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  • Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth

    Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece

    by Peter W. Rose ...
    In this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory from Homer to Plato where the ideology of inherited excellence—beliefs about descent from gods or heroes—is elaborated and challenged. Rose offers subtle and penetrating new readings of Homer's Iliad ... Read more

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  • Class in Archaic Greece

    by Peter W. Rose ...
    Archaic Greece saw a number of decisive changes, including the emergence of the polis, the foundation of Greek settlements throughout the Mediterranean and Black Sea, the organization of panhellenic games and festivals, the rise of tyranny, the invention of literacy, the composition of the Homeric epics and the emergence of lyric poetry, the development of monumental architecture and large scale ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

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    River of Blood [Dramatized Adaptation]

    The Frontiersman 2

    by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Ken Jackson, Jonathan Lee Taylor, Tim Getman, Steven Carpenter, Tia Shearer, Zeke Alton, Tim Carlin, Peter Holdway, Brian Hemmingsen, Evan Casey, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Amanda Forstrom, Terence Aselford, Michael John Casey, Scott McCormick, Matthew Ward, Richard Rohan, Bradley Smith, James Lewis, Ren Kasey, Sasha Olinick, Eleanor Todd, Lolita Horne, Nanette Savard, Colleen Delany ...
    Series series Frontiersman

    Unabridged

    4 hours 15 min

    America's most popular Western novelists continue their bold new series featuring Breckenridge Wallace, a big, strong, fierce kid fighting for a home in the towering Rocky Mountains...Breck Wallace was turning into a true mountain man on the American frontier. As a teenager in Tennessee he killed in self-defense, then left behind a woman he loved. With a gun and trap lines he is learning how to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A High Sierra Christmas [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Christmas 8

    by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Mort Shelby, James Lewis, Chris Genebach, Amanda Forstrom, Terence Aselford, Thomas Penny, Chris Stinson, Yasmin Tuazon, Kimberly Gilbert, Bruce Alan Rauscher, Nick DePinto, David Jourdan, Dani Stoller, Bradley Smith, Eric Messner, Christopher Walker, Michael Glenn, Matthew Bassett, Ken Jackson, Michael Mowen, James Konicek, Steve Wannall, Joe Mallon, Jeff Allin, Thomas Keegan, Richard Rohan, Michael John Casey, Robbie Gay, Peter Holdway, Danny Gavigan, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Katy Carkuff, Nora Achrati, Elizabeth Jernigan, Lawrence Redmond, Scott McCormick, Catherine Aselford, Marty Lodge, Colleen Delany, Nanette Savard, Mary C Davis, Ren Kasey, Harley Gordon ...
    Series series Christmas

    Unabridged

    5 hours 23 min

    A Jensen family holiday takes a dark and dangerous turn—on the infamous Donner Pass—in this thrilling epic adventure from the bestselling Johnstones...It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the High Sierras. But Smoke Jensen and his children, Louis and Denise, won't let a little snow stop them from heading to Reno for the holidays. There are two ways for them to get there: the long way, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Good War of Consul Reeves

    by Peter Rose ...
    Months before the start of the Pacific War in 1941, John Reeves – his career and marriage failing – is posted as British consul to the tiny Portuguese colony of Macao in southern China. The Japanese soon declare war on the West with their attacks on Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong. But because Portugal is neutral, Macao is left alone and becomes a tiny island of neutrality, an Asian Casablanca ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • As My Accountant Instructed and other writings

    by Peter Rose ...
    A collection of short stories and poetry Adventure, history, thrills and intrigue all mixed with insight and meaning. ... Read more

    $1.33 USD

  • Tropes of Intolerance

    Pride, Prejudice, and the Politics of Fear

    by Peter Rose ...
    Tropes of Intolerance is a Baedeker of bigotry, a short course on xenophobic racism and populist nationalism – both enduring threats to the social fabric of democratic societies.Each chapter is a self-contained commentary and a building block. In the first, the author considers the concepts of pride and prejudice and discusses patterns of discrimination and strategies of resistance. This is ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professor

    by Peter Rose ...
    Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professor describes the lucky journey of Peter Rose, an octogenarian sociologist, ethnographer, writer, teacher and world traveler. In the pages of this colorful memoir, the author comments on six decades of academic life in the U.S. and abroad, his work as researcher, editor and consultant, his excursions as a travel journalist, and some intimate portraits of those ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Food, Drink and Celebrations of the Hudson Valley Dutch

    by Peter G Rose ...
    The renowned food historian delves into the early culinary traditions of Dutch settlers in New York state and their influence on the American kitchen.In 1609, Henry Hudson, under contract with the Dutch East India Company, set out to discover the lucrative Northwest Passage. The Hudson River Valley is what he discovered instead, and along its banks Dutch culture took hold. While the Dutch ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Delicious December

    How the Dutch Brought Us Santa, Presents, and Treats: A Holiday Cookbook

    by Peter G. Rose ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    Food and history combine in this exploration of the Dutch influence on American holiday traditions. Includes more than one hundred easy-to-make holiday recipes.Delicious December mixes food and history in a celebration of Dutch and American Christmas traditions. In more than one hundred tried-and-true recipes, award-winning food historian Peter G. Rose draws on traditions that date back to the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • They and We

    Racial and Ethnic Relations in the United States and Beyond

    by Peter I. Rose ...
    The first edition of They and We was published shortly after the March on Washington in August 1963, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his memorable “I Have a Dream” speech, and just before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed by Congress. Now read by tens of thousands, this book has been updated and expanded seven times since then as it continues to provide a basic grounding in the ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Reckoning

    The Triumph of Order on the Texas Outlaw Frontier

    by Peter R. Rose ...
    Series series
    Isolated by geology and passed over by development, the vast, waterless tablelands of the Edwards Plateau of Texas became the stage for one of the great nineteenth-century dramas of Western justice. In 1873, opportunistic Anglo-Celtic cattlemen and homesteaders, protected by little other than personal firearms and their own bravado, began settling the stream-laced rangelands east of the plateau. ... Read more

    $9.95 USD