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The pictorial field-book of the revolution or, illustrations, by pen and pencil, of the history, biography, scenery, relics, and traditions of the war - Paperback

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by Benson J. Lossing (Author)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. Number of Pages: 950 Dimensions: 2.12 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 01, 2019

Christian Apologetics: A Defense Of The Catholic Faith - Paperback

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by W. Devivier (Author)This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. Number of Pages: 606 Dimensions: 1.35 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: March 01, 2019

La Formacion de America del Norte - Paperback

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by Isaac Asimov (Author)La humanidad, muy probablemente, tuvo su origen en frica. Los m s antiguos rastros de hom nidos (seres que se asemejan al hombre en sus caracter sticas m s que cualquier otra forma de vida) han sido hallados en frica. Los m s cercanos parientes del hombre en el reino animal, el chimpanc y el gorila, s lo se encuentran a n en frica, excepto casos individuales que han sido llevados a otras partes por mediaci n humana. Durante el par de millones de a os de existencia ...

Essays of Michel de Montaigne ? Complete - Paperback

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by Charles Hezlitt (Translator), Michel Montaigne (Author)Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience. He discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses an...

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by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author)This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground, a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising cynicism, and ...

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by Maria Edgeworth (Author)Maria Edgeworth was a prominent Anglo-Irish writer who was a major influence in the development of the novel in Europe. Edgeworth was a prolific author who held advanced views on topics most women of her time were not involved in. Edgeworth and Jane Austen were considered to be the greatest female authors of the early 19th century. Harrington, published in 1817, is a novel told as an autobiography by a recovering anti-Semite. The book is set between the Jewish Natur...

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Paperback

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by Bibliophile Pro (Editor), Robert Louis Stevenson (Author)'He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp... his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter' Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of ...

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by Jv Editors (Editor), Friedrich Nietzsche (Author)Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche fue un fil sofo, poeta, m sico y fil logo alem n, considerado uno de los pensadores contempor neos m s influyentes del siglo XIX. Realiz una cr tica exhaustiva de la cultura, la religi n y la filosof a occidental, mediante la genealog a de los conceptos que las integran, basada en el an lisis de las actitudes morales (positivas y negativas) hacia la vida. Este trabajo afect profundamente a generaciones posterior...

How I Learned To Love Myself: When Affirmations, Dieting, and Success Weren't Enough - Paperback

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by Eve Parker (Foreword by), Tianna Morison (Contribution by), Katelyn Stroh (Contribution by)You are likely no stranger to the "Where's Waldo" approach to self-love. It's always right in front of you but your eyes are distracted by the negativity that swirls through your consciousness. It's easier to turn the page than to sit and actually FIND the love, acceptance, and worthiness you have been seeking. Consider Naomi Teeter's "How I Learned to Love Myself" to be a handheld writing workshop i...

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by Nathaniel Parker Willis (Author)Excerpt from Pencillings by the Way: Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe Dan, that these fruitful and unconscious themes would rise from the dead to read their own interesting memoirs And such a resurrection would hardly be a more disagreeable surprise to that eminent biographer, than was the sudden appearance to me of my own unambitious Letters in the Quarterly Review. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousa...

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by Sean Davis (Author), William Bradford Nichols (Author), Brian Turner (Author)A collection of stories and poems about the effects of war on our society, families, and world. Number of Pages: 146 Dimensions: 0.31 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: October 31, 2017

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by E. B. White (Author), Martha White (Foreword by)E. B. White's greatest stories, asides, essays, jokes, and tall tales about the city he arguably saw clearest, loved best, and skewered most mercilessly. Over more than fifty years at the New Yorker, E. B. White came to define a kind of ideal American prose: clear, casual, democratic, and urbane. He also did more than any writer to define his favorite city. His classic Here Is New York captured a moment in the life of Manhattan with precision...

