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Four Years In the Rockies tells the story of Isaac P. Rose, who went from greenhorn to legendary trapper at the height of the fur-trade in the 1830s. His narrative features a who's who of early American West figures like Jim Bridger, Kit Carson and Nathaniel Wyeth, and features many memorable sequences such as the trader's rendezvous, fights with Native Americans and countless details not in mainstream history books - for example, how Kit Cars...

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Four Years In the Rockies tells the story of Isaac P. Rose, who went from greenhorn to legendary trapper at the height of the fur-trade in the 1830s. His narrative features a who's who of early American West figures like Jim Bridger, Kit Carson and Nathaniel Wyeth, and features many memorable sequences such as the trader's rendezvous, fights with Native Americans and countless details not in mainstream history books - for example, how Kit Cars...

Critique, Action, and Liberation is an original work in critical social theory that develops an approach to and method for social and political science. Drawing on the work of Habermas, Marcuse, Adorno, Offe, Marx, and David Harvey, Marsh develops an ethics and a social phenomenology of the self as communicative subject. He then advances an interpretation and critique of modernity, late capitalism, and state socialism.

Set in post war 1950's Britain, the exciting adventures of Davie Collins and the Sundance Gang and their rivalry with the boys from Brimly. This book can be enjoyed by anyone who grew up during this era for whom it is, in effect a trip down memory lane. Also for younger people today a chance to find out about a completely different way of life long before the days of the internet, online gaming and mobile phones.

Albert Littlejohn and his black market gang operate in the town of Southampton during World War Two. Dockers by day but gangsters by night, these men take full advantage of the darkness of the black-out conditions to burgle and steal whatever they need to ply their illicit trade.

Learn how to hook up and navigate around Amazon Fire TV. Get connected to your WiFi, sign up with Amazon Prime or Netflix and start enjoying your content with this fully illustrated guide.Find your favourite music, play games and run apps right from your TV. James takes you through the basics of operation with plenty of photographs, screenshots and illustrations to help you understand what you're doing.If you want to get up and running quickly...

Excerpt from The Charm of the Middle KingdomJust as the boy turned she said, The days of fairies are past, you know. It has happened before, - shelves crumbling away, I mean. If you want to prolong your journey, you had better keep away from the edge of things.The boy turned quickly, startled at the sound of her voice, for he had had no intima tion of her coming. He reddened under the directness of her gaze and after what seemed to him an infi...

Process, Praxis, and Transcendence is a North American philosophy of liberation that defends both metaphysics and philosophy of religion. The book moves from an existential phenomenology of the knowing and choosing subject through affirmation of a processive and liberating Christ to a critique and overcoming of neo-imperialism. Its ultimate theme explores what the appropriate theory and praxis of liberation is for those of us living "in the ce...

Excerpt from Washington's ProphecyAll Americans are aware that, in most cases, the public measures proposed by the leading men of one party, are sure to be violently and bitterly opposed by the politicians of the opposite party. Thus, the war of 1812 was bitterly opposed by the Federalists of that period, because Mr. Madison and his party favored it. Many other incidents might be cited to show the perverse disposition generally exhibited by ea...

Excerpt from Herder's Introductory Dialogue on the Spirit of Hebrew PoetryThe following dialogue is the introductory one in Her der's work Vom Geist der Ebraischen Poesie. It is more than probable, that the whole work already existed in an English dress, and from its deserved celebrity the credit of our biblical literature certainly required it. N o translation however is believed to be known at least to any extent in this country, and though ...

Excerpt from Four Years in the Rockies, Or, the Adventures of Isaac P. Rose of Shenango Township, Lawrence County, PennsylvaniaBeing personally acquainted with Mr. Isaac P. Rose, the hero of this narrative, and having had frequent opportunities of conversing with him on the subject of his Rocky Mountain expedition, I have by this means, and also from notes taken by himself, been enabled to lay before my readers one of the most interesting and ...

Excerpt from The Remains of the Rev. James Marsh, D. D. Late President, and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, in the University of Vermont: With a Memoir of His LifeAs to my own share in the work here presented to the public, I should be disposed to say nothing, were it not proper for me to give some account of the manner in which I have endeavored to dis charge a delicate office of friendship.The late Dr. Marsh, near the close o...

Excerpt from Select Practical Works of Rev. John Howe, and Dr. William Bates: Collected and Arranged, With Biographical SketchesThe biographical notices inserted will in general be brief, as they are not expected to possess any other value, than merely to gratify the general curiosity, that is felt to know something of the authors, whose works we read and admire. I hardly need to say, that in judging of the men of that age and of their works, ...

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About the Book Books that belong to the Action and Adventure genre pertain to extraordinary events, that include consistent elements of danger. Adventure and Adventure novels feature quick moving plots, with settings that may involve war, criminal activity, and international intrigue. Examples include: Adrift in the Pacific, Robinson Crusoe, The Man Who Would Be King, The island of Doctor Moreau, The Garibaldians in Sicily, The History of a Cr...

Moving on to describe the harsh lessons learned in 1940s and '50s schooling and subsequently describing his teenage years in the merchant navy, this book explores how growing up in the post-war years was both a challenge and a lot of fun.

This report, phase III of CSIS's research on defence reform, builds on the Center's previous analyses. Phase I assessed the implementation of the Packard Commission recommendations and the Goldwater-Nichols legislation, while phase II focused on the Bush administraton and the 101st Congress.