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1950

Discourse on Colonialism


Aimé Césaire - 1950
    Nearly twenty years later, when published for the first time in English, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights, Black Power, and antiwar movements. Aimé Césaire eloquently describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of "progress" and "civilization" upon encountering the "savage," "uncultured," or "primitive." He reaffirms African values, identity, and culture, and their relevance, reminding us that "the relationship between consciousness and reality is extremely complex. . . . It is equally necessary to decolonize our minds, our inner life, at the same time that we decolonize society." An interview with Aimé Césaire by the poet René Depestre is also included.

The Great Escape


Paul Brickhill - 1950
    With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance.It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men—every one of them, every minute, every hour, every day and night for more than a year.Made into the classic 1963 war film of the same name starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough.

Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World


Louis Fischer - 1950
    This is the story of Mahatma Gandhi, a man who owned nothing-and gained everything!!

Portrait of a Turkish Family


Irfan Orga - 1950
    It is rich with the scent of fin de siecle Istanbul in the last days of the Ottoman Empire. His mother was a beauty, married at thirteen, as befitted a Turkish woman of her class. His grandmother was an eccentric autocrat, determined at all costs to maintain her traditional habits. But the war changed everything. Death and financial disaster reigned, the Sultan was overthrown, and Turkey became a republic. The red fez was ousted by the cloth cap, and the family was forced to adapt to an unimaginably impoverished life. Filled with brilliant vignettes of old Turkish life, such as the ritual weekly visit to the hamam, as it tells the "other side" of the Gallipoli story, and its impact on one family and the transformation of a nation. "It is just as though someone had opened a door marked `Private' and showed you what was inside.... A most interesting and affectionate book."-Sir John Betjeman. "A wholly delightful book."-Harold Nicolson

Selected Writings


Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1950
     This new edition offers a broad view of the author's finest work, featuring his critical essays, poems, and letters, plus a considerable amount of material from the Journals, including an entry discovered in 1964 in the Library of Congress.

A History of the Modern World


Joel Colton - 1950
    It has been adopted at more than 1000 schools and has been translated into six languages. Lloyd Kramer joins the author team for this ninth edition that includes two new color inserts highlighting fine art, additional pedagogy to guide students through challenging material, and full, up-to-date inclusion of current events. Now packaged with PowerWeb, a dynamic course-specific rather than book-specific supplement that engages your students in three levels of resource materials and provides a true avenue to extending learning about a subject, A History of the Modern World is a necessity in any world history course.

The Theory of Relativity and Other Essays


Albert Einstein - 1950
    Discover the thought process and physics behind general relativity and Einstein’s contribution to science, in this authorized edition. In this collection of his seven most important essays on physics, Einstein guides his reader step-by-step through the many layers of scientific theory that formed a starting point for his discoveries. By both supporting and refuting the theories and scientific efforts of his predecessors, Einstein reveals in a clear voice the origins and meaning of such significant topics as physics and reality, the fundamentals of theoretical physics, the common language of science, the laws of science and of ethics, and an elementary derivation of the equivalence of mass and energy. This remarkable collection allows the general reader to understand not only the significance of Einstein’s masterpiece, but also the brilliant mind behind it.This authorized ebook features a new introduction by Neil Berger and an illustrated biography of Albert Einstein, which includes rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

People of the Deer


Farley Mowat - 1950
    With them, he observed for the first time the phenomenon that would inspire him for the rest of his life: the millennia-old migration of the Arctic's caribou herds. He also endured bleak, interminable winters, suffered agonizing shortages of food, and witnessed the continual, devastating intrusions of outsiders bent on exploitation. Here, in this classic and first book to demonstrate the mammoth literary talent that would produce some of the most memorable books of the next half-century, best-selling author Farley Mowat chronicles his harrowing experiences. People of the Deer is the lyrical ethnography of a beautiful and endangered society. It is a mournful reproach to those who would manipulate and destroy indigenous cultures throughout the world. Most of all, it is a tribute to the last People of the Deer, the diminished Ihalmiuts, whose calamitous encounter with our civilization resulted in their unnecessary demise.

The Little Princesses


Marion Crawford - 1950
    Their father was the Duke of York, the second son of King George V, and their Uncle David was the future King of England.We all know how the fairy tale ended: When King George died, “Uncle David” became King Edward VIII---who abdicated less than a year later to marry the scandalous Wallis Simpson. Suddenly the little princesses’ father was King. The family moved to Buckingham Palace, and ten-year-old Princess Elizabeth became the heir to the crown she would ultimately wear for over fifty years.The Little Princesses shows us how it all began. In the early thirties, the Duke and Duchess of York were looking for someone to educate their daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, then five- and two-years-old. They already had a nanny---a family retainer who had looked after their mother when she was a child---but it was time to add someone younger and livelier to the household.Enter Marion Crawford, a twenty-four-year-old from Scotland who was promptly dubbed “Crawfie” by the young Elizabeth and who would stay with the family for sixteen years. Beginning at the quiet family home in Piccadilly and ending with the birth of Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace in 1948, Crawfie tells how she brought the princesses up to be “Royal,” while attempting to show them a bit of the ordinary world of underground trains, Girl Guides, and swimming lessons.The Little Princesses was first published in 1950 to a furor we cannot imagine today. It has been called the original “nanny diaries” because it was the first account of life with the Royals ever published. Although hers was a touching account of the childhood of the Queen and Princess Margaret, Crawfie was demonized by the press. The Queen Mother, who had been a great friend and who had, Crawfie maintained, given her permission to write the account, never spoke to her again.Reading The Little Princesses now, with a poignant new introduction by BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond, offers fascinating insights into the changing lives and times of Britains royal family.

Step Right Up!


Daniel P. Mannix - 1950
    "I probably never would have become America's leading fire-eater if Flamo the Great hadn't happened to explode that night in front of Krinko's Great Combined Side Shows."A true story of carnival life, in which the author learns the tricks of the trade, meets some wonderful people (and some crooks) and lives an odd and interesting life.

Elephant Bill


J.H. Williams - 1950
    You read it as a small child, or even as a adult, and never forget the images it conjures up, of a wonderful Englishman who lives in the mysterious forests of faraway Burma and of the kind native people who teach him about their lovely country. But most of all, you never forget the elephants! For this is a story about those magnificent creatures. Though he was officially known as Lt. Colonel J.H. Williams, the author was known to the world at large as “Elephant Bill”. That is because he spent 25 years living with the elephants in the mountains and forests of Burma. There he trained them to haul teak logs out of the isolated jungles.Yet this is also a story of great courage because when the Second World War struck, it also came to Burma. The Japanese Imperial Army planned to confiscate the Burmese elephants, drafting them to make the bridges and railways they needed to invade India. When he learned of these plans to put his beloved animals to a war-like purpose, Elephant Bill knew what had to be done. The mighty kings of the jungle had to be evacuated to safety.Personal story of Colonel Williams' adventures in Burma. A bit tedious but quite interesting to read about his involvement with working elephants.

Principles & Problems of International Politics: Selected Readings


Hans J. Morgenthau - 1950
    THE ART OF GUESSING IN POLITICS Herbert A. L. Fisher: POLITICAL PROPHECIES 4 2. THE ENCYCLOPEDIC SCIENCE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Sir Alfred Zimmern: INTRODUCTORY REPORT TO THE DISCUSSIONS IN ON UNIVERSITY TEACHING OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 19 3. THE METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF THE SCIENCE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Nicholas J. Spykman: METHODS OF APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 24 PART II WHAT FOREIGN POLICY IS ALL ABOUT 33 4. THE UNIVERSALITY OF POWER POLITICS Alexander Hamilton: THE FEDERALIST, NO. VI 34 5. THE NATIONAL INTEREST vs. ABSTRACT MORAL PRINCIPLES Alexander Hamilton: THE PACIFICUS PAPERS 38 6. POWER CALCULATIONS vs. FALSE COMPARISONS Alexander Hamilton: THE AMERICANUS PAPERS 44 7. A BRAVE NEW WORLD WITHOUT POWER POLITICS 50 (a) Woodrow Wilson: THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN (Address Opening the Campaign, September :27, 1918) 50 (b) Woodrow Wilson: ESSENTIAL TERMS OF PEACE IN EUROPE (Address to the United States Senate, January 22, 1917 ) 51 (c) Woodrow Wilson: FOR DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST GERMANY (Address Delivered at a Joint Session of the Two Houses of Congress, April 2, 1917) 52 8. PHILANTHROPY vs. THE NATIONAL INTEREST W. E. Gladstone: BULGARIAN HORRORS AND RUSSIA IN TURKESTAN 53 9. THE SUPREMACY OF THE NATIONAL INTEREST Benjamin Disraeli: SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS ON THE BERLIN TREATY (July 18, 1878) 55 10. Two MORE ASPECTS OF THE SUPREMACY OF THE NATIONAL INTEREST 56 (a) Lord Salisbury: SPEECH TO THE MIDDLESEX CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION (April 30, 1879) 57 (b) Lord Salisbury: SPEECH IN MANCHESTER (October 2, 1879) 57 PART III NATIONAL POWER 57 A. Imperialism: The Foremost Expression of National Power 61 11. THE IMPERIALISTIC DEVIL IN WALL STREET REPORT OF THE NYE COMMITTEE TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE ON MUNITIONS INDUSTRY CONTENTS PART I THE SCIENCE OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 3 1. THE ART OF GUESSING IN POLITICS Herbert A. L. Fisher: POLITICAL PROPHECIES 4 2. THE ENCYCLOPEDIC SCIENCE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Sir Alfred Zimmern: INTRODUCTORY REPORT TO THE DISCUSSIONS IN ON UNIVERSITY TEACHING OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 19 3. THE METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF THE SCIENCE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Nicholas J. Spykman: METHODS OF APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 24 PART II WHAT FOREIGN POLICY IS ALL ABOUT 33 4. THE UNIVERSALITY OF POWER POLITICS Alexander Hamilton: THE FEDERALIST, NO. VI 34 5. THE NATIONAL INTEREST vs. ABSTRACT MORAL PRINCIPLES Alexander Hamilton: THE PACIFICUS PAPERS 38 6. POWER CALCULATIONS vs. FALSE COMPARISONS Alexander Hamilton: THE AMERICANUS PAPERS 44 7. A BRAVE NEW WORLD WITHOUT POWER POLITICS 50 (a) Woodrow Wilson: THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN (Address Opening the Campaign, September :27, 1918) 50 (b) Woodrow Wilson: ESSENTIAL TERMS OF PEACE IN EUROPE (Address to the United States Senate, January 22, 1917 ) 51 (c) Woodrow Wilson: FOR DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST GERMANY (Address Delivered at a Joint Session of the Two Houses of Congress, April 2, 1917) 52 8. PHILANTHROPY vs. THE NATIONAL INTEREST W. E. Gladstone: BULGARIAN HORRORS AND RUSSIA IN TURKESTAN 53 9. THE SUPREMACY OF THE NATIONAL INTEREST Benjamin Disraeli: SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS ON THE BERLIN TREATY (July 18, 1878) 55 10. Two MORE ASPECTS OF THE SUPREMACY OF THE NATIONAL INTEREST 56 (a) Lord Salisbury: SPEECH TO THE MIDDLESEX CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION (April 30, 1879) 57 (b) Lord Salisbury: SPEECH IN MANCHESTER (October 2, 1879) 57 PART III NATIONAL POWER 57 A. Imperialism: The Foremost Expression of National Power 61 11. THE IMPERIALISTIC DEVIL IN WALL STREET REPORT OF THE NYE COMMITTEE TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE ON MUNITIONS INDUSTRY 62 12. THE IMPERIALISTIC DEVIL IN CAPITALISM Vladimir Lenin: IMPERIALISM, THE HIGHEST STAGE OF CAPITALISM 63 13. How EMPIRES ARE BUILT William Scott Ferguson: GREEK IMPERIALISM 70 14. How PLANNED TO BUILD ITS EMPIRE Guchi Tanaka: 'S DREAM OF WORLD EMPIRE: THE TANAKA MEMORIAL 72 B. The Elements of National Power 75 15. THE IMPACT OF LOCATION ON POWER Nicholas J. Spykman: GEOGRAPHY AND FOREIGN POLICY 76 16. THE ECONOMICS OF NATIONAL POWER Sir Arthur Salter: THE ECONOMIC CAUSES OF WAR 79 17. PEOPLES AND PROSPECTS OF NATIONAL POWER Dudley Kirk: POPULATION CHANGES AND THE POSTWAR WORLD 87 18. THE ROLE OF NATIONAL CHARACTER Salvador de Madariaga: ENGLISHMEN, FRENCHMEN, SPANIARDS 97 PART IV INTERNATIONAL ORDER AND PEACE 103 19. THE BALANCE OF POWER -- THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS David Hume: OF THE BALANCE OF POWER 105 20. THE BALANCE OF POWER -- THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF POLITICS H. W. V. Temperley: THE DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICY OF WILLIAM OF ORANGE 110 21. THE USES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Arnold D. McNair: INTERNATIONAL LAW IN PRACTICE 112 22. A BALANCE SHEET FOR THE Erich Hula: FOUR YEARS OF THE 120 23. THE PRECONDITIONS FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT Reinhold Niebuhr: THE MYTH OF WORLD GOVERNMENT 134 24. WORLD GOVERNMENT -- ALTERNATIVE TO TOTAL DESTRUCTION Robert Maynard Hutchins: THE CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS FOR WORLD ORDER 138 25. THE TECHNIQUE OF DIPLOMACY Hugh Gibson: THE ROAD TO FOREIGN POLICY 149 PART V THE FOREIGN POLICIES OF THE GREAT POWERS 161 A. The Foreign Policy of the 163 26. HOW TO CONDUCT FOREIGN AFFAIRS THE HARD WAY Hans J. Morgenthau: CONDUCT OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY 163 27. SEVEN POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY James Reston: DEBATE OVER SHOWS SEVEN MISCONCEPTIONS 174 28. THE BALANCE OF POWER -- PRINCIPLE OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY Alfred Vagts: THE AND THE BALANCE OF POWER 178 29. THE CONTAINMENT OF THE : THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE Harry S. Truman: RECOMMENDATIONS ON AND (Message to Congress, March 12, 1947) 210 30. THE ECONOMIC RESTORATION OF : THE MARSHALL PLAN George C. Marshall: THE EUROPEAN RECOVERY PROGRAM (Address at Harvard University, June 5, 1947) 216 31. THE MILITARY RESTORATION OF : THE ATLANTIC DEFENSE TREATY TEXT OF THE ATLANTIC DEFENSE TREATY (July 22, 1949), 219 32. FOREIGN AID DETERMINED BY THE NATIONAL INTEREST George F. Kennan: FOREIGN AID IN THE FRAMEWORK OF NATIONAL POLICY 222 33. REFORMULATION OF THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE AND THE PROBLEM OF ASIA Dean Acheson: CRISIS IN ASIA -- AN EXAMINATION OF POLICY (Speech before the National Press Club, January 12, 1950) 229 B. The Foreign Policy of Great Britain 242 34. BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY SPEAKS WITH ONE VOICE John Price: FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND THE PUBLIC 242 35. HOW TO THINK ABOUT BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY -- AND ALL FOREIGN POLICY Sir Eyre Crowe: MEMORANDUM ON BRITISH RELATIONS WITH AND GERMANY (January 1, 1907) 247 36. THE BALANCE OF POWER -- PRINCIPLE OF BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY Winston S. Churchill: THE SECOND WORLD WAR 261 C. The Foreign Policy of the 265 37. THE Two MAINSPRINGS OF SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY W. Gurian: PERMANENT FEATURES OF SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY 265 38. THE CONSISTENCY OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY The Earl of Malmesbury: DIARIES AND CORRESPONDENCE 288 PART VI PROBLEMS OF FOREIGN POLICY 293 A. The Nature of Contemporary World Politics 293 39. WORLD POLITICS IN THE ATOMIC AGE Jacob Viner: THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE ATOMIC BOMB FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 295 40. THE NEW BALANCE OF POWER BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION Hans J. Morgenthau: THE CONQUEST OF THE UNITED STATES BY GERMANY 303 41. STRENGTH AS A PILLAR OF PEACE Winston Churchill: HOW TO STOP WAR 316 42. ACCOMMODATION AS THE OTHER PILLAR OF PEACE Winston Churchill: SPEECH IN HOUSE OF COMMONS (January 23, 1948) 319 43. Two WORLDS ARE BETTER THAN NONE Winston Churchill: SPEECH IN HOUSE OF COMMONS (June 5, 1946) 323 B. The Nature of the East-West Conflict 324 44. WHAT THREATENS US? -- IMPERIALISM William Pitt: SPEECH IN HOUSE OF COMMONS (February 1, 1793) 326 45. WHAT THREATENS US? -- WORLD REVOLUTION Edmund Burke: CORRESPONDENCE (Letter of August 1793) 334 46. WHAT THREATENS Us? -- NOTHING AT ALL Charles James Fox: SPEECH IN HOUSE OF COMMONS (February 1, 1793) 336 47. IDEOLOGICAL CRUSADE vs. PROTECTION OF THE NATIONAL INTEREST 342 (a) Charles James Fox: SPEECH IN HOUSE OF COMMONS (Fbruary 12, 1793) 343 (b) Charles James Fox: SPEECH IN HOUSE OF COMMONS (May 30, 1794>) 344 (c) Earl Russell: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHARLES JAMES FOX 345 48. AGAIN: THE NATIONAL INTEREST AS THE ULTIMATE STANDARD OF FOREIGN POLICY Edmund Burke: SPEECH IN HOUSE OF COMMONS (February 18, 1793) 347 49. WHAT WE SEEK AND WHAT WE OPPOSE 348 (a) William Pitt: SPEECH IN HOUSE OF COMMONS (February 17, 1800) 349 (b) Lord Salisbury: BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS 351 50. COUNTER-REVOLUTION IS NOT A FOREIGN POLICY C. K. Webster: THE FOREIGN POLICY OF CASTLEREAGH, - 353 51. WHOEVER DISTURBS THE BALANCE OF POWER IS THE ENEMY 354 (a) C. K. Webster: THE FOREIGN POLICY OF CASTLEREAGH, - 354 (b) Lord Salisbury: BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS 355 52. THE RUSSIAN THREAT TO WESTERN EUROPE 356 (a) Oliver Goldsmith: THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD 357 (b) Prince de Talleyrand: MEMOIRS 358 53. THE RUSSIAN THREAT TO THE EASTERN SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN Lord Salisbury: CIRCULAR OF APRIL 1, 1878, TO THE BRITISH EMBASSIES 359 54. Russia CANNOT BE STOPPED BY PAPER AGREEMENTS 361 (a) Earl Russell: COMMUNICATION TO LORD NAPIER 362 (b) REPORT OF THE CRIMEA CONFERENCE (February 11, 1945 ) 364 55. THE PERENNIAL ASPECTS OF THE EAST-WEST CONFLICT Philips Price: SPEECH IN HOUSE OF COMMONS (December 10, 1948 ) 369 56. THE OUTLOOK George F. Kennan: IS WAR WITH INEVITABLE? 372 C. Concrete Points of Conflict 380 57. CAUSES AND CONDITIONS OF CONFLICT Philip E. Mosely: SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS SINCE THE WAR 381 58. THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER IS AT THE ELBE Winston Churchill: SPEECH IN HOUSE OF COMMONS (June 5, 1946) 393 59. GERMANY: BATTLEGROUND, BASTION, OR BUFFER? Hans Speier: THE FUTURE OF GERMAN NATIONALISM Kurt Riezler: COMMENT 404 60. ARMED DEFENSE FOR 'S SALVATION Winston Churchill: FULTON SPEECH (March 5, 1946 ) 408 61. THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE Winston Churchill: ZURICH SPEECH (September 19, 1946 ) 417 62. EUROPEAN UNION AND THE BRITISH DILEMMA Nicholas Mansergh: BRITAIN, THE COMMONWEALTH, AND WESTERN UNION 421 63. RUDIMENTS OF A EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION STATUTE OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE (May 5, 1949 ) 435 64. THE NATURE OF THE CONFLICT IN ASIA John K. Fairbank: COMPETITION WITH COMMUNISM, NOT CONTAINMENT 446 65. THE SOURCES OF SOVIET AND WESTERN STRENGTH IN ASIA The Economist: RESERVES FOR THE KREMLIN? 451 PART VII CONCLUSION 459 66. THE TASK BEFORE THE WESTERN WORLD Winston Churchill: SPEECH IN HOUSE OF COMMONS (March 28, 1950) 459 Index follows page 468

