The story of Napoleon

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319 p

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Troldhaugen, with a brief biography of Edvard Grieg

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23 p. : 23 cm,Cover title,Translated from Norwegian

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Old World Worthies; or, Classical biography

Our offering includes memoirs, or collections of memories that individuals have written about moments or events, both public or private, that took place in their lives. While the assertions made in these works are generally taken to be factual, the biases or perspectives of the authors are often present. Historically, memoirs have been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobiography, how…

Memories and Portraits

The sixteen essays of the collection cover a wide range. The first eleven consists of personal memories (and portraits) of family and friends. Indeed, apart from his exuberant and very candid letters, Memories and Portraits is the nearest thing to an autobiography published by Stevenson. The very first essay is about his memories as a Scot of his first contacts with England (“The Foreigner…

Taming Our Monkey Mind Phyllis Krystal

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Pioneer work for women

A Co-operative Proposal {1875) ; Rescue Work in Relation to Prostitution and Disease (1881) ; Christian Socialism (1882) ; Wrong and Right Methods (1883) ; Criticism of Gronlund's Co-operative Commonwealth of Women (1887) ; Neo-Malthusianism (1888) ; Prevention of Rabies (1891) ; Medical Responsibility (1897) ; The Present Position of the State Regulation of Vice in British India. See also Medi…

The makers of Venice

Venice has long borne in the imagination of the world a distinctive position, something of the character of a great enchantress, a magician of the seas. Her growth between the water and the sky; her great palaces, solid and splendid, built, so to speak, on nothing; the wonderful glory of light and reflection about her; the glimmer of incessant brightness and movement; the absence of all those h…

American autographs, historical and literary

1. ADAIR, General John. Governor of Kentucky. Served in the Revolutionary War, under St. Clair and Wilkinson against the Indians and defeated by the Miamis. Aid to Shelby at the Battle of the Thames 1813. Fine War A. L. S. to Governor Isaac Shelby. "Altho I have been necessarily absent for some time from the State 1 have lost none of the feeling of a Kentuckian, every disaster our brave men …

Perplexities of Consciousness

"A Bradford book."In this book, the author examines various aspects of inner life (dreams, mental imagery, emotions, and other subjective phenomena) and argues that we know very little about our stream of conscious experience. In fact, he contends, we are prone to gross error about our ongoing emotional, visual, and cognitive experiences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

"In 2000, the Russian scientist Zhores Alferov shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the heterojunction, a semiconductor device the practical applications of which include light-emitting diodes, rapid transistors, and the microchip. Alferov's Nobel Prize was the culmination of a career that spanned the eras of Stalin, Khrushchev, and Gorbachev--and continues today in the post-…