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Stewards of Memory

The Past, Present, and Future of Historic Preservation at George Washington's Mount Vernon

de Luke J. Pecoraro, Thomas A. Reinhart, Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, Douglas Bradburn, Carl R. Lounsbury, Susan P. Schoelwer, Robert L. Fink, Alyson Steele0, George W. McDaniel1, Lydia Mattice Brandt2, Professor Scott E. Casper, PhD3, Professor Carter L. Hudgins, PhD4 ...

Mount Vernon, despite its importance as the estate of George Washington, is subject to the same threats of time as any property and has required considerable resources and organization to endure as a historic site and house. This book provides a window into the broad scope of preservation work undertaken at Mount Vernon over the course of more than 160 years and places this work within the context ... Leer más

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Mount Vernon, despite its importance as the estate of George Washington, is subject to the same threats of time as any property and has required considerable resources and organization to endure as a historic site and house. This book provides a window into the broad scope of preservation work undertaken at Mount Vernon over the course of more than 160 years and places this work within the context
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Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate

A Treasury of Fairy Tales, Adventures, Nature Studies, Myths, and Moral Classics

de C. E. Smith, Louey Chisholm, Harrison Weir, Harriet Putnam, Thomas Lambert Sappington, Carl Sandburg, Patten Beard, Margaret Warner Morley, Hector Malot, Charles Dickens, Catharine Shaw, Evelyn Sharp, Johanna Spyri, Heinrich Hoffmann, Roy Rutherford Bailey, Pamela Grey, E. Nesbit, Edward Stratemeyer, Loïs Bates, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Josephine Daskam Bacon, John Habberton, James Otis, Padraic Colum, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, E. Louise Smythe, F. J. Cross, Vesta J. Farnsworth, Douglas English, Francis Rolt-Wheeler, Ella Rodman Church, H. Lee M. Pike, Luna May Ennis, Claire Martha Coburn, Florence Emma Voigt Mendel, Mary F. Nixon-Roulet, Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade, Wm. H. Meadowcroft, Etta Blaisdell McDonald, James H. Shaw, Georgia Eldridge Hanley, W. Harcourt Bath, Paul B. Du Chaillu, Norman F. Langford, Jean M. Thompson, W. Warde Fowler, Katharine Elizabeth Dopp, Joseph Grinnell, Elizabeth Grinnell, Alfred John Church, Homer, A. L. O. E., C. M. Stevens, Francis La Flesche, Karl Friedrich Becker, George P. Upton, Paul Hume, Ruth Fox Hume, Rebecca Deming Moore, Helen Mildred Owen, L. WÃ¼rdig, Elisha Noyce, Julia Dalrymple, Henry C. McCook, Jim Kjelgaard, William Shakespeare, Mary Elting, Edith M. Patch, Mary Proctor, Olive Thorne Miller, Kathrine Lois Scobey, Olive Brown Horne, H. R. Hall, Ray Stannard Baker, Bernadine Bailey, E. F. Buckley, Rupert Sargent Holland, Benjamin Brewster, Neltje Blanchan, Burren Laughlin, L. L. Flood, Sarath Kumar Ghosh, Dorothy Crain, Oliver Optic, Dillon Wallace, Charles H. L. Johnston, G. E. Mitton, Mary Macgregor, John Bunyan, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, Josephine Pollard, May Farinholt Jones, Harriet Pearl Skinner ...

Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate surveys the capacious educational imagination of children's literature, bringing together moral tales, folklore, adventure narratives, animal studies, historical retellings, poetry, drama, and popular fiction. Its range moves from domestic realism and cautionary fantasy to natural-history writing and inherited classical ... Leer más

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Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate surveys the capacious educational imagination of children's literature, bringing together moral tales, folklore, adventure narratives, animal studies, historical retellings, poetry, drama, and popular fiction. Its range moves from domestic realism and cautionary fantasy to natural-history writing and inherited classical
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Prison Breaks: 13 Books of Prisoner-of-War Narratives

Thirteen Prisoner-of-War Narratives of Escape, Endurance, Resistance, and Survival

de Edward Edwards, George Pearson, Kenneth Darlaston Yearsley, Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston, John Alan Lyde Caunter, Mervin C. Simmons, Nellie L. McClung, Jean Martin, Pat O'Brien, A. J. Evans, Gunther PlÃ¼schow, E. H. Jones, Eric A. Keith, Horace Gray Gilliland, H. G. Durnford, W. H. Newlin ...

