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Non-Fiction

1933

The Mis-Education of the Negro


Carter G. Woodson - 1933
    Carter G. Woodson shows us the weakness of Euro-centric based curriculums that fail to include African American history and culture. This system mis-educates the African American student, failing to prepare them for success and to give them an adequate sense of who they are within the system that they must live. Woodson provides many strong solutions to the problems he identifies. A must-read for anyone working in the education field.

Down and Out in Paris and London


George Orwell - 1933
    The Parisian episode is fascinating for its expose of the kitchens of posh French restaurants, where the narrator works at the bottom of the culinary echelon as dishwasher, or plongeur. In London, while waiting for a job, he experiences the world of tramps, street people, and free lodging houses. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and of society.

In Praise of Shadows


Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - 1933
    The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight, and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.

Testament of Youth


Vera Brittain - 1933
    Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the armed services, Brittain served in London, in Malta, and on the Western Front. By war's end she had lost virtually everyone she loved. Testament of Youth is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as a book that helped “both form and define the mood of its time,” it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war.

Getting Results By Prayer


Emmet Fox - 1933
    In this text, Emmet Fox explains how to pray effectively for maximum result.

The Tomb of Tut.Ankh.Amen


Howard Carter - 1933
    Though entered by thieves in antiquity, the burial of the king lay intact within its nest of coffins and funerary shrines, surrounded by a mass of burial equipment arranged in three peripheral chambers. Originally published in 1933, this is the third volume of Carter's trilogy describing the excavation of two of these store chambers, within which were gathered many of the boy-king's most splended funerary treasures.

Acting: The First Six Lessons


Richard Boleslavsky - 1933
    Gaily as they are told, there is not a word in any of them that is not seriously to the point, that is not calculated, out of long years of work and study as an actor and as a director in the professional and in the art theatre, to help a young actor on his way. They actually select his tools for him and show him how to use them. And that is a grateful task. For while an actor’s tools are all within his own body and mind and spirit, they are by their very nearness harder to isolate and put to special use than tools of wood and iron. Concentration and observation, experience and memory, movement and poise, creation and projection—an actor must make them all the servants of his talent.”—E.J.R. Isaacs

Picturesque Word Origins, from Webster's New International Dictionary


Merriam-Webster - 1933
    Originally published in 1933.

American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick


Jane A. Delano - 1933
    It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Blakiston in 1913 in 284 pages; Subjects: Family & Relationships / Parenting / General; Health & Fitness / General; Medical / Nursing / General; Medical / Nursing / Home & Community Care; Medical / Public Health;

The Art And Practice Of Mending


J.M. Holt - 1933
    The book’s title is self-explanatory. It’s scope covers most articles of personal wear as well as household linen and decorative fabrics commonly used in the home.”Contents:General remarks on mending – Mending white cotton & linen – Mending print, cretonne, and figured materials – Mending flannel and woollen materials – Mending dress material – Mending knitted garments and stockings – Mending and renovating cashmere, silk, and cotton stockings – Mending gloves – Renovating garments.

The Theory and Practice of Fencing


Julio Martinez Castello - 1933
    

Sex History of France and Its Erotic Literature


Henry L. Marchand - 1933
    Some of the chapter headings include: Sexuality in Medieval France, Indecent Fabliaux and Farces, Troubadours and Courts of Love, Anti-Royal and Anti-Church Literature, The Obscenity of the Theatres, Secret Clubs and Perversions, Celebrated Pornologists, Pornographia Rampant, Babylon on the Seine, The Napoleonic Regime, The Reign of the Prostitute, The Heyday of Obscene Art, and Publishers of Erotica, and many more. This exciting chronicle of La France rotique includes a history of French erotic literature which should appeal to every bibliophile. The volume covers secret love-clubs, clandestine dens, obscene art, private theatres, complicated brothel systems, priapic and sotadic verses, flagellation, and a host of other eroscenic curiosities.

On Reading Shakespeare


Logan Pearsall Smith - 1933