1939

"Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North's greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round Top, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate...

Proceeds from basic theory to design studies of concert and multiple purpose halls. This work is useful for undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of acoustics, architecture, psychology, physiology, and music, as well as acoustical consultants, audio engineers, and "sound coordinators" of concert halls and theaters.

"Captain Oswald Bastabel, ex-53rd Lancers and Special Air Police, finds himself hurled from the North East Frontier of 1902 in to the future world of 1973. He makes his way to London where he takes to the skies in the airship, the Lock Etive. Peace and prosperity reign, but not all of the British Empire's citizens support theis seeming stability. Caught up with an anarchist group led by barbarion warlord, O.T. Shaw, Bastable is forced to question...

"An annotated checklist with information on the birds of the state. More than 500 species accounts describe the birds' habitats, locations found, and data on the seasons of occurrence. A list of observers of cited discoveries of rarities is provided along with a history of ornithology in Rhode Island and a list of published literature"--

"The complete translations of the poet Seamus Heaney, a Nobel laureate and prolific, revolutionary translator"--

"Learn about Madame Web, the powerful clairvoyant whose powers have aided Spider-Man's heroics throughout the Marvel Universe, before and after her film release in February 2024! Spider-Man has many allies in the Marvel-Verse - but none other boasts the precognitive powers of the mysterious Madame Web! Cassandra Webb's incredible future sight helps the webslinger thwart a criminal who schemes to take over Peter Parker's current employer, the Daily...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero. Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred...

"A novel written by more than twenty-five major literary voices follows the tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan during the COVID-19 shutdown, as they gather on the roof, share stories, and become real neighbors."--

The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are among the best-loved and most famous in all of literature. What reader is not familiar with the stories "Little Red Riding Hood," "Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," "Rapunzel," "Rumpelstiltskin," or "Tom Thumb"? Derived from folktales that had been part of the oral storytelling tradition for centuries, these stories are acknowledged as literary landmarks that transcend their...

Ingmar Bergman's autobiographical film that witnesses the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden, through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander.