The Ancient Régime(Updated) (Origins of Contemporary France) by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, JohnDurand Hardcover, 846 Pages, Published 2019 by Hounskull Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-910893-01-2, ISBN: 1-910893-01-3
"Hippolyte Taine's fame as a historian rests on his monumental six-volume work, The Origins of Contemporary France, an effort to understand the France of his day undertaken after her defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the horrors of the Paris Commune of 1871. The Ancient Régime is the first volume. Drawing from memoirs, diaries, correspondence, archival material, and the arts, he performs a systematic examination of pre-revolu ..."
Behind Enemy Lines A Memoir by JohnDurand Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2005 by Puzzlebox Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9743783-2-9, ISBN: 0-9743783-2-1
"I felt starved for stimulation beyond the drudgery of our toil. After scanning the
newspaper I'd come back to report that we'd tested a bigger atomic bomb or that
Palestinian guerillas had attacked a Zionist outpost or that the Nationalist forces
on ..."
Understanding Heart Disease A Guide for Patients and Their Families by John-Durand Paperback, 141 Pages, Published 1990 by Mockingbird Communications ISBN-13: 978-0-9623214-0-5, ISBN: 0-9623214-0-0
"This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of o ..."
The Odyssey of Mary B by JohnDurand Paperback, 499 Pages, Published 2004 by Puzzlebox Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9743783-1-2, ISBN: 0-9743783-1-3
""Jesus Christ! A broken saw? What good is that? Throw it out!" A moment for its
owner to feel the familiarity of the tool, to remember the pleasure of its good
performance and the frustrations of its bad, then tossing it with a too-loud twang. "
Christ! Get in before you wake the whole town!" Pushing off. But who? Who
besides the fisherman and his family and the man with the broken saw? They
must have gotten away about midnight. A p ..."
Business of Trading in Stocks (1927) by JohnDurand Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2003 by Kessinger Publishing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-0-7661-6125-2, ISBN: 0-7661-6125-0
"In preparing these chapters on the art-science of speculation, the writer endeavored to drive home the need for independent thought and research in this field, ..."
""To treat of the Church, the School, and the Family, describe the modern milieu and note the facilities and obstacles which a society like our own encounters in this milieu," such was the programme of the last section of The Origins of Contemporary France. The present volume is a continuation of the first part of this programme; after the commune and the department, after local societies, the author was to study moral and intellectual b ..."
The Revolution - I(Updated) Anarchy (The Origins of Contemporary France) by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, JohnDurand Hardcover, 680 Pages, Published 2019 by Hounskull Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-910893-02-9, ISBN: 1-910893-02-1
"Volume number two of Taine’s Origins of Contemporary France deals with the first stages of the French Revolution, from its immediate prelude, the winter of 1788, until the rise of ‘the Mountain’. Taine details the dire economic and administrative conditions that led to the convocation of the States-General, the psychological transformation of the populace as it became aware of its squalid condition, and the intervention of ruffians and ..."
"Perhaps best known as the painter of Kindred Spirits, the quintessential Hudson River School painting, Asher B. Durand (1796 to 1886) was one of the most important American artists of the nineteenth century, a central figure as an artist, as a founder of art institutions, and as the acknowledged leader of the American landscape school from his election as president of the National Academy of Design in 1845 until his death at the age of ..."
Italy Rome and Naples by Taine, JohnDurand Hippolyte Hardcover, Published 2019 by Wentworth Press ISBN-13: 978-0-526-23303-8, ISBN: 0-526-23303-6
Peru Elite Power and Political Capture by Francisco Durand, John Crabtree Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2017 by Zed Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78360-903-1, ISBN: 1-78360-903-6