Author: Priwer, Shana Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Everybody knows Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, drew that famous guy inside a circle, and-oh yeah-has something to do with that code, too. But what about the man behind the myth? Although he'...
Author: Thornton, Brian Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One hundred fifty years after his death, Abraham Lincoln remains one of America's most fascinating, brilliant, and visionary leaders. He's idolized as a hero, a legend, and even a secular saint. But w...
Author: SIMPKINS, ARCHIE S Publisher: 1st World Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The book describes the erratic career of an eccentric character, Archie S. Simpkins, who somehow managed to go from an Ordinary Seaman to a Commander in a series of steps guided more by luck than good...
Author: Piper, Joan L Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc. Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: On April 14, 1994, on a clear morning over northern Iraq's no-fly zone, two U.S. Air Force F-15 jets encountered two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters on a routine mission. Within ten minutes, the F-15...
Author: Lamet, Eric Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Eric Lamet was only seven years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna-and changed his life and the lives of all European Jews forever. Five days after Hitler marched in, Eric Lamet and his parents fled fo...
Author: AL-BILALI, SHAHID Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: I believe because of the Black Cultural Revolution of the 60's our youth have a renewed attitude toward themselves and others. Their successes in the 21st Century will likely be our greatest monument ...
Author: John, George Nicolay, Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Books for All Kinds of Readers Read HowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing t...
Author: Louw, Krystyna Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: KRYSTYNA LOUW, born in Poland, lived through the events as depicted in the book, under the name of Stefa. For 7 years, at Thompson Publications, Krystyna was Editor of South Africa's leading Trade, Te...
Author: Wells, Conrad J. Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book describes my school years growing up in rural Vermont, inlcuding some of many jobs, the many friends, acquaintances and employees I met during those years. It all guided me as I passed throu...
Author: Mullin, Chris Publisher: Profile Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: 'It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.' Chris Mullin Chris Mullin has been a Labour MP for twenty years, and despite his refusal to toe the p...
Author: Carrington, Margaret Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: AB-SA-RA-KA is Margaret Carrington's first-person account of westward expansion alongside her husband, Col. Henry B. Carrington. In 1866 Col. Carrington was ordered to build and garrison forts along ...
Author: Authors, Various Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyReadâ„¢ are optimized by increasin...
Author: Perry, Shirley H. Publisher: L&R Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: After Many Days tells the story of Shirley H. Perry, a story that encompasses her many adventures. From her days as a CIA operative during the Cold War in Vienna to her life of intrigue behind the Iro...
Author: Rosenberg, Susan Publisher: Citadel Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: On a November night in 1984, Susan Rosenberg sat in the passenger seat of a U-Haul as it swerved along the New Jersey Turnpike. At the wheel was a fellow political activist. In the back were 740 pound...
Author: Rosner, Bernat Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Two men, who meet and become good friends after enjoying successful adult lives in California, have experienced childhoods so tragically opposed that the two men must decide whether to talk about them...
Description: September 1939 - Nazi Austria turns on their Jews and the family Wacs flees Vienna, saving their lives. Destination: Shanghai; alien to them-different language, people, culture. Had they not escaped, ...
Author: Niccolo, Capponi Publisher: DaCapo Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An acclaimed historian presents a fresh and revealing portrait of famous political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli and his native-born city of Florence
Description: An acclaimed historian presents a fresh and revealing portrait of famous political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli and his native-born city of Florence
Author: Boinodirs PhD, Stavros Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As the Andros Odyssey refugees in Eastern Macedonia managed to survive a series of catastrophes, a much bigger threat appears. Greece enters into World War II. Anthony leaves his wife and joins other ...
Author: Boinodiris Phd, Stavros Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The daughter of a rich Greek family in Constantinople escapes from her dysfunctional family by getting romantically involved with a handsome visiting peasant. This union produced a little boy, Anthony...
Author: Jameson, W.C. Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Billy the Kid: Beyond the Grave traces the life of this famous desperado through his role in the Lincoln County War, the alleged killing by Sheriff Pat Garrett, Billy's escape, and his life for the ne...
Author: Griffin, John Howard Publisher: Wings Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book, an important companion volume to Louis R. Harlan's prize-winning biography of Booker T. Washington, makes available for the first time in one collection Harlan's essays on the life and care...
