This volume brings together for the first time a series of studies on the social history of venereal disease in modern Europe and its former colonies. It explores, from a comparative perspective, th……続きを見る
A heartbreaking and moving true story of two sisters separated at birth, and their journey towards finding each other, celebrating the true meaning of family.
Helen Edwards grew up in a pit village ……続きを見る
The Easter rising in Dublin during 1916 has gone down as a brutal moment in history. Here is a fascinating account by a young Irish man written during those dark days in the form of letters to his f……続きを見る
著者:Bryan Prince
出版社: McClelland & Stewart
発売日: 2012年12月04日
The extraordinary story of one couple’s determination to free themselves and their children from slavery and make a new life in Canada
Prior to abolition in 1865, as many as 40,000 men, women, and c……続きを見る
著者:Abraham Lincoln
出版社: Library of Alexandria
発売日: 2026年03月18日
The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical f……続きを見る
著者:R. S. H. Moody
出版社: Library of Alexandria
発売日: 2025年09月28日
In the early hours of Tuesday morning the 5th August, 1914, the British Foreign Office issued this statement: “Owing to the summary rejection by the German Government of the request made by His Maje……続きを見る
著者:P. G. Wodehouse
出版社: Library of Alexandria
発売日: 2009年07月29日
The supper room of the Savoy Hotel was all brightness and glitter and gayety. But Sir James Willoughby Pitt, baronet, of the United Kingdom, looked round about him through the smoke of his cigarette……続きを見る
The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical f……続きを見る
著者:Grant Allen
出版社: Library of Alexandria
発売日: 2025年09月28日
An ancient and famous human institution is in pressing danger. Sir George Campbell has set his face against the time-honoured practice of Falling in Love. Parents innumerable, it is true, have set t……続きを見る
A word of introduction is necessary to explain the nature of this sketch of the history of Constantinople. It is the holiday-task, very pleasant to him, of a College don, to whom there is no city in……続きを見る
This walk is one of twelve walks in John Wilks' Walks Through History - Birmingham series which contains twelve walks within the city. The whole book is available as an ebook or physical book or you……続きを見る
著者:Craig L. Symonds
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
From thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie, to the carrier battles of World War II, to the devastating high-tech action in the Persian Gulf, here is a gripping histo……続きを見る
The mass of the Roman people constituted well over 90% of the population. Much ancient history, however, has focused on the lives, politics and culture of the minority elite. This book helps redress……続きを見る
This second edition of American Culture includes contemporary events and provides an introduction to American civilization. Extracts are taken from diverse sources such as political addresses, artic……続きを見る
(In preparing this study of the "plain people" the author has had opportunity to draw heavily from a general knowledge of them, by intimate contact and otherwise, as well as from a rich store of inf……続きを見る
LITTLE TORA. The kindly doctor was entertaining his brother-in-law, and all the family were sitting round the table in state. The polished silver and shining glass, with porcelain, flowers, and frui……続きを見る
No walk of life is more wild and adventurous than that of the questing miner, whom neither Arctic cold nor tropic heat can bar in his mad race for the buried treasures of the Earth; no profession is……続きを見る
著者:Anonymous
出版社: Library of Alexandria
発売日: 2025年09月28日
The blessed and glorious ever-virgin Mary, sprung from the royal stock and family of David, born in the city of Nazareth, was brought up at Jerusalem in the temple of the Lord. Her father was named ……続きを見る
I think I have a right to call myself a Philadelphian, though I am not sure if Philadelphia is of the same opinion. I was born in Philadelphia, as my Father was before me, but my ancestors, having h……続きを見る
著者:Thomas Dixon
出版社: Library of Alexandria
発売日: 2026年03月18日
The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical f……続きを見る
First published in 2001. This is Volume VII of the Foreign Policies of the Great Powers eleven part series and focuses on on the policies of France from 1914 to 1945. It includes sections on French ……続きを見る
著者:Anonymous
出版社: Library of Alexandria
発売日: 2025年09月28日
This is part I of the Sacred Books of the East Pahlavi Texts translation. It includes a number of crucial medieval Zoroastria. texts: the Bundahis, Selections of Zad-sparam, the Bahman Yast, an. the……続きを見る
著者:Stefan Schomann
出版社: Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH
発売日: 2013年10月14日
Vom Hilfswerk für verwundete Soldaten zur bedeutendsten humanitären Organisation der Welt
Unter dem Eindruck des Leidens verwundeter Soldaten auf dem Schlachtfeld von Solferino wurde 1863 in Genf ei……続きを見る
著者:Henry M. Brooks
出版社: Library of Alexandria
発売日: 2009年07月29日
There appears to be, from year to year, a growing popular taste for quaint and curious reminiscences of "Ye Olden Time," and to meet this, Mr. Henry M. Brooks has prepared a series of interesting ha……続きを見る
The Derwent Valley is one of this country's finest assets, both from the point of view of its heritage and magnificent scenery. The walks are suitable both for the long distance walker as well as fo……続きを見る
著者:Keith Jenkins
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2005年11月18日
Why History is an introduction to the issue of history and ethics. Designed to provoke discussion, the book asks whether a good knowledge and understanding of the past is a good thing to have and if……続きを見る
Taking a fresh new look at the energy industry and how the Earth's resources are being developed, the aim of this book is to aid engineers and scientists in attaining sustainability in this field, b……続きを見る
Por isso, me encarreguei gostosamente de dirigir esta edição das «Saudades», tarefa que não é de molde a conquistar louros, mas que não reputo banal nem despida de algum mérito. Tratando-se de uma e……続きを見る
Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from……続きを見る
A futile insurrection had been followed by terrible reprisals and a hardening everywhere of the articulated tyranny, terrorism, and espionage with which the Government ruled. Such from the beginning……続きを見る