Written by Curie’s daughter, the renowned international activist Eve Curie, this biography chronicles Curie’s legendary achievements in science, including her pioneering efforts in the study of radioactivity and her two Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. It also spotlights her remarkable life, from her childhood in Poland, to her storybook Parisian marriage to fellow scientist Pierre Curie, to her tragic death from the very radium that brought her fame. Now updated with an eloquent, rousing introduction by best-selling author Natalie Angier, this timeless biography celebrates an astonishing mind and a extraordinary woman’s life.

    Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein, the aura surrounding Rommel himself remained unsullied. As a leader of a small unit in the First World War, he proved himself an aggressive and versatile commander, with a reputation for using the battleground terrain to his own advantage, for gathering intelligence, and for seeking out and exploiting enemy weaknesses. Rommel graphically describes his own achievements, and those of his units, in the swift-moving battles on the Western Front, in the ensuing trench warfare, in the 1917 campaign in Romania, and in the pursuit across the Tagliamento and Piave rivers. This classic account seeks out the basis of his astonishing leadership skills, providing an indispensable guide to the art of war written by one of its greatest exponents.

    The first half is a carefully researched, day-by-day recreation of the raid by Rogers' Rangers on the Indian village at Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec (or Saint Francis, to the Americans troops), a settlement of the Abenakis, an American Indian tribe. The second half of the novel covers Rogers' later life in London, England and Fort Michilimackinac, Michigan. Roberts' decision to cover the novel's material in two distinct halves followed the actual trajectory of Rogers' life.

    The Exciting Travels in the New World and Old of America's foremost adventurer-Fully illustrated with maps and photographs, 2 in 1 book.

    Bell, a leading figure in mathematics in America for half a century. Men of Mathematics accessibly explains the major mathematics, from the geometry of the Greeks through Newton's calculus and on to the laws of probability, symbolic logic, and the fourth dimension. In addition, the book goes beyond pure mathematics to present a series of engrossing biographies of the great mathematicians -- an extraordinary number of whom lived bizarre or unusual lives. Finally, Men of Mathematics is also a history of ideas, tracing the majestic development of mathematical thought from ancient times to the twentieth century. This enduring work's clear, often humorous way of dealing with complex ideas makes it an ideal book for the non-mathematician.

    He steadily grew his army from a humble contingent of 2,000 soldiers to a force of 100,000. Assisted by a disciplined military system, a well-structured administrative organization and a deeply traditional society, soon the Maratha force became the only military power of consequence against the Mughals in India.Including accounts of legendary encounters like those with the Adil-Shahi Sultanate and the menacing Aurangzeb, The Grand Rebel is an epic saga of an Indian warrior king whose tales of victory and valour have been inspiring the nation for centuries.

    Written just two years before he put his theories to work in Hitler's Blitzkrieg of World War II.

    Written in 1936 and published the following year, this brilliant and profound evaluation of Stalinism from the Marxist standpoint prophesied the collapse of the Soviet Union and subsequent related events.The effects of the October Revolution led to the establishment of a nationalized planned economy, demonstrating the practicality of socialism for the first time. By the 1930s, however, the Soviet workers' democracy had crumbled into a state of bureaucratic decay that ultimately gave rise to an infamous totalitarian regime. Trotsky employs facts, figures, and statistics to show how Stalinist policies rejected the enormous productive potential of the nationalized planned economy in favor of a wasteful and corrupt bureaucratic system.Six decades after the publication of this classic, the shattering of Stalinist regimes in Russia and Eastern Europe has confused and demoralized countless political activists. The Revolution Betrayed offers readers of every political persuasion an insider's view of what went wrong.

