books about: 1855     books:       Yellow Wolf: His Own Story7 reviews Lucullus Virgil McWhorter Caxton Printers Ltd, 1984 A lesson in history As a child growing up on the Camas Prairie. I was told by my Great Grandma. How her mother as a child & her parents had gone to the Fort at Mount Idaho to seek refuge from the NezPerce in 1877. Years later I was working in a small bar in the town of Whitebird, Idaho (Where the first battle occured.) One day a friend brought me this book and told me that he thought that I might be interested ...             The Principles of Psychology (1855) (Thoemmes Press - Classics in Psychology)6 reviews Herbert Spencer Thoemmes Continuum, 1998 A road not taken Why would anyone want to read a book about psychology that was first published 113 years ago? One answer is the rationale for reading any psychology book: that it provides insights into psychological issues not available elsewhere. Although many psychologists of the late 19th and early 20th century probably started their career by reading this book, it is not appropriate today as an ...             Ancestors and descendents of James Monroe Boase (1855-1934) of Erath County, Texas5 reviews John A Mead J.A. Mead, 1991 "...a beautiful and terrifying story..." "...a beautiful and terrifying story in honor of all people.... Van Vactor and Goodheart's decision to publish Cardinal in an elegant translation opens the door to a world rich in language and thought that we should be grateful to share." --The Philadelphia Inquirer. "...a profligate yet impeccably controlled work.... "...chilling set pieces are shrewdly paced to create primitive, almost ...             Mountain Light: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1855 (Golden Mountain Chronicles)5 reviews Laurence Yep HarperTrophy, 1997 Mountain Light Mountain Light Mountain Light by Lawrence Yep is the best children's book I have ever read. It is full of Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, love and at the same time like a cool documentary because it is so educational. It is about a young man that is faced with the decision whether or not to leave his friends and go back to his family or "pack" where he belongs. But he realizes that he has ...             The Sebastopol Sketches (Penguin Classics)7 reviews Leo Tolstoy Penguin Classics, 1986 Tolstoy at War The young Tolstoy took part in the defence of Sebastopol (1854-55) during the Crimean War, and these sketches (parts of which were written under fire) record his impressions of the drama and tumult of war. The first sketch, "Sebastopol in December" was published anonymously and attracted the attention of Tsar Alexander II and Turgenev. It is a short, emotionally patriotic piece recording the ...             The Crown and the Crucible (The Russians, Book 1)16 reviews Michael Phillips, Judith Pella Bethany House Publishers, 1991 Strong Story Line I read this whole series a couple of years ago and after reading many, many books since, I still hold that this is my favorite book. The whole series is great. I knew nothing of Russian history before reading this series, so I learned quite a bit! Though the book is full of historical facts, it is written in a way that doesn't make you feel like you are reading a history book. The story is ...             War14 reviews Gwynne Dyer Random House Value Publishing, 1987 Mastering War When a tourist lodge opened about twenty years ago in Kenya, the alpha males of a nearby baboon troop helped themselves to the easy pickings at the garbage dump. In the time honored tradition of baboon despotism where status obsessed males strictly enforce the prevailing hierarchy, the top ranking males claimed the spoils for themselves, and drove away their lower ranking brother baboons. The ...             Poems of Passion5 reviews Public Domain Books, 2005 Phenomenal. This book is one of the best I have read. For a woman to write these words over 100 years ago and still have the same meaning today is amazing. It shows that some things never really change.             Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition (Thrift Edition)5 reviews Walt Whitman Dover Publications, 2007 What More Can Be Said? It's difficult to think of something appropriate to say about a man who spent his life trying to express the panorama of humanity through the lense of his own heart. From a drop of blood to the grandeur of a shipyard or a continent, he takes all readers on a journey wild with raving, raging, sorrow, longing, humbleness and pride. At once he is totally modern and yet rife with history. For ...             Britain and the Crimea, 1855-566 reviews J.B. Conacher Palgrave Macmillan, 1987 Britain and the Crimea,1855-56:problems of war and peace 310 Blesionwest 5-8 Ouhatachou Nishinomiyashi Hyougoken 662-0836             A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-two Years with a World-Famous Detective Agency3 reviews Charles A. Siringo University of Nebraska Press, 1988 Siringo's Best Charles Siringo was the real deal, the rare 1870's cowboy who experienced the trail rides of the Wild West, but also felt the need and had the desire to put his experiences in writing. The stories in his books seem to be honest and legit, not inflated or self-indulgent. He was a man of great courage and resoursefulness, and the stories in this book are full of real-life examples. I have read ...             Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias3 reviews W. Bruce Lincoln Northern Illinois University Press, 1989 A standard work on Russia's most-ignored Tsar Nicholas I has always had a bad press in Russia as well as abroad. The Russians considered his regime to be harsh, riddled with contemptuous foreigners, in short 'un-Russian'. This image was created by exiles such as Herzen and Bakunin, and reinforced in communist times. In the West, Nicholas rigorous opposition to political novelties like constitutions and republics did little to improve his ...             Kierkegaard's Philosophy: Self Deception and Cowardice in the Present Age4 reviews John Mullen University Press of America, 1995 "It hurts so good . . . " I just finished reading the book. It is still sinking in. I thought I had understood what little I had read of Kirkegaard. I know now I was seriously wrong and that I must reacquaint myself with his works and thought. The margins of my copy (which I stole from my brother) are full of observations of relevance to my "style" of living. In one case, under the discussion of "The Group - In ...             A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974 (Eastern African studies)3 reviews Zewde Bahru James Currey Ltd, 1991 An excellent reference for those interested in Ethiopia An excellent book about the history of Ethiopia during 1855-1971. Prof. Zewde has brougt to light many of the more important points of Ethiopia's recent history. He does an surperb job describing the cultural as well as political history of his time period. I have learned much from this book. It is an enjoyable experience to read a well written book about Ethiopia that was written by an ...             Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-18924 reviews Walt Whitman Stonewall Inn Editions, 2000 One of the best Whitman collections I have ever seen... Why buy this when you can just go off and buy something like the "norton" edition or some other "complete works" ? Well, people who know a little about Whitman know that there were many versions of Leaves of Grass (as many as 8 or so) and that with each edition, Whitman was constantly revising and in many ways, neutering his own poetry. By his last "deathbed" edition, nearly all of the earlier ...             Kierkegaard's Attack Upon "Christendom" 1854-18554 reviews Soren Kierkegaard Princeton University Press, 1968 The ultimate Conspiracy Theory If you want to reassure yourself that Christianity is wrong or stupid or whatever, read Nietzsche's Antichrist. If you want to read something that actually frightens Christians, this is the book for you. The difference is Kierkegaard is a Christian with extensive Church experience so unlike Nietzsche he knows where the bones are buried. The whole thing amounts to an elaborate Conspiracy ...             Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (Monarch Notes)4 reviews Ruth H. Blackburn Monarch Press, 1988 A good book to read in the tub(if you take long baths often) Jane Eyre Book Review By Deborah Friedell Jane Eyre is the story of a "plain, small, and Quaker-like" governess who breaks through class barriers to win equal stature with the man she loves. She is a heroine not because she is beautiful and rich but because she has raw intelligence and compassion. In this classic piece of fiction, Charlotte Brontë showed a great command of ...             Venetian Glass: Confections in Glass 1855-19144 reviews Sheldon Barr Harry N. Abrams, 1998 A beautiful book full of great information This is a lovely book. The pictures are superb and it covers very clearly the history of glass-making in Venice during the late 19th and early 20th century. Major names and companies (Salviati, Seguso, Barovier, Toso, but not Venini) and the main styles of glass are discussed. A must for anyone wanting to know more about the Italian glass of this period. I would have liked to see in index, ...             Around the World on a Bicycle4 reviews Neeland Media LLC, 2004 Superb San Francisco to Boston, England to the Balkans, Turkey to Afghanistan, India, China and Japan: Stevens boldly cycled where no bicycler had gone before! On the recommendation of a friend, I've been looking for this book for years. So I was delighted to learn that it had just been republished for the first time since 1902. Yes, 1902: Stevens started his trip in 1884. This intrepid wheelman ...             A History of US: Book 6: War, Terrible War 1855-1865 (History of Us)4 reviews Joy Hakim Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 The History of US series gets the story of the Civil War "War, Terrible War: 1855-1865," the sixth volume in Joy Hakim's A History of US series, tells the story of the Civil War, although the author points out that there was nothing civil about it. Instead, Hakim favors Lincoln's notion that the purpose of the war was to give the nation a "new birth of freedom." Within these pages young readers will learn about the bloody conflict, beginning with ...              search for books 1854-1855, 1855-1865, 1855-1892, 1855-1914, 1855-1934, 1855-1974, ancestors, autocrat, charlotte, christendom, chronicles, classics, confections, cowardice, crucible, deception, descendents, detective, kierkegaard, nicholas, original, philosophy, principles, psychology, russians, sebastopol, selected, thoemmes, twenty-two, world-famous books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen kitchen: 1901 PARDONS BRETAGNE PELERIN ST ANNE PALUDE PRINT we recommend Strong Story Line Impressum - about us get your own free tagboard