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1969

A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches


Martin Luther King Jr. - 1969
    King's best-known oration, "I Have a Dream, " his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and "Beyond Vietnam, " a compelling argument for ending the ongoing conflict. Each speech has an insightful introduction on the current relevance of Dr. King's words by such renowned defenders of civil rights as Rosa Parks, the Dalai Lama, and Ambassador Andrew Young, among others.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


Maya Angelou - 1969
    Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read.

Betty Crocker's Cookbook


Betty Crocker - 1969
    Easier than ever to use, it's organized just he way you plan your meals - with meats and main dishes first. It's packed with know-how, show-how and how-to. More than 1500 recipes, 299 full-color photographs, cooking hints, shopping tips, charts, line drawings.

The Best and the Brightest


David Halberstam - 1969
    Using portraits of America's flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country's recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam and why did it lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It's an American classic.

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose


Flannery O'Connor - 1969
    At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short lifetime. The keen writings comprising Mystery and Manners, selected and edited by O'Connor's lifelong friends Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, are characterized by the directness and simplicity of the author's style, a fine-tuned wit, understated perspicacity, and profound faith.The book opens with "The King of the Birds," her famous account of raising peacocks at her home in Milledgeville, Georgia. Also included are: three essays on regional writing, including "The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction"; two pieces on teaching literature, including "Total Effect and the 8th Grade"; and four articles concerning the writer and religion, including "The Catholic Novel in the Protestant South." Essays such as "The Nature and Aim of Fiction" and "Writing Short Stories" are widely seen as gems.This bold and brilliant essay-collection is a must for all readers, writers, and students of contemporary American literature.

Papillon


Henri Charrière - 1969
    Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken.Charrière's astonishing autobiography, Papillon, was published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape. Since then, it has become a treasured classic -- the gripping, shocking, ultimately uplifting odyssey of an innocent man who simply would not be defeated.

Run Baby Run


Nicky Cruz - 1969
    This is the thrilling story of Nicky Cruz's desperate battle against drugs, alcoholism, and a violent environment, as he searched for a better way of life on the streets of New York City.

Levels of the Game


John McPhee - 1969
    McPhee provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke description while examining the backgrounds and attitudes which have molded the players' games.

Hope and Help for Your Nerves


Claire Weekes - 1969
    My heart beats too fast. My hands tremble and sweat. I feel like there's a weight on my chest. My stomach churns. I have terrible headaches. I can't sleep. Sometimes I can't even leave my house...These common symptoms of anxiety are "minor" only to the people who don't suffer from them. But to the millions they affect, these problems make the difference between a happy, healthy life and one of crippling fear and frustration.In Hope and Help for Your Nerves, Dr. Claire Weekes offers the results of years of experience treating real patients--including some who thought they'd never recover. With her simple, step-by-step guidance, you will learn how to understand and analyze your own symptoms of anxiety and find the power to conquer your fears for good.

Civilisation


Kenneth Clark - 1969
    Art

Minus 148 Degrees


Art Davidson - 1969
    Plagued by doubts and cold, group tension and a crevasse tragedy, the expedition tackled McKinley in minimal hours of daylight and fierce storms. They were trapped at three different camps above 14,000 feet during a six-day blizzard and faced the ultimate low temperature of 148 F.Minus 148 is Art Davidson's stunning personal narrative, supplemented by diary excerpts from team members George Wichman, John Edwards, Dave Johnston, and Greg Blomberg. Davidson retells the team's fears and frictions and ultimate triumph with an honesty that has made this gripping survival story a mountaineering classic for over 40 years.

On Death and Dying


Elisabeth Kübler-Ross - 1969
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kübler-Ross first explored the now-famous five stages of death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Through sample interviews and conversations, she gives the reader a better understanding of how imminent death affects the patient, the professionals who serve that patient, and the patient's family, bringing hope to all who are involved.

The Soccer War


Ryszard Kapuściński - 1969
    Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteristic cogency and emotional immediacy, he recounts the stories behind his official press dispatches—searing firsthand accounts of the frightening, grotesque, and comically absurd aspects of life during war. The Soccer War is a singular work of journalism.