    He was then sentenced to execution and spent every day awaiting death—only to be released three months later under pressure from the British government. Out of this experience, Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon, his most acclaimed work in the United States, about a man arrested and executed in a Communist prison.Dialogue with Death is Koestler’s riveting account of the fall of Málaga to rebel forces, his surreal arrest, and his three months facing death from a prison cell. Despite the harrowing circumstances, Koestler manages to convey the stress of uncertainty, fear, and deprivation of human contact with the keen eye of a reporter.Lucas Wittmann | Newsweek:"Koestler’s harrowing memoir of his three months behind bars with the constant threat of execution inspired his iconic Darkness at Noon. Dialogue with Death is the more lasting book for its lucid, exact, and unrelenting depiction of an imprisoned man on the verge of death."

    Byrd set out on his second Antarctic expedition in 1934, he was already an international hero for having piloted the first flights over the North and South Poles. His plan for this latest adventure was to spend six months alone near the bottom of the world, gathering weather data and indulging his desire “to taste peace and quiet long enough to know how good they really are.” But early on things went terribly wrong. Isolated in the pervasive polar night with no hope of release until spring, Byrd began suffering inexplicable symptoms of mental and physical illness. By the time he discovered that carbon monoxide from a defective stovepipe was poisoning him, Byrd was already engaged in a monumental struggle to save his life and preserve his sanity.When Alone was first published in 1938, it became an enormous bestseller. This edition keeps alive Byrd’s unforgettable narrative for new generations of readers.

    In other words, they do not refer to an external reality but are produced as a normal part of the social milieu in which politics itself has its being. The reflection upon the ends of political action, upon the means of achieving them, upon the possibilities and necessities of political situations, and upon the obligations that political purposes impose, is an intrinsic element of the whole political process. Such thought evolves along with the institutions, the agencies of government, the moral and physical stresses to which it refers and which - one likes at least to believe - it, in some degree, controls.

    Religious Novel, originally published by Little, Brown and Company.

    Out of that experience came Red Star Over China, a classic work that remains one of the most important books ever written about the birth of the Communist movement in China. This edition includes extensive notes on military and political developments in China, further interviews with Mao Tse-tung, a chronology covering 125 years of Chinese revolution, and nearly a hundred detailed biographies of the men and women who were instrumental in making China what it is today.

    The growing prosperity of the merchant class meant an ever-larger number of women for whom "dress" was a principal function in life, while the increasing availability of lower-priced ready-made garments enabled women of moderate means to purchase the fashions of the day. In addition, the development of the railways spurred the spread of new goods, while the removal of the tax on papers in 1854 produced an abundance of fashion magazines at cheap prices, bringing news of the latest styles to the multitudes.The magnificent array of ladies' fashions that characterized the century are on display in this remarkably complete decade-by-decade overview. Drawing almost exclusively on contemporary sources — fashion magazines, newspapers, rare period photographs, memoirs, Victorian novels, periodicals, and other publications, as well as firsthand observation of actual garments — the author describes and explains the couture that evolved in response to changing social conditions, technological innovations, and cultural developments.Over 1,100 line and tone drawings and photographs depict hundreds of outfits ranging from lovely morning dresses and starkly attractive riding outfits to elegant carriage costumes, opulent evening dresses, and exquisite bridal gowns. Full-page plates also depict period millinery, footwear, underclothing, and other apparel, while three useful glossaries provide descriptions of materials, definitions of technical terms, and more.Museum curators, vintage clothes collectors, and fashion historians will find this carefully researched and well-written book an indispensable tool for dating, identifying, and authenticating vintage clothing. Not only are styles described and illustrated in detail for each year; all the small details of construction by which specimens can be dated are given wherever possible. Moreover, designers, illustrators, and fashion enthusiasts will be delighted by the superbly detailed illustrations, which painstakingly document the fashionable finery of the Victorian era.

    -- The best account of sixteenth-century warfare-- By the author of A History of the Peninsular WarThis is an unrivalled account of sixteenth-century warfare, in which Sir Charles Oman covers the Great Wars of 1494-1559; Henry VllI's continental wars; the French Wars of Religion, 1562-98; the Dutch war of independence, 1568-1603; and the Turkish offensive against Christendom.Contemporary maps illustrate many of the actions, and add to the value of this brilliant and lucid history of the art of war.

    the most genuine account of the lives and adventures of" the pioneer American fighter pilots who flew in the Escadrille Lafayette between May 1916 and February 1918, when, under the aegis of the U.S. Army Air Service, it became the 103rd Aero Squadron.

