are few large states which hav...

427円 A fascinating biography of Peter I of Russia, otherwise known as Peter the Great.

323円 Set in Sandusky, Ohio, in the years before and during World War II, Handstand regales readers with John H. Steinemann’s wonderful, witty, and wise view of life. Learn how to steal your brother’s girlfriend .... “Yes,” she agreed. “It was mostly your fault that we ever got romantic, and I do ...

174円 * Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents * Free Audiobook Download The Lives of the Twelve Caesar [ Illustrated ] [ Free Audiobooks Download ] The Lives of the Twelve Caesar is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire writt...

363円 António da Silva Pinto (1848-1911) foi um escritor português, cujos trabalhos pendiam, na sua grande parte, para a crítica social e literária. Nos «Santos portugueses» o escritor lisboeta apresenta-nos pequenos resumos crítico-biográficos dos santos e santas de nacionalidade portuguesa. Começando...

1,715円 'How I wish that you had invited me to that most attractive feast on the Ides of March!' Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome, and witnessed at first-hand the overthrow of the republic and its replacement by a tyranny. His letters to friends and family are ...