My Land and My People tells the story of his life.

    Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War eraIn this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Beginning with the funeral of Edward VII, Tuchman traces each step that led to the inevitable clash. And inevitable it was, with all sides plotting their war for a generation. Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war’s key players, Tuchman’s magnum opus is a classic for the ages. Praise for The Guns of August “A brilliant piece of military history which proves up to the hilt the force of Winston Churchill’s statement that the first month of World War I was ‘a drama never surpassed.’”—Newsweek “More dramatic than fiction . . . a magnificent narrative—beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained.”—Chicago Tribune “A fine demonstration that with sufficient art rather specialized history can be raised to the level of literature.”—The New York Times “[The Guns of August] has a vitality that transcends its narrative virtues, which are considerable, and its feel for characterizations, which is excellent.”—The Wall Street Journal

    Gandhi, called Mahatma (“great soul”), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent, and is as important today as it was in the first part of the twentieth century, and during this nation’s own civil rights movement. Taken from Gandhi’s writings throughout his life. The Essential Gandhi introduces us to his thoughts on politics, spirituality, poverty, suffering, love, non-violence, civil disobedience, and his own life. The pieces collected here, with explanatory head-notes by Gandhi biographer Louis Fischer, offer the clearest, most thorough portrait of one of the greatest spiritual leaders the world has known.“Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable... We may ignore him at our own risk.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.With a new Preface drawn from the writings of Eknath EaswaranIn the annals of spirituality certain books stand out both for their historical importance and for their continued relevance. The Vintage Spiritual Classics series offers the greatest of these works in authoritative new editions, with specially commissioned essays by noted contemporary commentators. Filled with eloquence and fresh insight, encouragement and solace, Vintage Spiritual Classics are incomparable resources for all readers, who seek a more substantive understanding of mankind's relation to the divine.

    His book includes recipes for vegetable and casserole dishes, breads, cakes, muffins and twenty different pies. He also shows how to make numerous jellies, jams, teas, and wines, and how to sweeten them with wild honey or homemade maple syrup.

    Each year there are hundreds of stagestruck kids arrive in New York determined to crash the theatre, firmly convinced they're destined to be famous Broadway stars or playwrights.

    In this collection, replete with newly discovered letters, the full extent of that genius is unveiled.Charting his life from his Irish upbringing to fame in his fin de siècle London to infamy and exile in Paris, the letters--written between 1875 and 1900 to publishers and fans, friends and lovers, enemies and adversaries--resound with Wilde's wit, brilliance, and humanity. Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland, and Rupert Hart-Davis have produced a provocative and revealing self-portrait. Wilde's reputation as a serious thinker, humorous writer, and gay icon continues to flourish. The Complete Letters is an intimate exploration of his life and thoughts--Wilde in his own words.

    In The Blue Nile, Alan Moorehead continues the classic, thrilling narration of adventure he began in The White Nile, depicting this exotic place through the lives of four explorers so daring they can be considered among the world's original adventurers -- each acting and reacting in separate expeditions against a bewildering background of slavery and massacre, political upheaval and all-out war.

    It gave us the concept of the global village; that phrase has now been translated, along with the rest of the book, into twelve languages, from Japanese to Serbo-Croat. It helped establish Marshall McLuhan as the original 'media guru.' More than 200,000 copies are in print. The reissue of this landmark book reflects the continuing importance of McLuhan's work for contemporary readers.

    Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but a love of ones neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know." Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, Cesare Pavese; or what is inexpugnable of World War II; or the Abruzzi, where she and her first husband lived in forced residence under Fascist rule; or the importance of silence in our society; or her vocation as a writer; or even a pair of worn-out shoes, Ginzburg brings to her reflections the wisdom and grace of a survivor and the spare, wry, and poetically resonant style her readers have come to recognize.

    The questions Umberto Eco raises, and the answers he suggests, are intertwined in the continuing debate on literature, art, and culture in general.This entirely new edition, edited for the English-language audience with the approval of Eco himself, includes an authoritative introduction by David Robey that explores Eco's thought at the period of The Open Work, prior to his absorption in semiotics. The book now contains key essays on Eco's mentor Luigi Pareyson, on television and mass culture, and on the politics of art. Harvard University Press will publish separately and simultaneously the extended study of James Joyce that was originally part of The Open Work, entitled The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Middle Ages of James Joyce. The Open Work explores a set of issues in aesthetics that remain central to critical theory, and does so in a characteristically vivid style. Eco's convincing manner of presenting ideas and his instinct for the lively example are threaded compellingly throughout. This book is at once a major treatise in modern aesthetics and an excellent introduction to Eco's thought.