    He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was quaestor in 81 or 82, a senator under the Flavian emperors, and a praetor in 88. After four years' absence he experienced the terrors of Emperor Domitian's last years and turned to historical writing. He was a consul in 97. Close friend of the younger Pliny, with him he successfully prosecuted Marius Priscus.Works: (i) "Life and Character of Agricola, " written in 97-98, specially interesting because of Agricola's career in Britain. (ii) "Germania" (98-99), an equally important description of the geography, anthropology, products, institutions, and social life and the tribes of the Germans as known to the Romans. (iii) "Dialogue on Oratory" ("Dialogus"), of unknown date; a lively conversation about the decline of oratory and education. (iv) "Histories" (probably issued in parts from 105 onwards), a great work originally consisting of at least twelve books covering the period 69-96 CE, but only Books I-IV and part of Book V survive, dealing in detail with the dramatic years 69-70. (v) "Annals, " Tacitus's other great work, originally covering the period 14-68 CE (Emperors Tiberius, Gaius, Claudius, Nero) and published between 115 and about 120. Of sixteen books at least, there survive Books I-IV (covering the years 14-28); a bit of Book V and all Book VI (31-37); part of Book XI (from 47); Books XII-XV and part of Book XVI (to 66).Tacitus is renowned for his development of a pregnant concise style, character study, and psychological analysis, and for the often terrible story which he brilliantly tells. As a historian of the early Roman empire he is paramount.The Loeb Classical Library edition of Tacitus is in five volumes.

    But more, it is a panorama of the entire 16th century. Covers the birth of Protestantism and the secret efforts to undermine Catholic unity, the Huguenot wars in France, the Sack of Rome, Great Siege, Battle of Lepanto, Spanish Armada, Council of Trent, etc.; and, Henry VIII, Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, St. Pius V, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Ignatius of Loyola, etc. Reads fast; never bogs down. Beautiful hardbound gift edition! Individually shrink-wrapped for protection.

    ..".not only a model of what the study of revolution should be, but one of the best books ever published on Spain."--"Gerald Brenan." "Borkenau went to see the Spanish Civil War with his own eyes and consulted nobody but his own integrity when he wrote what he saw."--"Dame Rebecca West."

    He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter of Julius Agricola before Agricola went to Britain, was quaestor in 81 or 82, a senator under the Flavian emperors, and a praetor in 88. After four years' absence he experienced the terrors of Emperor Domitian's last years and turned to historical writing. He was a consul in 97. Close friend of the younger Pliny, with him he successfully prosecuted Marius Priscus.Works: (i) "Life and Character of Agricola, " written in 97-98, specially interesting because of Agricola's career in Britain. (ii) "Germania" (98-99), an equally important description of the geography, anthropology, products, institutions, and social life and the tribes of the Germans as known to the Romans. (iii) "Dialogue on Oratory" ("Dialogus"), of unknown date; a lively conversation about the decline of oratory and education. (iv) "Histories" (probably issued in parts from 105 onwards), a great work originally consisting of at least twelve books covering the period 69-96 CE, but only Books I-IV and part of Book V survive, dealing in detail with the dramatic years 69-70. (v) "Annals, " Tacitus's other great work, originally covering the period 14-68 CE (Emperors Tiberius, Gaius, Claudius, Nero) and published between 115 and about 120. Of sixteen books at least, there survive Books I-IV (covering the years 14-28); a bit of Book V and all Book VI (31-37); part of Book XI (from 47); Books XII-XV and part of Book XVI (to 66).Tacitus is renowned for his development of a pregnant concise style, character study, and psychological analysis, and for the often terrible story which he brilliantly tells. As a historian of the early Roman empire he is paramount.The Loeb Classical Library edition of Tacitus is in five volumes.

    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.

