War and Speech

"This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kip...

Reducere. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) is a novella by Frederick Douglass. Having escaped from slavery in the South at a young age, Freder...

Reducere. From the author of the esteemed epic poem, Paradise Lost, comes one history's most influential arguments against censorship. John Milton was known ...

Reducere. On September 15, 1959, Georges Vanier, Canada's Governor-General soon-to-be, began his acceptance speech with the following invocation: "Mr. Prime ...

Two decades before the Civil War, Elijah P. Lovejoy used his newspaper to demand an end to slavery - dangerous beliefs that turned deadly as mobs r...

From the acclaimed author of }War Horse{ comes this heartwarming short story based on the true story of boy whose confidence and speech returns aft...

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Reducere. The ancient city of Troy really existed. The Trojan War that figures in Homer's two great epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, really happened. B...

DescriptionTHIS IS A SERIES OF TALES, MOSTLY IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, ABOUT THE SHORT RHODESIAN COLONIAL PERIOD UP TO 1980, AFTER WHICH TIME THE COU...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Seamus HeaneyThe Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this p...

Reducere. Mean Girls meets the debate team in this fish-out-of-water story about a teen girl determined to sabotage the elitist speech team at her new school...

DescriptionKarin Michaelis (1872-1950) was a Danish author. She wrote 36 novels for adults, 9 children's books, 2 autobiographies plus numerous oth...

Set in 1968, the year of Enoch Powell's infamous "Rivers of Blood" speech, The Nowhere Man is an intricate, perceptive tragedy of alienation center...

"This is a fantastic compilation of some really important pieces of American Literature. If you are a college student or even a motivated high scho...

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Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Winter War, then keep reading...In December 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill m...

DescriptionExactly one year ago, I stood in that crumbling pulpit in Riverside and shouted that this war would be our own violent undoing, freedom'...

Ashe led a hunger strike in Lewes Prison in May 1917 and was released under a general amnesty in June. He was re-arrested in August for a speech he...

The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of th...

Reducere. Pam Roswell Moore had her doubts when she interviewed to be companion of the much-loved author Corrie ten Boom. Corrie's best-selling book The Hidi...

DescriptionIn a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the ...

Reducere. The Death of Caesar. The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate on March 15, 44 BC-the...

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Reducere. This vigorous call-to-arms to reignite American citizenship at home and restore American power abroad by the Fox News contributor and decorated Ira...

Reducere. A secret wartime love affair. A girl nobody can find. Is it ever too late to say you're sorry?September 1940. As the bombs of the Blitz fall on Lon...

Reducere. Ruth Brandt's debut short story collection tackles stubborn, impulsive and adrenaline-seeking human nature. From the formation of the Berlin Wall i...

Reducere. As the day for Lincoln's second inauguration drew near, Americans wondered what their sixteenth president would say about the Civil War. Would Linc...

Reducere. One of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo va...

Reducere. Poetry. In his third collection; THE LATITUDE OF A MERCY; Stefan Lovasik offers a testament of unflinching immediacy; conflicted sensitivity; and l...

Reducere. Shakespeare s rousing tale of war and peace between England and France during the reign of Henry V springs to life in this unabridged, full-color g...

Reducere. DescriptionHighly controversial in Austria, this play concerns a Jewish professor who returns to Vienna after the Second World War and discovers th...

Reducere. The decision of the eventual Confederate states to secede from the Union set in motion perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history, and o...

Reducere. In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers' Project (FWP). Out-of-wo...

The words Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg comprise perhaps the most famous speech in histo...

Reducere. In 1946, in the midst of global turmoil and after being voted out of office, Winston Churchill made a trip to the unlikely venue of Fulton, Missour...

Reducere. DescriptionSojourner Truth (born Isabella (Belle) Baumfree) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into s...

Reducere. He thought he was the chosen one, a warrior of the gods. He had no idea that his god was a demon. After twenty years, Voran has faced his deadly en...

