James Moore Libros

Before the age of industry, the timber-built ship was one of the most complex and technologically advanced objects built by man. The ships were so expensive to constract that meticulous records were kept, from the purchase of timber to the last details of their funishings. For this beautiful and highly informative book, the authors have tapped all available resources to tell the story of the building of HMS "Thunderer, a two-decked, 74-gun ship-of-the-line. In words and drawings as well as contemporary prints and paintings, they capture every stage of its construction, from purchase and cutting of timbers through launch in 1760. There is also a description of the Woolwich dockyard where "Thunderer was built along with explanations of the skills and trades involved. First published in 1984, this vivid and often surprising account of life and labor in the eighteenth century will appeal to historians, modelers, and everyone with an interest in traditional workmanship.

Set against the backdrop of the Virginian colonial frontier, this narrative explores the harsh realities and struggles of early settlers. It delves into themes of survival, conflict, and the impact of colonial expansion on both the land and its inhabitants. The characters navigate personal and communal tragedies, facing both external threats and internal challenges. This poignant tale highlights the resilience of the human spirit amidst the brutalities of frontier life.

The Streetwise Investor empowers readers to make informed, profitable investment choices using common sense. It addresses common challenges investors face and offers guidance for achieving better returns while minimizing risks.

“A rare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the lines, wrought with such deft precision and care, mark the sum total of a life richly lived and felt at the seat of poetry...These poems care, first and foremost, for what they write of and through, which is a much needed—yet increasingly rare—achievement.” -- Ocean Vuong Engaging the matriarchal structure of the beehive, Amanda Moore explores the various roles a woman plays in the family, the home, and the world at large. Beyond the productivity and excess, the sweetness and sting,  Requeening  brings together poems of motherhood and daughterhood, an evolving relationship of care and tending, responsibility and joy, dependence and deep love. The poems that anchor this collection don’t shy away from the inevitability of a hive’s collapse and consider the succession of “requeening” a hive as “a new heart ready to be fed and broken and fed again.” The collapse is both physical—there are poems of illness and recovery—and emotional, as the mother-daughter relationship shifts, the daughter becoming separate, whole, and poised to displace. The liminal spaces these poems traverse in human relationships is echoed in a range of poetic and hybrid form, offering freedom and stricture as they contemplate the way we hold one another in love and grief. Requeening  is a vivid and surprising collection of poems from a winner of the National Poetry Series Open Competition. 

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

This memoir, written by a veteran of the Union Army's Cooper Shop Volunteer regiment, provides a vivid and detailed account of the regiment's service during the Civil War. Moore describes the battles and campaigns the regiment participated in as well as the everyday life of a soldier.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.