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Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2005-04-26
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 0689865554
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe mystery-loving cats are back for one final adventure, in which Polo, who has longed for his mother, is surprised when she returns. But Geraldine isn't exactly the mother he expected. Can he convince her to change her roaming ways and stay? Illustrations.
Author: George Lane
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0872209695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpawning an empire ranging from Persia to China, Genghis Khan united a nomadic warrior culture that had lived with their agrarian neighbors through controlled and limited extortion. This accessible book provides an introduction to the history and culture of the Steppe people from which Genghis Khan emerged, and chronicles the events that led to his being named the Great Khan. Also included are sixteen biographical sketches, a wealth of annotated primary documents, five maps, an annotated timeline, a glossary, an annotated bibliography and several illustrations.
Author: Alan W. Armstrong
Publisher: Yearling
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0375833226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Mark and his mother lose touch with his father's Gobi Desert expedition, they travel to Venice, Italy, and there, while waiting for news of his father, Mark learns about Marco Polo and his adventures in the Far East.
Author: Peter Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 131787899X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mongols had a huge impact on medieval Europe and the Islamic world. This book provides a comprehensive survey of contacts between the Catholic West and the Mongol world-empire from the first appearance of Chinggis Khan’s armies in 1221 down to the death of Tamerlane (1405) and the battle of Tannenberg (1410). This book considers the Mongols as allies as well as conquerors; the perception of them in the West; the papal response to the threat (and opportunity) they presented; the fate of the Frankish principalities in the Holy Land in the path of the Mongol onslaught; Western European embassies and missions to the East; and the impact of the Mongols on the expanding world view of the maturing Middle Ages. For courses in crusading history and medieval European history.
Author: Gigi Levangie Grazer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2006-10-31
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1416523340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this hilarious romp through Hollywood, an award-winning screenwriter serves up a dose of delicious details that only an insider of the movie world could provide.
Author: Marco Polo
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 790
ISBN-13: 9780486275864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 1 of 2-volume set. One of the greatest books of all time — a vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals, political systems, much more. 200 illustrations, 32 maps and site plans.
Author: Dominick Dunne
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2012-02-22
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0307815013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBestselling author Dominick Dunne, who chronicles the escapades, excesses, and eccentricities of high society for Vanity Fair, offers fifteen provocative portraits of some of the most luminous figures of the decade . . . profiles of the movie legend who remains the only divorced wife of a U.S. president; the pretty singing star who fell in love with a notorious mobster; the brilliant photographer who took Dunne's picture weeks before succumbing to AIDS . . . sketches that detail the lavish wedding-that-never-was between an heiress and a counterfeit prince; the incarceration of a high-flying financier; and the brutal slaying of a film mogul and his sife, allegedly by their own two sons. Filled with pathos and wit and the twenty-four-carat insight of a society insider, The Mansions of Limbo offers a peek into a rarified world there nothing is ever enough.
Author: The American Institute of Wine & Food
Publisher: Board and Bench Publishing
Published: 2004-04-01
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1891267469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom birth until death, food and drink are the keystones of human existence as eating and drinking have always sustained our imaginations as well as our bodies, feeding our common need for art. In these volumes, the American Institute of Wine & Food gathers together the imaginative fare of writers, artists, chefs, food historians, and children to celebrate and illustrate gastronomy, the art and science of eating. Writings from Michael Jackson, Sharon Olds, Michael Dorris, Margaret Visser, Charles Simic, Carol Field, and David Mas Masumoto, among others, join with the art of painters and photographers such as Frida Kahlo, Tessa Traeger, Diego Rivera, Gary Kelley, Jeffrey Alford, and Naomi Duguid. Together these offerings represent some of the best culinary works of past and present and produce a feast for both the eyes and the mind.
Author: Richard A. Santillán, Joseph Thompson, Mikaela Selley, William Lange, Gregory Garrett
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467126357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMexican American Baseball in Houston and Southeast Texas pays tribute to the baseball and softball players and teams from Houston, Sugar Land, Texas City, Richmond, and other surrounding communities in the region. Since the early 1900s, this game has had an important role in the lives of area Mexican Americans. In the Houston barrios, when entrenched discriminatory practices obstructed city unity, the diamond brought people together. In the Sugar Land region, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and Anglos worked and played together, blurring racial lines. Baseball and softball built community pride and connected generations of Mexican American families. The wonderful stories and breathtaking images in this book help resurrect the rich and little-known history of Mexican American baseball and softball in this key part of Texas.
Author: Lynn E. Roller
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999-07-13
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0520210247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first thorough account of the nature and the spread of the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother, and the first to present her worship soberly as a religion rather than sensationally as an orgiastic celebration of self-castrated priest-attendants.
