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Authors:Terry Southern, Nile Southern, Josh Alan Friedman,
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: southern, terry, writings, unspeakable, dig
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-04-08
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802138942
ISBN-13: 9780802138941

Acclaimed novelist, Beat godfather, prolific screenwriter, and one of the founders of New Journalism, as well as the only guy to wear shades on the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s cover, Terry Southern was an audacious original. Now Dig This is a journey through Terry Southern’s America, from the buttoned-down ’50s through the sexual revolution, rock ’n’ roll, and independent cinema (which he helped inaugurate by cowriting and producing Easy Rider), up to his death in 1995. It spans Southern’s stellar career, from early short stories and a Paris Review intervie

Authors:Miss Pat Southern, Pat Southern,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: constantine, severus, empire, roman
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2001-10-19
List price: $133.00
ISBN-10: 0415239435
ISBN-13: 9780415239431

Author: R. W. Southern
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: ages, middle, making
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1961-09-10
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0300002300
ISBN-13: 9780300002300

Author: Pat Southern
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: history, institutional, social, army, roman
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0195328787
ISBN-13: 9780195328783

Written by a leading authority on Roman military history, this fascinating volume spans over a thousand years as it offers a memorable picture of one of the world’s most noted fighting forces, paying special attention to the life of the common soldier. Southern here illuminates the Roman army’s history, culture, and organization, providing fascinating details on topics such as military music, holidays, strategy, the construction of Roman fortresses and forts, the most common battle formations, and the many tools of war, from spears, bows and arrows, swords, and slingshots, to t

Author: Pat Southern
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: biographies, imperial, roman, augustus
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0415166314
ISBN-13: 9780415166317

Augustus, the heir to Julius Caesar, was the guiding light in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. In this biography, Pat Southern traces the life and works of the emperor chronologically, presenting idealogy and events as they occurred from Augustus’ point of view, including his transition from heir and successor of Julius Caesar to head of the new Principate and his development of the Roman Empire. Augustus did not have a master plan of politics and legislation, but instead, he had to wait and occasionally change course before he settled on a version of gove

Author: R. W. Southern
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: scholastic, unification, europe, humanism, volume, heroic, amp
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-01-24
List price: $68.95
ISBN-10: 0631220798
ISBN-13: 9780631220794

This is the second of the three volumes comprising, Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe. Focussing on the period from c.1090-1212, the volume explores the lives, scholarly resources, and contributions of a wide sample of people who either took part in the creation of the scholastic system of thought or gave practical effect to it in public life. The second volume of a compelling, original work which will redefine our perceptions of medieval civilization, the renaissance and the evolution of modern Europe.Written by a man who was widely regarded as the greatest medieval historian.

Author: Ed Southern
Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher
Keywords: real, voices, history, revolution, american, carolinas
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2009-02-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0895873583
ISBN-13: 9780895873583

Although historians have debated the causes of the American Revolution for centuries, they have often ignored how it felt to live, fight, and survive. What was it like to be British or American, Tory or Whig, regular soldier or militia, partisan, outlaw, or would-be bystander as the two sides went at each other with a fury across the Carolina countryside?Through eyewitness accounts of those who fought the battles and skirmishes, Voices of the American Revolution in the Carolinas provides the reader with firsthand looks at how it felt.The entries in this volume are taken from first-person narra
  
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