    In a book that has frequently been compared with Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, Kracauer uses the life and work of Offenbach to assemble a penetrating portrayal of Second Empire Paris.By examining the superficiality and mystification of collective experience, Kracauer provides the reader with a revelatory "physiognomy" of social reality itself. Offenbach's immensely popular operettas have long been seen as part of the larger historical amnesia and escapism in the aftermath of 1848. But Kracauer insists that Offenbach's productions have to be understood as more than simply glittering distractions.The fantasy realms of his operettas, occurring amid the urban renewal of Baron Haussmann and the fanfare of Universal Expositions, were on the one hand fully continuous with the unreality of Napoleon III's imperial masquerade, but on the other made a mockery of the pomp and pretenses surrounding the apparatuses of power. His music "originated in an epoch in which social reality had been banished by the Emperor's orders, and for many years it flourished in the gap that was left."Offenbach's dreamworlds were embedded with a layer of utopian content that can be seen as an indictment of the fraudulence and corruption of the times. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern critical and cultural studies. This edition includes Kracauer's preface to the original German edition, translated into English for the first time, and a critical foreword by Gertrud Koch.

    W. Tilman in 1936. The journey begins after the successful mapping and penetration of Nanda Devi basin and entered the sanctuary and found the road for accessing the way of the Summit attempt. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

    Apollo's temple servant -- The spirit -- Apollonian epiphanies --Immortality and Apollonian religion.

    

    Reviewing forty years of working-class struggle in which Trotsky was a participant and leader, he discusses the fight to restore V.I. Lenin's revolutionary internationalist course and why the Stalin regime organized the Moscow Trials. He explains working people's stake in the unfolding Spanish Revolution, the fight against fascism in Germany, efforts to build a world revolutionary party, and much more.

    

    Stories about the countryside with illustrations by the author

    Though it shook the country from end to end, it was largely ordered with rigid discipline, a respect for officers and an unswerving loyalty to the King. Moreover, it was so rationally grounded that it not only achieved its immediate end, the betterment of the sailor's lot, but also began a new and lasting epoch in naval administration.Here are familiar names: the aged hero Lord Howe, the indecisive Lord Bridport, the giant Admiral Duncan who held a mutineer over the side of his ship until the wretch admitted his error, the ever unpopular Captain Bligh, and less familiar figures such as Richard Parker, who led the mutiny at the Nore and paid for his insurrection at the end of a rope. This fascinating account will appeal to all who love Horatio Hornblower, Jack Aubrey and other fictional heroes of the era.The value of The Floating Republic does not merely reside in its excellent treatment of its theme - but likewise in the light it sheds upon the history of the eighteenth century generally.

    

    

    "It's aim is to offer a bird's-eye view of chemistry's precursor, alchemy, followed by closer glimpses of certain fields of that richly coloured panorama of the ages.

    

    

    In response to public demand, this booklet is presented as a permanent and historic record of the love, life and marriage of Edward, Duke of Windsor, and Bessie Wallis Warfield (Mrs Simpson), based on material compiled by the Editors of News Review, Britain's First Weekly Newmagazine.

    Covers events from Napoleon’s divorce of Josephine and his marriage to Marie Louise, through the birth of the King of Rome (Napoleon II) right up to the latter’s death in 1832.

    

    Compiled here are dispatches, letters, diary entries and charts she sent to her husband at each stage of her trip.

    When, at the end of 1924, I first saw the Great Dam at Aswân, its symbolic significance burst upon me with such force that seemed to comprehend the River Nile forwards and backwards from this crucial point in its course. A mighty element had been tamed by human ingenuity so that the desert should bring forth fruit, an achievement which the centenarian Faust had attempted as the highest attainable to man in the service of his fellow-men. The thought of the end of Faust, as it stood embodied before my eyes in Aswân, fired me with the thought of writing the epic of the Nile as I had written the story of great men--as a parable.But before I could tell the story of its adventures, and reveal their deeper meaning, I had to know the river from end to end, so that I might confirm or correct this vision in its detail. I had long known other parts of Africa. I loved that continent, because it had brought me happiness: even before the war I had seen on the equator the source of the Nile. But not until I set out to study it did it stand revealed as the most wonderful of all rivers.This, the greatest single stream on earth, is yet by no means the most abundant, a fact which determines its whole life and that of its basin. It flows through the desert; for half of its course it receives neither tributaries nor rain, yet it does not dry up; indeed, close to its end, it creates the most fertile of all lands. In its youth it dissipates its finest powers, yet it arrives at its mouth with might. Though it flows along almost one-tenth of the earth's circumference, it maintains the simplest form of all rivers; save for a single loop, its course is from south to north, and over a . . .

