Carl: 2594 books
I Will Hold
The Story of USMC Legend Clifton B. Cates, from Belleau Wood to Victory in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The incredible true story of Clifton B. “Lucky” Cates, whose service in World War I and beyond made him a legend in the annals of the Marine Corps.
Cates knew that he and his small band of marines were in a desperate spot. Before handing the note over to a runner, he added three words that...
by Carl Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Feudalism was a set of legal and military customs in mediaeval Europe that structured society in a way that the poorest worked the land and had to pay the rich for the right to do so.
by Carl Krueger
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This book, first published in 1932, conducts a thorough survey of the modern state of Turkey as it stood in the period between the wars. The author, an expert on the country, endeavoured to present a critical account of Turkey, and examines nationalism, the politics and economics of the young republic,...
The Medieval Church
From the Dawn of the Middle Ages to the Eve of the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Why does one's concept of the medieval church have a direct bearing on one's attitude toward ecumenism? How was Europe evangelized? Why is it essential to understand the different relationships of church-to-state between the West and Byzantium in order to understand the church's role in Eastern culture...
by Major Kelly Owen Carl Boian
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Includes 14 maps and diagrams.
Major General Melvin Zais, a second generation Russian American, orchestrated the battle between the 29th Regiment of the People’s Army of Vietnam and the 101st Airborne Division around Dong Ap Bia (Hamburger Hill), Vietnam. General Zais, focused operations on and...
Sheep Dog and the Wolf
A Story of Terrorism and Response, and the Sheep Dogs Who Protect
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Sheep Dog and the Wolf: A Story of Terrorism and Response, and the Sheep Dogs Who Protect, tells about Hunter Caulfield--a man who had long since shaken off his extraordinary past—Hunter had been in the nefarious CIA Phoenix program during the ‘police action' in Vietnam, and had learned a dangerous...
Abraham Lincoln
His Speeches And Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
This volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers, and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces-the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican Convention Speech, the Emancipation Proclamation-but hundreds of lesser-known gems....
Homer Simpson Marches on Washington
Dissent through American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The Simpsons questions what is culturally acceptable, showcasing controversial issues like homosexuality, animal rights, the war on terror, and religion. This subtle form of political analysis is effective in changing opinions and attitudes on a large scale. Homer Simpson Marches on Washington explores...
Grimm's Fairy Tales / Cuentos De Grimm (Golden Deer Classics)
Complete Bilingual Edition (+200 Tales) / Edición Bilingüe Completa (+200 Cuentos)
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
The Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen), is a collection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers or "Brothers Grimm", Jakob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. The first edition contained 86 stories, and...
Heaven and Hell
Garven Wilsonhulme takes on all comers in the jungle of modern competition
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Heaven and Hell is a novel of a man's driven life, one of overarching ambition. Here, Garven Wilsonhulme, would-be neurosurgeon, enters medical school and learns about the grim realities of competing for his place in a class where 50% of the students will be gone by the time of graduation. He makes...
Harvest Poems
1910-1960
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
A representative selection of poems, culled from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s published verse, plus thirteen poems appearing in book form for the first time. “[Sandburg’s poetry] is independent, honest, direct, lyric, and it endures, clamorous and muted, magical as life itself” (New York Times). Introduction by Mark Van Doren.
by Carl Van Doren
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Van Doren published this 1922 book on the American novel as it had developed in the past twenty years. He says of his book, “While criticism pauses to take stock, creation steadily goes on.” Here, he studies the style, argument, and art of Winston Churchill, Upton Sinclair, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Theodore Dreiser, and many other authors.
by Carl Van Doren
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
In this 1921 critical study, Van Doren examines the historical evolution of the American novel and the idea of the "Great American Novel." His essay on Melville argued forcefully and successfully for that then-neglected author's literary rehabilitation. Also studied here are Mark Twain, Henry James, James Fenimore Cooper, and others.