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We make history every day. From one moment to the next, our decisions-small and large-shape our future and, as we travel along that path, shape our past. How do we want it to read? Should we care? Or should we just get on with our lives and hope for the best? The Past Not Taken is three novellas that show that not all "authorities" are authoritative. Two roads diverge in a yellow wood... Two young people, their lives stretching out ahead of ...

The book " The Citizen-Soldier, or, Memoirs of a Volunteer , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.

The Liberty Bell Files: J Edgar's Demons is a work of fiction...seriously. Neither the Liberty Bell Project nor "the Files, " nor The Special Projects Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ever existed. Can you imagine the FBI investigating a guy who didn't want to pay sales tax on a cup of coffee? Or a guy who somebody thought wrote a story disrespectful to the Japanese? Or a prostitute calling herself Karla Marx, who advocated revo...

Collected Poems, 1937 -- 2007, is an unusual mixture of serious and light verse written over his adult life by Jack Beatty. The poems are relatively short, most are less than one page. the subject matter ranges from description of a magnificent sunset on the Oregon Coast, to World War II, to the war in Iraq and our own challenge to the Rule of Law. A sketch of a few of the poems indicates the field they cover. The poem Air Raid reminds us of t...

Four friends...two gun battles...two weddings...a fire...family lost and found...what more could you ask for? How about...what happened to Jimmy Hoffa? Join JJ and Ann, Mike and Leigh in the thrilling conclusion to the story that began with Stella's Game: A Story of Friendships, and continued with Tideline: Friendship Abides. From the creator of The Stella's Game Trilogy, The Safe Tree: Friendship Triumphs finishes the saga that started...

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Short stories of heroism, sacrifice, Christmas, friendship, loss, tragedy, childbirth, ...something for everyone.These are about people in peril, in danger of their lives, their livelihoods.They save others, they save themselves.From pre-history to yesterday, these stories take you from the hunting fields of prehistoric man to Shiloh, from the Pacific to Pointe du Hoc, from Korea to the English Channel, from Bastogne to Appomattox and more.

Reproduction of the original: The Relation of Art to Nature by John W. Beatty

Reproduction of the original: The Relation of Art to Nature by John W. Beatty

Reproduction of the original: The Citizen-Soldier by John Beatty

Reproduction of the original: The Citizen-Soldier by John Beatty

Where Stella's Game ends, Tideline: Friendship Abides begins.Life has its limitations, natural and artificial. Natural limits are nature's doing, the others are ours.Natural limits are imposed by nature--like the ocean tides. The rest are imposed-often reluctantly, sometimes of necessity-by how we live our lives. We set limits on what we hope to achieve, the challenges we're willing to face, or what we're willing to tolerate, or to settle for....

Growing up in affluence in Detroit in the '60s didn't make anyone immune from the chaos...but Stella's Game did.Money couldn't save kids in the suburbs from the troubles of the '60s, especially in Detroit, but Stella's Game did.In the '60s, people lost respect for institutions, and then there was Stella's Game.Before there were cell phones, there was Stella's Game.Before there was the internet, there was Stella's Game.Before there was Google, ...

Beginning in the late 19th century, Imperial Japan embarked on a program of aggressive military overseas adventures in Asia and the Pacific. From 1904 to 1941, Japan's desire for resource independence had driven them to conquer Korea, Manchuria, large parts of China, and French Indochina, and to occupy large swaths of Pacific islands. These conquests provided tremendous resources, but still, they needed more.All these conquests were driven by ...

The retrospective work of British nature and travel photographer John Beatty. A photographic journey that ranges from kayaking down the Colorado River to trekking through the Himalaya, from polar and Greenland ice-caps into the incredible animal kingdoms of Africa, and, from Boreal forests to landscapes that inspired Charles Darwin's life's work.

McKinleyism - As It Appears to a non-Partisan is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hanseb...

Excerpt from The Citizen-Soldier: Or Memoirs of a VolunteerProvisions outside of camp are very scarce. I took breakfast with a farmer this morning, and can say truly that I have eaten much better meals in my life. We had coffee without sugar, short-cake without but ter, and a little salt pork, exceedingly fat. I asked him what the charge was, and he said Ninepence, which means one shilling. I rejoiced his old soul by giving him two shillings.A...

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