ReviewMemoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War by Mark Twain, published in 1883. The book begins with a brief history of the river from it...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan is a book written in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes. It i...
Product DescriptionThe New York Times best-seller, now in paperback! This paperback edition of the New York Times best-selling title expands the civil upheaval among the drow, one ...
A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our age. In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical accou...
A shrewd and irreverent cultural history of the customs, fashions, and figures of gay life in the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries-and how they have changed all of us...
SUMMARY:For centuries, the civilized people of the eastern and western realms have dismissed the nomadic inhabitants of the vast middle land as barbarians, but now these nom...
SUMMARY:While repairing an observation post, P8 Blue and Domenica Corsi find themselves caught in the middle of an interplanetary conflict involving a pre-warp civilization ...
Book 1 in the epic trilogy "To the Stars"., Jan Kulozik is one of earth's pribvilieged elite. A brilliant engineer, he enjoys all the blessings of a 23rd-century civilization which...
In this chronicle of his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describing with b...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The year is 1865. The Civil War between the states is raging on. General Sherman, along with over sixty thousand Union troops, has just forced their way into Colu...