    Along the way he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and the unexpected kindness of strangers.

    Dimont shows how the saga of the Jews is interwoven with the story of virtually every nation on earth. This is a tale of a people escaping annihilation, fighting, falling back, advancing - a lively and fascinating look at how the Jews have contributed to humankind's spiritual and intellectual heritage in remarkable ways, and across a remarkable span of history.

    From the first moment Derek, who was not until then a cat-lover, met a tiny bundle of fur with Jeannie, through to the pet's old age when he would still walk down to the stream to make 'Monty's Leap', this is a touching story of friendship between two people and their cat.

    Using historical documents and translated by Regine Pernoud, Joan of Arc seeks to answer the questions asked by Joan's contemporaries as well as us: Who was she? Whence came she? What had been her life and exploits? First published in the United States in 1966 by Stein and Day, this book reveals the historical Joan, described in contemporary documents by her allies as well as her enemies.

    This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty in the 1970s and ’80s as well as a new introduction by Harrington’s biographer, Maurice Isserman. This illuminating, profoundly moving classic is still all too relevant for today’s America.When Michael Harrington’s masterpiece, The Other America, was first published in 1962, it was hailed as an explosive work and became a galvanizing force for the war on poverty. Harrington shed light on the lives of the poor—from farm to city—and the social forces that relegated them to their difficult situations. He was determined to make poverty in the United States visible and his observations and analyses have had a profound effect on our country, radically changing how we view the poor and the policies we employ to help them.

    This skillfully edited selection of letters, articles, and notes also includes the short story "A Couple of Writers" and the first chapters of Chandler's last Philip Marlowe novel, The Poodle Springs Story, left unfinished at his death. Paul Skenazy has provided a new introduction for this edition as well as a new selected bibliography.

    A solid Thomist, who wrote this book in 1961, Father Butler shows that this type of question shows a totally wrong approach to a religious vocation - an approach that began with misguided theology in the 20th century, which then trickled down to the popular level, confusing both aspirants and spiritual directors. Though Fr. Butler deals primarily with vocations to the religious life, he also gives the classic guidelines on priestly vocations. The author states, based on the tradition of the Church, that religious vocation is not uncommon, rare or extraordinary and that it does not require an introspective search for some special voice or attraction. This book provides welcome, intelligent guidance both for spiritual directors and for those considering the religious life or that of the priesthood!

    In his youth, Waipuldanya was taught to track and hunt wild animals, to live off the land, to provide for his family with the aide only of his spears and woomeras. This is the gripping story of his boyhood and youth, and how he trained as a skilled medical assistant, to become a citizen of both the Aboriginal and whitefella worlds.

    Duffy while he was warden at San Quentin. From the psychopathic Caryl Chessman, who managed to postpone his fate for twelve long years, to Leslie Gireth, who wanted to hear the haunting strains of "Clair de Lune" as he walked into the gas chamber, these ninety criminals were all human beings whose strengths and virtues as well as guilt are fully etched by the man who shared their last days. With warmth and compassion, and not without considerable humor, Clinton T. Duffy has, with Al Hirshberg, written a dramatic saga of life on Death Row that will haunt any reader."

    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that kind of book. When it was first published in 1962, it was a landmark event in the history and philosophy of science. Fifty years later, it still has many lessons to teach. With The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn challenged long-standing linear notions of scientific progress, arguing that transformative ideas don’t arise from the day-to-day, gradual process of experimentation and data accumulation but that the revolutions in science, those breakthrough moments that disrupt accepted thinking and offer unanticipated ideas, occur outside of “normal science,” as he called it. Though Kuhn was writing when physics ruled the sciences, his ideas on how scientific revolutions bring order to the anomalies that amass over time in research experiments are still instructive in our biotech age. This new edition of Kuhn’s essential work in the history of science includes an insightful introduction by Ian Hacking, which clarifies terms popularized by Kuhn, including paradigm and incommensurability, and applies Kuhn’s ideas to the science of today. Usefully keyed to the separate sections of the book, Hacking’s introduction provides important background information as well as a contemporary context.  Newly designed, with an expanded index, this edition will be eagerly welcomed by the next generation of readers seeking to understand the history of our perspectives on science.

    Now streamlined and updated, the book that has literally put millions on the highway to greater accomplishment and success can show you how to have maximum impact as a speaker--every day, and in every situation that demands winning others over to your point of view.

    

    By applying the principles of spiritual battle to the common issues of personal prayer and the daily Christian walk, Penn-Lewis answers many relevant questions, such as: How do you define true guidance? How long should we keep asking for the same thing? How can we be sure we are obeying God only?

