Creator: R. Scott LaMascus
Publication date: 2008-09-14
Dewey code: 973.782
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Review How Confederate Women Created New Self-Identities as the Civil War Progressed: A Study of Their Diaries / Edwin Mellen Press:Explores the connection between periodic life writing and the formation of ethnic identity, and argues that the practice of keeping a diary enabled Confederate women to actively maintain and build power structures which privileged 'white' Southerners.
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 920
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Review Through Five Republics on Horseback / IndyPublish.com:Introduction by Rev. J. G. Brown D. D.
Publication date: 2008-05-12
Dewey code: 809
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Review A Personal Record / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2005
Price: $89.95
Review Pioneer Profiles: Powell, Sargent - Sergent, Durham, Creech & Related Families of Kentucky / Gateway Press:710 Pages + 120 Page Index, Hardback. Includes Civil War Stories and Reports. Creech Castle Report. 200 Pictures and Documents. Traces descendants of Abraham Sarjeant, 1777 NC - 1839 KY. Traces descendants and ancestors of Obediah Powell, b. ca. 1760 VA, and of Samuel Powell, 1791 VA - 1870 KY. Traces descendants and ancestors of William Durham, b. ca. [+]1750 VA. Bibles of Carter Dixon Powell, Euphemia Durham Creech, I. N. Creech, Rhoda Powell Seals, and Andrew B. Wilson. Original Wills of William Serjant, 1768, Samuel Powell Powell, 1872, Samuel Creech, 1896, and many others.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2007-10-16
Review 100 Days in The Ghan / Tom A. Wiggins:100 Days in The Ghan is a captivating story of one ordinary kid who felt called to serve following 9/11, and was ultimately severely wounded in action. Wiggins story begins on 9/11 and walks readers through a series of events that leads him, and his friends to join the military. Upon completing training Wiggins finds himself in the nations oldest and most prestigious Special Operations Unit, the Airborne Rangers. During his time in the Rangers, Wiggins deploys in support of the Global War on Terrorism five different times. On May 13, 2004 Wiggins dies on a battlefield in Afghanistan (The Ghan) several times only to prove all of the doctors wrong and make a near full recovery.
Publication date: 2007-06-12
List Price: $97.99
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Review Henry of Monmouth Or Memoirs of Henry the Fifth, Volume I / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2005
Review That Sweet Money Tune / Gary Owen:Autobiography of Gary Owen of Santa Cruz, California.
Creator: Frank Felsenstein
Publication date: 1980-02-07
Dewey code: 941
List Price: $323.00
Price: $197.29
Review Travels through France and Italy / Oxford University Press, USA:"Traduced by malice, persecuted by fiction, abandoned by false patrons, and over-whelmed by the sense of a domestic calamity", Tobias Smollett set off on a journey through France and Italy to relieve his despair. While there, he wrote regularly to his friends, who had asked Smollett to keep records of inns, prices, and methods of transport should they wish to make the tour themselves someday. Smollett more than obliges them and the result is this fascinating, wholeheartedly personal account of places and people in France and Italy. Full of prejudice, grousing, sharp observation, and caustic satire, it is the first travel book in modern literature to go beyond the simple conveyance of information to reflect the writer's state of mind.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2008
Price: $89.95
Review Jihad Vietnam / Celerus Books:Ben R. Games, PhD. , Major, CW-4, USA & USAF, TCNA-6 Commissioned Army Aviation Class 43K, flew bombers and night fighters in WWII; during the Korean period he flew jet fighters; and in Vietnam, he flew Chinook CH-47 helicopters. He is a member of the North American Mach Busters Club and the Distinguished Flying Cross Society with 737 recorded combat hours. Ben was awarded the DFC, Bronze Star, 13 Air Medals, the Army Commendation Medal, two Medals for Valor, and two Legions of Merit. He served as a pilot with the 1st Calvary Division, 5th, 8th, 13th, and 20th Air Forces, INANG, and MIARNG. Bens duties and responsibilities allowed him to live in different countries around the globe, which included Japan, France, Vietnam, Okinawa, and Grand Turk, BWI. Ben and his wife, Helen, made their home in all of these lands. Helen, besides raising two children, was awarded a silver medal for being the 86th woman in the world to fly a helicopter (Whirlygirl #86). During WWII, she once flew co-pilot in his B-25 in Okinawa and as an RO in his F-82. [+]In Vietnam she flew with him in his Chinook CH-47 helicopter as well as accompanying him on at least one non-flying missionrecorded in the Ash & Trash Missions chapter. After 35 years, Ben retired from Military flying to become General Manager of the Turks and Caicos National Airline. Today, Ben and Helen live in Florida where Ben writes every day.
