Name: A Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
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A Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

9781429096157

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One of the defining documents of the women's rights movement in the United States is the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. Principally authored by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the declaration was signed by one hundred attendees—sixty-eight women and thirty-two men—at the Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, NY in July 1848. The controversial and courageous document stated: “…because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of these United States. It would be another seventy-two years before the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. This short work is part of Applewood's “American Roots series, tactile mementos of American passions by some of America’s most famous writers and thinkers.

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A Message to Garcia

9781557092007

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Elbert Hubbard wrote this literary trifle in one hour after supper. Its management advice is both timeless and provocative. In the 111 years since it was written, more than 40 million copies have been distributed.

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A Short Biography of Abraham Lincoln

9781944038250

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Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, courageously brought our country successfully through the Civil War by fighting to uphold the Constitution and signed the 13th Amendment, making slavery illegal. From humble beginnings and largely self-educated, he was a master strategist. The great man was assassinated within days of the end of the Civil War. The Short Biographies series from Applewood’s Benna Books imprint features short, intriguing, and entertaining biographies of world-renowned figures.

A Short Biography of Alexander Hamilton

9781944038502

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Alexander Hamilton (ca. 1755 - 1854), was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, He was our first Secretary of the Treasury and founded our financial systems, the Coast Guard, and established a national bank. His many accomplishments are often dimmed by the drama of his duel with Aaron Burr. The Short Biographies series from Applewood's Benna Books imprint features short, intriguing, and entertaining biographies of world-renowned figures. Each beautiful hardcover book includes an interesting retelling of a single person's life, suitable for young adults and adults alike. These little gems will become beloved souvenirs of a favorite artist or a memorable trip to a museum.

A Short Biography of Charles M. Russell

9781944038489

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Every painting, sketch and sculpture of Charlie Russell told the story of the romance of the American West with his trademark wit and dynamic talent. He was the real deal, learning animal anatomy by skinning fur trappers’ game and nightherding on ranches. His profound admiration for Native Americans informed his sensitive portrayals. His art shaped our vision of what the Wild West looked like at the turn of the 19th century. The Short Biographies series from Applewood’s Benna Books imprint features short, intriguing, and entertaining biographies of world-renowned figures. Each beautiful hardcover book includes an interesting retelling of a single person's life, suitable for young adults and adults alike. These little gems will become beloved souvenirs of a favorite artist or a memorable trip to a museum.

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A Short Biography of Edgar Degas

9781944038144

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Edgar Degas (1834-1917) masterfully depicted ballerinas, racehorses, and the street life of 19th century Paris. He painted in Italy and New Orleans, each place influencing his art. He was a founder of the Impressionist movement, yet refused to be defined by it and held himself apart. Degas was an enigma and one of the great artists of his time. The Short Biographies series from Applewood's Benna Books imprint features short, intriguing, and entertaining biographies of world-renowned figures. Each beautiful hardcover book includes an interesting retelling of a single person's life, suitable for young adults and adults alike. These little gems will become beloved souvenirs of a favorite artist or a memorable trip to a museum.

A Short Biography of Ernest Hemingway

9781944038533

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“PaPa” Ernest Hemingway lived large and made a sizable impact on literature. He was a prolific novelist, winning both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Many of his stories came to life as a direct result of his own dramatic experiences. The Short Biographies series from Applewood’s Benna Books imprint features short, intriguing, and entertaining biographies of world-renowned figures. Each beautiful hardcover book includes an interesting retelling of a single person's life, suitable for young adults and adults alike. These little gems will become beloved souvenirs of a favorite artist or a memorable trip to a museum.

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A Short Biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

9781944038274

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, the nephew of President Theodore Roosevelt, was the longest serving US president, serving four terms and leading the country through the Great Depression and World War II. He embraced technology to reassure Americans through his “Fireside Chats” broadcast over radio. Never had the American public been so connected to their president. The Short Biographies series from Applewood’s Benna Books imprint features short, intriguing, and entertaining biographies of world-renowned figures. Each beautiful hardcover book includes an interesting retelling of a single person's life, suitable for young adults and adults alike. These little gems will become beloved souvenirs of a favorite artist or a memorable trip to a museum.

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A Short Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted

9781944038571

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Frederick Law Olmsted practiced the art of landscape architecture with a combination of elegance and practicality. He held a deep understanding of managing the human impact on the land. In addition to Central Park, the Biltmore Estate, and the “White City” of Chicago’s World Fair, he set the ground rules for Yosemite National Park. He was also a writer, an innovator in war injury; and a business man. The Short Biographies series from Applewood’s Benna Books imprint features short, intriguing, and entertaining biographies of world-renowned figures. Each beautiful hardcover book includes an interesting retelling of a single person's life, suitable for young adults and adults alike. These little gems will become beloved souvenirs of a favorite artist or a memorable trip to a museum.

