The Pilgrim’s Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come, Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream, by John Bunyan

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages; Puritan movements; Christian life; Rating: (out of 2 reviews) List Price: $ 20.00 Price: $ 15.80  Read More →

Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban

ISBN13: 9780805088274 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed An American reporter’s chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, in the no-man’s-land between Afghanistan and PakistanJere Van Dyk was on the wrong side of the border. He and three Afghan guides had crossed into the tribal areas of Pakistan, where no Westerner had ventured for years, hoping to reach the home of a local chieftain by nightfall. But then a dozen... 

A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror

ISBN13: 9781595230324 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or... 

1776

America’s most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. 1776 tells two gripping stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire tried to stop them. This book destroys many popular myths about the wars of independence and reveals in fact how many Americans wished to remain British, and how many British had profound doubts about a military solution to the revolt. It shows that many of those fighting knew those on the other side well, and as the great decisions and battles... 

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Reviews

A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother’s mesmerizing “talk-story” tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upward. The author’s America is a landscape of confounding white “ghosts”–the... 

America: A Narrative History (Brief Eighth Edition) (Vol. One-Volume)

A book students will read. America, now in its twenty-fifth year, has sold more 1.2 million copies over the past seven editions and remains the most affordable history text on the market. The Brief Eighth Edition offers the attractive features of the full-length text—lively and accessible narrative style, a keen balance of political with social and cultural history, a full-color layout, and exceptional value—in a more concise format. Price: $ 48.02  Read More →

The Problems of Philosophy (Great Books in Philosophy)

‘Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?’ Philosophy is the attempt to answer such ultimate questions, not carelessly and dogmatically, as we might deal with them in ordinary life, but critically, after analysing how and why the questions arise and clarifying the assumptions and concepts on which they are based. This classic work, first published in 1912, has never been supplanted as an approachable introduction to the theory of philosophical enquiry. It gives Russell’s views on such subjects as the distinction between appearance... 

All things considered Reviews

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Fallacy of Success © © © rF”HERE has appeared in our time a particular class of books and articles which I sincerely and solemnly think may be called the silliest ever known among men. They are much more wild than the wildest romances of chivalry and much more dull than the dullest religious tract. Moreover, the romances of chivalry were at least about chivalry; the religious tracts are about religion.... 

Mythology

ISBN13: 9780316341141 Condition: USED – VERY GOOD Notes: A keystone of our culture is the body of myth and legend of the ancient Western world–stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity since time immemorial. Hamilton’s renowned classic brings this legacy to life anew, with impeccably accurate and accessible retellings of eternally spellbinding tales.Edith Hamilton loved the ancient Western myths with a passion–and this classic compendium is her tribute. “The tales of Greek mythology do not throw any clear light upon what early mankind was... 

The Devil’s Rooming House: The True Story of America’s Deadliest Female Serial Killer

ISBN13: 9781599216010 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. The gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spree *** A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in1911. As a terrible heat wave killed more than 2,000 people, another silent killer began her own murderous spree. That year a reporter for the Hartford Courant noticed a sharp rise in the number of obituaries for residents of a rooming house in Windsor, Connecticut, and began to suspect who was responsible: Amy Archer-Gilligan, who’d opened the Archer Home for Elderly People and Chronic... 

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