A Very Vintage Christmas embodies the nostalgia and sentimentality associated with the holiday season. Vintage ornaments, lights, decorations, cards and wrapping all conjure up happy memories of Christmases past and serve as tangible mementos of holidays shared with family and friends. In fact, finding these objects, decorating with them and ......
Collecting, Decorating, and Celebrating All Year Long
Very Vintage Holidays celebrates the joy and sentimentality associated with all the major holidays on the calendar, from Easter to Halloween to Christmas-and many more. Vintage decorations, customs, history, and lush images offer up great comfort, connection, and continuity in this fast-paced world. Each holiday is opportunity to slow down and ......
Refutes Edmund Burke's assertions that human liberties are an "entailed inheritance," that the alliance between church and state is necessary for civil order, and that civil authority should be restricted to men "of permanent property."
Charles L. Mee Jr., the author of Meeting at Potsdam, writes sharply and engagingly of the Kennedy-Johnson years and the "collapse of politics" after Vietnam and Watergate.
ISBN-13: 9781590774342
(Paperback)
Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT Imprint: M. EVANS & COMPANY
This walking tour of the neighborhood where the Georgetown Set lived includes recent photos of each house, anecdotes of it's inhabitants --from Phillip and Katharine Graham to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to the Kennedys--as well as a map to guide you down the historical brick sidewalks of Georgetown.
This walking tour of the neighborhood where the Georgetown Set lived includes recent photos of each house, anecdotes of it's inhabitants --from Phillip and Katharine Graham to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to the Kennedys--as well as a map to guide you down the historical brick sidewalks of Georgetown.
Takes the reader on an architectural tour of the State University of New York, the centrepiece of America's one of the largest university system. This book features guides of both the north and south campuses, their history and heritage. It offers maps as well as photographs of the impressive structures.
Humanism is a relatively young word, being coined only in 1808, and yet it is the most transcultural mode of thought ever conceived. This book follows the growth of related ideas of renaissance humanism also called liberal humanism, in the works of John Stuart Mill and others.
A True Account of Whaling and Redemption in the South Pacific
Nestled at the bottom of an old leather trunk for well over a century lay a forgotten manuscript—a long-lost story the authors great-great-grandson has now brought to life. At the heart of A Whaler at Twilight is the true account of an American whaler who embarked on a harrowing adventure in the South Pacific during the mid-nineteenth century ......
