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Author: A. E. Shipley

John Willis Clark (1833-1910) devoted his life to the University of Cambridge, and this 1913 memoir by A. E. Shipley, Master of Christ's College, was a fitting tribute to a much admired man. His father was professor of a ...

Author: Carleton Olegario Maximo

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alan John Percivale Taylor, FBA was a British historian of the 20th century and renowned aca ...

Author: Larry Ann Evans

The Wayne County Jail was built in the residential area of Butternut Street in Lyons, NY in 1856. For 104 years, this jail and attached sheriff's residence was "the jail among us" where the sheriffs and their families li ...

Author: Alice Mabel Bacon

Title: A Japanese Interior.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 mill ...

Author: Alice Mabel Bacon

Title: A Japanese Interior.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 mill ...

Author: Douglas Sladen

Title: A Japanese Marriage.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 mill ...

Author: Takao Fusayama

Dr. Takao Fusayama's memoir was first brought to the publisher's attention by Louis Allen, the well-known English historian of World War 2 and author of the classic account of the Allied victory in the Pacific, 'End of t ...

Author: Kinji Imanishi

Although Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things) , the seminal 1941 work of Kinji Imanishi, had an enormous impact in Japan, both on scholars and on the general public, very little is known about it in the English ...

Author: Kinji Imanishi

Although Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things) , the seminal 1941 work of Kinji Imanishi, had an enormous impact in Japan, both on scholars and on the general public, very little is known about it in the English ...

Author: Sydney Charles Fishburn Jackson

Title: A Jaunt in Japan, or ninety days leave in the Far East.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest resea ...

Author: Hui Zou

In this volume, Hui Zou analyzes historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing, constructed dur ...

Author: R. Po-chia Hsia

A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight year ...

Author: R. Po-chia Hsia

A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight year ...

Author: Frederic Raphael

From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37-c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for ...

Author: Jake Ehrenreich

The Arguably Dysfunctional Insights of a 'Kid' from Brooklyn

As a boy, Jake Ehrenreich wanted nothing more than to fit in. The reality of being the first American-born child of Holocaust survivors with thick European a ...

Author: Frances Malino

Zalkind Hourwitz lived during one of the most pivotal periods in history. A Polish Jew born in 1752, Hourwitz moved to France in 1774 and entered the intellectual and political life of ancien regime Paris. Frances Malino ...

Author: Anonymous, Maria Henrietta De La Cherois Crommelin & May Crommelin

Title: A Jewel of a Girl. By the author of "Queenie" [May Crommelin].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's larges ...

Author: Stefan C. Reif

In this readable and intriguing study, Reif has told a number of remarkable stories. He has explained how Cairo came to have its important Genizah archive, how Cambridge developed its interests in Hebraica, and how a nu ...

Author: Stefan C. Reif

In this readable and intriguing study, Reif has told a number of remarkable stories. He has explained how Cairo came to have its important Genizah archive, how Cambridge developed its interests in Hebraica, and how a nu ...

Author: Jean Powers Soman & Frank L. Byrne

Marcus Spiegel, a German Jewish immigrant, served with the 67th and 120th Ohio Volunteer regiments during the Civil War. He saw action in Virginia, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, where he was fatally wounded in Ma ...