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1) Pericles
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (3 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Likely written around 1607 or 1608 and attributed at least in part to Shakespeare, "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" is an adventure-filled play that follows the extended sailing journeys of a young prince. Pericles, a young prince from Phoenicia, is forced to flee Antioch when he correctly guesses a riddle that reveals the incestuous activity of King Antiochus. Unable to stay at home in Tyre because of Antiochus' vengeance, he sails away and ends up shipwrecked...
2) The new Cambridge modern history: Volume III the counter-reformation and price revolution 1559-1610
Publisher
Cambridge at the University Press
Pub. Date
1968
Physical Desc
xv, 598 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
[Distributed by] Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
12 sound discs (ca. 12 hr.): digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Turning Points in Modern History takes you on a far-reaching journey around the globe-- from China to the Americas to New Zealand-- to shed light on how two dozen of the top discoveries, inventions, political upheavals, and ideas since 1400 have shaped the modern world. Taught by award-winning history professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, these 24 thought-provoking lectures tell the amazing story of how life...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrait of the Bard is presented in the style of a travelogue based on interviews with actors, the curator of Shakespeare's birthplace, and academics, in an account that also shares the author's recollections of his own adventures in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxi, 435 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"We all know what Modern Art looks like. We've seen Monet's water lilies, we've admired Picasso's nudes, and we've gawked at Damien's shark, as well as the price tag. But what does it all mean? What is Modern Art? Who started it? Why do we love/hate it? And why is it such big money? What Are You Looking At? takes the reader on a captivating tour of modern art from Impressionism to the present day, telling the story of the movements, the artists and...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
303 p.
Language
English
Description
"One night at a dinner party in Florence, historian Daniel Lee was told about a remarkable discovery. An upholsterer in Amsterdam had found a bundle of swastika-covered documents inside the cushion of an armchair he was repairing. They belonged to Dr. Robert Griesinger, a lawyer from Stuttgart, who joined the S.S. and worked at the Reich's Ministry of Economics and Labour in Occupied Prague during the war. An expert in the history of the Holocaust,...
Author
Series
The accidental billioinaires volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""Aiden Sinclair was a commercial fisherman before he suddenly came into his billionaire inheritance. Now his former girlfriend who left town to marry someone else while Aiden was on a fishing trip is back after nearly a decade as a single mother and appears to hate him, but the white-hot chemistry is still there. As secrets come to light, there is more at stake than just Aiden's heart"-Provided by publisher"--