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Edward Bellamy was a popular American author known for his socialist thinking and his utopian book Looking Backward, which starts in the future year of 2000 and goes backwards.

Heart of Man by George the American literary critic and poet,Edward Woodberry.Woodberry was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, on May 12, 1855. The Woodberrys or Woodburys—various spellings of the name exist—immigrated early and, since settlement took root on the North Shore, have been native to Beverly and neighboring seaport towns.

Art and Social Movements offers a comparative, cross-border analysis of the role of visual artists in three social movements from the late 1960s through the early 1990s: the 1968 student movement and related activist art collectives in Mexico City, a Zapotec indigenous struggle in Oaxaca, and the...

Learn the words you need to succeed in high school Starting off with a powerful vocabulary is the best way to prepare for a successful, stress-free time in high school. High school opens a world of new ideas and experiences-along with more challenging and sophisticated concepts. Knowing these...

One of the most famous moments of the Sixties - and one which continues to this day to be grossly misconstrued, mistold, and loaded with undeserved meaning - is the night in July of 1965 when Bob Dylan played an electric set (or at least tried to play an electric set) at the Newport Folk Festival:...

「對權力的熱愛最為強烈又不容共享，舉世尊榮的極致來自天下萬眾的臣服。」 雄霸一方的光輝國度，偉大不滅的盛世羅馬 看人類史上最威名遠播的西方帝國，如何走入墮落、衰亡的命運 羅馬帝國的衰亡，是人類歷史上最偉大、驚人的一幕。 這個壽命橫跨千年的龐大帝國，深遠地影響了後世。 它繁盛時的疆域廣闊無比，越過英吉利海峽西進英國，東伐敘利亞、埃及；它豐美的文化跨越國界線，以壓倒性的強勢姿態，改變了各地的飲食習慣、建築、藝術，甚至是宗教。 一個帝國的崛起、昌盛與衰亡，羅馬世界的禍福安危，除了天時與地利，皇帝的個人素質更是最為人矚目的重要影響；凱撒、奧古斯都、圖拉真、君士坦丁……這些聲明鑠金、驍勇善戰的帝王，至今仍為人津津樂道。但羅馬帝國的偉大不只在光明面，它晦暗的歷史也成為提點後世的珍貴教材；暴君圖蜜善、喀利古拉、尼祿，他們的殘虐無情、善變與揮霍，暴露了人性最原始邪惡與暴虐，與偉大君王的光輝相襯托，成為人們需時時警覺的暗影。 吉朋的《羅馬帝國衰亡史》梳理羅馬一千三百年的歷史軌跡，洋洋灑灑六大冊，精選本擷取六卷精華，凝縮成一冊，以對帝國自身和帝國對外影響最鉅的三方面為本：1....

Dr. Cliff Williams was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi. At age eighteen months, he was stricken with polio. He had corrective surgery when he was about five years old. Dr Williams attended St. Francis Elementary and High School, Yazoo City, Mississippi. After high school, he had the second surgery...

Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a well known English novelist in the 19th century, and he's been immortalized for coining famous phrases like  "pursuit of the almighty dollar" and "the pen is mightier than the sword". In addition to being a politician, he wrote across all genres, from horror stories to historical fiction and action titles.

From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating study, Edward Vallance traces a national tendency...

This book is dedicated to anyone who is trying to cope with and overcome arthritis or many other debilitating conditions. Written from personal experience as well as clinical research, this unique resource explains the practical advantages of using marijuana over pharmaceuticals as therapeutic medicine....

The Love Story Of Abner Stone by Edward Carlile Litsey.

When talking about the Enlightenment, ornithology is seldom the first topic of conversation. Still, Enlightenment and ornithology converge in one important respect, that of abundance. In our time, new-wave ornithologists have renewed their faith in eighteenth-century expectations for the discovery...

When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate upon which to build their continental republic. However, French settlers had inhabited the territory stretching from Ohio to Oregon for over a century, blending into Native American networks, economies, and communities....

The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and...