Prison Breaks gathers thirteen prisoner-of-war narratives into a capacious study of captivity, ingenuity, endurance, and the contested ethics of escape. Moving between memoir, adventure chronicle, military testimony, and reflective autobiography, the volume makes confinement a literary as well as political condition. Accounts of audacious flight, clandestine planning, and survival beyond prison ... Leer más

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Prison Breaks gathers thirteen prisoner-of-war narratives into a capacious study of captivity, ingenuity, endurance, and the contested ethics of escape. Moving between memoir, adventure chronicle, military testimony, and reflective autobiography, the volume makes confinement a literary as well as political condition. Accounts of audacious flight, clandestine planning, and survival beyond prison
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A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology

Classic Investigations of Poverty, Crime, Slums, Vagrancy, Vice, and Social Reform

de Harry Best, Jacob A. Riis, W. T. Stead, Eugene S. Talbot, Lillian William Betts, John E. Gunckel, Mrs. Sophie Van Elkan Lyons Burke, Guy Thorne, Bernard Mandeville, Samuel Merwin, Arthur Lawrence Hayward, James Harold Romain, Clifton R. Wooldridge, William Booth, L. O. Curon, Mary Higgs, George M. White, Sigmund Engel, Margaret Wynne Nevinson, John Josiah Munro, Caroline H. Woods, Nels Anderson, Charles Kingston, Josiah Flynt, Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg, V. M. Masten, Hans Kurella, R. M. Algie, A-No. 1, Louis Albert Banks, Samuel Paynter Wilson, W. A. Chapple, Roland Burnham Molineux, Carlo de Fornaro, John Thomas Smith, Roy K. Anderson, Jacobus X, Wellington Scott ...

A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology gathers a far-reaching body of writing on poverty, homelessness, crime, vice, institutional life, urban reform, and the social consequences of industrial modernity. Its materials span investigative reportage, sociological observation, reformist argument, case study, memoir, moral commentary, and popular exposé. The collection's breadth is ... Leer más

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A Comprehensive Compendium of 42 Books on Social Pathology gathers a far-reaching body of writing on poverty, homelessness, crime, vice, institutional life, urban reform, and the social consequences of industrial modernity. Its materials span investigative reportage, sociological observation, reformist argument, case study, memoir, moral commentary, and popular exposé. The collection's breadth is
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Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Delphi Classics)

de Henry David Thoreau, Delphi Classics ...

Series Libro 13 - Delphi Series Three
For over a hundred and fifty years, the essays, poetry and journals of the leading transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau have won the admiration of readers, due to the author’s natural observation, symbolic meanings, poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity and practical detail. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete published works of Henry David Thoreau, with numerous illustrations, ... Leer más

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For over a hundred and fifty years, the essays, poetry and journals of the leading transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau have won the admiration of readers, due to the author’s natural observation, symbolic meanings, poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity and practical detail. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete published works of Henry David Thoreau, with numerous illustrations,
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Greenmantle

de John Buchan ...

Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916, It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war.Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an ... Leer más

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Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916, It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr Standfast (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war.Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an
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Nothing of Importance

de Bernard Adams ...

Adams served as a lieutenant in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was stationed on the Western Front, primarily in the trenches of the Somme. In this memoir, he documents the daily life of a soldier, focusing on the mundane routines, camaraderie, and the moments of terror faced by men living in the trenches. Through his detailed and often stark writing, Adams captures the contrast ... Leer más

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Adams served as a lieutenant in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was stationed on the Western Front, primarily in the trenches of the Somme. In this memoir, he documents the daily life of a soldier, focusing on the mundane routines, camaraderie, and the moments of terror faced by men living in the trenches. Through his detailed and often stark writing, Adams captures the contrast
... Leer más
War Is War

de A. M. Burrage ...