The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad


Harrison E. Salisbury - 1969
    Nearly three million people endured it; just under half of them died. For twenty-five years the distinguished journalist and historian Harrison Salisbury pieced together this remarkable narrative of villainy and survival, in which the city had much to fear-from both Hitler and Stalin.

The Unexpected Universe


Loren Eiseley - 1969
    Scrupulous scholarship and magical prose are brought to bear on such diverse topics as seeds, the hieroglyphs on shells, lost tombs, the goddess Circe, city dumps, and Neanderthal man.

Teaching as a Subversive Activity


Neil Postman - 1969
    A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic & practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.IntroductionCrap detecting The medium is the message, of course The inquiry method Pursuing relevance What's worth knowing?Meaning making Languaging New teachersCity schoolsNew languages: the media-Two alternatives So what do you do now? Strategies for survival

Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth


Giorgio de Santillana - 1969
    But what came before the Greeks? What if we could prove that all myths have one common origin in a celestial cosmology? What if the gods, the places they lived & what they did are but ciphers for celestial activity, a language for the perpetuation of complex astronomical data? Drawing on scientific data, historical & literary sources, the authors argue that our myths are the remains of a preliterate astronomy, an exacting science whose power & accuracy were suppressed & then forgotten by an emergent Greco-Roman world view. This fascinating book throws into doubt the self-congratulatory assumptions of Western science about the unfolding development & transmission of knowledge. This is a truly seminal & original thesis, a book that should be read by anyone interested in science, myth & the interactions between the two.

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness


Simon Wiesenthal - 1969
    Haunted by the crimes in which he'd participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--& obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion & justice, silence & truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the war had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place?In this important book, 53 distinguished men & women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors & victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China & Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past. Often surprising, always thought provoking, The Sunflower will challenge you to define your beliefs about justice, compassion & responsibility.

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto


Vine Deloria Jr. - 1969
    race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists. This book continues to be required reading for all Americans, whatever their special interest.

Night of the Grizzlies


Jack Olsen - 1969
    Jack Olsen's true account, traces the causes of the tragic night in August 1967 when two separate and unrelated campers, a distance apart, were savagely mangled and killed by enraged bears.

A Place in the Woods


Helen Hoover - 1969
    Well ensconced in their professional lives in Chicago, they made the decision to follow their dream of a simple existence, pulling up their stakes and plunging into the wilds of northern Minnesota.A Place in the Woods, first published in 1969, describes how the Hoovers gradually adapted to the rigors of wilderness survival, relating events that occurred prior to those Helen Hoover described in her bestselling The Girl of the Deer. This is a tale of starting out, of the pitfalls of beginning a new life -- one punctuated by near disasters but also by moments of rare beauty.A Place in the Woods is enlivened by warm, humorous anecdotes showing both the struggle and reward involved in joining this small community of rabbits, deer, and distant neighbors. This volume, now available in paperback for the first time, conveys the special joy of each small victory in the wilderness.

Inside the Third Reich


Albert Speer - 1969
    B&W photos.

Hemingway: a Life Story


Carlos Baker - 1969
    1969 HARDCOVER

Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters


John Steinbeck - 1969
    It was his way, he said, of "getting my mental arm in shape to pitch a good game."Steinbeck's letters were written on the left-handed pages of a notebook in which the facing pages would be filled with the text of East of Eden. They touched on many subjects - story arguements, trial flights of workmanship, concern for his sons.Part autobiography, part writer's workshop, these letters offer an illuminating perspective on Steinbeck's creative process, and a fascinating glimpse of Steinbeck, the private man.

The Boat Who Wouldn't Float


Farley Mowat - 1969
    Tired of everyday life ashore, Farley Mowat would find a sturdy boat in Newfoundland and roam the salt sea over, free as a bird. What he found was the worst boat in the world, and she nearly drove him mad. The Happy Adventure, despite all that Farley and his Newfoundland helpers could do, leaked like a sieve. Her engine only worked when she felt like it. Typically, on her maiden voyage, with the engine stuck in reverse, she backed out of the harbour under full sail. And she sank, regularly.How Farley and a varied crew, including the intrepid lady who married him, coaxed the boat from Newfoundland to Lake Ontario is a marvellous story. The encounters with sharks, rum-runners, rum and a host of unforgettable characters on land and sea make this a very funny book for readers of all ages.

The Economy of Cities


Jane Jacobs - 1969
    Her main argument is that explosive economic growth derives from urban import replacement. Import replacement occurs when a city begins to locally produce goods that it formerly imported, e.g., Tokyo bicycle factories replacing Tokyo bicycle importers in the 1800s. Jacobs claims that import replacement builds up local infrastructure, skills, and production. Jacobs also claims that the increased production is subsequently exported to other cities, giving those other cities a new opportunity to engage in import replacement, thus producing a positive cycle of growth.In the foremost chapter of the book, Jacobs argues that cities preceded agriculture. She argues that in cities trade in wild animals and grains allowed for the initial division of labor necessary for the discovery of husbandry and agriculture; these discoveries then moved out of the city due to land competition.*from Wikpedia

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth


R. Buckminster Fuller - 1969
    Fuller expresses what may well be his penultimate view of the human condition. Here, in a mood at once philosophical and involved, Mr. Fuller traces man's intellectual evolution and weighs his capability for survival on this magnificent craft, this Spaceship Earth, this superbly designed sphere of almost negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.Mr. Fuller is optimistic that man will survive and, through research and development and increased industrialization, generate wealth so rapidly that he can do very great things. But, he notes, there must be an enormous educational task successfully accomplished right now to convert man's tendency toward oblivion into a realization of his potential, to a universe-exploring advantage from this Spaceship Earth.It has been noted that Mr. Fuller spins ideas in clusters, and clusters of his ideas generate still other clusters. The concept spaceship earth is Mr. Fuller's, and though used by Barbara Ward as the title of a work of her own the idea was acknowledged by her there as deriving from Mr. Fuller. The brilliant syntheses of some fundamental Fuller principles given here makes of this book a microcosm of the Fuller system.

Helen Keller


Margaret Davidson - 1969
    The bestselling biography of Helen Keller and how, with the commitment and lifelong friendship of Anne Sullivan, she learned to talk, read, and eventually graduate from college with honors.

Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West


Harriet Fish Backus - 1969
    New foreword by Pam Houston and afterword by author's grandson Rob Walton are featured.It is a woman named Hattie's personal account of life in the mining camps of the American West, beginning with her marriage to George and concluding in 1964 when George died, literally in her arms. Tomboy Bride is divided into four parts: The San Juans; Britannia Beach; The Heart of Idaho; and Leadville, City in the Clouds. Tomboy Bride is an engaging from the very start, reading more like a novel than a biography.

Styles of Radical Will


Susan Sontag - 1969
    Styles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag's second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking study of pornography.

Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village


Ronald Blythe - 1969
    Composed in the late 1960's, Blythe's volume paints a vivid picture of a community in which the vast changes of the twentieth century are matched by deep continuities of history, tradition, and nature.

12 Million Black Voices


Richard Wright - 1969
    The photographs include works by such giants as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Arthur Rothstein. From crowded, rundown farm shacks to Harlem storefront churches, the photos depict the lives of black people in 1930s America—their misery and weariness under rural poverty, their spiritual strength, and their lives in northern ghettos. Wright's accompanying text eloquently narrates the story of these 90 pictures and delivers a powerful commentary on the origins and history of black oppression in this country. Also included are new prefaces by Douglas Brinkley, Noel Ignatiev, and Michael Eric Dyson. "Among all the works of Wright, 12 Million Black Voices stands out as a work of poetry, ... passion, ... and of love."—David Bradley "A more eloquent statement of its kind could hardly have been devised."—The New York Times Book Review

The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway


William Goldman - 1969
    Author Goldman, a staunch homophobe, analyzes Broadway from the perspective of the audiences, playwrights, critics, producers and actors. "A loose-limbed, gossipy, insider, savvy, nuts-and-bolts report on the annual search for the winning numbers that is now big-time American commercial theatre." Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times

God is No Fool


Lois A. Cheney - 1969
    The short musings in the book are funny, earnest, loving, probing and full of joy. Reading this book, you will embark on a journey whose ultimate destination is a better understanding of faith, people and the world around you. On the 40th anniversary of the original publication, Lois Cheney's reflections are as powerful and necessary as ever.

