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The series expanded in 1953 to include world history as a sub-series called World Landmark Books, and a second sub-series of larger-format books illustrated with color artwork or black and white photographs was introduced in the 1960s as Landmark Giant, which would continue releasing new titles beyond the end of the main series until 1974 ...
Washington's Crossing is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book written by David Hackett Fischer and part of the "Pivotal Moments in American History" series. It is primarily about George Washington's leadership during the 1776 campaign of the American Revolutionary War, culminating with George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River and the subsequent campaign, with the Battle of Trenton, the ...
The first volume was published in September 2018 and sold a reported 340,000 copies; the second volume followed in February 2020. [4] The first volume tackles sensitive topics, "A nearly 600-page book that covers early church history from 1815–1846 doesn't dwell on polygamy, but doesn't entirely skip over it either."
The annual Goodreads Choice Awards are the only major book awards chosen by readers for readers, and this year over 6.2 million votes were cast by book lovers for their favorite page-turners of ...
She published a second book in 1930 titled Stars of High Luminosity and she eventually became a full professor at Harvard and chairman of their astronomy department. Image credits: Molly Weinfurter
Biographer Kenneth Eble notes that the volume's title reflects with precision the final years of Fitzgerald's youth in the late 1920s: "All the Sad Young Men captures in a phrase the feeling he had in losing the most vibrant experiences of his life before age took them away." [5] Fitzgerald wrote the stories at a time of disillusionment.
Out of the 50 books I finished this year, these are the ones I loved so much I couldn’t stop talking about them. Some of these are older releases and some were published in 2024, but all of them ...
"I am only sad that I have to leave with a full trunk." [3] [note 37] — Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (26 September 1945). He died with multiple works left unfinished. "I'm convicted unfairly and I die innocent." [236] — Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician (24 October 1945), prior to execution by firing squad for murder and high ...