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  • Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism

    Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict

    de John Burt ...
    In their famous debates, Lincoln and Douglas struggled with how to behave when an ethical conflict like slavery strained democracy’s commitment to rule by both consent and principle. What conscience demands and what it can persuade others to agree to are not always the same. Ultimately, this tragic limitation of liberalism led Lincoln to war. ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots

    A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

    de Kathryn Burtinshaw, John Burt ...
    "Reveals the grisly conditions in which the mentally ill were kept . . . [and] harrowing details of the inhumane and gruesome treatment of these patients."— Daily MailIn the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in law and medical ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Madness, Murder and Mayhem

    Criminal Insanity in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

    de Kathryn Burtinshaw, John Burt ...
    Following an assassination attempt on George III in 1800, new legislation significantly altered the way the criminally insane were treated by the judicial system in Britain. This book explores these changes and explains the rationale for purpose-built criminal lunatic asylums in the Victorian era.Specific case studies are used to illustrate and describe some of the earliest patients at Broadmoor ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Transnational Tolstoy

    Between the West and the World

    de John Burt Foster, Jr. ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014Transnational Tolstoy renews and enhances our understanding of Tolstoy's fiction in the context of "World Literature," a term that he himself used in What is Art? (1897). It offers a fresh perspective on Tolstoy's fiction as it connects with writers and works from outside his Russian context, including Stendhal, Flaubert, Goethe, Proust, Lampedusa and Mahfouz ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Nabokov's Art of Memory and European Modernism

    de John Burt Foster, Jr. ...
    Despite Vladimir Nabokov's hostility toward literary labels, he clearly recognized his own place in cultural history. In a fresh approach stressing Nabokov's European context, John Foster shows how this writer's art of memory intersects with early twentieth-century modernism. Tracing his interests in temporal perspective and the mnemonic image, in intertextual "reminiscences," and in individuality ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Attempted Murder of Teddy Roosevelt

    A Novel

    de Burt Solomon ...
    Series Libro 2 - The John Hay Mysteries
    The Attempted Murder of Teddy Roosevelt is a historical thriller from award-winning political journalist Burt Solomon, featuring Teddy Roosevelt's near death...accident or assassination attempt?Theodore Roosevelt had been president for less than a year when on a tour in New England his horse-drawn carriage was broadsided by an electric trolley. TR was thrown clear but his Secret Service bodyguard ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Murder of Andrew Johnson

    A Novel

    de Burt Solomon ...
    Series Libro 3 - The John Hay Mysteries
    The next John Hay historical thriller from award-winning political journalist Burt Solomon, this time focused on one of America's most controversial presidents: Andrew Johnson.Andrew Johnson was called The Great Commoner, appealing to the masses, loathing the establishment and anyone he deemed elitist. Once Johnson made an enemy, you became his enemy for life. He saw insults where none were ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Audacity of Jesus Christ.

    The Divine Statements of the Lord Jesus Christ.

    de John C Burt. ...
    Narrado por John Connell Burt. ...

    Abreviado

    26 minutos

    The 'Audacity of Jesus Christ;' is all about the 'I Am' statements made by himself in the very light of the encounter between Moses and the Burning Bush and the Lord God Almighty.You may think that the Lord Jesus Christ was not being audacious? Yet, through the 'I Am' statements He was in real terms saying that He was and is the Lord God Almighty. ... Leer más

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  • The Murder of Willie Lincoln

    A Novel

    de Burt Solomon ...
    Series Libro 1 - The John Hay Mysteries
    The Murder of Willie Lincoln is an exciting historical fiction debut by award-winning political journalist Burt Solomon.Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and there seems no end to the war. Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate President of the United States, is using all his will to keep his beloved land together. But Lincoln's will and soul are tested when tragedy strikes the ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Boy Who Stole The Empire State Building., The

    A New Alien Superhero.

    de John C Burt. ...
    Narrado por John Connell Burt. ...

    Completo

    7 minutos

    This is a tale long in the making. It is all about how an Alien Superhero from the Planet Zook wanted and did steal the very Empire State Building in New York City. He literally ripped it out of its foundations and flew it to the moon and then onto his Home Planet of Zook.He goes by the earth name of Sam or Zoom Zoomer was his Zookian Name as well. ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Audiolibro

    Inverted World of Jesus Christ., The

    What the World Looks Like Through the Very Eyes of Jesus Christ?

    de John C Burt ...
    Narrado por John Connell Burt. ...

    Abreviado

    36 minutos

    This is the Audiobook "The Inverted World of Jesus Christ?" Within the very confines of this audiobook we will seek to think about how the World-at-Large was essentially turned upside down by the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ inverted all the so-called normal way and ways of doing things and even the way and the ways of viewing them. Think about how He changed the social norms of male and female ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Other Traditions

    de John Ashbery ...
    Series Libro 61 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    “An entertaining and shrewd little book … Ashbery is an accomplished raconteur.” —Charles Simic, New York Review of BooksThe most influential American poet of his generation appraises the lesser-known writers who shaped his own confounding, infinitely inventive work.John Ashbery was the quintessential “difficult poet.” When asked to explain his work, he typically responded by insisting that his ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD