It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean.

    Hence, Austrian painter Christiane Ritter was at best ambivalent when her husband asked her to join him on the small Arctic island of Spitsbergen in a tarpaulin-covered hut sixty miles from the nearest neighbor. Yet his descriptions were filled not with cold and hardship but tales of remarkable wildlife, alluring light shows, and treks over water and ice. Won over, Ritter joined her husband and grew to love life on this small isle off Norway's coast, and in this charming memoir she describes her experiences, with insight and wry humor. Whether or not you ever plan a trip to the Arctic, A Woman in the Polar Night offers thoughtful reflections on isolation and the place the natural world holds in the human psyche.

    In A Room of One's Own (1929), she examines the work of past women writers, and looks ahead to a time when women's creativity will not be hampered by poverty, or by oppression. In Three Guineas (1938), however, Woolf argues that women's historical exclusion offers them the chance to form a political and cultural identity which could challenge the drive towards fascism and war.

    She said she had two rules she followed absolutely: to tell the truth, and not to do anything she didn't want to do. Her integrity shines throughout If You Want to Write, her best-selling classic on the process of writing that has already inspired thousands to find their own creative center. Carl Sandburg called this book "The best book ever written about how to write." Yet Ueland reminds us that "Whenever I say 'writing' in this book, I also mean anything that you love and want to do or to make." Ueland's writing and her teaching are made compelling by her feisty spirit of independence and joy.

    This famous account describes the war and Orwell’s own experiences. Introduction by Lionel Trilling.

    Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well.

    They wanted to escape civilization & live strictly according to nature. Without medical supplies, they came within inches of losing their lives, but they also found the serenity they were seeking. They built a bamboo cabin & lived off the land, struggling against myriad diseases. They lived to tell of hazardous inter-island voyages, their idyllic month-long stay with the last surviving Polynesian cannibal, their mixed relations with the islanders, their failures & successes in an entirely natural world. Fatu-Hiva was a turning point in Heyerdahl's life. It was there that he began to pick up a trail that would lead to the Kon-Tiki expedition. Ancient stone figures, the presence of such flora as the pineapple & local legends all pointed to an early migration from South America. At the time, this theory was considered outrageous. Heyerdahl would later prove it not only possible, but likely.List of IllustrationsFarewell to CivilizationBack to NatureWhite Men, Dark ShadowsExodusTabooOcean EscapeOn HivaoaIsland of Ill OmenIn the Cannibal ValleyCave DwellersIndex

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    Mitchell haunted parts of the city now vanished: the fish market, burlesque houses, tenement neighborhoods, and storefront churches. Whether he wrote about a singing first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers or a nudist who does a reverse striptease, Mitchell brilliantly illuminated the humanity in the oddest New Yorkers.These pieces, written primarily for The World-Telegram and The Herald Tribune, highlight his abundant gifts of empathy and observation, and give us the full-bodied picture of the famed New Yorker writer Mitchell would become.From the Trade Paperback edition.

    They are enchanting in their own right, and indispensable to an understanding of this great writer.

    De Long, to reach the North Pole via the Bering Sea, narrated by chief engineer of the expedition, G.W. Melville.

    Miss Hawes' story is an adventure into every phase of the women's clothing industry, the second largest business in the United States. Her early struggles for recognition and her final leadership in helping to shift the center of the fashion industry from Paris to New York make a story that will appeal not only to the initiate, but to the thousands besides - and to their husbands."Consumers attention!" Elizabeth Hawes tells us that 'the deformed thief Fashion' steals the real value out of what we buy. She suggests a remedy. She makes a plea for functional and durable merchandise. Consumers want that too. "Although Fashion is Spinach deals exclusively with the clothing industry it has a wider application"Aline Davis HaysPresident, League of Women Shoppers

    In this unique dictionary, Carl G. Liungman puts approximately 2,500 Western graphic symbols at your fingertips. Each entry includes the sign's history, its meanings, and the systems in which it is used. Symbols are cross-referenced to other signs with the same meanings and to structurally similar signs with different meanings. Locating an entry is as easy as looking up a word in a dictionary, due to a system that classifies each sign on the basis of three of its structural features.Enhancing the dictionary is a series of fascinating discussions of various aspects of ideograms. These include a discussion of signs and meanings, an overview of the historical development of signs, as well as sections on ancient American ideograms, the astrological system of symbols, the mystical pentagram, and the signs of the alchemists. Two indexes aid the reader. The Word Index specifies signs with a given name or meaning, along with subject headings. The Graphic Index displays symbols based on their structural features.Dictionary of Symbols serves both as a valuable reference on Western cultural history and as a professional tool for those working in design and the arts.