The Science Of Correct Thinking: Logic


Celestine N. Bittle - 1950
    Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

The San Quentin Story


Clinton T. Duffy - 1950
    

LF002 - The Leila Fletcher Piano Course Book 2


Leila Fletcher - 1950
    Duets, and Duet Parts are included for ensemble playing. Ten very easy studies with key charts provide for transposition at the keyboard, presented in an easy, enjoyable, practical manner. Scales, Chords, the Damper pedal are all covered.

Journey with the Master


Eva B. Werber - 1950
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Letzte Briefe aus Stalingrad


C. Bertelsmann - 1950
    Originally published in West Germany in 1950, the book was translated into many languages, and has been issued in numerous editions.

Venomous Snakes of Texas: A Field Guide


Andrew H. Price - 1950
    Since 1950, Texans have turned to the Poisonous Snakes of Texas pamphlet series published by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for help in identifying these snakes and for expert advice on preventing and treating snakebite. Venomous Snakes of Texas, a thoroughly revised and updated edition of Poisonous Snakes, carries on this tradition as a one-stop, all-you-need-to-know guide to Texas’s rattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths, and coral snakes. In this authoritative field guide, you’ll find:• Full-color photographs and a county-by-county distribution map for each species.• Each species’ common and scientific name, description, look-alikes, and a summary sketch of its habitat, behavior, reproduction, venom characteristics, predator-prey relationships, and fossil record.• Up-to-date advice on recognizing venomous snakes and preventing and treating snakebite, both at home and in the field.• A glossary of terms and an extensive bibliography.A special feature of this guide is an expanded treatment of the ecological and evolutionary context in which venomous snakes live, which supports Price’s goal “to lessen the hatred and fear and to increase the understanding, the respect, and even the appreciation with which venomous snakes should be regarded.”

Interplanetary Flight


Arthur C. Clarke - 1950
    The celebrated science writer recounts the exciting history of space exploration and flight, from Sputnik I to the present, reviews present missions and plans, and speculates on future journeys and accomplishments.

150 Ways to Play Solitaire: Complete with Layouts for Playing


Alphonse Moyse - 1950
    

History Of The Khaljis: A. D. 1290-1320


Kishori Saran Lal - 1950
    

Saint Francis of Assisi


John R.H. Moorman - 1950
    

The White Continent: The Story of Antarctica


Thomas R. Henry - 1950
    

Fred Bason's Diary


Fred Bason - 1950
    

The Patrol Leaders' Handbook


John Thurman - 1950
    It will help him to lead his Patrol of Wolves or Seagulls or Swifts or Beavers to better and more adventurous Scouting – in the Patrol den, in the Troop room, in camp or in any other place at any other time.”

Wavy Navy: By Some Who Served


James Lennox Kerr - 1950
    (Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve) during the Second World War. 24 personal stories & 6 poems

The Story of the American People


C.F.Strong - 1950
    

Farmer's Progress


George Henderson - 1950
    All though the books runs the true peasant philosophy - belief in the ultimate values, the worth of the individual, the rewards of hard work, tenacity of purpose, and simple living. Mr Henderson also calls for a return to old beliefs allied to new learning, and without in any way becoming sentimental or romantic drives home, again and again, the means by which success may be achieved on the land; his message could indeed be equally applied to many walks of life. At the time same time, Farmer's Progress makes a direct contribution to knowledge in the chapters on the stocking, cropping, and management of farms, and in the wider field of pedigree stockbreeding. All the valuable information which the book contains is based on the author's own experience in building up one of the most intensively stocked and cropped farms in the country, on which his theories have been proved tie and time again.

Man Alive, You're Half Dead!


Daniel Colin Munro - 1950
    A Physician Tells You How To Eat Your Way To Glowing Health And Stay There.