The Lady and the Sharks


Eugenie Clark - 1969
    When people ask Dr. Eugenie Clark what they should do when they see a big shark underwater, she responds... "if it's over 40 feet long and has spots, jump on its back and get the ride of your life."

Challenge of the Congo


Kwame Nkrumah - 1969
    Challenge of the Congo Kwame Nkrumah First published in 1967, this book provides a contemporary account of Congo's recent history by one of the Heads of State most closely involved.

The Beatles Songbook


The Beatles - 1969
    

Kim; A Gift from Vietnam


Frank W. Chinnock - 1969
    True story of a couple's quest to adopt a Vietnamese orphan and the hurdles, red-tape and health issues they encountered.

Owl


William Service - 1969
    I, more careful, attribute to him the keenest appetite to find things out.” The same might be said of Service himself. His Owl is less the result of wisdom than of a keen if bemused curiosity. No man can know all about a bird, especially a screech owl who possesses, as the book jacket puts it, the proportions of a beer can and the personality of a bank president. But a year of open-minded daily contact with such a creature is bound to lead to something, and in this case it has led to one of the most elegant and perceptive pieces of nature writing since T. H. White fell in with a goshawk.

Enemies of the Permanent Things: Observations of Abnormity in Literature and Politics


Russell Kirk - 1969
    Enemies of the Permanent Things, first published in 1969, is the most significant extended meditation on culture and politics to come out of the rough and tumble of those years. It is an invaluable document, articulating the response of a critical witness to the radically anti-authoritarian turn taken by the intellectual elite in that destructive decade.

A New Foreign Policy For The United States


Hans J. Morgenthau - 1969
    

Making Things Grow (Indoors: A Practical Guide For The Indoor Gardner)


Thalassa Cruso - 1969
    Thalassa Cruso was often called the "Julia Child of horticulture."

"Then Is Finished The Mystery of God"


Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society - 1969
    

When your Child is 6 to 12: Middle Childhood Is The Last Good Chance To Hold Your Child Close


John M. Drescher - 1969
    We've been swamped with advice for relating to teens. But little has been offered to parents whose children are in middle childhood!John. M. Drescher, a wise voice in the field of parenting literature (whose books have sold more than 400,000 copies), addresses particular delights and difficulties of this stage in a child's life. Chapters include:Holding your childReading to your childThe need for encouragementThe smart ageThe need to belongThe age of imitationThe power of exampleModel, Don’t OrderThe place for praiseLet children be childrenAnd moreAll parents need help, and this small, smart, thoughtful handbook will give it to you, just when your boy or girl reaches a new stage of life.

The Eighth Passenger: A Flight of Recollection and Discovery


Miles Tripp - 1969
    This is the story of a bomber crew in World War II, always accompanied by an eighth passenger - fear.

Betrayal at the Vel D'Hiv


Claude Levy - 1969
    They had been rounded up for shipment to the German death camps, but they were not arrested by the Germans. That work was done, with alacrity and thoroughness, by the French police. This is the little-known story of those two fateful days, of a betrayal that today the French can scarcely believe.'"It began on July 16, 1942. The plot was part of "Operation Spring Wind." The result was the roundup, in one day, of 12,884 Jews living in France at the time of the German Occupation. Seized without warning, men, women, children, and old people, invalids too, were piled into buses and taken to a Paris sports arena, the Ve'lodrone D'Hiver, on the first stage of a journey toward death at Auschwitz.The story of this roundup of non-French Jews is told in Betrayal at the Vel d'Hiv with the ruthless economy of a documentary; the manhunt, the crowding of thousands of victims into the glassed cage of the arena, transportation of convoy after convoy from the Vel d'Hiv to Drancy and eventually to the "final solution".Wherever possible, the authors have quoted eyewitness accounts and transcribed documents. The contrast between the businesslike, clerical itemization of who is to be considered eligible for arrest and the moving personal stories creates a chilling picture of humanity overwhelmed by the bureaucracy of murder.Although there were Frenchmen who cared about and helped the hunted, the book in the main insists that we face terrible truths; the French police carried out the orders of the Germans with efficiency and without mercy. Many French citizens saw their neighbours taken away without batting an eye. The details build up convincingly until we come full circle and say, "No, it couldn't have happened." We know it happened. We feel it could not have. No one will read this book without reacting to it both with disbelief and with the horror that comes from believing."Illustrated with 16 pages of black & white photographs.