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A Short Biography of Frida Kahlo

9781944038151

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Frida Kahlo was so intensely introspective that she rarely painted anything other than herself. Her physical body was wracked with pain and disfigurement. She turned her image into metaphors for the universe, the world, love, politics, sorrow, despair, even a mirror to ourselves. Her lifelong passionate love with Diego Rivera, another enormously skilled painter, fueled her passions. Her iconic style of environment and dress have only underscored her surreal paintings and created an indelible brand for the cult of Kahlo. The Short Biographies series from Applewood's Benna Books imprint features short, intriguing, and entertaining biographies of world-renowned figures. Each beautiful hardcover book includes an interesting retelling of a single person's life, suitable for young adults and adults alike. These little gems will become beloved souvenirs of a favorite artist or a memorable trip to a museum.

A Short Biography of John Muir

9781944038540

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John Muir: passionate, eccentric, inventive, tenacious. All these words together add up to the story of one of America’s most beloved conservationists. His legacy lives on in the Sierra Club that he co-founded, and most spectacularly in our wondrous national parks. The Short Biographies series from Applewood’s Benna Books imprint features short, intriguing, and entertaining biographies of world-renowned figures. Each beautiful hardcover book includes an interesting retelling of a single person's life, suitable for young adults and adults alike. These little gems will become beloved souvenirs of a favorite artist or a memorable trip to a museum.

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A Short Biography of John Singer Sargent

9781944038137

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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was an American painter who spent little time in the US. He grew up in a privileged, somewhat nomadic family living in Italy and France. Exposure to European art from an early age guided his exquisite paintings that captured both everyday life and portraits with drama and elegance. The Short Biographies series from Applewood's Benna Books imprint features short, intriguing, and entertaining biographies of world-renowned figures. Each beautiful hardcover book includes an interesting retelling of a single person's life, suitable for young adults and adults alike. These little gems will become beloved souvenirs of a favorite artist or a memorable trip to a museum.

A Short Biography of John Singer Sargent

A Short Biography of Margaret and Olaus Murie

9781944038649

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Olaus and Mardy Murie dedicated their lives to each other and to the environment with a shared passion for preserving wildlife and the natural world. Their important work in Alaska and Wyoming continues today. Theirs is an inspirational love story - for each other and for the world they lived in. The Short Biographies series from Applewood's Benna Books imprint features short, intriguing, and entertaining biographies of world-renowned figures. Each beautiful hardcover book includes an interesting retelling of a single person's life, suitable for young adults and adults alike. These little gems will become beloved souvenirs of a favorite artist or a memorable trip to a museum.

A Short Biography of Margaret and Olaus Murie

A Short Biography of Nancy Reagan

9781944038328

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Nancy Davis Reagan took a leap from actress to First Lady. When her husband—former actor Ronald Reagan—left the big screen for politics, she became his gracious and steadfast partner from the governor of California to the White House. The Short Biographies series from Applewood’s Benna Books imprint features short, intriguing, and entertaining biographies of world-renowned figures.

A Short Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne

9781944038564

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Chronicles the life of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), a New-England born American novelist and short story writer, best known as the author of The Scarlet Letter. The Short Biographies Series from Benna Books, an imprint of Applewood Books, are intriguing and entertaining short biographies that tell the details, insights and stories of renowned lives.

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A Short Biography of Pierre-Auguste Renoir

9781944038335

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir filled his paintings with light and beauty. Unlike his contemporaries, plein-air painters of landscapes, he filled his canvases with human movement: the swish of silk; the crackle of a crinoline. The Short Biographies series from Applewood’s Benna Books imprint features short, intriguing, and entertaining biographies of world-renowned figures. Each beautiful hardcover book includes an interesting retelling of a single person's life, suitable for young adults and adults alike. These little gems will become beloved souvenirs of a favorite artist or a memorable trip to a museum.

A Short Biography of Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A Short Biography of Rembrandt van Rijn

9781944038519

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Rembrandt van Rijn is revered as a genius of painting. He infused every painting with emotion and intensity. He was also one of the great marketers and thoroughly understood the value of branding himself. Rembrandt left us with paintings so stunning that artists through the ages have studied his work, striving to emulate it. The Short Biographies series from Applewood’s Benna Books imprint features short, intriguing, and entertaining biographies of world-renowned figures. Each beautiful hardcover book includes an interesting retelling of a single person's life, suitable for young adults and adults alike. These little gems will become beloved souvenirs of a favorite artist or a memorable trip to a museum.

