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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
Series
Publisher
Rough Guides
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Sixth edition.
Physical Desc
1272 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Discover Europe on a budget with this comprehensive and entertaining travel guide, packed with practical information and honest recommendations by our independent experts. Whether you plan to watch a thrilling flamenco spectacle in Spain, celebrate Saint Patrick's Day in Ireland or get your history fix in fascinating Berlin, The Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget will help you discover the best places to explore, eat, drink, shop and sleep along the...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2004
Physical Desc
xiv, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Celebrated historian Charles Freeman, author of the 2009 surprise hit A.D. 381, explores the mysterious origin of the statues and their turbulent movements through Europe over the centuries: in Constantinople, at both its founding and sacking in the Fourth Crusade; in Venice, at both the height of its greatness and fall in 1797; in the Paris of Napoleon, and the revolutions of 1848; and back in Venice, the most romantic city in the world. In this...
Series
Publisher
Let's Go
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
60th anniversay edition.
Physical Desc
672 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Let's Go publishes the world's oldest budget travel guides, written by the world's youngest travel writers -- all Harvard students on their summer break. Armed with pens, notebooks, and dangerously few changes of underwear stuffed in their backpacks, our intrepid researchers go across continents, through time zones, and above expectations to seek out priceless travel experiences at less of a price. Let's Go has grown a lot in the 60 years since our...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 536 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1945, Europe lay in ruins. Some fifty million people were dead, and millions more languished in physical and moral disarray. The devastation of World War II was unprecedented in character as well as in scale. Unlike the First World War, the second blurred the line between soldier and civilian, inflicting untold horrors on people from all walks of life. A continent that had previously considered itself the very measure of civilization for the world...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 484 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark Ages. Yet according to historian Paul Collins, the story of the tenth century is the story of our culture's birth, of the emergence of our civilization...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed--from pre-Christianity to the fall of Communism--illuminating the remarkable cultural significance and richness of a place perpetually lost to the margins of history. Eastern Europe, the moniker, has gone out of fashion since the fall of the Soviet Union. Ask someone...
10) Dante: A Life
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
ix, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries.
However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about the context he wrote them in. In Dante, Barbero brings the legendary author’s Italy to life, describing the political intrigue, battles, city and society that shaped his life and work. The son of a shylock who dreams of belonging...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
x, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics ... Grayling points to three primary factors [behind this epochal shift]: the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature;...
Author
Publisher
Alferd Knopf Pub
Pub. Date
1992
Edition
EveryMan's Library
Physical Desc
Ixxii,620 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From his astonishing epic Paradise Lost, with its magnificent blank verse and mesmerizing characters, to the tragic brilliance of Samson Agonistes, Milton engaged the political and religious issues of his troubled times with subtlety and sophistication. His moving elegy “Lycidas,” written after the untimely drowning death of a friend, has been hailed as the greatest lyric poem in English. The classic shorter works, from the pastoral poems “L’Allegro”...