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  • A True Life of Valor | The World War I Biography of Eugene Bullard

    by John Passmore ...
    The Black Swallow: A True Life of ValorOne man's journey from the Jim Crow South to the blood-soaked trenches of Verdun—and into the history books as the first African American fighter pilot.Born into the red clay of Georgia and haunted by the shadow of a lynch mob, Eugene Bullard didn't just escape the American South; he redefined the limits of human courage. Chasing a dream of a land where "all ... Read more

    $25.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncle Toms Companions: Or, Facts Stranger than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Toms Cabin

    by John Passmore Edwards ...
    Uncle Toms Companions: Or, Facts Stranger than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Toms Cabin is a collection of short biographies of famous former slaves, such as Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown. Heraklion Press has included a linked table of contents. ... Read more

    $2.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memoirs Of A Semi-Detached Australian

    by Passmore, John ...
    In this vivid and iconoclastic memoir, John Passmore takes us on an unsentimental journey from his childhood in Manly, then half-village, half-resort-'seven miles from Sydney, a thousand miles from care'-to the hot-house environment of the University of Sydney, and on to the realities of his imagined Europe. These physical voyages were rites of passage. The first marked the end of the fierce ... Read more

    $16.60 USD

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  • The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

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    This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain’s working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers’ memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. A new preface addresses the continuing relevance of the book amidst the upheavals of the present day.“An ... Read more

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  • Edwardian Turn Of Mind

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    The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age. The years between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War witnessed a turbulent and dramatic struggle between the old and the new. Samuel Hynes considers the principal areas of conflict - politics, science, the arts and the relations between men and women - and fills them with a wide-ranging ... Read more

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  • Nikolaus Pevsner

    The Life

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    Born Nikolai Pewsner into a Russian-Jewish family in Leipzig in 1902, Nikolaus Pevsner was a dedicated scholar who pursued a promising career as an academic in Dresden and Göttingen. When, in 1933 Jews were no longer permitted to teach in German universities, he lost his job and looked for employment in England. Here, over a long and amazingly industrious career, he made himself an authority on ... Read more

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  • Oxford Revisited

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  • Owl of Minerva

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    by Mary Midgley ...
    One of the UK's foremost moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her remarkable story in this elegiac and moving account of friendships found and lost, bitter philosophical battles and of a profound love of teaching.In spite of her many books and public profile, little is known about Mary's life. Part of a famous generation of women philosophers that includes Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, ... Read more

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  • Abroad

    British Literary Traveling between the Wars

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  • Three Guineas (annotated)

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    Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war — and a statement of feminine purpose.Annotated and introduced by feminist literary scholar Jane Marcus, this is an ideal edition for the college classroom and beyond.In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf ... Read more

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