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  • Vision and Communism

    Edited by Robert Bird, Christopher P. Heuer, Tumelo Mosaka, Stephanie Smith ...
    In the last thirty years of the Soviet Communist project, Viktor Koretsky's art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communism's moral health through the production of a distinctively Communist vision. In this sense Koretsky's art demonstrates what an "avant-garde late Communist art" would have looked like if we had ever seen it mature. Most striking of all, Koretsky was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Robert C. Byrd

    Child of the Appalachian Coalfields

    by ROBERT C. BYRD ...
    This autobiography follows West Virginia senator Robert C. Byrd’s experiences from his boyhood in the early 1920s to his election in 2000, which won him an unprecedented eighth term in the Senate. Within these pages, Senator Byrd offers commentary on national and international events that occurred throughout his long life in public service.His journey from the hardscrabble coalfields to the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Andrei Tarkovsky

    Elements of Cinema

    by Robert Bird ...
    The films of Andrei Tarkovsky have been revered as ranking on a par with the masterpieces of Russia's novelists and composers. His work, from films such as Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, Nostalgia and Sacrifice, has had an enormous influence on the style of contemporary European film, with its open narrative structures and slow, pensive mood; yet Tarkovsky has remained an ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Letter to the New President

    Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader

    by Robert C. Byrd, Steve Kettmann ...
    A legendary Senator advises our next President on the commonsense values necessary to lead our nationUnited States Senator Robert C. Byrd is the longest-serving member of the United States Senate in the history of our great Republic. Senator Byrd has served the people of West Virginia, and the nation, for fifty-four years, and has served alongside eleven Presidents. He was twice elected by his ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Liberty Arrives!

    How America's Grandest Statue Found Her Home

    by Robert Byrd ...
    Illustrated by Robert Byrd ...
    A deeply informative and gorgeously illustrated look at the Statue of Liberty, from award-winning nonfiction master Robert Byrd.America's most iconic national symbol was a gift from France to the United States--provided America raised the money for the pedestal on which it was to stand. Urged on by the publisher Joseph Pulitzer, it was raised, largely with the help of children, in the first ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Brave Chicken Little

    by Robert Byrd ...
    Illustrated by Robert Byrd ...
    Whack!What’s that?Could it be? A piece of the sky!Oh my!Chicken Little and his friends run, run, run to tell the king. Nothing stands in the way except...the sly Foxy Loxy. Surely they have time to stop for lunch with Foxy and his kits. But what happens when Chicken Little and company find themselves on the menu?What this classic story needs is a new ending and a brave hero. And maybe this time, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Senate of the Roman Republic

    Addresses on the Roman Constitutionalism

    by Robert Byrd ...
    Provides a series of fourteen addresses delivered in 1993 before the Senate by Senator Robert C. Byrd. Discusses the constitutional history of separated and shared powers as shaped in the republic and empire of ancient Rome. These lectures are also in opposition to the proposed line-item veto concept. The introduction states that Senator Byrd delivered these speeches entirely from memory and ... Read more

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  • Jason and the Argonauts

    The First Great Quest in Greek Mythology

    by Robert Byrd ...
    A beautifully illustrated account of the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts with informative details from the award-winning author of Electric BenThe story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the earliest recorded Greek myths. Here, master artist Robert Byrd has created a striking telling of the legend for a new generation of readers. Complete with explanatory notes and illustrated back matter ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Fyodor Dostoevsky

    by Robert Bird ...
    Series Book 40 - Critical Lives
    Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Demons, The Idiot – the complex and prolific Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is responsible for some of our greatest literary works and most enduring characters. He is acknowledged by critics as a pre-eminent writer of psychological fiction and a precursor of twentieth-century existentialism.Set in the troubled political and social world of nineteenth ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Electric Ben

    The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

    by Robert Byrd ...
    Electric Ben is now a 2013 Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Book Award Winner, a Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book, a Horn Fanfare Book, and a Robert F. Sibert Honor book!“a true standout…bright, witty, informative and cleverly organized as the man himself.” – The New York TimesA true Renaissance man, Benjamin Franklin was the first American celebrity. In pictures and text, master artist Robert ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Quaker Ways in Foreign Policy

    by Robert Byrd ...
    Series series Heritage
    For three hundred years the Society of Friends, or Quakers, has been forwarding to governments recommendations on foreign policy, and it has often been in the vanguard of thought in its social and political views. In this study, Dr. Byrd brings together and states carefully and accurately those beliefs, principles, attitudes, and practices which have been fundamental to the Quaker approach. He ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

    Voices from a Medieval Village

    by Laura Amy Schlitz ...
    Illustrated by Robert Byrd ...
    Step back to an English village in 1255, where life plays out in dramatic vignettes illuminating twenty-two unforgettable characters. Winner of the Newbery Medal.Maidens, monks, and millers’ sons -- in these pages, readers will meet them all. There’s Hugo, the lord’s nephew, forced to prove his manhood by hunting a wild boar; sharp-tongued Nelly, who supports her family by selling live eels; and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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