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    He blames the incorrigibility of Chamberlain and Daladier for the failure of a tripartite Anglo-Franco-Soviet agreement to counter Hitler.

    The result presents the state of the medicolegal art of investigating human skeletal remains. The third edition follows more than 25 years after the second edition. During this time, considerable changes occurred in the field and Forensic Anthropology became a distinct specialty in its own right. Included in the book are detailed discussions on crime scene investigation, including excavation techniques, time interval since death, human or animal remains, mass graves, and preparation of remains. Existing chapters, all dramatically revised, bring readers in line with the current concepts of skeletal age; determination of sex; assessment of ancestry; calculation of stature; factors of individualization; superimposition and restoration of physiognomy. There is also a section on dental analysis examining such topics as dental anatomy, nomenclature, estimation of age in subadults and adults, determination of sex and ancestry, and pathological conditions. New additions are chapters on skeletal pathology and trauma assessment. A new chapter has also been added on "Forensic Anthropology of the Living." Although all of the sections of the book have been updated significantly, the authors have retained some sense of history to recognize the many pioneers that have shaped the discipline. The text will assist forensic anthropologists and forensic pathologists who have to analyze skeletons found in forensic contexts. This book has a global perspective in order to make it usable to practitioners across the world. Where possible, short case studies have been added to illustrate the diverse aspects of the work.

    An unabridged version of White Eagle's teaching.

    In his lifetime, Goya worked for some of the most prestigious Spanish patrons. For most of his career he was court painter, and yet he also produced some of the most compelling images of social unrest of the last century.

    

    Speed is always key, and in the day of the Civil War, the fastest transmission was by telegraph. As the frontlines advanced and retreated, the wire would have to be strung to the front lines. In this fascinating volume, Alvin Harlow, recounts many of the adventures of the Civil War telegraphers, who despite their civilian status shared the dangers of the soldiers as they sent massages back to the various headquarters and generals. As the title suggests the telegraphers were often no more than teenagers, and their stories form an interesting sidelight on the Civil War.

    Working on the principle that a person learns more quickly by example then by rule, Lemaître has assembled colloquial French conversations on a variety of subjects, as well as grammar, vocabulary, and idiom studies. Index.

    I wrote a book, ''Anybody Who Owns His Own Home Deserves It,'' that was the retelling of a lot of the monologues that I started doing on the Sullivan show, like I lived on the Baldwin-Rockville Centre line. The line went right through my house. I had a Rockville Centre address, but my children had to go to the Baldwin schools. They tried to explain to me that if my kids would sleep in the garage, they could go to the Rockville Centre schools.

    His invention of vaccination against smallpox was a medical breakthrough. Before him, smallpox was a killer disease, the majority of its victims infants and young children. And, except for the skin lesions, there is nothing small about smallpox. In the twentieth century alone, it killed more than 300 million—three times the number of deaths from all the century's wars and battles combined. While this book was written for young adults and has a Flesch-Kincaid reading level of 7.3., readers of all ages will find the story of Jenner’s work against smallpox inspiring. For years, he battled skeptics who did not think that vaccinations with material from cows could protect humans from smallpox. Read about how he persuaded the world to use new science to save lives.

    

    Humorous verse.

    

    From Singapore to Hiroshima - the war in the Pacific - magnificently recreated by the men who fought it.

    Seventy-five years after the debut of the classic American movie, this commemorative volume, LIFE The Wizard of Oz: 75 Years Along the Yellow Brick Road, includes rare and never-before-seen photography about the iconic film, intimate portraits of the film's stars, and exclusive commentary from renowned contributors, including TIME movie critic Richard Corliss. This celebratory book not only covers the history of the movie, but also explores the legends, lore and the effect the movie had on the nation's film industry and culture- The Wizard of Oz was one of the first color films created.

    

    An introduction for Foxhunters.

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    With the coming of the Third Reich, he became a part of the SS intelligence service or Sicherheitsdienst (SD), in which capacity he "lied, forged, kidnapped, seduced, murdered... On August 31, 1939, he became the man who started World War II."

    

    

    

    Humanity, by itself is called to divinity......and if humans failed to become saints, then humanity is a failure......

    Reality invades one's plans, though. By the end, cowardice and inadequacy haunt the protagonist. This is a classic of psychological fiction.

    

    Running as an entry with 'Yea Verily,' the saintly life of Colonel John R. Stingo

    It includes sections on Proust's earlier works.

    A book about many of the world's most interesting wild animals, what they look like, where they live, how they hunt, what they eat, their intelligence and means of protection, why they behave in certain ways, and thier usefulness to man.

