The Black Prophet: a Tale of Irish Famine [eBook - NC Digital Library]
Author : William Carleton
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Page : pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2010
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Author : William Carleton
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Page : pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2010
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Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher :
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Abolitionists
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Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. It is also the only of Douglass's autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield.
Author : H. E. Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1625583745
Our Island Story is the "history" of England up to Queen Victoria's Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends.
Author : Tom Standage
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802719910
A lighthearted chronicle of how foods have transformed human culture throughout the ages traces the barley- and wheat-driven early civilizations of the near East through the corn and potato industries in America.
Author : Jae Curtis
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781618114853
After Evgeny Zamiatin emigrated from the USSR in 1931, he was systematically airbrushed out of Soviet literary history, despite the central role he had played in the cultural life of Russia’s northern capital for nearly twenty years. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, his writings have gradually been rediscovered in Russia, but with his archives scattered between Russia, France, and the USA, the project of reconstructing the story of his life has been a complex task. This book, the first full biography of Zamiatin in any language, draws upon his extensive correspondence and other documents in order to provide an account of his life which explores his intimate preoccupations, as well as uncovering the political and cultural background to many of his works. It reveals a man of strong will and high principles, who negotiated the political dilemmas of his day—including his relationship with Stalin—with great shrewdness.
Author : Smith Burnham
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Explorers
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Author : Thomas Dixon
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 1902
Category : American fiction
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Dixon offers an account of Reconstruction in which he portrays a Reconstruction leader (and former slave driver), Northern carpetbaggers, and emancipated slaves as the villains; Ku Klux Klan members are heroes.
Author : Michel Chevalier
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 1839
Category : History
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Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 34,92 MB
Release : 2018-02-04
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ISBN : 9781376674316
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Author : Sam Kean
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0316089087
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters? The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. The Disappearing Spoon masterfully fuses science with the classic lore of invention, investigation, and discovery -- from the Big Bang through the end of time. Though solid at room temperature, gallium is a moldable metal that melts at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. A classic science prank is to mold gallium spoons, serve them with tea, and watch guests recoil as their utensils disappear.