Author: Morgan, Robert Publisher: Algonquin Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America—its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a...
Author: Kamiar, M. Publisher: Scarecrow Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Abu Raihan Biruni (973-1053 CE) was an Iranian scholar whose extraordinary achievements include predicting the existence of landmasses (North and South America) on the opposite side of the Earth and c...
Author: Bering, Katie (Katharina Krmer) Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Broken Porzelan chronicles one woman's inspiring journey from a childhood in Yugoslavia to adulthood in America during an unforgettable time in history. In her memoir Broken Porzelan, Katie Bering s...
Author: Dykes, Ronald H. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Building Ridges and Roads in the Korean Conflict tells the inside story of a combat engineers company from Scottsboro, Alabama, that served in the Korean "War". The contributions of units such as Comp...
Author: Phillips, Brenda Lee Brenda Lee Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Brenda Phillips is a Baby Boomer born in Toronto in 1954 when cars had wings and milk was delivered to your door in glass bottles. She lived a somewhat sheltered life in Swansea Village until her peer...
Author: Igielnik, Fela Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "By Pure Luck" tells the remarkable story of how Fela Igielnik survived life in the Warsaw ghetto and the brutality of World War II. But more than that, it reveals the possibility of transforming even...
Author: V'léOnica, Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why I became a pyrate: My life, and them reasons for becoming a pyrate hath bin a subject of much controversy. However, me person in particular, who, after examining the events logically, concludes, c...
Author: Warner, Charles Dudley Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this work, Warner has attempted to relate the adventures of Captain John Smith after disentangling the myths and exaggerations that surround his persona. This is an endeavour to cleanse the history...
Author: Elwood-Akers, Virginia Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: CAROLINE SEVERANCE present s the biography of one of the forgot ten heroines of the American woman's suffrage movement of the nineteenth century. Based upon twenty years of exhaustive research, this ...
Author: Belloc, Hilaire Publisher: IHS Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A striking portrait of Charles I, this book also looks closely at the role that the burgeoning financial powers played in shaping European politics and the effects that these powers had on the English...
Author: Belloc, Hilaire Publisher: IHS Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In The Last Rally, Belloc narrates with clarity and vigor a central episode in the decline of the English Monarchy. Restored to the throne following the interlude of Cromwell's "Commonwealth," Charles...
Author: Dabovich, Chris Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: THE DABOVICH FAMILY TREE SAVO (SAM) DABOVICH---GRANDFATHER CHRISTINA DABOVICH------GRANDMOTHER CHRIS DABOVICH------------FATHER EUSTOLIA DABOVICH-------MOTHER NIKO DABOVICH--------------UNCLE DA...
Author: HUNEKER, JAMES Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) was one of the most influential musicians of the 19th Century. Discovered as a child-prodigy pianist in his native Poland, he later travelled to France, where he remained...
Author: Abbott, Jacob Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Of all the beautiful women of history, none has left us such convincing proofs of her charms as Cleopatra, for the tide of Rome's destiny, and, therefore, that of the world, turned aside because of he...
Author: Tyldesley, Joyce Publisher: Basic Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Romans regarded her as "fatale monstrum"-a fatal omen. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the World English. Shakespeare portrayed her as an icon of tragic love. But who was ...
Author: Carver, Alice Hughes Shepard / Moser, Reta Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: There is a monument at Gettysburg that bears his name; another has his written words. His Official Report (OR) authenticates that Confederates other than Virginians and Carolinians crossed over the st...
Author: Anderson, Donald E. / Anderson Jr., D.E. Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Filling an essential gap in the understanding of warfare during World War II, author Donald E. Anderson describes life as a young enlisted man in Hawaii prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor when he ha...
Author: Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "In introducing the present edition of M. de Bourrienne's Memoirs to the public we are bound, as Editors, to say a few Words on the subject. Agreeing, however, with Horace Walpole that an editor shoul...
Author: Dawson, Sarah Morgan Publisher: eBooksOnDisk.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sarah Morgan Dawson lived on a Louisiana plantation during the American Civil War and recorded her thoughts and feelings about the loss of friends killed in battle and the occupation of her home by Un...
Description: "The history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it." So wrote Lytton Strachey in 1922; but he added, "Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of ...
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