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Non-Fiction

1900

Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful


Jon Bon Jovi - 1900
    It is the companion to a major documentary to be released in Fall 09 to coincide with the band′s anniversary. The documentary follows the band on their 2008 Lost Highway tour and at home, talking about everything from life on the road and onstage to band members′ own personal crises.The book is illustrated with gorgeous new photos and stills from the documentary, providing unprecedented insights into a band that is known for staying away from the media. Archival photographs provide the complete picture of the band′s extraordinary reign at the top of the charts. Jon Bon Jovi is writing an introduction and text throughout the book, and the other band members, including Richie Sambora, are contributing extended captions. This is a unique portrait of rock legends after 25 years together, reflecting on their past as well looking forward to the future.

Up from Slavery


Booker T. Washington - 1900
    Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment of African Americans in the post Reconstruction period. "Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and work, which has been the source of inspiration for all Americans. Washington reveals his inner most thoughts as he transitions from ex-slave to teacher and founder of one of the most important schools for African Americans in the south, The Tuskegee Industrial Institute.

The Majesty of Calmness


William George Jordan - 1900
    It is the poise of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals. It is the moral atmosphere of a life self-centred, self-reliant, and self-controlled. Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute confidence, and conscious power, ready to be focused in an instant to meet any crisis. The Majesty of Calmness by William George Jordan will teach you and guide you to obtaining calmness through this timeless motivational work in a paperback book edition.

War Stories


Paul Dowswell - 1900
    The slaughter and destruction was on such a massive scale it still haunts us today. From zeppelin raids, trench warfare, spies and secret plots, to epic encounters between colossal warships and duels between lone snipers facing almost certain death, this book contains a collection of dramatic and unforgettable tales from both these terrible wars.

New Optimum Nutrition for the Mind


Patrick Holford - 1900
    Eating the right food has been proven to boost IQ, improve mood and emotional stability, sharpen the memory, and keep the mind young. Similarly, the harmful things we take into our bodies, or anti-nutrients-including oxidants, alcohol, sugar, and stimulants..................

Praise God and Thank Him: Biblical Keys for a Joyful Life


Jeff Cavins - 1900
    Jeff Cavins explains what biblical praise is and how it can transform any difficulty and lead to a deeper trust in God. He shows how thanksgiving—the attitude of gratitude—is a natural expression of praising God, and he provides practical tips for incorporating it into your life.The audio edition of this book can be downloaded via Audible.

Brain Quest: Grade 7


Chris Welles Feder - 1900
    Curriculum-based, with questions and answers drawn from material used in schools around the country, "Brain Quest" tests kids on the stuff they need to know, when they need to know it -- while capturing all the excitement of a down-to-the-wire quiz game.All sets have two decks of cards (except My First, which has three), with each deck hinged together by a plastic bolt. Early Childhood sets have full-color illustrations and are designed for play-and-learn moments, emphasizing development, not testing. Sets for older kids have categories of questions coordinated by symbol. Answer cards immediately follow question cards. Printed on durable stock, each set is packaged in an unbreakable clear box with a color-coordinated lid.Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Scholastic Book Club, and Newbridge Book Club."Brain Quest" goes beyond simple memorization and encourages kids to use reasoning, listening, and visualization skills, which increases its educational and entertainment value". -- Sesame Street Parents "TM"Illustrations throughout; question and answer cards hinged together by a plastic bolt; 2 decks come inside a plastic container; 75 cards per deck; package: 2 1/6" x 2 11/16" x 7 7/16"

Practical Work on Self


E.J. Gold - 1900
    A simple step-by-step program of 24 exercises for awakening and stimulating the inner essence in daily life and on the spiritual path.

Advanced Taekwondo


Scott Shaw - 1900
    All of the books in the series are meant to guide advanced students through new and complicated techniques, as well as explain the often subtle improvements one can make to their technique. These books allow students to gain a more complete understanding of the art form as they progress in their training.

Mortgaging the Earth


Bruce Rich - 1900
    The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment, and the Crisis of Development "A detailed and thought-provoking look at an important subject from the viewpoint of a passionate advocate."-- The New York Times Book Review

Effective Human Relations in Organizations


Barry L. Reece - 1900
    Also, learning objectives and review questions allow students to track their progress, while Application exercises suggest hands-on assignments and end-of-chapter cases provide role-playing scenarios. Expanded coverage of technology-related issues and the Information Age. Human Relations in Action boxed inserts present a mix of how to tips, examples from real-world organizations, and articles. The text looks at diversity in the workplace as a broad concept encompassing more than just race, ethnicity, and nationality such as age, income level, education, and different styles of communication.

