ContentsA Piece of Bread By Francois CoppeeThe Elixir of Life By Honore De BalzacThe Age For Love By Paul BourgetMateo Falcone By Prosper MerimeeThe Mirror By Catulle MendesMy Nephew Joseph By Ludovic HalevyA Forest Betrothal By Erckmann-chatrianZadig the Babylonian By Francois Marie Arouet De VoltaireAbandoned By Guy De MaupassantThe Guilty Secret By Paul De KockJean Monette By Eugene Francois VidocqSolan...

LENGTH: 2 hours and 30 minutes. Genre: Suspense. Explicit Language (Age 18+).In the heart-pounding thriller "Presumed Consent," journey deep into the underbelly of Chicago's medical world with Dr. Krey Thompson. Fresh out of medical school and desperate to provide for his family, Dr. Thompson finds himself ensnared in a web of corruption and deceit when he reluctantly agrees to work for PLYA, a prestigious organ retrieval organization.As Dr. Thompson naviga...

CONTENTS:Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell“Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” Richard Bell“Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre–Civil War Maryland,” Jessica Millward“Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore,” Martha S. Jones“‘Maryland Is This Day . . . True to the American Union’: The Election of 1860 and a Winter of Discontent,” Charles W. Mitchell...

In Peruvian Bark, Sir Clements Robert Markham recounts one of the most significant—and daring—scientific and imperial achievements of the 19th century: the transfer of cinchona trees, the source of quinine, from South America to British India. With vivid detail and historical clarity, Markham narrates the political, botanical, and logistical challenges faced by botanists, explorers, and colonial officials as they raced to secure a stable quinine supply to combat the scourge of mal...

This resource investigates the nature of energy and the discovery of its laws. Spanning all different types of energy, readers learn how they work, their histories, and how they were utilized in the advancement of the human race. Interesting sidebars, images, and a resource section support the reader’s learning experience.

This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.This Collection...

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous...

Charles Darwin was twenty-two when he set off on the voyage of a lifetime aboard HMS Beagle. This book contains his journal with numerous observations including natural history, people, places. This journey took Darwin to the Galapagos, Australian coral reefs and many other corners of our planet shaping his ideas about evolution and subsequent work on the origin of species.

This file includes: Madame Bovary, 1857; Salammbo, 1862; The Temptation of Saint Antony, 1874; Bouvard and Pechuchet 1881; Three Short Works (The Dance of Death, 1838; The Legend of Saint-Julian the Hospitaller, 1877; A Simple Soul, 1877); Herodias (long short story), 1877; Over Strand and Field: a Record of Travel Through Brittany; and The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters. According to Wikipedia: "Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 May 8, 1880) was a French writer who is counted amon...

In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended. Told through the words of the people who lived it, The Fall of the House of Dixie illuminates the way a war undertaken to preserve the status quo became a second American Revolution whose impact on the country was as strong and lasting...

In a startlingly innovative format, journalist Stephen A. Wynalda has constructed a painstakingly detailed day-by-day breakdown of president Abraham Lincoln’s decisions in office-including his signing of the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862; his signing of the legislation enacting the first federal income tax on August 5, 1861; and more personal incidents like the day his eleven-year-old son, Willie, died. Revealed are Lincoln’s private frustrations on September 28, 1862, as he wrote to vice ...

When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia and the Australasian coral reefs – all are to be found in these extraordinary writings. The insights made here were to set in mo...