History and memoirs
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Tio år av landsflykt
Staël, Germaine deBakhållGermaine de Staël - eller madame de Staël som hon oftast kallas - var en starkt lysande centralgestalt i det kulturella och politiska livet i Napoleontidens Europa. Först fascinera...
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Tiananmen Moon : Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989
Cunningham, Philip J.Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2014This compelling book provides a vivid firsthand account of the student demonstrations and massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Uniquely placed as a Western observer drawn into act...
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Karma, Bhakti & Jnana Yoga : Kärlekens & tankens yoga
NATHA, SHREYANANDABhagwanKarma, Bhakti & Jnana Yoga : Kärlekens & tankens yoga av Shreyananda Natha Yoga är en bred tradition med många grenar och tekniker. Mästare har genom tiderna utvecklat olika teknik...
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By-Ways of War : The Story of the Filibusters
Roche, James JeffreyDuke Classics 2014Today, the term "filibuster" refers to a tactic used by loquacious lawmakers who seek to prevent a vote by delivering marathon-length speeches. But in the past, the term had a diff...
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The Memorabilia : Recollections of Socrates
XenophonDuke Classics 2014The Greek philosopher Socrates was accused of and ultimately put to death for impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens. This extraordinary volume from his friend and follower Xen...
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The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates
XenophonDuke Classics 2014Ancient Greek historian and soldier Xenophon was a friend, admirer, and avid follower of the philosopher Socrates, perhaps the single most influential thinker of the period. As the...
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Indian Home Rule
Gandhi, MahatmaDuke Classics 2014Activist Mahatma Gandhi is best remembered as the freedom fighter who brought the concepts of passive resistance and civil disobedience to the world's attention in his quest for In...
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Real Soldiers of Fortune
Davis, Richard HardingDuke Classics 2014Richard Harding Davis' career began in journalism, where he made his name as a daring front-line correspondent in several wars and conflicts. Later, he would translate his battlefi...
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Irish Witchcraft and Demonology
st. Seymour, John D.Duke Classics 2014Delve into the dark and mysterious practice of witchcraft throughout Irish history. Spanning centuries of practice from ancient Gaelic times to the turn of the twentieth century, t...
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Slavery
Channing, William E.Duke Classics 2014Renowned Unitarian preacher, thinker, and theologian William E. Channing takes an in-depth look at the issue of slavery in this compelling volume. Written at a time when the United...
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A History of Witchcraft in England : From 1558 to 1718
Notestein, WallaceDuke Classics 2014Many historical treatments of witchcraft tend to be somewhat sensationalistic and cartoonish. Not so with Wallace Notestein's measured, intellectual take on the subject in A Histor...
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Woodstock : An Historical Sketch
Bowen, Clarence WinthropDuke Classics 2014In American popular culture, the name "Woodstock" brings to mind images of the famed outdoor music festival that occurred in upstate New York in 1969. In the context of early Ameri...
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The Story of Mary MacLane
Maclane, MaryDuke Classics 2014If you assume that the autobiography of a nineteen-year-old woman experiencing the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century sounds like it could be dull and...
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House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692
Upham, William P.Duke Classics 2014Humble farmer and tavern owner John Procter was swept up in the tide of hysteria surrounding accusations of witchcraft that rocked Massachusetts in the late seventeenth century. In...
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Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather : A Reply
Upham, Charles W.Duke Classics 2014The Salem witch trials and the attendant hysteria that swept through New England in the late seventeenth century represent a fascinating period in American history. This historical...
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The Apology : Of Socrates to the Jury
XenophonDuke Classics 2014One of the greatest and most influential thinkers in human history, Greek philosopher Socrates was ultimately sentenced to death after being convicted of impiety and corrupting the...
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The Medieval Mind : A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages
Taylor, Henry OsbornDuke Classics 2014Lasting from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries AD, the medieval period was a crucial time of transformation and growth, setting the stage for the flowering of knowledge and cult...
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Life of Elie Metchnikoff : 1845-1916
Metchnikoff, OlgaDuke Classics 2014Russian scientist Elie Metchnikoff was a Nobel Prize winner who vastly advanced our understanding of the immune system and is credited with creating the field of gerontology, which...
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Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager
Byron, JohnDuke Classics 2014In 1741, the HMS Wager wrecked in an uninhabited area off the coast of Chile. In the aftermath of the disaster, chaos took hold. One faction of the surviving crew rose up against t...
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The Life of Lord Byron
Galt, JohnDuke Classics 2014Even by today's standards, nineteenth-century British poet Lord Byron led a wild life. In between his passionate and public love affairs with both men and women, his alleged dallia...