He was the top male box office attraction at the movies, one of the most widely read newspaper columnists in America, a radio commentator with an a...

In 1875 Ohio, twelve-year-old Cap Cooper is an aspiring inventor--and a reluctant graverobber--enlisted by his father to help pay for his mother's ...

Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 195...

Reducere. One of the most widely read poems of our time, John Brown's Body is Stephen Vincent Ben t's masterful retelling of the Civil War. A book of great e...

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Reducere. Seize, Brian Komei Dempster's follow-up to Topaz, spares no one the highs and lows of fatherhood. The speaker struggles to care for his young and a...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of A People's History of the United States comes this selection of passionate, honest, and piercing essays looking at A...

Reducere. "The Church is the conscience of the State, " wrote Martin Luther King, Jr., but is it anymore? With threats of Hate Crime Legislation and the Fair...

Reducere. Norvel Lee, an unsung historical figure, rightfully should be included on a list of famous African Americans.On a September morning in 1948 - while...

A story of the war between man and mammal, in which the author explores his obsessions with good and evil, love and solitude, speech and silence, u...

Reducere. Through the postwar collective innocence of the 1950s and sucked into the swirling vortex of the 1960s counterculture in Washington DC, the author,...

Reducere. Whether criticizing the American government, protesting the war in Vietnam, or denouncing capitalism, Ginsberg gave voice to the moral conscience o...

Reducere. Winner, National Indie Excellence Award 2021 Best Regional Fiction - Southwest Finalist, National Indie Excellence Award 2021 Literary Fiction Fina...

How Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our Democracy What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. THE YELLOW BOOK, a cross-genre meditation on what it means to be Korean/American and write, be...

Reducere. Here is a History Reader about a great man and his famous speech. Now available in Step into Reading, the premier leveled reader line. Abraham Linc...

Reducere. The "magisterial" (The New York Times Book Review) second volume of Sidney Blumenthal's acclaimed, landmark biography, The Political Life of Abraha...

With this "rich, complex, and eloquent" (Drew Gilpin Faust, Atlantic) work, Pulitzer Prize finalist Michael Gorra charts the evolution of an author...

Reducere. Daniel Berrigan (+2016+) is most notorious for dramatic anti-war actions at a Catonsville draft board and a Pennsylvania nuclear weapons plant in t...

Reducere. Mean Girls meets the debate team in this fish-out-of-water story about a teen girl determined to sabotage the elitist speech team at her new school...

Reducere. DescriptionIt's as if we're living in an episode of the Twilight Zone. Every day we are inundated by news reports, trending topics on social media,...

Reducere. Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, ``The Sea and the Mirror`` is not merely a great poem but ranks as one ...

Reducere. Today's eighteen-year-olds may not know who Mrs. Robinson is, the size of a breadbox, or why going postal refers to a major uproar. Such "retroterm...

Reducere. after troy, Taban lo Liyong's booklength poem, is an expansive and engaging elaboration of two classical Greek texts, Homer's Odyssey and Aeschylus...

Reducere. In When We Free the World, acclaimed writer and activist Kevin Powell presents a stunning and brutally honest survey of America, yesterday and toda...

Reducere. A collection of essays by America's most prominent anarchist, feminist, and critic of both capitalism and communism, who was imprisoned and deporte...

Why do some leaders and segments of the public display remarkable persistence in confrontations in international politics, while others cut and run...

Reducere. "There is only one pleasure, that of being alive. All the rest is misery, " wrote Cesare Pavese, whose short, intense life spanned the ordeals of f...

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This is a wonderful collection of Lincoln's most famous speeches in complete and unabridged form. The simple yet memorable eloquence of his speeche...

Reducere. "The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who will speak it." - George Orwell "I refuse to accept the view that man...

Reducere. "Read this book, strengthen your resolve, and help us all return to reason." --JORDAN PETERSON *USA TODAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER* There's a war agains...