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"Thomas Paine's powerful essays inspired two of the most important revolutions in history, in America and France. America's first bestseller, 'Common Sense' (1776) is a ringing denunciation of corrupt monarchies...'Rights of Man' (1791) is a fiery condemnation of a former friend'...
"Enemies onboard and off are only the beginning. The court martial of Sir Home Popham is underway at Portsmouth. When Captain Sir Thomas Kydd's sympathy for his former commanding officer's unauthorized actions in the doomed occupation of Buenos Aiers becomes known, Kydd finds h...
"It's Venom vs. Spider-Man once again ... for the first time! Eddie Brock takes on a very different web-slinger: Ben Reilly! With Venom a wanted man and Eddie's ex-wife Anne Weying caught in the middle, a deadly rivalry is reborn! And when the symbiote-hunting alien Xenophage tar...
From Zane Grey, Ambers, Mirage to Lauran Paine's The Silent Outcast, this collection of classic tales captures the spirit of adventure and excitement of the wild west.
Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know "the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one." Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was on...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolution--from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenmen...
Philosophy and fantasy, plays and poems, essays and epics -- 270 literary classics that range from "The Divine Comedy and "Death Comes for the Archbishop to "The Aeneid and "The Grapes of Wrath are summarized and analyzed in this essential reference.
Commander Thomas Kydd is abruptly withdrawn from his ship and from the ongoing war against Napoleon's forces to serve as guardian to an American inventor. He is not happy about this, nor are his superiors. But there is method in the admiralty's madness.
After being press-ganged into service, a wigmaker quickly learns how to survive and prosper on board a warship.