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Carrot-Walnut Pie uses forest and woodland animals to teach children the value of morals, manners and fair play. Jeffrey's first adventure finds him face-to-face with the local bully. Out of fear he strays from his sense of right and wrong. However, a little friend gives him the chance not only to r... More

Could this strange looking and crazy talking woman of age be overcome from what happened in the past at Piney Haven, or was it the wine and pipe smoking that lead her to say things that just seemed to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up and scream. Only Aunt Daisy can recall what happene... More

The 1863 Vicksburg campaign was to prove decisive to the outcome of the American Civil War. Known as the 'Gibraltar of the West', Vicksburg was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River. In a masterly campaign Grant used riverboats and steamers to land his army south of the city. He t... More

At Bull Run, two inexperienced, ill-trained and poorly led armies clashed in the opening engagement of the American Civil War. Culminating in a stalwart defensive fight by Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson's Virginia Brigade, this is the story of the Confederacy's first victory. The author investigates the... More

Galen of Pergamum (AD 129-c.216) was the most influential doctor of later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and practice for more than fifteen hundred years. He was a prolific writer on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis and prognosis, pulse-doctrine, pharmacology, therapeutics, and ... More

This new edition of a short but fascinating text by Galen on causal theory contains the first translation of it into any modern language, and the first philosophical commentary thereon. The commentary ranges widely in Galen's oeuvre and compares his views with those of other ancient theorists. The i... More