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This early work by Henry De Vere Stacpoole was originally published in 1920 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Sappho - A New Rendering' is a translation of selcted works by the Greek lyric poet, Sappho. Henry De Vere Stacpoole was born on April 9th 1863 in Kingstown, Ireland. After finishing his education, Stacpoole travelled widely, taking up a job as a ship's doctor. His time spent at sea undoubtedly in...

This early work by Francis Younghusband was originally published in 1936 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'A Venture of Faith - Being a Description of the World Congress of Faiths Held in London 1936' is a work that details the author's personal opinions on the conclusions he reached about the Congress. Francis Younghusband was born in 1863 at Munree, British India, the son of Major-General John W. Youngh...

This book tells the story of the beginnings, the blossoming, and the eventual banishment of fraternities at Williams College, together with the ensuing transformation of Williams, based in Williamstown, Massachusetts, as the old fraternal order was replaced with a new residential system in the nineteen-sixties and after. A key figure emerged: John Sawyer, president of the college between 1961-1973. In John Chandler's measured recounting of eve...

All Giselle Chekhov cares about is securing the principal role in the ballet for which she was named, but her Russian grandmother warns that the ballet, featuring cruel siren-like maidens, will draw the vain creatures back to town. Every decade or so, sirens swarm to Foulweather, Oregon killing indiscriminately and then vanishing again. At the same time that her dreams for the stage are falling apart, Giselle begins to suspect just who the sir...

In the breathtaking conclusion to The Saving Mars Series, Jessamyn prepares to sacrifice her future with Pavel when Lucca invites her to Budapest to prove she's from Mars. Jess knows she's walking into a trap, but if Jess can't convince Terrans the Mars colonists are real, Lucca will destroy Jessamyn's family, her friends, and her world.

Things are heating up. Chancellor Lucca believes Jess and Pavel are dead, and now she's deadly determined to make certain Mars never interferes with her or her world again. Meanwhile on Mars, Mei Lo pleads with the Raiders to finish their second mission: disabling the Terran satellites. But the satellites aren't all that threaten the red planet. Cavanaugh Kipling makes plans to contact Lucca's government--without permission. Now Jessamyn must ...

RACE, POWER & POLITICS is the only book about ACORN ever written by authentic ACORN insiders-National Board Members. It is a must read for all concerned citizens, journalists and advocates, whether Tea Party, conservatives, civil libertarians or fairminded liberals, anyone interested in-and not afraid of learning the unvarnished truth about the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. RACE, POWER & POLITICS is a cautionary tale o...

RACE, POWER & POLITICS is the only book about ACORN ever written by authentic ACORN insiders-National Board Members. It is a must read for all concerned citizens, journalists and advocates, whether Tea Party, conservatives, civil libertarians or fairminded liberals, anyone interested in-and not afraid of learning the unvarnished truth about the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. RACE, POWER & POLITICS is a cautionary tale ...

Fleeing for their lives, Jess and Pavel make it to the Moon, narrowly avoiding the attack on Space Station 92-AE. They should be safe and happy, but they discover they are not alone on Tranquility Base. The stranger they encounter seems uniquely qualified to leak their presence to Chancellor Lucca Brezhnaya, especially when the Marsians contemplate airing Lucca's political dirty laundry. But Lucca has already shown she would destroy worlds rat...

The emotional steeliness of the policy-making machine is fascinating, even as international one-upsmanship brushes aside and even kills those Middle Easterners who attempt to become more than pawns on a chessboard of great power conflicts-or of the career paths of US officials.

Growing up in the Appalachia. Life and times. Fun and folklore

This catalog accompanies the exhibition Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series, organized by Deborah Rothschild with Miriam Stanton for the Williams College Museum of Art. Presented at: Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, August 18-November 25, 2012, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, March 2-June 30, 2013, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, September 7-December 22...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

HE CAN'T STAY - SHE CAN'T LET HIM GO Halley's world is full of hand-outs and hand-me-downs. Even her apartment bedroom is shared, with her distant and self-centered mother. Halley has only a battered blue truck to call her own-until she meets Edmund, the second Earl of Shaftesbury. Edmund has a manor, employs dozens of servants, and has never been close to falling in love-until Halley crashes into his life during an accidental trip to 1598. No...

Memoir of experineces with company of marines "forgotten" on a tiny island in the Kwajalein atoll during WW II.

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

AN INTRODUCTION BY EDWIN L. SABIN THE Rocky Mountain region included within favored Colorado, Utah and New Mexico is by every phase the one camping pIace for the worId. Climate. scenery and conveniences make tent-life here perfection. Moreover, to the sportsman is proffered game in abundance to the naturaI scientist, animal and plant life of all zones from the temperate to the frigid, and rock formations as varied to the archaeologist, cliff-d...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.