    

    Morton decided to make a Christian pilgrimage from the Euphrates to the Nile, and into Sinai, and to tell the story of the Christian life of the Near East. His account describes the journey from Babylon to Baghdad, from Coptic monasteries to the churches of Rome.

    Madman's Island tells of six terrible months spent on a small island of the Howick Group with only a madman for company. In the struggle to keep alive, Idriess had desperate adventures and suffered the terrors of complete loneliness. Humour, grim realism and strange beauty mingle in this romantic tale, told with glowing vitality.Note this is the non-fiction version first published in 1938, not to be confused with the original 1927 fictionalised version.

    Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing to create within limits. Starting with Plato, Huizinga traces the contribution of Homo Ludens, or "Man the player" through Medieval Times, the Renaissance, and into our modern civilization. Huizinga defines play against a rich theoretical background, using cross-cultural examples from the humanities, business, and politics. Homo Ludens defines play for generations to come."A happier age than ours once made bold to call our species by the name of Homo Sapiens. In the course of time we have come to realize that we are not so reasonable after all as the Eighteenth Century with its worship of reason and naive optimism, though us; "hence moder fashion inclines to designate our species asHomo Faber Man the Maker. But though faber may not be quite so dubious as sapiens it is, as a name specific of the human being, even less appropriate, seeing that many animals too are makers. There is a third function, howver, applicable to both human and animal life, and just as important as reasoning and making--namely, playing. it seems to me that next to Homo Faber, and perhaps on the same level as Homo Sapiens, Homo Ludens, Man the Player, deserves a place in our nomenclature. "--from the Foreward, by Johan Huizinga

    Includes Volume one and two.

    Newly updated and handsomely illustrated, this landmark book juxtaposes pairs of details rarely viewed together; such as cupids from Velázquez's Rokeby Venus and Correggio's The School of Love to illuminate fascinating analogies and contrasts between paintings and artists. Clark's erudite but accessible responses to these works are broad in scope and approach, and range from a few lines to an entire history of the still life. Featuring all new color reproductions, One Hundred Details serves as an introduction to art history and offers a unique and intimate look at these paintings through the discerning eye of a world-renowned art historian and director.

    Chapters include: laboratory glass blowing, laboratory optical work, technique of high vacuum, coating of surfaces by evaporation and sputtering, the use of fused silica, electrometers and electroscopes, Geiger counters, vacuum thermopiles and the measurement of radiant energy, optics, photoelectric cells and amplifiers, photography in the lab, heat and high temperature, notes on the materials of research, notes on the construction and design of instruments and apparatus, and molding and casting

    In this book, Leen explains why you will never find true joy by trying to avoid suffering, but only by embracing it willingly and following in the footsteps of Christ. Why the Cross? helps you reject non-Christian assumptions about suffering that Christians can pick up unwittingly from the secular culture — and to face your life's trials with joyful confidence in God.

    Originally published during the Great Depression, The WPA Guide nevertheless finds much to celebrate in the heartland of America. Nearly three dozen essays highlight Iowa's demography, economy, and culture, but the heart of the book is a detailed traveler's guide, organized as seventeen different tours, that directs the reader to communities of particular social and historical interest throughout the state. Rarely has so much information about a place been gathered in a single volume. This unique book, fit for the glove compartment or for a relaxing evening at home, is a special invitation to share in the richness and diversity of Iowa and its people.

