Catalog Search Results
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (375 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1619. The British colony of Jamestown, Virginia, is shaken up when the first women in twelve years land in this breathtaking wilderness. While love triangles, bitter rivalries, and fierce competition cause conflict for the residents and the native inhabitants, the Pamunkey, they are bound together by their resolute will to survive and thrive in their new lives.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the plague decimates London in 1665 and an assassin threatens the apothecary's life, apprentice Christopher Rowe and his faithful friend Tom, following a trail of puzzles, riddles, and secrets, risk their lives to untangle the heart of a dark conspiracy.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Se presenta el libro Con balas de plata I. 1631-40. 700 combates de la Casa de Austria. Para entender la importancia científica de este libro basta ver el número nueve de una conocida revista de historia militar de los kioscos españoles, muy vistosa e interesante en general. Con un artículo con cronología resumida de 1635 a 1643 de combates que exponen con un mapa y redactado el artículo en el que está inscrito este gráfico-mapa-cronología,...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
En 1609 se inició por orden de Felipe III el proceso de expulsión de los moriscos valencianos. Esta obra aborda el desarrollo que esta operación tuvo en Denia y el distrito de embarque que le fue asignado por influencia de su señor, el duque de Lerma. Además ofrece al lector una exposición cronológica detallada de los acontecimientos desarrollados en el puerto de Dénia.
Author
Language
English
Description
"America was the place Smith had dreamed of his whole life.
There, his character, determination, and ambition had propelled him to the top of society. He spent the rest of his life trying to return. Though he failed, he pointed the way for others, who were drawn by the dream that opportunity was here for anyone who dared seize it ... Smith founded more than a colony. He gave birth to the American dream."
-from Captain John Smith
Captain John Smith...
Author
Language
Español
Description
De nuevo una vasta recopilación de más de cien fuentes para traer cientos de combates en Italia, Flandes, Alemania, Francia, América, Filipinas. Del armario de Felipe IV a su casa. Orbitelo, Nápoles, Cremona, Portolongon, hechos narrados con mucho detalle, cuando lo máximo que se conocía era el nombre del lugar donde pasó el hecho o ni eso. O cómo fue la década en Flandes, que acaba con el colofón de volver a ganar Chastelet y La Capela...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Battle of Naseby was the decisive engagement of the English Civil War and the battlefield is the first to have been radically reinterpreted in the light of metal detector research. This guide, co-authored by the principal authorities on the battle, links contemporary accounts to their findings in the context of today's landscape. The book also offers the chance to develop alternative personal interpretations while visiting the key viewpoints and...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Con balas de plata III. 1640-50. Cataluña y Rosellón de nuevo trae documentos (Biblioteca Nacional) de la Casa de Austria para informar sobre la guerra de Cataluña y Rosellón, cuando la monarquía perdió el Rosellón y Cerdanya. Solo habían fuentes contrarias y mucho vacío, baste el ejemplo del dato que circula de 1500 muertos propios en Monjuich, cuando no fueron 80 según versión propia. Muchos hechos muy dramáticos de los que no se sabía...
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating tales of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks takes the top fifty wildest episodes in the region's bygone days and presents them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven package. Including incredible but true tales of hardy Yankee hill folk and crusty seafarers engaged in all manner of amazing activity-from witch-hunting...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Bavarian Army has been overshadowed by those of Gustavus Adolphus' and Wallenstein's Armies, but it was one of only a few armies to have fought throughout the Thirty Years War, first as part of the Catholic League and then an independent army after the Peace of Prague. Among the generals of the Bavarian Army were Count Johan von Tilly and Gottfried von Pappenheim, who are two of the most famous generals of the war. This book covers not only the...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Luisa de Venero, una encomendera en Santafé es la reconstrucción histórica de la vida de una encomendera del siglo XVI en el Nuevo Reino de Granada. Esto con el objetivo de contribuir a la visibilización de la participación femenina en la cultura, la sociedad, la economía y la política durante la colonización española temprana. Este texto, además de los historiadores y escritores de novelas históricas, busca que las mujeres de toda condición...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
El nacionalismo y su relación con el cosmopolitismo ha sido un tema de reflexión constante y central para la filosofía y la teoría política desde la ilustración hasta nuestros días. El volumen recoge una serie de ensayos que analizan críticamente la perspectiva que sobre esta candente cuestión han tenido algunos de los pensadores más destacados de los siglos XVII, XVIII, XIX y XX.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sieges determined the course of the English Civil Wars, yet they receive scant attention. In contrast, the major set-piece battles are repeatedly analyzed and reassessed. As a result our understanding of the conflict, and of its outcome, is incomplete. John Barratt, in this lucid and perceptive account, makes the siege the focal point of his study. As well as looking at the theory and practice of siege warfare and fortification, he considers the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new account of Monmouth's rebellion of 1685 and the Battle of Sedgemoor. The author focuses on the confrontation between Monmouth and John Churchill, the future Duke of Marlborough, and provides a graphic reassessment of the campaign. He retraces the routes taken by the opposing armies across the West County, following every twist and turn the soldiers took 300 years ago, and provides a powerful insight into the course of the decisive battle. In...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Pueblo Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request