2007, ISBN: 9788190754606

Pasta blanda, Pasta dura

New York, NY: St Martins Press, 2000. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Ginny Diers (Photographer). BRAND NEW COPY. Softcover. Advanced Uncorrected Proof. A t… Más…

New York, NY: St Martins Press, 2000. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Ginny Diers (Photographer). BRAND NEW COPY. Softcover. Advanced Uncorrected Proof. A travel narrative, punctuated by fishing, chiefly through Montana and the area around Canada's Great Slave Lake. Journalist, sportsman and environmentalist John Holt (1951-), resident of Montana, reveals a world beyond the reach of the highways, fast food joints, ski lodges, swank dude ranches and flyfishing with wine and caviar in their drift boats --- the yet wild land, laboring ranchers, the blizzards, drought, wind, lightning that brings one to the knees, and Native Americans caught between tradition and invasion of the new., St Martins Press, 2000, 6, U.S.A.: Nan A. Talese, 2007. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Unread-PRISTINE-First Edition-First Printing with full number line.Chloe Dale's life is in good order. Her only child, Toby, has started his junior year at New York University; her husband, an academic on sabbatical, is working at home on his book about the Crusades; and Chloe is busy creating illustrations for a special edition of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Yet Chloe is disturbed-by the aggression of her government's foreign policy, by the poacher who roams the land behind her studio punctuating her solitude with rifle fire, and finally, by Toby's new girlfriend, a Croatian refugee named Salome Drago. Raised in the Croatian expatriate community of New Orleans, Salome is a toxic mix of the old world and the new: intelligent, superstitious, sly, seductive, and confident. But Salome's past is a mine of dangerous secrets, and the violence that destroyed her homeland is far from over. Chloe distrusts her on sight, and as Toby's obsession with Salome grows, Chloe's mistrust deepens, alienating her from her tolerant husband and besotted son. Rich with menace, the novel unfolds in a world where darkness intrudes into bright and pleasant places, a world with betrayal at its heart. In shimmering prose Valerie Martin raises the question: who shall inherit America?, Nan A. Talese, 2007, 6, Macmillan. First UK edition-first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Fine condition.Macmillan,2004.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) in fine condition, with Dj(creases on the outer and inner edges of the Dj cover,two small nicks on the Dj cover) in near fine condition.Illustrated with b/w photos,drawings,map.The book is new with a pencil mark impression on the edge of the first page of the book,light shelf wear inside the edges of the Dj cover.405pp including Notes,index.Price un-clipped.First edition.Heavy book. This is another paragraph Review:Was George Washington a dedicated slaveholder and, like Thomas Jefferson, a father of slave children? Or was he a closeted abolitionist and moralist who abhorred the abuse of African-Americans? In An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America Henry Wiencek delves into Washington's papers and new oral history information to assemble a portrait of the first President of the United States that (while uneven in the telling) concludes that Washington supported emancipation by the time of his death. n nTo begin, Wiencek briefly addresses and dismisses the claim that Washington fathered a child with Venus, (a slave owned by Washingtong's brother, John Augustine). According to Wiencek, the President was likely sterile and such an affair would have been out of character for a man who prided himself on self-control. n nWiencek's real focus in An Imperfect God is Washington's personal and political position regarding emancipation. The primary ground for Wiencek's argument is Washington's will and a selection of private letters that elaborate a plan for providing land and means for his freed laborers. The will in particular offers powerful evidence of Washington's true intentions, including explicit declarations manumitting Washington's slaves after his death. As Wiencek shows, the document punctuated a long period of equivocation. n nAn Imperfect God is an imperfect book. Wiencek's occasional first-person accounts of his field research, including discussions with descendants of Washington, feel strangely out of place in what is elsewhere a straightforward biography punctuated with digressions into Washington's larger historical context. Further, Wiencek sometimes dabbles in hagiography and is willing to excuse much in a man who was a slaveholder his entire life. Yet, Wiencek is right to point out the distinctions of Washington among the slaveholding Founding Fathers. Readers can only imagine along with Wiencek the national tragedy that could have been averted had Washington provided the great example of emancipation while in office., Macmillan, 4.5, Tara Books. Hardcover. Good. 9x6x0., Tara Books, 2.5<

2013, ISBN: 9788190754606

UK/New York: Osprey, 2013. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 7x0x9. Dennis, Peter. First edition. A fine copy. 2013 Soft Cover. 96 pp. In the seventh year of the Second Peloponnesian or … Más…

UK/New York: Osprey, 2013. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 7x0x9. Dennis, Peter. First edition. A fine copy. 2013 Soft Cover. 96 pp. In the seventh year of the Second Peloponnesian or 'Archidamian' War the Athenians occupied the promontory of Pylos on the west coast of the Peloponnese as a counterstroke to Sparta's repeated invasions of Attica. Over two days of fighting the small garrison beat off the Spartan army and fleet's determined efforts to dislodge it, and then the returning Athenian fleet won a crushing victory in the nearby waters of what is now known as Navarino Bay. As a consequence, a contingent of elite Spartan hoplites was stranded on the island of Sphacteria in the bay just to the south of Pylos for several weeks of inconclusive siege and blockade operations and an unproductive period of truce. The Athenians had full control of the sea. With the campaigning season drawing to a close, they finally decided to mount an attack on the island using unconventional tactics. An amphibious night attack overran the Spartan outpost covering the beaches and light-armed missile troops landed at daybreak in overwhelming numbers. The Spartans were slowly driven back to their stronghold at the tip of the island, losing men steadily and never allowed to engage in the hand-to-hand fighting at which they excelled. They held their final defensive line for a while until, as at Thermopylae, they found themselves also under attack from the rear. Then, exhausted and out of water, with their commander dead and his deputy incapacitated by wounds, and a large Spartan army close-by on the mainland but powerless to help them, the 292 survivors surrendered. This was a huge and surprising blow to the Spartans' glorious and fearsome reputation, and these prestigious prisoners-of-war served the Athenians very well as bargaining counters in the diplomatic activity that punctuated the hostilities that continued for the next four years. The Athenian victory also influenced the future conduct of the war by highlighting the limitations of the traditional hoplite mindset and tactics, and the battle-winning potential of light-armed troops, the hoplites' inferiors., Osprey, 2013, 5, Quarto Publishing Group UK. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects., Quarto Publishing Group UK, 3<