Overview :These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixte... Read More
Overview :It is the summer of 1954, and the small California town of Bear River simmers with Cold War paranoia. Althea Bailey returns home with her hu... Read More
Overview :Painted cloth covers with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Cloth is fairly worn on back cover and somewhat on front. Foxing present ... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This... Read More
Overview :This is a comprehensive history of France from the beginning to the end of World War I. From the preface: "This book was originally intended... Read More
Overview :Richard Harding Davis (April 18, 1864 - April 11, 1916) was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the fi... Read More
Overview :A great war correspondent reports from the Great War Richard Harding Davis is well regarded as a writer of fiction, but it is for his work a... Read More
Overview :The book gives an account of an essential part of Britain's troubled relationship with the rest of Europe after 1945 - particularly consider... Read More
Overview :France and the Second World War is a concise introduction to a crucial and controversial period of French history - world war and occupation... Read More
Overview :In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, French cooks began to claim central roles in defining and enforcing taste, as well as in educati... Read More
Overview :Herminie and Fanny Pereire were sisters-in-law, married to the eminent Jewish bankers and Saint-Simonian socialists Emile and Isaac. They we... Read More
Overview :To receive a royal pardon in sixteenth-century France for certain kinds of homicide--unpremeditated, unintended, in self-defense, or otherwi... Read More
Overview :It's an exciting story full of fun, learning, and friendship on the first day of school. For kids ages 1-5Mya is a bright little girl. She l... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This... Read More