All the Powerful Invisible Things: A Sportswomen's Notebook - Paperback

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by Gretchen Legler (Author)An eloquent chronicle about the complexities of being an outdoors womanAuthor BiographyGretchen Legler is the author of On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station Antarctica and All The Powerful Invisible Things: A Sportswoman's Notebook, which received two Pushcart Prizes. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Maine at Farmington and recently received a master of divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School. She lives in Farmi...

Nobody Home: Writing, Buddhism, and Living in Places - Paperback

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by Gary Snyder (Author), Julia Martin (Author)In this thoughtful, affectionate collection of interviews and letters spanning three decades, beloved poet Gary Snyder talks with South African writer and scholar Julia Martin. Over this period many things changed decisively--globally, locally, and in their personal lives--and these changing conditions provide the back story for a long conversation. It begins in the early 1980s as an intellectual exchange between an earnest graduate student and a ...

(Don't) Stop Me If You've Heard This Before: And Other Essays on Writing Fiction - Paperback

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by Peter Turchi (Author)In (Don't) Stop Me If You've Heard This Before, Peter Turchi combines personal narrative and close reading of a wide range of stories and novels to reveal how writers create the fiction that matters to us. Building on his much-loved Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, Turchi leads readers and writers to an understanding of how the intricate mechanics of storytelling--including shifts in characters' authority, the subtle manipulation of images, careful ...

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by Charlotte M. Yonge (Author)Subtitled "The Laidly Lady of Whitburn: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses." Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.34 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: October 01, 2017

La obra de arte en la epoca de su reproductibilidad tecnica - Paperback

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by Walter Benjamin (Author)"La importaci n que Benjamin atribuy a la pera de arte nell'epoca della sua riproducibilit tecnica (y da ci la esigenza di una edizione come questa, varianti ") risulta evidente dalla nota lettera a Kraft del dicembre del 1935: egli afferma con enfasis di ritenere di avervi fissato la cifra dell" ora del destino "che scoccata per l'arte. No pu trattarsi, quindi, di una semplice fenomenologia delle pi recenti tendenze, born dell'apprezzamento del loro caratte...

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by Manuel Payno (Author)La obra m s importante de Manuel Payno, escrita durante su estancia en Espa a, es Los bandidos de R o Fr o (1889-1891), recreaci n del M xico de la primera mitad del siglo XIX. La trama es rica en incidentes registrados en la vida real, pero urdidos en su mayor a en torno a un c lebre proceso de la poca. El autor consider su obra como "novela naturalista, humor stica, de costumbres, cr menes y horrores". Sus ediciones posteriores se mantienen como xito de librer a y...

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by Peter B. Kyne (Author)1918. Begins: In the summer of 1850 a topsail schooner slipped into the cove under Trinidad Head and dropped anchor at the edge of the kelp-fields. Fifteen minutes later her small-boat deposited on the beach a man armed with long squirrel-rifle and an axe, and carrying food and clothing in a brown canvas pack. From the beach he watched the boat return and saw the schooner weigh anchor and stand out to sea before the northwest trades. When she had disappeared from his ...

La Paz Perpetua (Spanish) Edition - Paperback

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by Immanuel Kant (Author)Desde esta meta final de la paz perpetua se explica tambi n la necesidad de una constituci n republicana en cada Estado, necesaria, a su vez, para el desarrollo en plenitud de las disposiciones naturales antag nicas del hombre (su insociable sociabilidad). La instauraci n de la paz perpetua cuenta, por tanto, con la garant a ltima que ofrece la propia naturaleza humana al utilizar el antagonismo como una argucia hacia la concordia. Si bien esta garant a no es suficie...

Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English - Paperback

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by Dechun Li (Translator), Gerald Roche (Editor)Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in western China. These songs represent the apogee of Mongghul oral literature, and they provide valuable insights into the lives of...

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by Aldous Huxley (Author)In Leda, Aldous Huxley is back in the old smooth, mythological world, consecrated by a thousand poets. He pays occasional tribute to ugly fact in the course of this poem, but he is at home while describing Leda with her maids bathing in Eurotas, her shining body, and the clear deep pools The modern terror of the too-perfect world makes him dwell longer, and more humorously, than his predecessors would have done, upon Jove tossing on his Olympian couch, tortured by hi...