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A Short Biography of Ronald Reagan

9781944038311

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Ronald Reagan had not one, but three full careers in his lifetime. He was a major film star, governor of California, and fortieth president of the United States. He had big dreams and made them come true. The Short Biographies series from Applewood’s Benna Books imprint features short, intriguing, and entertaining biographies of world-renowned figures. Each beautiful hardcover book includes an interesting retelling of a single person's life, suitable for young adults and adults alike. These little gems will become beloved souvenirs of a favorite artist or a memorable trip to a museum.

A Short Biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

9781944038694

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg leads a life of ethics and grace. She is the super-hero of gender equality for both men and women. As the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States, she is anchoring American values in our lifetime. The Honorable Ginsburg is now one of three impressive women, fondly called The Supremes, on the bench. This biography takes the reader on the remarkable journey that has been Ginsburg’s life, one lived with determination, fearlessness, and clarity. Her love of her family shines through and is the fuel for her passion for justice and equality under the law.

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A Short Biography of Washington Irving

9781944038229

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Washington Irving, born the year the Revolutionary War ended, was America's first "Man of Letters." As much as the Founding Fathers structured our government, Irving, with his quirky wit, shaped the immigrant American culture. He created ghost stories and myths; nicknamed New York City; and wrote our own version of Christmas. The Short Biographies series from Applewood's Benna Books imprint features short, intriguing, and entertaining biographies of world-renowned figures.

A Short History of Boston

9781889833477

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Until 2004 and the publication of A Short History of Boston, there was no good short history of the city of Boston, not in print anyway. With economy and style, Dr. Robert Allison brings Boston history alive, from the Puritan theocracy of the seventeenth century to the Big Dig of the twenty-first. His book includes a wealth of illustrations, a lengthy chronology of the key events in four centuries of Boston history, and twenty short profiles of exceptional Bostonians, from founder John Winthrop to heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan, from heretic Anne Hutchinson to Russian-American author Mary Antin. Says the Provincetown Arts, A first-rate short history of the city, lavishly illustrated, lovingly written, and instantly the best book of its kind.

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A White Heron

9781429096287

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Sarah Orne Jewett places her most famous short story, A White Heron, in her native Maine. Originally published in 1886, it's a coming-of-age story about a young city girl now living with her grandmother in the country. She comes out of her shell in nature, more comfortable with creatures than with people. A visit from a young bird hunter awakens her interest in the opposite sex, but when presented with an ethical decision, she protects her beloved white heron, instead of revealing its location. ...she remembers how the white heron came flying through the golden air and how they watched the sea and the morning together, and Sylvia cannot speak; she cannot tell the heron's secret and give its life away.

This short work is part of Applewood's American Roots series, tactile mementos of American passions by some of America's most famous writers and thinkers.

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A Wind-Storm in the Forests

9781429096140

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The nature writings of pioneering environmentalist and Sierra Club founder John Muir are like no other. In this essay from 1894, Muir describes the grandeur of the winds at play in the forests, with stunning and musical detail about the trees of the Sierra and their individual reaction to the wind. Muir’s story of climbing a 100-foot Douglas Spruce to experience the sway and swirl of a storm for himself is unforgettable. This short work is part of Applewood’s “American Roots,” series, tactile mementos of American passions by some of America’s most famous writers.

a Wind-Storm in the Forests

9781429095075

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The nature writings of pioneering environmentalist and Sierra Club founder John Muir are like no other. In this essay from 1894, Muir describes the grandeur of the winds at play in the forests, with stunning and musical detail about the trees of the Sierra and their individual reaction to the wind. Muir’s story of climbing a 100-foot Douglas Spruce to experience the sway and swirl of a storm for himself is unforgettable. This short work is part of Applewood’s “American Roots,” series, tactile mementoes of American passions by some of America’s most famous writers.

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A Winter Walk

9781429096126

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New England transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau’s 1843 essay “A Winter Walk” is a loving celebration of winter and walking. Thoreau vividly renders the winter season, writing of its sparkling beauty, its purity, and its stillness, and perfectly describing the warmth, coziness, and cheer to be found back at the home hearth. This short work is part of Applewood’s “American Roots,” series, tactile mementos of American passions by some of America’s most famous writers.

A Winter Walk

9781429095082

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New England transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau’s 1843 essay “A Winter Walk” is a loving celebration of winter and walking. Thoreau vividly renders the winter season, writing of its sparkling beauty, its purity, and its stillness, and perfectly describing the warmth, coziness, and cheer to be found back at the home hearth. This short work is part of Applewood’s “American Roots,” series, tactile mementoes of American passions by some of America’s most famous writers.

