The Boston Tea Party

Learn about the colonists' brave protest against British rule, how the Boston Tea Party united the colonies, and the response from Great Britain.

Oliver Twist

Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on Fleeing from poverty and hardship he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go however hard he tries to escape In Oliver Twist Dickens graphically conjures up the capitals underworld full of prostitutes thieves and lost and homeless children and gives a voice to the disadvantaged and…

Oliver Twist

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9780451529718

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480p; bw; pbk

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A Christmas Carol

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9780099529736

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Introducing Plato: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Plato provides a clear account of Plato's theory of knowledge and explains how this directed his provocative views on politics, ethics, and individual liberty. Offering detailed critical commentaries on all of the key doctrines of Platonism, it also charts Plato's influence on modern thinkers such as Jacques Derrida.

Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain is a novel about a soldier’s perilous journey back to his beloved near the Civil War's end. At once a love story & a harrowing account of one man’s long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a new talent in American literature. Based on local history & family stories passed down by Frazier’s great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded Confederate soldier, …

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

WHY ARE SOME NATIONS RICH AND OTHERS POOR, DIVIDED BY WEALTH AND POVERTY, HEALTH AND SICKNESS, FOOD AND FAMINE? Is it culture, the weather, geography that determines prosperity or poverty? As Why Nations Fail shows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Drawing on fifteen years of original research, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made p…

The Peanuts Guide to Friendship

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9781782113751

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The secret garden

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9780679847519

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Who woke the animals?

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9781444936162

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