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Will James' cowboy autobiography Lone Cowboy tells how a little boy, hardly more than a baby, becomes an orphan in the West; how an old French trapper, whom the boy calls Bopy, adopts him and takes him on his long, long hunts; how when he is hardly more than a little boy Bopy is lost in an icy river and the child, heartbroken, rides down into the prairie region alone-on his own. James gives a complete and varied idea of how a cowboy lives. This...

"The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers" is a 1926 book by Will Durant, in which he profiles several prominent Western philosophers and their ideas, beginning with Socrates and Plato and on through Friedrich Nietzsche. Durant attempts to show the interconnection of their ideas and how one philosopher's ideas informed the next. There are nine chapters each focused on one philosopher, and two more chapters each...

From the author of funny classics like "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes" and "The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody." Here in "How to Be a Hermit" are humorous essays and stories discussing house cleaning, cooking, sardines, spinach, clams, lettuce, cabbage, beans, coffee, budgets, entertaining, and the holidays. Will Cuppy (1884-1949) wrote extensively on his life as a hermit, the natural world, and just about anything else that proved...

Interweaves personal memoir and investigative journalism with the latest neuroscience and experimental psychology research to reveal how the stories individuals tell themselves about the world shape their beliefs, leading to self-deception, toxic partisanship, and science denial.

Author Will Millard and illustrator Rachel Qiuqi's In the Tide Pool: A Magic Flaps Book is an interactive first introduction to sea stars, anemone, and other ocean life features double-layer lift-the-flaps for fun and surprises. Explore life in a tide pool with five interactive nature stories. Each simple "story" is set across a double-page spread and is revealed through double-layer lift-the-flaps. Watch an anemone hide from a seagull, a hermit...

"I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals." - President Abraham Lincoln, when confronted about General Ulysses Grant's excessive drinking. Blood, gunfire, and whiskey: they are the three things that defined Civil War battlefields. In this fascinating, booze-drenched history of the war that almost tore America apart, historian Mark Will-Weber (author of Mint...

Jamies Leben wird nie wieder dasselbe sein. Sein Vater tot, seine Mutter vermisst und er selbst von einem Hünen namens Frankenstein entführt - an einen Ort wie aus einem Science-Fiction-Film. Hier residiert die geheimste Organisation der britischen Regierung: das Department 19. Verantwortlich für die Bekämpfung des Übernatürlichen. Gegründet vor über einem Jahrhundert von niemand Geringerem als Abraham van Helsing, dem Erzfeind des Grafen...

Serve up your own smokin' American-style BBQ Heat. Moisture. Smoke. These are the foundations of good BBQ. And with the Best of American Barbecue Smoker Cookbook, you'll discover how to control those elements and make barbecue magic in your own backyard. Along the way, you'll also read about the history of BBQ, get expert advice, examine different heat sources, and so much more. Most importantly, you'll learn how to prepare favorite recipes and...

"Beyond the Headlines: Unraveling JonBenét Ramsey" delves into the perplexing and tragic case of JonBenét Ramsey, a young beauty pageant contestant whose murder captivated the nation. This compelling book explores the evidence, theories, and the ongoing quest for answers in one of America's most infamous unsolved mysteries. Through meticulous research, expert analysis, and interviews, it seeks to shed light on the chilling circumstances surrounding...

"An admirably balanced assessment of an enormously complicated man who, wrongly but not ignobly, stood athwart history." - Kirkus Reviews, starred "Elegantly written, delicately nuanced, this compelling account brings Joe Kennedy and his family to life." - Bob Self, author of Neville Chamberlain: A Biography "A thoroughly revisionist but remarkably persuasive history of Joseph P. Kennedy's years in London" - David Nasaw , author of Pulitzer Prize–nominee...