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A-Birding on a Bronco

9781429096959

$19.95

Trailblazing ornithologist Florence A. Merriam’s classic firsthand account of her adventurous and influential field work through Southern California on horseback, first published in 1896.

A-Birding on a Bronco is Florence A. Merriam’s enduring personal narrative of the natural wonders and new bird species she encountered while surveying the southern California wilderness atop Canello, her trusty white bronco.

As the first female member of the American Ornithologists’ Union, Merriam was a trailblazer in the emerging field of birding in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Merriam’s pioneering field work took her across the United States. Perhaps her greatest journey of all is recounted is A-Birding on a Bronco, a classic of American nature writing first published in 1896. Merriam’s lively prose is presented alongside original illustrations by famed artist and ornithologist Louis Agassiz Fuertes, his first-ever published work in what became a storied career. It’s all presented in fine detail in this facsimile printing of the original edition.

In 1889 and 1894, respectively, Merriam journeyed West to document birds far from her native Northeast. A-Birding on a Bronco recounts these exciting horseback expeditions, vividly describing more than seventy bird species she found in the southern California backcountry, as well as introducing the colorful personalities she met along the way.

Merriam today is regarded as an essential early voice for conservation, and A-Birding on a Bronco shows her important principles put into practice. In an era when capturing and killing birds for research was commonplace, she was among the first to advocate studying birds in their natural habitats to preserve species. It is a fundamental practice that endures today. Merriam also penned the highly influential book Birds Through Opera-Glass (1890), considered by many to be the first birding field guide ever published.

Whether you’re a fan nature writing, or of first-person adventure narratives, A-birding on a Bronco stands out as a classic across genres. It’s why, more than a century later, A-birding on a Bronco still resonates with readers today.

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Abraham Lincoln

9781429096119

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In February 1959, Carl Sandburg gave an address on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln's 150th birthday before the Joint Session of Congress. The Lincoln biographer spoke of the nation's 16th president as a man who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of a terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.

This short work is part of Applewood's American Roots, series, tactile mementos of American passions by some of America's most famous writers and thinkers.

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Acadia, The Coast of Maine

9781429096416

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A small-format hardcover reproduction of a section from the nineteenth-century publishing achievement Picturesque America. In this lovingly reproduced book is a view in words and pictures of Mount Desert, Maine, the home of Acadia National Park.

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Alabama Slave Narratives

9781557090102

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The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who endured. Although most of these accounts appeared before the Civil War, more than one-third are the result of the ambitious efforts of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to interview surviving ex-slaves during the 1930s. The result of these efforts was the Slave Narrative Collection, a group of autobiographical accounts of former slaves that today stands as one of the most enduring and noteworthy achievements of the WPA. Compiled in seventeen states during the years 1936-38, the collection consists of more than two thousand interviews with former slaves, most of them first-person accounts of slave life and the respondents' own reactions to bondage. The interviews afforded aged ex-slaves an unparalleled opportunity to give their personal accounts of life under the peculiar institution, to describe in their own words what it felt like to be a slave in the United States. —Norman R. Yetman, American Memory, Library of Congress This paperback edition of selected Alabama narratives is reprinted in facsimile from the typewritten pages of the interviewers, just as they were originally typed.

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America, Why I Love Her

9781429030304

$19.99

Derived from a patriotic Grammy-nominated spoken word album recorded by The Duke in 1973.

Now, in America, Why I Love Her, we can join Little Duke on his journey through this great land and learn about true American values of love, freedom, compassion, honesty, family, unity, hope, liberty & justice, honor and peace.

American Cookery

9781557094391

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American Cookery was the first cookbook in America. Reproduced here is the rare second edition printed in 1796. We have added a new introduction by noted food historian Karen Hess.

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American Forefathers' Boxed Set of Wisdom

9781429093569

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A four-book set containing pocket-sized hardcover books from our American forefathers. This set includes Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth , Theodore Roosevelt's The Strenuous Life , the U.S. Constitution , and The Declaration of Independence . Contained in a handsome black slipcase.

American Forefathers' Boxed Set of Wisdom

American Frugal Housewife

9780918222985

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Includes interesting recipes, remedies, advice on parenting, and tips for housekeepers. From 1832-1845, this popular book went through thirty-two editions. 90084

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American Gardener

9781429012133

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British journalist William Cobbett's 1819 work is considered one of the first classics of American gardening literature, written specifically about his time farming on Long Island, New York. For modern day gardeners, Cobbett's 19th century ideas on self-reliance, family strength through agriculture, and gardening before chemicals and genetic modification are certainly timely - and organic!