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville - Paperback

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by Washington Irving (Author)Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his collection, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several hist...

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Paperback

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by Thomas de Quincey (Author)You won't be able to put down this gripping first-hand account of opium addiction that shocked England after its initial publication in 1821. Thomas De Quincy was a renowned author and intellectual who fell prey to a laudanum addiction as a young man, and who later recounted his experiences in excruciating detail in a series of anonymously published magazine serials. This important early work provides a fascinating glimpse into the processes of drug addiction. ...

The Pathfinder: Leatherstocking Tales #3 - Paperback

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by James Fenimore Cooper (Author)The Pathfinder shows Natty at his old trick of guiding tender damsels through the dangerous woods, and the siege at the blockhouse and the storm on Lake Ontario are considerably like other of Cooper's sieges and storms. Natty, in this novel commonly called the Pathfinder, keeps in a hardy middle age his simple and honest nature, which is severely tested by his love for a young girl. She is a conventional heroine of romance. Number of Pages: 464 ...

The Prairie: Leatherstocking Tales #5 - Paperback

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by James Fenimore Cooper (Author)The Prairie: A Tale (1827) is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, the third novel written by him featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, who is simply known as "the trapper" in it. Chronologically The Prairie is the fifth and final installment of the Leatherstocking Tales. It depicts Natty in the final year of his life still proving helpful to people in distress on the American frontier. Number of Pages: 444 Dimensi...

A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies - Paperback

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by Bartolome De Las Casas (Author)A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolom de las Casas in 1542 (published in 1552) about the mistreatment of and atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then Prince Philip II of Spain. Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions: 0.09 x 10 x 7 IN Publication Date: April 17, 2018

The Wounded Goddess: A Pursuit in the Iliad and After - Paperback

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by Richard M. Swiderski (Author)Aphrodite descends to protect her son, the Trojan warrior Aeneas, when Diomedes on the side of the Greeks severely injures him. Diomedes has been encouraged by Athena to attack Aphrodite whenever he encounters her siding with the Trojans. He pursues her spear at the ready and launches it into the hand that shelters her son, causing a wound that drips immortal blood, the ichor of the gods. Homer's verses in Book 5 of the Iliad then break aside, or were annotated...

Lo prohibido (Spanish Edition) - Paperback

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by Benito Perez Galdos (Author)Lo prohibido (1884-1885) ofrece nuevas sorpresas para los lectores de la obra de Benito P rez Gald s. Presenta m ltiples innovaciones narrativas, penetrantes percepciones de la psicolog a de sus personajes, masculinos y femeninos, y lucid simas representaciones de la sociedad madrile a de la Restauraci n. Tambi n por primera vez, Gald s introduce expl citamente la tem tica del deseo y la sexualidad masculina. En esta novela abismal, Gald s nos lanza al vac o de ...

Small Town Anthology IV: Entries from the Fourth Annual Tournament of Writers - Paperback

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by Debra Christiansen (Author)In the Spring of 2018, 32 writers answered the call of the challenge to compete, not with swords, but with words. Entries again came via handwritten pages, hand typed pages, email, and hand delivery to the library. Sometimes not only with words, but with photos and drawings. We added a new category this year-Graphic Novel. There was only one entry for this category with a story so beautiful, our teen artist/author took one of the two Grand Prizes (there was a tie...

The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms - Paperback

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by Charles Darwin (Author)Charles Robert Darwin, 12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and, in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for...

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by Zane Grey (Author)John Hare lies dying in the desert until he is discovered and saved by the kind and generous rancher, August Naab. As Hare is nursed back to health on Naab's ranch, he finds himself irresistibly attracted to Naab's adopted daughter, Mescal. But Mescal is being relentlessly pursued by Holderness, a man who is not to be trusted. Hare is soon drawn into a web of adventure and intrigue over land, water, and the heart of a beautiful woman, all set against the sweeping backdrop...