C.Martin Wilbur 
China in My Life: A Historian”s Own History [PDF ebook] 
A Historian’s Own History

This new study of the Meiji Government”s controversial Education Minister and thinker, Mori Arinori, seeks to complement Ivan P. Hall”s excellent earlier biography (1973) by providing an alternativ …

This is Volume I of six in the Ancient Near East Oriental series. First published in 1880, this provides a translated version of the History of Esarhaddon, son of Sennacherib and King od Assyria B.B. …

Constantin von Tischendorf was a pioneer. He existed in an age when biblical studies as we know it was being formed, when the quest for forgotten manuscripts and lost treasures was being undertaken w …

An anthology of five of the best autobiographical narratives detailing black life in New England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The volume is accompanied by Cottrol”s introduction, …

The interaction of poetry and politics has shaped Joan into a transnational myth dedicated to the most contradictory causes. No other character has inspired a more impressive list of writers, but no …

Inducted into the U.S. Army in 1942, Louis Guenther requested assignment to the U.S. Army Air Forces, where he was trained as an engineer and top turret gunner for the B-17 heavy bomber. Assigned to …

From an apprentice aircraft engineer, into a flying career. A commercial pilot flying Beaver”s, DC3 Dakota, Vicker”s Viscount and finally as a Training Captain on the Boeing B707. All with one airl …

If I’d really been serious about getting to grips with my mid-life crisis, then I’d have been better opting for a course of therapy than going off travelling. Or if I had to travel, I’d have been bet …