    A leading figure of the Progressive movement, Altgeld improved workplace safety & child labor laws, pardoned three of the men convicted of the Haymarket Affair & rejected calls in 1894 to break up the Pullman strike with force. In 1896 he was a leader of the left wing of the Democratic Party, opposing President Grover Cleveland & the conservative Bourbon Democrats. He was defeated for reelection in 1896 in an intensely fought, bitter campaign. Originally published in 1938, this is still the best biography of John Peter Altgeld--German immigrant and enemy of orthodoxy--who became governor of Illinois and at the sacrifice of his career pardoned the Haymarket Martyrs.

    During the first, Hawaii was a monarchy ruled by native kings and queens. Then came the perilous transition period when new leaders, after failing to secure annexation to the United States, set up a miniature republic. The third period began in 1898 when Hawaii by annexation became American territory.The Hawaiian Kingdom, by Ralph S. Kuykendall, is the detailed story of the island monarchy. In the first volume, "Foundation and Transformation," the author gives a brief sketch of old Hawaii before the coming of the Europeans, based on the known and accepted accounts of this early period. He then shows how the arrival of sea rovers, traders, soldiers of forture, whalers, scoundrels, missionaries, and statesmen transformed the native kingdom, and how the foundations of modern Hawaii were laid.In the second volume, "Twenty Critical Years," the author deals with the middle period of the kingdom's history, when Hawaii was trying to insure her independence while world powers maneuvered for dominance in the Pacific. It was an important period with distinct and well-marked characteristics, but the noteworthy changes and advances which occurred have received less attention from students of history than they deserve. Much of the material is taken from manuscript sources and appears in print for the first time in the second volume.The third and final volume of this distinguished trilogy, "The Kalakaua Dynasty," covers the colorful reign of King Kalakaua, the Merry Monarch, and the brief and tragic rule of his successor, Queen Liliuokalani. This volume is enlivened by such controversial personages as Claus Spreckels, Walter Murray Gibson, and Celso Caesar Moreno. Through it runs the thread of the reciprocity treaty with the United States, its stimulating effect upon the island economy, and the far-reaching consequences of immigration from the Orient to supply plantation labor. The trilogy closes with the events leading to the downfall of the Hawaiian monarchy and the establishment of the Provisional Government in 1893.

    