Hinduism at a Glance


Swami Nirvedananda - 1969
    

Those Who Love Him


Basilea Schlink - 1969
    

The Hudson River: A Natural and Unnatural History


Robert H. Boyle - 1969
    Studies the history, characteristics, and natural wildlife of the Hudson and the ways in which man has enriched or devastated the river.

Book of the Hand an Illustrated History


Fred Gettings - 1969
    Survey of palmistry.

Pathways to Perfect Living


Vernon Howard - 1969
    

The Emergence of Man


John E. Pfeiffer - 1969
    From wilderness to metropolis in 15,000,000 years--the unfolding story of human evolution & the human condition, as revealed by new discoveries in archeology & primate behavior.

Edvard Munch. Lithographs Etchings Woodcuts


Ebria Feinblatt - 1969
    

Early Illustrated Books: A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries


Alfred W. Pollard - 1969
    Pollard presents a history of book illustration in each country, details what distinguished the books from those being produced elsewhere, and offers an overview of specific books from various countries, such as "The French Book of Hours. "Lavishly illustrated with examples throughout, this important work will be of interest to students of art and history alike.

Our Amazing World of Nature: It's Marvels & Mysteries


Reader's Digest Association - 1969
    58 naturalists and writers, including John George, John Steinbeck, Jacques Yves Cousteau, and others.

Will Mrs. Major Go to Hell? The Collected Works of Aloïse Buckley Heath


Aloise Buckley Heath - 1969
    The impact of her work on the quiet people is imperishable. The impact of this book on the scanners who view the American literary scene in search of imperishable talent is likely to be the same. "Will Mrs. Major Go to Hell?" is offered by the publisher as a work of a major American humorist whose self-effacement should not stand in the way of her achievement. Mrs. Heath, the sister of William F. Buckley, Jr., died suddenly and tragically in 1967 at the age of 48, as the result of a massive cerebral hemorrhage, leaving behind ten children.Supper at great elm --Mademoiselle --Memorandum to: --Growing up with the Buckleys --The day Maureen was born --A letter for Maureen --Pattiche --How to raise money in the ivy league --Ladies' month in the slicks --Seven keys to anomie --The sociology of the carpool --The true spirit of Christmas --A housewife looks at soap opera --Baby in the bathroom --Horizontal enrichment information wise --Before you say no.- Prosiness in purple --A Trapp family Christmas with the Heaths --Merry Christmas to everyone in the world except men --Spare me the rod --It says here. --Politics and mortal sin --A Heath Christmas Carol program

Promises to keep: Memorable writings and statements


Robert F. Kennedy - 1969
    

Too Long in the Bush


Len Beadell - 1969
    Hard to find edition.

The Island


R.M. Lockley - 1969
    It was there that Ronald Lockley went as a young man, to study the tens of thousands of wild creatures that lived 'within the compass of one small plot of land surrounded by the sea'.

I Was the Nuremberg Jailer


Burton C. Andrus - 1969
    Andrus, governor of Nuremberg Prison from May, 1945, to October, 1946.From the time they were assembled at an interrogation center until the end of their trial, it was Colonel Andrus' job to guard the twenty-one top war criminals and maintain the security of the tribunal that was deciding their fate. For eighteen months he worked among them at often stifling close quarters and talked with them almost every day. He saw all the facets of these men--depression, petulance, arrogance, and occasionally, courage and dignity. He saw them through their trial and walked with ten of them to the gallows as they went to their deaths. In writing this remarkable book, the author has drawn on literally thousands of confidential and unpublished documents. The drama of Goering's suicide is heightened by personal reminiscence and by the reproduction of his suicide note to Colonel Andrus. The exact circumstances of Goering's death, as well as the contents of a letter he wrote to General Eisenhower, are also disclosed for the first time.The thorny problems Colonel Andrus encountered in maintaining discipline, the feigned insanity of Hess, the vicious hysteria of Streicher, the self-pitying meekness of Ribbentrop, the prisoners' reactions to Nazi atrocity films, the doomed men's last Christmas and how they went to ther deaths--all are dealt with in vivid, exacting detail. Chilling, candid, and fully documented, "I Was the Nuremberg Jailer" adds the long-awaited final chapter to the history of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.

