This Source Book brings together classic texts by and about Thomas More—poet, scholar, statesman, family man, educational reformer, philosopher, historian, and saint. In addition to serving as an introduction to More’s life and writings for the general reader, this collection is a helpful companion to the study of More’s literary and philosophical masterwork, Utopia, and to the study of sixteenth-century history, literature, philosophy, or politics.
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Thomas Lord Cromwell is an Elizabethan history play, depicting the life of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, the minister of King Henry VIII of England, sometimes attributed in part to Shakespeare.
In this brief yet dense biography, the newest in the Eminent Lives series, Hitchens (A Long Short War, etc.) proposes that Jefferson "designed America" when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, establishing "the concept of human rights, for the first time in history, as the basis for a republic." Hitchens is quick to point out, however, the obvious contradiction-that Jefferson was both an advocate for freedom and a slaveholder.
Sodor's newest star, Flynn the fire engine, arrives just in time to help Percy put out a fire and save Thomas. Little boys ages 3-6 will thrill to this Step 1 SIR based on the newest Thomas & Friends.
This is NUMBER ONE in the Survivalist series featuring the hero, John Thomas Rourke: "the story of the ultimate war, the final nuclear holocaust and the unrelenting quest of John Thomas Rourke as he begins his search across war-ravaged America, follwing every haunting clue, however fragmentary, to locate his missing family.