    Daniel Drew, fifteen years old, came to the "Fox and Stars" at Deptford to earn his living as a stable boy. Before his days at the inn were over, Dan found himself a part of the life of the town and also deep in adventure, for a band of highwaymen known as the "Stingers" preyed upon all the eastern country back of the coast, and their final raids took place in Deptford itself.Mr. Meader knows the New Hampshire country, its history, its people, and its horses. And, as his hosts of readers know, he is a master of the art of telling a stirring and convincing story."More than just an adventure story, for Mr. Meader's prose is a pleasure in itself. He makes one feel the keen dusk of a New England Fall, the bitter catastrophe of a blizzard, the beauty of a good horse...all woven into a narrative wihch has the flavor of real living in those lusty days." -The New York Times Book Review

    . HENDRICK Author of The Lees of Virginia With Illustrations Such is the World's great harmony, that springs From Order, Union, full Consent of things. POPE'S Essay on Man: HI, 295-296 BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY 1937 C o Y R I G H T IQ37, BY BURTON J. HENDRICK. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK OR PORTIONS THEREOF IN ANY FORM FIRST EDITION Published June 1& 37 THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS BOOKS ARE PUBLISHED BY LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: 1937 ix PROLOGUE I BOOK I THE UNITED STATES BECOMES A NATION .... 9 BOOK II THE STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE 101 BOOK III THE RISE AND FALL OF NULLIFICATION .... 189 BOOK IV THE GREAT FAILURE OF THE CONSTITUTION . . . 259 BOOK V THE CONSTITUTION IN THE MODERN WORLD . . . 333 THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 431 INDEX 453 ILLUSTRATIONS JAMES MADISON Frontispiece From a portrait by Gilbert Stuart, in the possession of Bowdoin College GEORGE WASHINGTON 14 From an engraving by Edward Savage after his own portrait of Washington, painted in 1789; owned by the French-American Mu seum at Blerancourt, a gift of Miss Anne Morgan MOUNT VERNON 14 ALEXANDER HAMILTON . . . . . . 15 From a portrait by John Trumbull in the William Jay Iselin Collec tion. Courtesy of Mrs. Arthur Iselin JOHN JAY 15 From a portrait by Gilbert Stuart, in the possession of Mr. Arthur M. DuBois. Courtesy of the owner OLIVER ELLSWORTH 80 From a portrait by John Trumbull. Courtesy of the Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University ROGERSHERMAN 80 From a portrait by Ralph Earle. Courtesy of the Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University TIMOTHY PICKERING 81 From a portrait by Gilbert Stuart, in the possession of Mrs. Arthur T. Lyman. Courtesy of the owner JAMES WILSON 81 From a portrait by Leopold Seyffert, in the possession of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia THOMAS JEFFERSON 164 From a portrait by Mather Brown, in the possession of Mr. Charles Francis Adams. Courtesy of the owner INDEPENDENCE HALL 164 viii ILLUSTRATIONS JOHN MARSHALL ......... 165 From a portrait painted in 1832 by Henry Inman, in the possession of the Law Association in Philadelphia HENRY CLAY 206 From a portrait by William Walcutt, in the possession of the Ken tucky State Historical Society. Courtesy of the owners JOHN C. CALHOUN 206 SALMON P. CHASE 207 From a portrait by F. B. Carpenter, in the possession of the Union League Club of New York. Courtesy of the owners DANIEL WEBSTER 207 From a portrait by Chester Harding, in the Albert H. Wiggin Collection. Courtesy of the owner ROGER BROOKE TANEY 240 From a portrait by Henry Inman, in the possession of Mr. Gurney E. Newlin. Courtesy of the owner OLD SUPREME COURT CHAMBER ...... 240 WEBSTER REPLYING TO HAYNE ...... 241 From a painting by George P. A. Healy, now in Faneuil Hall, Boston STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS 336 Engraved by T. Knight from a daguerreotype ABRAHAM LINCOLN ........ 336 From an ambrotype made in 1860, now in the collection of Mr. F. H. Meserve JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN ....... 337 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR 337 THE SUPREME COURT, 1937 400 NEW SUPREME COURT BUILDING 401 INTRODUCTION 1937 IN 1831, something more than a century ago, a young French aristo crat came to the UnitedStates to investigate that new spectacle of popular rule, in which his faith, at that time, was not oversanguine. Four years afterward Alexis de Tocqueville, then thirty, published his Democracy in America, a work which has ever since remained a prime authority in the literature of government. Unlike most for eign visitors to the young, undeveloped country, De Tocqueville made a patient and deep study of the American system, to which he became a philosophic convert. The Constitution he regarded as the greatest ever framed; as for the Supreme Court, a more imposing