The Throwaway Children


Lisa Aversa Richette - 1969
    

Paul Klee (Temporis Collection)


Paul Klee - 1969
    From the vibrant Blaue Reiter movement to Surrealism at the end of the 1930s and throughout his teaching years at the Bauhaus, he attempted to capture the organic and harmonic nature of painting by alluding to other artistic mediums such as poetry, literature, and, above all, music. While he collaborated with artists like August Macke and Alexej von Jawlensky, his most famous partnership was with the abstract expressionist, Wassily Kandinsky.

Children's Games in Street & Playground


Iona Opie - 1969
    It reveals that the games children take pleasure in when out on their own are usually those learnt from each other - not from adults. They are games in which children may deliberately scare each other, ritually hurt each other, take foolish risks, play ten against one, and yet in which they consistenly observe their own sense of fair play. This volume explains in detail how a large number of street games are played, and gives the rhymes and sayings children repeat while playing them, together with their different regional names. It also contains notes on their individual histories, and compares apparently recently invented games with amusements in Elizabethan, medieval and even classical times, while numerous analogues from other countries indicate the extent of their distribution. Iona and Peter Opie have also written "The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes", "The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book", "The Oxford Book of Children's Verse", "The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren", "Classic Fairy Tales", "A Nursery Companion" and "The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse". Iona Opie is also the author of "The Singing Game" and "People in the Playground".

Road to Olympus


Anatoly Tarasov - 1969
    He helped introduce the Canadian version of hockey into the Soviet Union in 1946 and, eight years later, his team won the international amateur hockey championship. He adapted the Russian version of hockey, which at that time resembled outdoor soccer on ice, to the style that is played indoors on smaller rinks. He then defeated the Canadians and Americans at their own game.

Especially at Christmas


Celestine Sibley - 1969
    During her many years as a newspaper writer, Celestine Sibley has made people her main concern, some disputable, some distinguished, some outrageous, but all inspiring; and at Christmas time she remembers them and the gifts they gave her. The gifts, in fact, are the people themselves and this is really the true meaning and spirit of Christmas.

The Honeycomb


Adela Rogers St. Johns - 1969
    

A Death in the Sánchez Family


Oscar Lewis - 1969
    

Principles of Socialism and Communism


Georges Politzer - 1969
    

The Interpretation Of The Music Of The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries: Revealed By Contemporary Evidence


Arnold Dolmetsch - 1969
    Topics include tempo, rhythm, ornamentation, wrist positioning and fingering, instruments of the era, more.

The Mackenzie - Papineau Battalion


Victor Hoar - 1969
    This book was based on letters, documents and interviews with survivors.

Professional Baseball the First 100 Years


Major League Baseball - 1969
    

Manual of Internal Fixation: Techniques Recommended by the Ao-Asif Group


Maurice E. Müller - 1969
    Due to the many changes that have taken place, an international faculty of orthopaedic surgeons and traumatologists completely revised and expanded the manual. In its third edition the manual reflects the state of the art and is the necessary reference for every AO specialist.

A Philosophy of Religion


Edgar Sheffield Brightman - 1969
    

The Making of a Nation: Biafra


Arthur A. Nwankwo - 1969
    Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon


Bob Ward - 1969
    A collection of interesting and witty and funny and ironic sayings regarding NASA and the moon.

The Mythical Origin of the Egyptian Temple


E.A.E. Reymond - 1969
    

Music for the Voice, Revised Edition: A Descriptive List of Concert and Teaching Material


Sergius Kagen - 1969
    For each of several thousand works, the singer can find the compass and tessitura, the vocal type to which the song is suited, as well as remarks on the character or challenges of the piece, with occasional advice to the accompanist. Headnotes give general information on some major composers and important song cycles. This single volume helps the performer find works by hundreds of composers from Europe and America, from the Renaissance through the mid-20th century, and genres ranging from folk airs to bel canto. Entries are arranged by composer within larger categories: Songs and Airs before the 19th Century, Songs of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Folk Songs, and Operatic Extracts. An index of composers makes access to listings even easier.