Publication date: 2006-07-12
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $68.99
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Review Himalayan Journals Or Notes of A Naturalist, V2 / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2006-12-27
Dewey code: 551
Price: $22.00
Review Swimming with Orca: My Life with New Zealand's Killer Whales / Penguin Global:
Creator: Stefano Hunyady
Publication date: 2000-09
Dewey code: 641
Price: $55.00
Review Sassicaia: The Original Super Tuscan / Centro Di:Italian restauranteurs voted Sassicaia "wine of the 20th century" over the elite of Barlo, Barbaresco and Brunello di Montalcino. Yet the story of the meteroic rise to supremacy of a wine from a grape variety new to Tuscany, grown in a place previously considered unsuitable for quality wines is nothing short of astounding. Sassicaia began to make an impact outside Italy in the early 1970s culminating in 1978 when it triumphed in a "Decanter" magazine blind tasting of Cabernets from around the world, surprising judges who took it for a cru classe Bordeaux. That seems to have marked the moment when people began to believe that Italy counld make great wines of contemporary style. In creating the legend of Sassicaia it might be said that Mario and Nicolo Incisa della Rochetta ushered Italian wine into the modern era. Sassicaia is Italy's most expensive and sought after red wine and is legendary among wine afficianados, with fine vintages fetching hundreds of pounds a bottle. This book tells the story of this extraordinary wine.
Publication date: 2008-09-11
List Price: $89.99
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Review The History of Thomas Ellwood / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 920
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Review Life in the Backwoods / IndyPublish.com:It was a bright frosty morning when I bade adieu to the farm the birthplace of my little Agnes who nestled beneath my cloak was sweetly sleeping on my knee unconscious of the long journey before us into the wilderness.
Publication date: 2003-01
Price: $21.99
Review Yesterday Morning / Ulverscroft Large Print:This work completes the circle begun by "Instead of a Letter" and "Stet". Here Diana Athill looks back on a childhood unfashionably filled with happiness - a Norfolk country house, servants, the pleasures of horses, and the unfolding secrets of adults and sex. This is England in the 1920s, seen with an unsentimental eye from the vantage point of England in 2001. It was a privileged and loving life, of course: but did it equip her to be happy?.
Publication date: 1970-02-28
Dewey code: 920
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Review Letters / Greenwood Press Reprint:A store-house of information on the musical life of the 19th century. THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY: Books for College Libraries; Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College.
Publication date: 2008-05-06
Dewey code: 492.1092
List Price: $89.95
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Review The Correspondence of Edward Hincks: Volume I (1818-1849) / Univ College Dublin Pr:Mesopotamian cuneiform, was born in Cork and spent much of his life in Ireland, where he was the Church of Ireland Rector. Between 1846 and 1852, Hincks published a series of highly significant papers by which he established for himself a reputation of the first order as a decipherer. Most of the letters in these volumes have not been previously published. Much of the correspondence relates to nineteenth-century archaeological and linguistic discoveries, but there are also letters concerned with ecclesiastical affairs, the Famine, and the Hincks family. The letters in this first volume cover the period from the 1820s when Hincks was a young clergyman and scholar, to the years 1846-9 during which he announced his epoch-making discoveries in the decipherment of Akkadian.
Publication date: 2007-06-12
List Price: $97.99
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Review Henry of Monmouth Or Memoirs of Henry the Fifth, Volume II / IndyPublish:
Edition: Prima Edizione
Publication date: 1964
Review L'America di Kennedy / Feltrinelli:I fatti e le idee Saggi e Biografie
Publication date: 1902
Review Madé / Privately Printed:Privately printed Memorial volume consisting of remembrances of life with a beloved London school teacher and governess named Madé. Frontispiece photo of Madé who lived at 56 Ovington Street, Chelsea. Red cloth covered boards, gold titles.
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