Old Is Gold

Author: Madeline MartinPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 10/09/2024Pages: 1Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.20dISBN: 9781420517460

Author: Rosemarie Terenzio, Liz McNeilPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 08/28/2024Pages: 500Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.40dISBN: 9781420515817

In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment, Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris ushered...

The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir. World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and...

Author: Janet Skeslillen CharlesPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 05/29/2024Binding Type: Library BindingISBN: 9798885798402

The incredible story of the First Lady who clandestinely assumed the presidencySocialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. But the enchanting courting of President...

From the bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a stunning historical tale of the rise and fall of the world's largest airship--and the doomed love story between an ambitious British officer and a married Romanian Princess at...

In this "gripping ... spectacular piece of reporting" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses of power within the American government. For decades now, America's national security state has grown...

John F. Kennedy is a name known worldwide. Libraries throughout the world are full of literature about the life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. However, most narrations and facts presented are twisted and do not convey the true legacy of JFK. Life Is Unfair: The...

Over the past fifty years, many thousands of conflict simulations have been published that bring the dynamics of past and possible future wars to life. In this book, Philip Sabin explores the theory and practice of conflict simulation as a topic in its own...

Examines the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, and scrutinizes the role of Quaker merchants and the business ethics they followed. The book studies the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, London and Philadelphia....

This novel is a designedly political document. Written at the time of the Hastings impeachment and set in the period of Hastings's Orientalist government, Hartly House, Calcutta (1789) represents a dramatic delineation of the Anglo-Indian encounter. The novel constitutes a significant intervention in the...

Overturns the generally held view that the press gang was the main means of recruiting seamen by the British navy in the late eighteenth century. SHORTLISTED for the Society for Nautical Research's prestigious Anderson Medal. The press gang is generally regarded as the means...

Examines the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children's experience of atrocity.Author: Victoria NesfieldPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 06/02/2023Pages: 334Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781438490748About the AuthorVictoria Nesfield is Lecturer in Religion at York...

Assesses a distinct style of thinking in twentieth-century Spanish writing, one in which literature plays a central role in reaching behind philosophy to essential sources of life and meaning.Author: Stephen GingerichPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 08/02/2023Pages: 360Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x...

African American legal theorist Derrick Bell argued that American anti-Black racism is permanent but that we are nevertheless morally obligated to resist it. Bell--an extraordinary legal scholar, activist, and public intellectual whose academic and political work included his employment as a young attorney with...

In the United States, the fight to secure full civil rights for African American people has endured for centuries. The movement has included many voices, among them, working people, charismatic activists, musicians and artists, the LGBTQIA community, veterans, suburbanites, and elected officials. Moving from...

One hundred years ago, in July 1916, an act of terrorism in New York Harbor changed the world. The attack in New York Harbor was so explosive that people as far away as Maryland felt the ground shake. Windows were blown out uptown at...

The National Health Service has provided Britain's healthcare since 1948. This institution has been the subject of tense political debate since its inception and has undergone a number of complex reforms and restructures. But the meanings of the NHS are not only - or...

From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America. But they did not all disembark in San Francisco; instead, most were ferried across the bay to the Angel Island Immigration Station....