Kristine Bekere
118 books
Antiquity
458
John Bagnell Bury - Students’ Roman Empire part 1, A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius (27 B.C.-180 A.D.)
The writings of J. B. Bury, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the layman. This work covers the period from the beginning of the Roman Empire...
13 hours 42 minutes
*Non-fiction
583
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot - Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 3
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing...
13 hours 30 minutes
Antiquity
501
John Bagnell Bury - Students’ Roman Empire part 2, A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius (27 B.C.-180 A.D.)
The writings of J. B. Bury, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the layman. This work covers the period from the beginning of the Roman Empire...
13 hours 13 minutes
Health & Fitness
463
Robert Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 2
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the...
12 hours 58 minutes
War & Military
686
George Barton - Angels of the Battlefield
«Angels of the Battlefield: A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War» chronicles the compassionate services of these dedicated women during the bitter and bloody U.S. Civil War. These...
12 hours 55 minutes
True Crime
678
Arthur L. Hayward - Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
«If there be a haunted spot in London it must surely be a few square yards that lie a little west of the Marble Arch, for in the long course of some six centuries over fifty thousand felons, traitors and martyrs...
12 hours 51 minutes
Memoirs
507
Theodore Roosevelt - Through the Brazilian Wilderness
Roosevelt's popular book Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes his expedition into the Brazilian jungle in 1913 as a member of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition co-named after its leader, Brazilian...
12 hours 33 minutes
