PURITAN

Joyless. Severe. Fanatical. "Haunted by the fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." That’s the Puritan reputation.

But to what extent is that reputation deserved?  Drawing on the latest research, and featuring interviews with some of the 

most celebrated scholars in the field, this beautiful and atmospheric...

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Tales of Space and Time

Tales of Space and Time
By H. G. Wells
A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles"Language: English
Published in: 1900
Word count: 71,304 words (≈ about 5 hours)

Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and i...

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The Art of War

The Art of War
by Sun Tzu
The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that was written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work on military strategies and tactics of its time.
The Art of War is one of the oldest books on military strategy in the world. ...

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The Articles of Confederation

The Articles of Confederation
By Benjamin Franklin
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, commonly referred to as the Articles of Confederation, was the first constitution of the thirteen United States of America. The Second Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft the 'Articles' in June 1776 and proposed the draft to the States for ratification in November ...

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The Big Shootout

Mike Looney and Sam Donald’s documentary The Big Shootout analyzes the football game played between Texas and Arkansas in December of 1969 at a time when they were the two highest-ranked squads in the country. The event became a lightning rod for controversy as President Nixon was in attendance while civil rights protestors made their voices heard because the game featured only white p...

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The Code of Hammurabi

The Code of Hammurabi
Translated by Rev. Claude Hermann Walter Johns
The Code of Hammurabi (Codex Hammurabi) is a well-preserved ancient law code, created ca. 1790 BC (middle chronology) in ancient Babylon. It was enacted by the sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi. One nearly complete example of the Code survives today, inscribed on a seven foot, four inch tall basalt stele in the Ak...

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The Complete Aristotle

The Complete Aristotle
By Aristotle
Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and student of Plato who stunningly changed the course of Western philosophy. He has gone down in history as one of the greatest philosophers of all time. Cicero, the Roman statesman and philosopher, once called his writing style "a river of gold;" and his scope of thought and subsequent influence ...

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The Einstein Theory of Relativity

The Einstein Theory of Relativity
by Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Whether it is true or not that not more than twelve persons in all the world are able to understand Einstein's Theory, it is nevertheless a fact that there is a constant demand for information about this much-debated topic of relativity. The books published on the subject are so technical that only a person trained in pur...

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The Federalist Papers

The Federalist Papers
By Publius
The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August 1788. A compilation of these and eight others, called The Federalist, was published in 1788 by J. and ...

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The Technique of the Mystery Story

The Technique of the Mystery Story
By Carolyn Wells
Do you love mystery stories, such as the Sherlock Holmes stories and those of Edgar Allan Poe and Agatha Christie? Do you ever yearn to be a good writer of mysteries?
Carolyn Wells was a prolific author of mystery novels. In this detailed book, she teaches the history, types, principles, devices, plots, and structures of m...

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