Otto Wood, the Bandit: The Freighthopping Thief, Bootlegger, and Convicted Murderer Behind the Appalachian Ballads, McKenzie Trevor

Автор: Harrison T Charles, Viles A Heather, Wood W Paul,
Название: Art in Theory 1900 - 2000
ISBN: 0631227083 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780631227083
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: * New edition of this popular anthology of twentieth-century art-theoretical texts. * Now updated to include the results of new research, together with significant contributions from the 1990s. * Includes writings by critics, philosophers, politicians and literary figures.

Автор: Mahfouz, Naguib
Название: The Beggar, The Thief and the Dogs, Autumn Quail
ISBN: 0385498357 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385498357
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Anchor proudly presents a new omnibus volume of three novels--previously published separately by Anchor--by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Assembled here is a collection of Mahfouz's artful meditations on the vicissitudes of post-Revolution Egypt. Diverse in style and narrative technique, together they render a rich, nuanced, and universally resonant vision of modern life in the Middle East.

The Beggar is a complex tale of alienation and despair. In the aftermath of Nasser's revolution, a man sacrifices his work and family to a series of illicit love affairs. Released from jail in post-Revolutionary times, the hero ofThe Thief and the Dogs blames an unjust society for his ill fortune, eventually bringing himself to destruction. Autumn Quail is a tale of moral responsibility, isolation, and political downfall about a corrupt bureaucrat who is one of the early victims of the purge after the 1952 revolution in Egypt.

Автор: Child Francis James
Название: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 3
ISBN: 0486431479 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486431475
Издательство: Dover
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Описание: Published between 1882 and 1898, this definitive collection compiles all the extant ballads with all known variants and features Child's commentary for each work. Volume III includes Parts V and VI of the original set -- ballads 114-188: "Mary Hamilton," "Flodden Field," "Sir Andrew Barton," and more than 30 ballads about Robin Hood.

Название: Otto Skorzeny: My Commando Operations
ISBN: 0887407188 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780887407185
Издательство: Schiffer
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Описание: The memoirs of the legendary Skorzeny appear here in its first unabridged English edition. Skorzenys fame began with the successful raid to free Benito Mussolini from the Gran Sasso, Italy in 1943. His elite commandos surprised Italian guards in a daring daytime raid. Hitler presented Skorzeny with the Knights Cross for this operation. Not only is this raid explained in minute detail, many of Skorzenys previously unknown operations in all European and Russian theatres of World War II are given in detailed accounts. Operation Griffin - the innovative use of German Kommandos dressed as American soldiers working behind enemy lines - during the Ardennes Offensive in 1944 is given in-depth coverage, as is Skorzenys rememberances on the Malmedy massacre. Skorzeny also offers his insights into the mysterious Rudolf Hess mission to England in May 1941, and offers a behind the scenes look at German and Russian secret military intelligence, and the workings of Canaris and Gehlen.

Автор: Child Francis James
Название: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 2
ISBN: 0486431460 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486431468
Издательство: Dover
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Описание: Volume 2 comprises parts 3 and 4 of the original ten-part study published between 1882 and 1898.

Автор: Wood Ronnie
Название: Ronnie
ISBN: 0330445049 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330445047
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: A candid, no-holds-barred romp through forty years of drugs, sex and rock `n roll

Автор: Wood, Gordon S.
Название: The American Revolution
ISBN: 0812970411 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812970418
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred years."--Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers

A magnificent account of the revolution in arms and consciousness that gave birth to the American republic.

When Abraham Lincoln sought to define the significance of the United States, he naturally looked back to the American Revolution. He knew that the Revolution not only had legally created the United States, but also had produced all of the great hopes and values of the American people. Our noblest ideals and aspirations-our commitments to freedom, constitutionalism, the well-being of ordinary people, and equality-came out of the Revolutionary era. Lincoln saw as well that the Revolution had convinced Americans that they were a special people with a special destiny to lead the world toward liberty. The Revolution, in short, gave birth to whatever sense of nationhood and national purpose Americans have had.

No doubt the story is a dramatic one: Thirteen insignificant colonies three thousand miles from the centers of Western civilization fought off British rule to become, in fewer than three decades, a huge, sprawling, rambunctious republic of nearly four million citizens. But the history of the American Revolution, like the history of the nation as a whole, ought not to be viewed simply as a story of right and wrong from which moral lessons are to be drawn. It is a complicated and at times ironic story that needs to be explained and understood, not blindly celebrated or condemned. How did this great revolution come about? What was its character? What were its consequences? These are the questions this short history seeks to answer. That it succeeds in such a profound and enthralling way is a tribute to Gordon Wood's mastery of his subject, and of the historian's craft.

From the Hardcover edition.