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Biographical novel of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe and his medical service in Greece.

History of the U. S. frigate Constitution, from its launching on September 20, 1797 to the present.

The immense popularity of comics and graphic novels cannot be ignored. But in light of the comics boom that has taken place over the past 10 years, the artists, writers and publishers that make up the vibrant African American independent comics community have remained relatively unknown - until now. Black Comix brings together an unprecedented collection of largely unheard of, and undeniably masterful, comics art while also framing the work of these men and women in a broader historical and cultural context. With a foreword by Keith Knight and over 50 contributors, including Phonzie Davis, Jan-Michael Franklin, Frances Liddell, Kenjji Marshall, Lance Tooks, Rob Stull, Ashley A. Woods and many, more, the cross section of comics genres represented includes manga, superheroes, humor, history, science fiction and fantasy. This book is a must-have for comics readers.

Annotation Before Owen Wister''s publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel. This title details the evidence that Everett Johnson a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of Wister''s in Wyoming in the 1880s, was the initial and prime inspiration for Wister''s cowboy.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T136693 With an additional titlepage lacking the edition statement, bearing the imprint "London: printed in the year MDCCLIV," and a final advertisement leaf. ''A letter to a friend concerning the most useful way of preaching'' has a separate titlepage; register a London: printed for J. Buckland; and E. Dilly, 1754. 94, [2]p.; 12°

It is the 1930s and John P. Moore, an ambitious author, has just had his first story, a science fiction tale featuring the adventures of scientists and journalists taking the first trip to the planet Mars, published in Amazing Stories. But you won''t find that story, along with its two sequels, inside the pages of any copy of Amazing Stories - not in a pulp magazine collector''s vault, not on the internet archive and that is because the Amazing Stories that published Moore''s tales appeared within the pages of the negro newspapers of the day. Now, for the first time in over ninety years, you can read John P. Moore''s tales of interplanetary adventure and learn about the rediscovery of the Black Amazing Stories, the featured science fiction section of the IFS, a syndicated insert distributed by many negro newspapers, that had a circulation that enormously larger than the pulp magazines, and established by one of the men who would go on to buy Amazing Stories in the late 1930s.

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