Wellington's Men


W.H. Fitchett - 1900
    As a commentary on the texts, Fitchett inserts his own criticism and analysis of parts of four biographies.Each of these men were eyewitnesses to the major events of Wellington’s Peninsula Campaign, and write critically about their own experiences in vivid prose that takes us directly back to the battlefields of Europe.They are the “actual human documents, with the salt of truth, of sincerity, and of reality in every syllable,” as Fitchett writes.‘Wellington’s Men’ is a fascinating history of the Napoleonic Wars as told by the men who saw it.W.H. Fitchett (1841-1928) was a minister, educator and writer, who wrote a column for the Spectator magazine. He published works of fiction and non-fiction, including a four-volume collection How England Saved Europe in 1909.Albion Press is an imprint of Endeavour Press, the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.

A Book for All Readers : An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries


Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1900
    As a thirty-five-year-old newspaper editor in Cincinnati in 1860, Spofford criticized Whitman's poetry on various grounds, including incoherence and indecency: "What we complain of in Walt Whitman, aside from that gross and obtrusive animalism which disgusts all intellectual men, is his utter contempt for expression, and the formless and apparently aimless character of his productions." With these comments in mind, it is surprising to find Librarian of Congress Spofford writing to Whitman sixteen years later, asking him to confirm that the six editions of Leaves of Grass held by the Library of Congress were indeed all of the authorized editions. Though Whitman's reputation steadily rose through the late nineteenth century, Spofford had not changed his opinion of the poet's work: he pointedly left Whitman's name out of some original verses celebrating American literary authors in 1900. The narrative that emerges from these events would tend to valorize Spofford as a visionary librarian who put aside his personal taste in the interest of establishing the Library of Congress as a national library with comprehensive collections. The centerpiece of his collection-building efforts, of course, was the copyright deposit law of 1870, which secured for the Library all publications of the American press submitted for copyright protection.My intention in this essay is not to challenge this narrative but to complicate it. Spofford deserves immense credit for the copyright deposit law as well as for his long campaign for a building whose grandeur would be commensurate with the institution's status as a de facto national library. But Spofford was, inevitably, a product of the culture of Victorian America. The growth of professional librarianship in the late nineteenth century took place alongside challenging developments in literary publishing in the United States, and Spofford's career must be understood within these contexts. While arguing passionately for wide inclusion as the guiding principle of collection development at the Library of Congress, Spofford retained a paternalistic ethic of exclusion when it came to personal reading habits and public library selection practices. Moreover, for all of Spofford's eloquence on the principle of inclusion at the Library of Congress, his adverse judgments about the cultural value of popular literature were somewhat reflected in the Library's literary collections and cataloging practices. An analysis of post-1870 Library catalogs along with works Spofford published outside of his official duties as Librarian reveals his ambivalence about the very collections his efforts made possible.The Fiction QuestionSpofford expressed his philosophy regarding reading practices and library collection policies in A Book for All Readers, published in 1900. In the first chapter, "The Choice of Books," he offered guidelines to librarians and individual readers about the most important subject areas to collect, including bibliographical resources to help them make selections. Spofford advised readers to begin with biographies and histories before proceeding to essays, poetry, travel literature, science, fiction, literary history, and classical literature. His advice on reading in A Book for All Readers squared perfectly with the ideology of reading that drove the library profession in the late nineteenth century. The ideology included several tenets: "read with a purpose," "read systematically and widely," "digest what you read," and read with discrimination. Similar sentiments are found in other influential guides to book collecting, such as Frederic B. Perkins's The Best Reading (first published in 1872), which provided a bibliography of titles along with "Readings on Reading" and "Suggestions for Courses of Reading." Spofford endorsed the principle of literary selectivity in the eight-volume anthology The Library of Choice Literature, which he coedited with Charles Gibbon in 1883, and in a pamphlet entitled What to Read; When to Read; How to Read, published the same year. Spofford's A Book for All Readers was therefore part of a larger effort among librarians and self-appointed cultural arbiters of the period to shape the reading habits of Americans.Coming as it did after his official retirement as Librarian of Congress, A Book for All Readers represented a capstone to Spofford's long career. By then freer to express his...

Insight Guide Trinidad and Tobago


Insight Guides - 1900
    

1001 Facts Everyone Should Know about Israel


Mitchell G. Bard - 1900
    Virtually all the press coverage, however, is about the conflict between Israel and her neighbors. There is so much more to Israel that is positive and should be better known. This book provides essential facts about not only the political events in the news, but also the positive contributions Israel is making in the arts and sciences. It describes some of the remarkable sites and people that make the country unique. This is not a recitation of facts and figures, but a mosaic of the most important aspects of Israel's past and present. The book will entertain those interested in some of the fascinating trivia about Israel and inform those doing more serious research about the economy, government, and culture of the Jewish State.

