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A compulsively readable account of Hitler's last days, written by one of the first Americans to enter Hitler's bunker after the fall of Berlin
Saint Augustine -- the celebrated theologian who served as Bishop of Hippo from 396 C.E. until his death in 430 C.E. -- is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in the Western world. His autobiography, Confessions, remains among the most important religious writings in the Christian tradition. In this eye-opening and eminently readable biography, renowned historical scholar James J. O’Donnell picks up where Augustine himself left off to offer a fascinating, in-depth portrait of an unparalleled politician, writer, and churchman in a time of uncertainty and religious turmoil. Augustine is a triumphant chronicle of an extraordinary life that is certain to surprise and enlighten even those who believed they knew the complex and remarkable man of God.
In Avatars of the Word, O'Donnell reinterprets today's communication revolution through a series of refracted comparisons with earlier revolutionary periods: from the papyrus scroll to the codex and from copied manuscript to print.
"Imagine a book about an unnecessary war written by the ruthless general of an occupying army - a vivid and dramatic propaganda piece that forces the reader to identify with the conquerors and that is designed, like the war itself, to fuel the limitless political ambitions of the author. Could such a campaign autobiography ever be a great work of literature - perhaps even one of the greatest? It would be easy to think not, but such a book exists -and it helped transform Julius Caesar from a politician on the make into the Caesar of legend. This remarkable new translation of Caesar's famous but underappreciated War for Gaul captures, like never before in English, the gripping and powerfully c...
Volume contains: 1 Abbotts Decisions 508 (Disosway v. Winant) 2 Abbotts Decisions 19 (Ely v. Norton) 2 Abbotts Decisions 127 (Fire Dept. of Troy v. Bacon) 3 Abbotts Decisions 129 (McQueen v. Babcock) 3 Abbotts Decisions 386 (Northrop v. Syracuse) 3 Keyes Reports 397 (Ely v. Norton) 3 Keyes Reports 402 (Fire Dept. of Troy v. Bacon) 3 Keyes Reports 412 (Disosway v. Winant) 3 Keyes Reports 416 (Solms v. Rutgers Fire Ins. Co.) 3 Keyes Reports 428 (McQueen v. Babcock) 3 Keyes Reports 431 (Tanner v. Parshall) 3 Keyes Reports 434 (Douglass v. Day) 4 Abbotts Decisions 279 (Solms v. Rutgers Fire Ins. Co.) 4 Abbotts Decisions 356 (Tanner v. Parshall) 36 NY 248 (Osgood v. De Groot) 36 NY 255 (Adams v. Fort Plain Bk) 36 NY 358 (Onderdonk v. Voorhis) 36 NY 395 (Lewis v. Mott) 36 NY 408 (Robert v. Good) 36 NY 416 (Baskin v. Baskin) 36 NY 427 (Conkey v. Bond) 36 NY 473 (Brown v. Penfield) 36 NY 486 (Willis v. Mott) 36 NY 513 (Abeel v. Van Gelder) 36 NY 520 (Cook v. Barnes) 36 NY 522 (Beals v. Home Ins. Co.) 36 NY 607 (Nash v. People) 36 NY 619 (Potter v. Van Vranken) Unreported Case (Dolan v. Schultz)