    They are either publishers' humbuggery or the fig-leaf which an author hangs up to assure the public that, though he's been expressing himself, there won't be any indecent exposure, he hopes. Yet with a book like this on my hands, I don't see how I can get out of doing something in the nature of a chairman's job at least. What you see assembled here is a pretty improbable congregation to turn up in book-covers. They do not belong to the writing classes; they have been driven to it through no fault of their own and what pushes them is not the usual writer's excuses, not intimations of immortality, nor scribbler's itch, not self-expression.If one of these thrilling dynamics had been there, my job would have been easier. They weren't, so I had to start from scratch. The initial surge-my own, this time-was one that has stayed by me for a long time. My friends include members of the literary bourgeoisie and lads from the unprinted proletariat. Both parties talk well, and you'd probably enjoy a crack with them as much as I do. But here's the pity. The bourgeois ones get published right and left-especially left; the others are mute as far as print goes, though exceedingly vocal in public-houses. Now I've often felt it would be good to swop them round for a change. The first part of the swop was easy. Many a literary career has been menaced through my taking the writer out for a drink just as he was getting dangerously inspired. Part two, however, was more difficult. For years I simply bore it in mind, that's all. Then circumstances interwove. A publisher, gifted with insight, prevision, and warm-hearted philanthropy, was surveying me one morning while I quietly infested his office, and was wondering what to do with me. Looking at me as if I was a crystal, which is far from being the case in the morning, he swiftly outlined a book which I saw at once was the very one with which to tempt my mates out into the open. Meantime, one or two of them, no doubt having the same feeling as I, had been trying to take their pens out. That, I thought, is something to go on. Taking these for a start, how many others can I persuade? Then began a somewhat pathetic correspondence. I would send out preliminary letters describing how easy the thing was, only to put down what you all know well, don't bother about grammar because I'll put that right (that was swank, of course: I leave my own grammar to compositors). Some wrote back to say they'd have a shot at it if I sent them more particulars; others said they were no hands with a pen but, if I told them what they had to say, they'd try to write it down for me. I wrote some elaborate descriptions of what was required and settled down to await results. Two complete MSS arrived promptly. Also fragments, accompanied by pathetic little notes that told of hard struggle on the distant front. "Dear Jack," says one, "I've done three pages, and I've not nowt more to say. It costs two pints of mild and bitter, IS. ID.; one small Players, 6d. Total IS. 7d. How much will 8,000 words work out at?" A third MS. took another course. It was satisfactorily voluminous and full of good stuff, but got up in a semi-fictional guise which didn't fit it. Then came our first defeat. "I got 3,000 words done, Jack, but it can't be helped, you know the way we live in this bloody tenement, while I was out the baby got hold of the sheets and messed 'em up, so you'll have to count me out." Time passed without anything happening. I exerted pressure and encouragement. This brought forth wails and moans. "I could talk it all right, lad," said one, "but writing it down is hard labour." Next arrival was a bundle of closely-packed hand-written sheets with a note explaining that the author had no schooling. "I am a labourer and have to labour to live, it leaves me no time or energy for this game." Of course, his stuff was very well done: these lads never let you down, if you have patience with them. One would send me a couple of sheets as sample; another a bundle of odd efforts to be thrown into the waste-paper basket if no good. All that I got I shaped up a bit, and sent back with suggestions. Now and then reminders were sent out. I'd get back a card to say that the author had started work a month back, and as he was getting in a lot of overtime, literature had got the knock pro tem. Months went by before I had successfully folded all my black sheep but one. That one is still missing. If you run across him in some pub or other, get him to talk to you-he's good. Well, here is the result: seven narratives in which working-men describe their jobs, they conditions, and some of their reactions to the life they lead. They are not highly literary compositions, yet the lads can write, as you'll see. If I was not sure of that, I'd have had no part in bringing them forward. Two of them have had book published already; a third soon will have, I think. The rest may follow in good time now that they are started on the downward path. The book is not constructed so as to fit any propagandist line, nor to receive the special blessing of any political party, but naturally an intelligent member of the working class must have pronounced opinions upon many matters, so we cannot claim impartiality. In the main, however, the contents here are plain fact, the little details of the daily job told without special emphasis just as they occur. When you finish it you'll have a good idea of what it would be like if you got a job in a blast-furnace, in the cab of a locomotive, or round an East-end market, and this is the stuff from which theories are fabricated and by which they are finally judged. Have a go at it, then. You'll be interested.

    Both of them were by nature retiring, scholarly citizens, & withdrawn from the activities of the Hitler regime which seemed to them a temporary farce. Shortly after the Nazis took control of Cologne, they demanded that he sacrifice science to the interests of the party & he refused. He withdrew, temporarily, from the Museum, & there followed the record of indignities & petty revenge, trying to humiliate & discredit him, because, he would neither compromise with Hitler, nor leave the country. An illuminating picture of everyday atrocities, of the legal, cultural & political degeneration of a city, & of the Lips, deserted by everyone. Illuminating in the revelation of Hitler's throttle-hold over all activities. The book is a vivid protest against fascist tyranny--an interesting book to read as footnotes to the husband's The Savage Hits Back.--KirkusIntroductionPrelude in FortissimoVivace-Struggle with the LemuraeFinale-A Beginning

    A factual, pictorial record of the hurricane that hit New England in September 1938. The narration along with the pictures told of the devastation this hurricane wrought. The narration also told of the heroics and teamwork between volunteers, private enterprises and government. People came together to help one another.

    44,792.The true story of a young Dane's experiences in the French penal colony at Devil's Island as told to Dr. Aage Krarup Nielsen.

    

    

    

    ULTRA-DISPENSATIONALISM EXAMINED IN THE LIGHT OF HOLY SCRIPTURE

    These volumes that were produced became known as the American Guide Series. This series has been described as the biggest, fastest and most original research job in the history of the world. No library collection in Delaware would be complete without a copy of Delaware: A Guide To The First State.