Nick Carter's Strange Power, Or, The Great Jewel Scandal
Title | Nick Carter's Strange Power, Or, The Great Jewel Scandal PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Carter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Actresses |
ISBN |
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
Title | George, Nicholas and Wilhelm PDF eBook |
Author | Miranda Carter |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 561 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1400043638 |
In the years before World War I, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Tsar Nicholas II. Carter uses the cousins' correspondence and a host of historical sources to tell their tragicomic stories.
The Rest Is Noise
Title | The Rest Is Noise PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Ross |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 706 |
Release | 2007-10-16 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1429932880 |
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
Albion's Seed
Title | Albion's Seed PDF eBook |
Author | David Hackett Fischer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 981 |
Release | 1991-03-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019974369X |
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
As You Wish
Title | As You Wish PDF eBook |
Author | Cary Elwes |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2014-10-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1476764026 |
In a 25th anniversary, behind-the-scenes account of the making of the cult-classic film, the lead actor shares never-before-told stories and exclusive photographs as well as interviews with Robin Wright, Billy Crystal and more. 100,000 first printing.
Billboard Music Week
Title | Billboard Music Week PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1126 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN |
American Science Fiction
Title | American Science Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Various |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-09-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1598531573 |
Collects nine classic science fiction novels from 1953 to 1958.