How To Live With A Cat


Margaret Cooper Gay - 1969
    We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Challenge & the Choice


Richard VetterliChauncey C. Riddle - 1969
    Their premise is that whatever tends to negate or diminish individual liberty is contrary to God's will as well as destructive of human worth and dignity."With conviction and eloquence they outline pertinent historical data on the rise and fall of liberty, showing in the process that certain political and social programs have always resulted in loss of the citizen's freedoms; forcefully draw the parallels between past national declines and present alarming trends, particularly in the United States; and forthrightly pinpoint the causes and the remedies."

Zoo Without Bars: The Story of Chester Zoo and Its Founder George Saul Mottershead


June Johns - 1969
    

The Story Of The Blues


Paul Oliver - 1969
    Featuring more than two hundred vintage photographs and a new introduction by the author, the engaging, informative volume brings to life the African American singers and players who created this rich genre of music, as well as the settings and experiences that inspired them.

They Call Me Mister 500


Anthony Granatelli - 1969
    Book by Granatelli, Anthony

History is a weapon: Power anywhere where there's people


Fred Hampton - 1969
    at Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago in 1969.

American Slavery as It is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses


American Anti-Slavery Society - 1969
    

Christmas Ideas for Families


Phyllis Pellman Good - 1969
    They offer wonderful ways to be together and to begin new traditions as families.

Man, the Measure of All Things


Krishna Prem - 1969
    An examination of The Stanzas of Dzyan, the little-known work upon which The Secret Doctrine is based.

The Steps of Bonhoeffer: A Pictorial Album


Douglas Gilbert - 1969
    

Niccolo Machiavelli and the United States


Anthony J. Pansini - 1969
    All of Machiavelli's works combined: poems, plays, works and letters.

Selections from the Greek Papyri: Edited with Translations and Notes


George Milligan - 1969
    

Kilvert's Diary in Three volumes covering 1st Jan 1870 - 13th March 1879: Selections from the Diary of the Rev


Francis Kilvert - 1969
    Francis Kilvert Vol I: 1870-1871, Vol II: 1871-1874 , Vol III: 1874-1879

Twentieth century interpretations of Pride and prejudice;: A collection of critical essays, (Twentieth century interpretations)


Elliot Rubinstein - 1969
    Anyone reading through these essays will be impressed by the degree to which through patient attention, criticism has been able to show how the novel is put together and how it gains its effects upon its audience. But if he begins to feel that in all this formal criticism he is about to loose sight of the book itself, he can turn to the fine little parody[by Douglas Bush] that closes the selection.

The Country Beyond: The Doctrine of Re-Birth


Jane Sherwood - 1969
    Deals with communication from those who have passed beyond death.

How to Know Pollen and Spores


Ronald O. Kapp - 1969
    

Saturn V, the Moon Rocket


William G. Holder - 1969
    Describes the planning, building, and testing of the Saturn V rocket that boosted the manned Apollo spacecraft to the moon.

Company Ki Hukumat


Bari - 1969
    This is very interesting book about the coming of European trading nation in Subcontinent and gradual escalation of East India Company in Power in the Subcontinent.

Double Counterpoint And Canon


Ebenezer Prout - 1969
    The study of double counterpoint and of the various forms of imitation is an invaluable and indispensable introduction to the higher branches of composition.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY: Books for College Libraries.

A North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee, Or, the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada.


Benjamin Drew - 1969
    Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP01025900CollectionID: CTRG93-B770PublicationDate: 18560101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: xii, 387 p

Guineas and Gunpowder: British Foreign Aid in the Wars with France, 1793-1815


John M. Sherwig - 1969
    

The Battle of Spion Kop


Oliver Ransford - 1969
    

The Aesthetic Movement: Prelude To Art Nouveau


Elizabeth Aslin - 1969
    Have not located original dust jacket