The rarity of these three volumes is immense and it is due to their initial printing numbers.
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New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2002.Ĭrossroads of Freedom: Antietam. The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War. Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.Ībraham Lincoln. War on the Waters: The Union & Confederate Navies, 1861–1865. The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters. In addition to serving as president of the American Historical Association, he has been president of Protect Historic America and the Society of American Historians. McPherson's works mostly focus on the American Civil War and Reconstruction, including Battle Cry of Freedom, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1989, and For Cause and Comrades, which won the Lincoln Prize in 1998. He received his PhD in 1963 from Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with C. McPherson is George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History emeritus at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1962. I’d been writing a lot of stuff for fun, mainly in various fandoms. I was first inspired to write this book toward the end of 2015. (via Goodreads) When were you first inspired to start Running With Lions? But to Sebastian’s surprise, sweaty days on the pitch, wandering the town’s streets, and bonding on the weekends sparks more than just friendship between them. Determined to reconnect with Emir for the sake of the Lions, he sets out to regain Emir’s trust. But when his estranged childhood best friend Emir Shah shows up to summer training camp, Sebastian realizes the team’s success may end up in the hands of the one guy who hates him. I’m looking forward to reading Running With Lions.īloomington High School Lions’ star goalie, Sebastian Hughes, should be excited about his senior year in Running With Lions: His teammates are amazing and he’s got a coach who doesn’t ask anyone to hide their sexuality. Hello, dear readers! Today I’m happy to introduce you to Julian Winters, author of Running With Lions, which debuts on June 7 through Duet Books! It’s a queer YA sports story the likes that the YA community has never seen before. 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Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad This famous Mark Twain novel, The Innocents Abroad, was an important novel in the history of subscription only books. 1869 1st ed Mark Twain Innocents Abroad Illustrated Travel Guide Holy Land One must travel, to learn. 651 followed by five pages of ads with "Personal History" on p. xviii reads "Thankful Devotion-A Newspaper Valedictory-Conclusion." Illustration on p. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1869. The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims Progress "Being some account of the Steamship Quaker City's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land With descriptions of countries, nations, incidents and adventures, as they appeared to the author" With two hundred and thirty-four illustrations. Extremities and corners rubbed, edges bumped.First 4 pages off from the spine but in good shape. Original publisher's half brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine with five raised bands. 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In his book, apart from Calvinists, Weber also discusses Lutherans (especially Pietists, but also notes differences between traditional Lutherans and Calvinists), Methodists, Baptists, Quakers, and Moravians (specifically referring to the Herrnhut-based community under Count von Zinzendorf's spiritual lead). In other words, the Protestant work ethic was an important force behind the unplanned and uncoordinated emergence of modern capitalism. In the book, Weber wrote that capitalism in Northern Europe evolved when the Protestant (particularly Calvinist) ethic influenced large numbers of people to engage in work in the secular world, developing their own enterprises and engaging in trade and the accumulation of wealth for investment. It is considered a founding text in economic sociology and a milestone contribution to sociological thought in general. Begun as a series of essays, the original German text was composed in 19, and was translated into English for the first time by American sociologist Talcott Parsons in 1930. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( German: Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus) is a book written by Max Weber, a German sociologist, economist, and politician. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism at Wikisource The bike smells like gasoline and makes a lot of noise, and sometimes I'm frightened when the wheels slip on the gravel on the dirt road, but the only thing that matters is that I'm holding on to him, that I'm holding on to him outside. We drive at high speed along back roads, through woods, vineyards, and oat fields. 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"Fear," young boy Brandon Stark is told, "is for the winter, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. The world of the Starks (winter, as the Stark motto has it, is coming) was so shiveringly, icily foreboding. I loved this fantasy world which was so light on magic and so heavy on blood and sex and death, and I was filled with glee to discover that this was one fantasy author who was happy to kill off just about anyone, hero or villain. I can get quite obsessive about my reading, so the summer of 2001 was a GRRM time for me. Ridiculously addictive as they were, I'd force myself to do half-an-hour of revision and then let myself have half-an-hour of reading: it was one of those joyful times, when you discover a new author and find a whole new series of books to mine your way through. I first read George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books when I was doing my finals. |