Methodism: A Very Short Introduction, Abraham William J.
Автор: Verghese, Abraham Название: Cutting for stone ISBN: 0099443635 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099443636 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (5 шт.) Описание: My brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954. We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia. Where silk and steel fail, story must succeed. To begin at the beginning...
Автор: Eraly, Abraham Название: Mughal world ISBN: 0753823624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753823620 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 2691.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Inside the opulent, decadent world of the Mughal emperors
Автор: Grahame-Smith, Seth Название: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ISBN: 0446570990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780446570992 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Рейтинг: Цена: 1463.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Ascher, Abraham Название: Russia: A Short History ISBN: 1851686134 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781851686131 Издательство: TBS/GBS Рейтинг: Цена: 2572.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the emergence of the first Slavic state to the election of new President Dmitry Medvedev, this book presents the complex and turbulent history of Russia and its people. It covers Russia`s growing economic stature as well as the mounting divergence between the foreign policy stance of Russia and the US.
Автор: Goodwin Doris Kearns Название: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln ISBN: 1451688091 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781451688092 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 2414.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Winner of the Lincoln Prize
Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Abraham Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.
On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry.
Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires.
It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together, create the most unusual cabinet in history, and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the Union and winning the war.
We view the long, horrifying struggle from the vantage of the White House as Lincoln copes with incompetent generals, hostile congressmen, and his raucous cabinet.
He overcomes these obstacles by winning the respect of his former competitors, and in the case of Seward, finds a loyal and crucial friend to see him through.
This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history.
Автор: Abraham Anna Название: The Neuroscience of Creativity ISBN: 1316629619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316629611 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Neuroscience of Creativity introduces readers to the fascinating study of creativity and the brain, providing both the tools for further study and an explanation of the latest neuroscientific findings. Directed at a wide readership, it is a helpful guide into creativity research for students, researchers and non-specialists alike.
Описание: The battle on the Plains of Abraham lasted twenty minutes, and at its finish the course of a continent was changed forever: New military tactics were used for the first time against standard European formations; Generals Wolfe and Montcalm each died of gunshot wounds; France surrendered Quebec to the British, setting the course for the future of Canada; and British control of North America east of the Mississippi was assured. Also American participation in ousting the French spurred the confidence of the people of New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, who began to agitate for independence from Great Britain. In Northern Armageddon, Peter MacLeod, uses original research--diaries, journals, letters, and firsthand accounts--and all of his extensive knowledge and grasp of warfare and colonial North American history, to tell this epic story on a human scale. A huge, ambitious re-creation, MacLeod gives us the large-scale ramifications of this clash of armies, not only on the shape of North America, but on the history of Europe itself.
A new book--and companion to the Steven Spielberg film--tracing how Abraham Lincoln came to view slavery . . . and came to end it.
Steven Spielberg focused his movie Lincoln on the sixteenth president's tumultuous final months in office, when he pursued a course of action to end the Civil War, reunite the country, and abolish slavery. Invited by the filmmakers to write a special Lincoln book as a companion to the film, Harold Holzer, the distinguished historian and a consultant on the movie, now gives us a fast-paced, exciting new book on Lincoln's life and times, his evolving beliefs about slavery, and how he maneuvered to end it.
The story starts on January 31, 1865--less than three months before Lincoln's assassination--as the president anxiously awaits word on whether Congress will finally vote to pass the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Although the Emancipation Proclamation two years earlier had authorized the army to liberate slaves in Confederate territory, only a Constitutional amendment passed by Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the states would end slavery legally everywhere in the country.
Drawing from letters, speeches, memoirs, and documents by Lincoln and others, Holzer goes on to cover Lincoln's boyhood, his moves from Kentucky to Indiana to Illinois, his work as a lawyer and congressman, his unsuccessful candidacies for the U.S. Senate and his victory in two presidential elections, his arduous duties in the Civil War as commander in chief, his actions as president, and his relationships with his family, political rivals, and associates. Holzer provides a fresh view of America in those turbulent times, as well as fascinating insights into the challenges Lincoln faced as he weighed his personal beliefs against his presidential duties in relation to the slavery issue.
The passage of the Thirteenth Amendment would become the crowning achievement of Abraham Lincoln's life and the undisputed testament to his political genius. By viewing his life through this prism, Holzer makes an important passage in American history come alive for readers of all ages.
The book also includes thirty historical photographs, a chronology, a historical cast of characters, texts of selected Lincoln writings, a bibliography, and notes.
--School Library Journal
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