William Smith Libros

An Athenian general of the fifth century B.C. chronicles the disastrous 27-year conflict between Athens and Sparta. Thucydides traces the conflict's roots and provides detailed, knowledgeable analyses of battles and the political atmosphere.

A roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961. As a teenager, Simeon Brown lost an eye in a racist attack, and this young African American journalist has lived in his native Philadelphia in a state of agonizing tension ever since. After a violent encounter with white sailors, Simeon makes up his mind to move to Paris, known as a safe haven for black artists and intellectuals, and before long he is under the spell of the City of Light, where he can do as he likes and go where he pleases without fear. Through Babe, another black American émigré, he makes new friends, and soon he has fallen in love with a Polish actress who is a concentration camp survivor. At the same time, however, Simeon begins to suspect that Paris is hardly the racial wonderland he imagined: The French government is struggling to suppress the revolution in Algeria, and Algerians are regularly stopped and searched, beaten, and arrested by the French police, while much worse is to come, it will turn out, in response to the protest march of October 1961. Through his friendship with Hossein, an Algerian radical, Simeon realizes that he can no longer remain a passive spectator to French injustice. He must decide where his true loyalties lie.

SMITH’S HEART OF MAN REPAIR MANUAL is an easy to read, step by step, manual to help Men overhaul their Minds, Bodies, and Spirits. Taking inspiration from History, Pop Culture, and Traditional Spiritual Principals, Author Will Smith offers practical examples to help Men from all backgrounds become who they were created to be, and impact their spheres of influence, and communities with timeless qualities that have been passed from generation to generation.

The author explores the deep divisions within the country, questioning the reliability of those who provide information about America's state. They argue that the government has failed its citizens by permitting individuals with hidden agendas to manipulate public opinion, thereby undermining the principles of democracy and free enterprise. This critical examination seeks to uncover the truth behind societal fractures and the impact of commercial interests on democratic values.

Focusing on the lives and identities of the nuns, this work explores the history of the Benedictine Abbey of St Mary and St Edward at Shaftesbury from its founding by King Alfred the Great in 888 until its suppression in 1539. It highlights the abbesses, often from local gentry families, who held significant status and responsibilities akin to feudal barons. The book includes biographical details of known nuns and abbesses, emphasizing their roles within the abbey rather than its royal connections, offering a unique perspective on this important religious institution.

The narrative delves into the final two years of Donald Trump's presidency, focusing on the dynamics of power following the midterm elections. With the House of Representatives no longer under his control, Trump seeks to manipulate the Judiciary by aligning with Attorney General William Barr, who supports his agenda by dismissing the Mueller investigation. The book highlights Trump's increasing boldness, aided by compliant Republicans in Congress, as he attempts to navigate and exert influence over the government during a tumultuous period.

This classic work of Russian fiction by Leo Tolstoy is about a Russian nobleman who has lost the ideals of his youth. The nobleman finds himself as a jury member where a woman he had wronged is accused of murder.Resurrection AKA The Awakening, first published in 1899, was the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy. The book is the last of his major long fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of the injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of the institutionalized church. The novel also explores the economic philosophy of Georgism, of which Tolstoy had become a very strong advocate towards the end of his life, and explains the theory in detail. It was first published serially in the popular weekly magazine Niva in an effort to raise funds for the resettlement of the Doukhobors.The story is about a nobleman named Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhlyudov, who seeks redemption for a sin committed years earlier. His brief affair with a maid had resulted in her being fired and ending up in prostitution.Ten years later, Nekhlyudov sits on a jury which sentences the maid, Maslova, to prison in Siberia for murder (poisoning a client who beat her). The book narrates his attempts to help her practically, but focuses on his personal mental and moral struggle. He goes to visit her in prison, meets other prisoners, hears their stories, and slowly comes to realize that below his gilded aristocratic world, yet invisible to it, is a much larger world of cruelty, injustice and suffering. Story after story he hears and even sees people chained without cause, beaten without cause, immured in dungeons for life without cause, and a twelve-year-old boy sleeping in a lake of human dung from an overflowing latrine because there is no other place on the prison floor, but clinging in a vain search for love to the leg of the man next to him, until the book achieves the bizarre intensity of a horrific fever dream.

This reprint captures the essence of a classic work originally published in 1856, preserving its historical significance and literary style. Readers can expect an authentic experience of the themes, characters, and narrative techniques that defined the era, making it a valuable addition to any collection of historical literature. The reissue aims to introduce new audiences to the timeless insights and storytelling of the original text.