How To Write Great Essays
Every student needs to be able to write essays. How to Write Great Essays stresses the importance of clarity, word choice, and organization in essay writing. This book also helps readers build their knowledge of correct grammar and punctuation and familiarize them with editing, revising, and proofreading essays. Sample writing prompts and essays reinforce what students learn in this book.

The Wisdom of Alexander The Great
Exceptional leaders are the ones who are able to analyze problems, optimize resources, inspire loyalty, and execute strategy. There is no more stunning example in history than Alexander the Great, whose leadership skills were so immense that they still resonate some 2,000 years later.
The Wisdom of Alexander the Great reveals four leadership processes distilled from the life and extraordinary accomplishments of Alexander, King of Macedonia.

St Hilda
The 7th century saint, Hilda, or Hild as she would have been known then, wielded great religious and political influence in a volatile era. The monasteries she led in the north of England were known for their literacy and learning and produced great future leaders, including 5 bishops. The remains of a later abbey still stand in Whitby on the site of the powerful monastery she headed there.

We gain most of our knowledge of Hilda's life from The Venerable Bede who wrote that she was 66 years in the world, living 33 years in the secular life and 33 dedicated to God. She was baptised alongside the king of Northumbria and with her royal connections, she was a formidable character. Bede writes: “Her prudence was so great that not only indifferent persons but even kings and princes asked and received her advice”. Hild and her Abbey at Whitby hosted the Synod which decided when Easter would be celebrated, following a dispute between different traditions. Her achievements are all the more impressive when we consider that Christianity was still in its infancy in Northumbria.

So what contribution did she make to establishing Christianity in the north of England? How unusual was it for a woman to be such an important figure in the Church at the time? How did her double monastery of both men and women operate on a day-to-day basis? And how did she manage to convert a farmhand into England's first vernacular poet?

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Translated by John Addington Symonds
Among the vast number of men who have thought fit to write down the history of their own lives, three or four have achieved masterpieces which stand out preeminently: Saint Augustine in his "Confessions", Samuel Pepys in his "Diary", Rousseau in his "Confessions". It is among these extraordinary documents, and unsurpassed by any of them, that the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini takes its place.
The "Life" of himself which Cellini wrote was due to other motives than those which produced its chief competitors for first place in its class. St. Augustine’s aim was religious and didactic, Pepys noted down in his diary the daily events of his life for his sole satisfaction and with no intention that any one should read the cipher in which they were recorded. But Cellini wrote that the world might know, after he was dead, what a fellow he had been; what great things he had attempted, and against what odds he had carried them through.

The period covered by the autobiography is from Cellini’s birth in 1500 to 1562; the scene is mainly in Italy and France. It was the age of Michelangelo, and in the throng of great artists which then filled the Italian cities, Cellini was no inconsiderable figure. Michelangelo himself he knew and adored.
Nowhere can we gain a better idea than in this book of the passionate enthusiasm for the creation of beauty which has bestowed upon the Italy of the Renaissance its greatest glory.

Journeys of the Great Explorers
by Glyndwr Williams narrated by the author
Lecture 1 The World Before Columbus
Lecture 2 The Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Lecture 3 The Voyage of Vasco da Gama and the “Sea Road” to the East
Lecture 4 The First Circumnavigation: The Voyage of Ferdinand Magellan
Lecture 5 The Second Circumnavigation: The Voyage of Francis Drake
Lecture 6 The Tools of Discovery
Lecture 7 Life at Sea
Lecture 8 Voyages of Delusion: The Search for the Northwest Passage
Lecture 9 The Pacific Ocean: The Great Unknown
Lecture 10 The “Rambling Voyages” of William Dampier
Lecture 11 Vitus Bering and the Russian Discovery of America
Lecture 12 The Pacific Voyages of James Cook
Lecture 13 The Revolution in Navigation and Health
Lecture 14 The World After Cook
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