For more than a century, Florida has thrived on its image as an exotic playground. Selling the Sunshine State offers a scrapbook of bygone brochures, postcards, souvenirs, and photos, all designed to lure northerners (and fellow southerners) into the peninsula.
This convenient and affordable little reference provides essential information about the world's most influential men and women. It includes nearly 7,000 entries covering people from all eras and nations. The book also covers major historical and contemporary figures, providng the spelling and pronunciation of names, birth and death dates, and career accomplishments. It also includes adjectives ...
In this unique book, John McPhee takes us into the world of several fascinating people. His inimitable style reveals the intricate details of his characters lives.
Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I ...
The rich pageant of Britain's history emerges nowhere more colorfully than in the story of its kings and queens. This spectacular book offers the most authoritative account of the British monarchy ever published for the general reader. With over 400 illustrations--a third of them in color--it traces the crown's full history from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. The authors present a ...
A name is usually the first important decision when a new baby arrives. In this helpful and fun book, authors Nick Harrison and Steve Miller offer Christian parents more than 5000 names and their meanings, along with interesting sidebars filled with facts and trivia relating to name selection. Included is a useful guide to hundreds of biblical names and their meanings. Parents will ...
Very Best Baby Name Book, the #1 best-selling baby name book in the world, is now bigger and better. The most important changes are: more names (50,000 names vs. 30,000 names previously) and more lists to help readers choose (100 lists vs. 25 lists previously). You will find the lists not only fun to read but illuminating and extremely helpful for parents who want to pick names with strong ...