    Her brown cirls and her bright smile so endeared her to the men who worked on the train that the Railroad, on her ninth birthday, gave the train to her for a day. And this is only part of the true story of how Curly Top's devotion to a self-imposed duty led to her adventure and made her famous.Clara A. Ford, a well-known children's bookseller, who saw in Curly Top's story the germ of a book that every little girl will take to heart, has recorded it for children from six to nine. It imparts a good deal of information about trains and railroads, but to the young reader the best part is that it is all TRUE.The book is illustrated by many photographs, so that the child can follow the story as it actually happened.

    Fishermen, hoteliers, store owners, farmers and artists find their lives shattered.

    And only Robert P. Tristram Coffin could have woven this story of the majestic Kennebec and the people who lived beside it, from the Popham Plantation in the early 1600s to the 1930s. His intimate knowledge of the Maine landscape, his love for ships and the men who sailed them, and his warm feeling for the people who farmed the Kennebec's banks enrich every page.

    This reissue of a 1937 classic covers ancient naval warfare from the Greco-Persian War to the Campaign of Actium.PrefaceI Objectives of Naval WarfareII Greco-Persian War- MarathonIII Greco-Persian Wars- Salamis and MycaleIV Peloponnesian WarV Dionysius- Sicily and CarthageVI The Pentere and Its OarsVII Exercises and Stratagems of the Greek FleetsVIII Alexander's Naval CampaignsIX Naval Wars of Alexander's SuccessorsX First Punic WarXI Second Punic WarXII War of Rhodes and Pergamum against MacedonXIII War of Rome and AntiochusXIV Naval Warfare in the First Century B.C.XV Naval Wars of Caesar, 49-45 B.C.XVI Campaign of Philippi, 42 B.C.XVII Sicilian War, 38-36 B.C.XVIII Campaign of Actium, 31 B.C.Index.

    

    It deals with his life as the first Medical Inspector of Schools in the Transvaal, from 1914 onwards, "years of pioneering inspection", he wrote, "not likely to be forgotten... I travelled many thousands of miles every year, by rail, in a motor car, and on horseback: sometimes alone, sometimes accompanied by a school attendance officer to guide me when the road were not marked in the map..."Leipoldt's eye-witness account of an almost lost period of rural South African life, with its pleasure and problems, its achievements and defeats, is rich with anecdote and insight.

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    They are named after the protagonist, George Sherston; a young Englishman of the upper middle-class, living immediately before and during the First World War.The Sherston trilogy won high acclaim, and Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man took the Hawthornden Prize for Literature for 1928. The three books were printed together in one volume, The Memoirs of George Sherston, in 1937.