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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea, Paperback

Reducere. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume. Frederick Douglas...

Reducere. In Basic Teachings of the Buddha, Glenn Wallis selects sixteen essential dialogues drawn from more than five thousand Pali-dialect suttas of the Bu...

Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts's groundbreaking third book (originally publi...

Reducere. When President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America's chief negotiator in late 1995, he took a gamble that would eventually redefine...

Reducere. A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and the ultimate submission o...

Reducere. With his beloved Gothic tales, Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America. Though Irving crafted many of the...

Reducere. Introduction by Edward J. Larson Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific inquiry, The Origin of Species sold out...

Written by one of the world's foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires--the Roman, th...

Reducere. Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller This Modern Library edition combines two of the most impor...