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Are you searching for true heroes your children can look up to—heroes who shaped a nation and modeled godly values? Step into the earliest days of America’s fight for freedom with Profiles of Valor: Vol. 1, a virtue-driven collection of biographical sketches from the War of Independence.

As the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political ascendancy in India today, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is undoubtedly one of the most contentious political thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century. Accounts of his eventful and stormy life have oscillated...

Blanche Wiesen Cook recreates Eleanor Roosevelt in all of her roles -- as a visionary, an activist, a political wife, and a woman far more independent than we knew. No other First Lady has had a greater influence in the course of democracy in this century, and no other book about Eleanor Roosevelt captures the complexity of her character - her wit, her passion, her boldness, and her commitment to greater dignity and security for all women and men.

Libertin, épicurien, esthète et séducteur incorrigible, Giacomo Casanova incarne le 18e siècle. Jouir de chaque instant fut le précepte de toute sa vie. Grâce à ses mémoires où il consigne ses moindres faits et gestes, de 1725 à 1798, nous pénétrons dans l'intime du 18e, des menus, des lieux, des pensées, des goûts de l'époque. Rédigées en français, ses mémoires, dont le manuscrit est accessible sur le site de la B.N.F., expriment son amour, immense, des femmes et de la vie, avec une précision parfois croustillante et une verve toujours savoureuse.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Prenumele lor sunt banale: Inessa, Clara, Nadia, Magda, Felismina, Elena, Jiang Qing, Catherine, dar numele de familie spun totul: Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Salazar, Mao, Ceauşescu, Bokassa. Unele sunt femei puternice, în stare să influenţeze decisiv hotărârile bărbaţilor din vieţile lor, pe când altele sunt doar victime şi au parte de un destin tragic. Unele se află în lumina reflectoarelor, sunt seducătoare sau stârnesc atenţie, în vreme ce altele sunt sortite să rămână mereu în umbră.

The collected stories in After the Wagon Wheels evolved from genealogical research into some of those families. While fascinating to build our family trees, what often comes out is a picture of the life they led; the hardships, the joys, the adventures, vignettes of the people themselves.