The Fronde: The Stanhope Essay, 1905 (Classic Reprint), Gordon George Stuart
Автор: Dewitt, Helen Название: The Last Samurai ISBN: 1784707961 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784707965 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: `Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I`ve ever read` MARK HADDON`Original...witty...playful...a wonderfully funny book` JAMES WOOD`A triumph - a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form` A. Let loose on London, Ludo sets out on a secret quest to find the last samurai - the father he never knew.
Автор: Byron, Lord George Gordon Название: Letters and journals of lord byron (1798-1811) ISBN: 1406824240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781406824247 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13410.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Byron, Lord George Gordon Название: The Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (1811-1813) ISBN: 1406812293 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781406812299 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 17910.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Byron Lord George Gordon Название: The Letters of Lord Byron ISBN: 0992523478 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780992523473 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 24460.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Tucker Phillip Thomas Название: Custer at Gettysburg: A New Look at George Armstrong Custer Versus Jeb Stuart in the Battle`s Climactic Cavalry Charges ISBN: 0811738531 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780811738538 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 33000.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: George Armstrong Custer is famous for his fatal defeat at the Little Bighorn in 1876, but Custer's baptism of fire came during the Civil War. After graduating last in the West Point class of 1861, Custer served from the First Battle of Bull Run (only a month after graduation) through Appomattox, where he witnessed the surrender. But Custer's true rise to prominence began at Gettysburg in 1863. On the eve of the Battle of Gettysburg, only twenty-three years old and barely two years removed from being the goat of his West Point class, Custer received promotion to brigadier general and command - his first direct field command - of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade, the "Wolverines." Now that he held general rank, Custer felt comfortable wearing the distinctive, some said gaudy, uniform that helped skyrocket him into fame and legend. However flashy he may have been in style, Custer did not disappoint his superiors, who promoted him in a search for more aggressive cavalry officers. At approximately noon on July 3, 1863, Custer and his men heard enemy cannon fire: Stuart's signal to Lee that he was ready for action. Thus began the melee that was East Cavalry Field at Gettysburg. Much back and forth preceded Custer's career-defining action. An hour or two into the battle, after many of his cavalrymen had been reduced to hand-to-hand infantry-style fighting, Custer ordered a charge of one of his regiments and led it into action himself, screaming one of the battle's most famous lines: "Come on, you Wolverines!" Around three o'clock, Stuart mounted a final charge, which mowed down Union cavalry - until it ran into Custer's Wolverines, who stood firm, with Custer wielding a sword at their head, and broke the Confederates' last attack. In a book combining two popular subjects, Tucker recounts the story of Custer at Gettysburg with verve, shows how the Custer legend was born on the fields of the war's most famous battle, and offers eye-opening new perspectives on Gettysburg's overlooked cavalry battle.
Автор: Gordon Newell Название: Ready All! George Yeoman Pocock and Crew Racing ISBN: 0295997974 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295997971 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 91960.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In the 1920s, an upstart West Coast college began to challenge the Eastern universities in the ancient sport of crew racing. Sportswriters scoffed at the “crude western boats” and their crews. But for the next forty years, the University of Washington dominated rowing around the world.
The secret of the Huskies’ success was George Pocock, a soft-spoken English immigrant raised on the banks of the Thames. Pocock combined perfectionism with innovation to make the lightest, best-balanced, fastest shells the world had ever seen. After studying the magnificent canoes built by Northwest Indians, he broke with tradition and began to make shells of native cedar.
Pocock, who had been a champion sculler in his youth, never credited his boats for the accomplishments of a crew. He wanted every rower to share his vision of discipline and teamwork. As rowers from the University of Washington went on to become coaches at major universities across the country, Pocock’s philosophy—and his shells—became nationally famous in the world of crew.
Drawing on documents provided by Pocock’s family, photographs from the University of Washington Crew Archives, and interviews with rowers who revered the man, Newell evokes the times as well as the life of this unique figure in American sport.
Автор: Byron George Gordon Byron Название: Childe Harold`s Pilgrimage: A Romaunt ISBN: 0526042796 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780526042791 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 43610.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Byron George Gordon 1788- Название: Don Juan ISBN: 1094015717 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781094015712 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 37930.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
Lord Byron's satirical take on the legend of Don Juan is a moving and witty poem that sees the young hero in a reversal of roles. Juan sheds his image as a womanizer and instead becomes the victim of circumstance as he is relentlessly pursued by every woman he meets.
Comprising seventeen cantos of rhyming iambic pentameter, the poem is a crisp and accessible meditation on the madness of the world.
Автор: Gordon George A. Название: Immortality and the New Theodicy ISBN: 1098807014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098807016 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 9140.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book is a philosopher's venture at the truth. Its author, it is true, finds himself unable "to reason as if Christianity had never been," or to enter the field of discussion in any other relation than that of a religious teacher. Yet he aims to conduct his inquiry "purely upon rational grounds," and therefore considers it "inadmissible to introduce into the argument the ultimate basis of Christian belief in the future life, the resurrection of Christ." The term "theodicy " he regards as a pivotal word in the attempt which he makes "to carry the question of the immortality of man to the moral conception of the universe for determination." Some of his earlier chapters, upon which we may not linger, are entitled, "The Evidence for the Denial," "Value of the Evidence for Denial," "Postulates of Immortality," and "Illogical Limitations," such limitations being the "theories of the remnant, election, or probation." Dr. Gordon, having discussed these topics as preliminary to his positive argument, then finds his central proof for immortality in the doctrine of evolution. One sentence will show his logic: "When man's ethical nature is reached, and where so much room and material for development exist, it would seem to be not a violent inference from evolution to suppose that this world is but the first stage in the moral discipline of the race." His argument, in other words, from this point through the concluding chapters turns on the truth of evolution. Many, however, will feel that he makes too much of this experimental theory, and, in a vigorous protest yet cherished against evolution, will contend that the philosopher puts to sea in an untried boat. Yet Dr. Gordon's book is able and thought-provoking. -"The Methodist Review, Volume 79 1897]
Автор: Reid, Stuart Название: Gorgeous george and the timewarp trouser trumpers ISBN: 1910614114 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910614112 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 9190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Ever wanted a book so exciting it keeps you up past your bedtime? A story so mad that you`re scared to put it down in case the adventure goes on inside the pages after you`ve stopped reading? This book is a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff (Who?) that loops & swoops & poops & pops out to the shops, then meets itself coming back!
Автор: Reid, Stuart Название: Gorgeous george and the jumbo jobby juicer ISBN: 1910614068 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910614068 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