A History of Norway: From the Earliest Times


Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - 1900
    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.

Shield of Empire


Brian Lavery - 1900
    The Royal Navy's most dramatic effect on Scotland, aside from its role in the British Empire and European wars, was in suppressing the Jacobite campaigns from 1708 to 1746. This book breaks new ground in telling the stories of almost forgotten campaigns, such as the submarine war in the Firth of Forth in 1914-18. In two world wars, and since the 1960s, a large proportion of the Navy's power has been based in Scotland, from the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow to Trident submarines at Faslane. Most British sailors of the Second World War had part of their training in Scotland, and the famous base at Tobermory was only one of many. Yet, the Navy never felt at home in Scotland. As one Scottish admiral put it, 'In both wars the Royal Navy flooded into Scotland to make use of our deep water ports and sea lochs for large-scale and safer anchorages. After each war the Navy unimaginatively retreated en masse to the Channel.' The book ends with a unique account of the setting up of the controversial missile bases in the Holy Loch and Gareloch. Brian Lavery then looks at the future in order to determine the effect devolution and possible independence might have on Scotland and the Royal Navy.

Kyoto & Nara The Soul of Japan


Philip Sandoz - 1900
    This book captures the beauty of Japan's cultural heartland in over 100 full-color photos by one of the area's best photographers.

ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCs Coding Handbook 2014 Without Answers


Nelly Leon-Chisen - 1900
    The text leads students to logical answers and provides primary supporting source. This logical approach has allowed the Handbook to become the most popular textbook for hospital and physician office coder training. Exercises are presented in clear, technically correct language that progresses from easy to more difficult. Each chapter includes an overview that highlights important points and includes "learning outcomes" and "terms to know" --features that help readers understand and absorb new information. A "Remember..." feature provides sidebar comments or facts that alert readers to special information or perspectives. Expanded indexes enhance the speed of finding and applying information. Scores of Exercises and Quizzes The Handbook contains more than 60 new exercises and case studies, plus updates to the 100-plus in-chapter exercises and review questions. The case-summary exercises are based on health records and require readers to consider the patient's condition as well as medical history, reason for admission or encounter, laboratory results, procedures performed, and the diagnoses listed. Readers must apply pertinent coding principles and official coding guidelines in making code assignments and designating the principal diagnosis and procedure for each episode of care. Illustrations of surgical procedures and diagrams of anatomy and common disorders make it easier for readers to remember and absorb information, plus the Handbook includes an appendix on reimbursement methodologies valuable to new students.

Piano 101 : Book 1


Alfred A. Knopf Publishing Company - 1900
    Great for college non-music majors, continuing education class

Mosby's Fundamentals of Therapeutic Massage [With 2 DVDs]


Sandy Fritz - 1900
    Focused on clinical reasoning and competency-based outcomes, this new edition includes two companion DVDs with over three hours of video on techniques, body mechanics, case studies, and more, plus anatomy and physiology animations that demonstrate concepts from the book.

With the Flag to Pretoria


H.W.Wilson - 1900
    Describes events by date.Range is 1 October 1899 to 29 September 1900. Numerous b/w images: photos,drawings, maps, repros of colour paintings etc.Unashamedly pro-British and not exactly objective! But huge amounts of detail and fascinating contemporary photos.

The Cinque Ports: A Historical and Descriptive Record


Ford Madox Ford - 1900
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The Human World in the Physical Universe: Consciousness, Free Will, and Evolution


Nicholas Maxwell - 1900
    The solution proposed is that physics describes only a selected aspect of all that exists that aspect which determines the way events unfold. Sensory qualities, inner experiences, consciousness, meaning and value, all these exist but lie beyond the scope of physics, and of that part of science that can be reduced to physics. Furthermore, these human features of the world are to be explained and understood, not scientifically, but "personalistically," a kind of understanding distinct from, and not reducible to, science. This view that the world is riddled with what may be called "double comprehensibility" leads to a proposed solution to the philosophical mind/body problem, and to the problem of free will; it leads to a reinterpretation of Darwin's theory of evolution, and to an account of the evolution of consciousness and free will. After a discussion of the location of consciousness in the brain, the book concludes with a proposal as to how academic inquiry might be changed so that it becomes a kind of inquiry rationally designed to help humanity create a more civilized human world in the physical universe."

Flowers of the Field


C.A. Johns - 1900
    This was the twenty-ninth re-issue revised by Boulanger.