Alfred Burrages War is War is his sincere and successful attempt to record his experiences as a private soldier in France during the First World War, his reactions to abnormal conditions and his observations.Written in the 1920s he wanted the curious to know what war was really like. Burrage realized that nearly all such memoirs were written by ex-officers who inevitably saw the war from a ... Leer más

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Alfred Burrages War is War is his sincere and successful attempt to record his experiences as a private soldier in France during the First World War, his reactions to abnormal conditions and his observations.Written in the 1920s he wanted the curious to know what war was really like. Burrage realized that nearly all such memoirs were written by ex-officers who inevitably saw the war from a
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS – Premium Illustrated Collection: (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. 11 Novels & 120+ Short Stories, Fairy Tales, Fables & Poems for Children (Including Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Series & The Arabian Nights)

de Kate Douglas Wiggin, Tristan Quillford ...

Ilustraciones de Claude A. Shepperson ...

CHILDREN'S BOOKS – Premium Illustrated Collection gathers Kate Douglas Wiggin's fiction and tales for the young into a richly accessible volume, foregrounding her gift for domestic comedy, moral feeling, and luminous characterization. Her prose belongs to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tradition of Anglo-American children's literature, where sentiment, ethical education, and ... Leer más

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CHILDREN'S BOOKS – Premium Illustrated Collection gathers Kate Douglas Wiggin's fiction and tales for the young into a richly accessible volume, foregrounding her gift for domestic comedy, moral feeling, and luminous characterization. Her prose belongs to the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tradition of Anglo-American children's literature, where sentiment, ethical education, and
... Leer más
Sevastopol Sketches (Sebastopol Sketches)

de Leo Tolstoy ...

"Sevastopol Sketches (Sebastopol Sketches)" is a collection of three works of historical fiction in which Tolstoy draws upon his real life experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol. The titular location draws its name from that of a city in Crimea and takes place during the Crimean war. The three tales in this collection are respectively titled "Sevastopol in December", "Sevastopol in May", and ... Leer más

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"Sevastopol Sketches (Sebastopol Sketches)" is a collection of three works of historical fiction in which Tolstoy draws upon his real life experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol. The titular location draws its name from that of a city in Crimea and takes place during the Crimean war. The three tales in this collection are respectively titled "Sevastopol in December", "Sevastopol in May", and
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A Passionate Prodigality

Fragments of Autobiography

de Guy Chapman ...

This classic WWI memoir by a decorated infantryman and historian presents a vivid account of life in the trenches on the Western Front.During World War One, Major Guy Chapman, OBE MC, served in the Royal Fusiliers and was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery. Joining soon after war was declared, Chapman was stationed in France and fought in the Battle of Arras.When Chapman's memoir, A ... Leer más

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This classic WWI memoir by a decorated infantryman and historian presents a vivid account of life in the trenches on the Western Front.During World War One, Major Guy Chapman, OBE MC, served in the Royal Fusiliers and was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery. Joining soon after war was declared, Chapman was stationed in France and fought in the Battle of Arras.When Chapman's memoir, A
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"Over There" with the Australians

Enriched edition. Unveiling the Australian Soldier's War Experience

de R. Hugh Knyvett, Jacob Prentiss ...

In "Over There" with the Australians, R. Hugh Knyvett offers a poignant narrative that captures the Australian perspective during World War I. The text blends firsthand accounts, vivid descriptions, and a contemplative tone that evokes the emotional turmoil faced by soldiers far from home. Knyvett's literary style is characterized by rich imagery and a deep sense of place, reflecting on the ... Leer más

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In "Over There" with the Australians, R. Hugh Knyvett offers a poignant narrative that captures the Australian perspective during World War I. The text blends firsthand accounts, vivid descriptions, and a contemplative tone that evokes the emotional turmoil faced by soldiers far from home. Knyvett's literary style is characterized by rich imagery and a deep sense of place, reflecting on the
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