    

    Chance provides a solution in the shape of a Spanish friend who tells him of a river in Venezuela, called by the Indian Liparu, where diamonds are to be found.The story of the resulting trek through the jungle, his growing friendship with the completely uncivilised Indians, and his search for and discovery of rich deposits of diamonds has the eternal fascination of all such adventures in search of fortune. But there is much more to it than that. There is the idyllic love affair with Lolomai, a beautiful Indian girl, who becomes the author's "child-bride" and who dies tragically. And offsetting the pathos of this disaster are many pages of high comedy. There is, for instance, the description of the astonishing effect of a potent aphrodisiac, locally brewed to a recipe which the author thoughtfully provides, on even the most decrepit and ancient Indians, as well as on the author himself.

    The story of the Himalayan Scientific and Mountaineering Expedition 1960-61.Desmond Doig, the Expeditions's press correspondent and expert linguist, tells of the search for the elusive Yeti - the Abominable Snowman of Sherpa legend - and of all that was learned if the lives, customs, and mythology of the Sherpa people.Sir Edmund Hillary, the Expedition Leader, relates how they built a prefabricated laboratory, the Silver Hut, at 19,000 feet, where nine doctors, physiologists and climbers spent the winter under the leadership of Dr Griffith Pugh; how group of climbers from the wintering party, led by Dr Michael Ward, reached the summit of the 'unclimbable' Amadablam; how the Expedition, joined by a party of fresh climbers, moved over three 20,000 foot passes to Mt Makalu for the attempt of the summit.

    

    

    It also returns to the economic, sociological, political and psychological origins of the movement and its attractions, returning in particular to Karl Marx and the writing of Das Kapital and concluding that Communists are ""false prophets"". Their method is error and their views are distorted. Parallels are drawn between Lenin's adaptation of the Marxist movement and the American Revolution. In later chapters Hoover traces the perversion of the ideology in the hands of the Russians, the power struggle that followed, the attempts to communize the U.S. since Stalin's rise and fall, and how nationalism has thwarted Communism. How the Communist Party operates in the United States, and how Communism and Free World structures differ on such basic points as law, economy, education, elections, etc. also form basic parts of the book. Hoover's historical information is correct though overfly simplified, and his conclusions seem to follow much thinking in this country today. It is a book dispassionately written, designed not to dis-color, but to bring the reader awareness of a broad and important area of political facts. As such it succeeds, although in some of the dichotomies between the Red and Free Worlds, it tends to make too many black and white distinctions. The head of the F.B.I. carries weight in many circles and speaks with special authority."

    His name was Pablo Picasso. The women were sisters. The elder, Dr. Claribel Cone, was a physician who practiced at Women's Medical College in Baltimore; her sister, Etta, was an accomplished amateur pianist. They were the sisters of Moses Cone, a wealthy owner of North Carolina cotton mills.The Cone sisters had been sent to Picasso's studio by Gertrude Stein. The Steins and Cone has known one another in Baltimore where the younger, Gertrude, had been a medical student at Johns Hopkins during the years Dr. Cone pursued her research. Gertrude left medical school without graduating and followed her brother Leo to Paris—and the result is modern art history.They went back to Picasso's studio frequently that spring and each time bought more drawings. They further won his heart by bringing him the Baltimore Sun's comics. Dr. Claribel proceeded to Frankfurt for post-graduate work and Miss Etta remained in Paris where she typed the manuscript of Gertrude Stein's Three Lives.

    The funds gathered for and dedicated to the construction of these canals offers a larger commentary on the nature of state intervention in the economy. The large scale expenditures required by the state in the construction of these two massive canals is the story of the state’s deliberate attempt to “establish its credit in the money market as a reliable borrower, and to protect this status once it had been established.” Miller posits that the often-overlooked records of the Commissioners of the Canal Fund, who were charged with the responsibility of handling all the financial problems that arose in connection with canal administration, are useful for a fuller understanding of the beginning stages of a state’s economic development.

    

    

    A biography of the woman who was among the first of her sex to become a doctor, serve in the Civil War and champion a change in women's clothing.

    

    In this booklet, Dr. Harrell traces the growth, development, and division of this wing among the churches of Christ.

    

    Anderson is the mother of two grown married children, a son and a daughter, and is a grandmother as well. Thus in HAPPY MOMENTS WITH GOD she writes from the understanding perspective of both a mother and a grandmother. Many of the short stories in this book are drawn from her own experience. All of the experiences related are based on real life, making them meaningful as well as interesting to children.

    

    

    

    Each chapter's teachings are supplemented by challenging problems, with solutions at the end of the book. 83 text figures. 1962 edition.