Provides a series of fourteen addresses delivered in 1993 before the Senate by Senator Robert C. Byrd. Discusses the constitutional history of separated and shared powers as shaped in the republic and empire of ancient Rome. These lectures are also in opposition to the proposed line-item veto concept. The introduction states that Senator Byrd delivered these speeches entirely from memory and without notes.

A beautifully illustrated account of the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts with informative details from the award-winning author of Electric BenThe story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the earliest recorded Greek myths. Here, master artist Robert Byrd has created a striking telling of the legend for a new generation of readers. Complete with explanatory notes and illustrated back matter, Jason and the Argonauts traces each step of our h...

For three hundred years the Society of Friends, or Quakers, has been forwarding to governments recommendations on foreign policy, and it has often been in the vanguard of thought in its social and political views. In this study, Dr. Byrd brings together and states carefully and accurately those beliefs, principles, attitudes, and practices which have been fundamental to the Quaker approach. He illustrates and verifies his statement by an analytical Friends acting in official and semi-offic...

A deeply informative and gorgeously illustrated look at the Statue of Liberty, from award-winning nonfiction master Robert Byrd.America's most iconic national symbol was a gift from France to the United States--provided America raised the money for the pedestal on which it was to stand. Urged on by the publisher Joseph Pulitzer, it was raised, largely with the help of children, in the first example of a crowd sourced fund-raising campaign. This book tells the story...

Electric Ben is now a 2013 Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Book Award Winner, a Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book, a Horn Fanfare Book, and a Robert F. Sibert Honor book!“a true standout…bright, witty, informative and cleverly organized as the man himself.” – The New York TimesA true Renaissance man, Benjamin Franklin was the first American celebrity. In pictures and text, master artist Robert Byrd documents Franklin's numerous and div...

Whack!What’s that?Could it be? A piece of the sky!Oh my!Chicken Little and his friends run, run, run to tell the king. Nothing stands in the way except...the sly Foxy Loxy. Surely they have time to stop for lunch with Foxy and his kits. But what happens when Chicken Little and company find themselves on the menu?What this classic story needs is a new ending and a brave hero. And maybe this time, it’s Chicken Little!...

Murder sparks witchcraft hysteria in this "entertaining" seventeenth-century historical mystery from the New York Times –bestselling author (Stephen King).It's 1699 in the coastal settlement of Fount Royal in the Carolinas when Rachel Howarth is sentenced to be hanged as a witch. She's been accused of murder, deviltry, and blasphemous sexual congress, and the beleaguered, God-fearing colonial village wants her dead. But M...

The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” the brilliant, charismatic physicist who...

Set around the January 26, 1700 Cascadia megathrust, the novel follows five interwoven POVs from river, inlet, and island communities on the North Pacific Coast. Tayiʼ (Cowichan) wrestles grief and stubborn pride until a night of sky-born "thunder without storm" forces him to lead children uphill; afterward he's entrusted with Thunderbird elements in regalia—weight that means work. Saayaa (Nuu-chah-nulth), trained in disciplined whaling protocol, becomes a steady field cap...

A new, improved and thoroughly updated edition of the bestselling photographic guide—the only one to cover every bird, in every plumage, ever recorded in Britain and IrelandA bestselling guide since it was first published, Britain's Birds has quickly established itself as the go-to photographic identification guide to the birds of Great Britain and Ireland—the most comprehensive, up-to-date, practical and user-friendly book of its kind. Acclaimed by birdwa...

"Birds of a Feather" is a science fiction novel set in a future world where the Earth has become a dystopian society controlled by a totalitarian regime. The story revolves around the character of Dan Pritchard, a man living in this oppressive future.Dan Pritchard is a member of a group that is rebelling against the regime, and his journey involves navigating the complexities of resistance and survival. The novel explores themes of freedom, conformity, and the struggle against authoritaria...

La biographie événement qui a inspiré le film Oppenheimer de Christopher NolanLe génie est parfois une malédiction. Robert Oppenheimer fut l'un des plus grands physiciens de son temps. Peu d'hommes pouvaient rivaliser avec son intelligence exceptionnelle et sa fantastique intuition scientifique. Ce talent hors norme l'a mené vers l'invention ultime, capable d'éradiquer la planète : la bombe atomique. Que penser d'un don qui conduit à la destruction univers...