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1910

Calculus Made Easy


Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910
    With a new introduction, three new chapters, modernized language and methods throughout, and an appendix of challenging and enjoyable practice problems, Calculus Made Easy has been thoroughly updated for the modern reader.

Elementarz


Marian Falski - 1910
    Nearly all Poles remember first sentence they read. It's Ala ma kota (Alice has a cat).

A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic


Geir T. Zoëga - 1910
    Even after 11 centuries, the modern Icelandic language is closer to the speech patterns of the Middle Ages than any living European language. Brought to Iceland during the 9th century by the Vikings (who invaded Britain during that same period), the language also influenced the development of modern English. Thus, a knowledge of Icelandic language is highly relevant to the study of English and British history. This volume, reprinted from a rare edition, will be indispensable in the study of the prose and poetry of Old Icelandic literature, which is regarded by many scholars as unrivaled among the literatures of medieval Europe.

Practical Manual of Harmony


Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - 1910
    Petersburg because of his dissatisfaction with other harmony methods of the time. His methodology in this book favors the establishment of a comprehensive foundation in tonal harmony (making it ideal as a pedagogic tool), over an exhaustive analysis of harmonic tendencies in Western music. The new edition of the Practical Manual of Harmony, re-issued more than one hundred years after its first printing, preserves the original content of the 1885 edition, yet adopts a new layout and design to better enhance its organization. The book was a success in music programs at the end of the nineteenth century. Its content will produce equal success in the music programs of today and beyond.

Norton's Star Atlas and Reference Handbook


Ian Ridpath - 1910
    Now in a beautifully redesigned, two-color landmark 20th edition, this combination star atlas and reference guide has no match in the field.First published in 1910, prompted by the appearance of Halley's Comet, Norton's owes much of its legendary success to its unique maps, arranged in slices or gores, each covering approximately one-fifth of the sky. Accompanying and complimenting the charts is a succinct descriptive and tabulated accounting of astronomical knowledge and data.In this new edition the text and tables have been revised and updated to account for the new and exciting developments in astronomy. The star maps themselves were plotted using advanced computer techniques, yielding outstanding accuracy and legibility. Every celestial object visible to the naked eye is included--stars to magnitude 6, star clusters, and galaxies, as well as other celestial objects. Presented with an authority that has stood for generations, observation hints, technical explanations, and pointers to specialized information sources, make this the only essential guide to the night sky.

Grammar of the Gothic Language (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)


Joseph Wright - 1910
    Mark, Selections from the other Gospels, and the Second Epistle to Timothy. Edited, with Notes and Glossary. Second edition, with a supplement to the Grammar, by O. L. Sayce.

Century Readings in English Literature


John W. Cunliffe - 1910
    

The Apocalypse Unsealed


James Morgan Pryse - 1910
    So explains theosophist James M. Pryse in this 1919 work, which seeks to uncover the hidden significance of the most misunderstood section of the Bible and reinterpret it from a modern theosophical perspective, uncovering its esoteric relationship to other ancient texts, including the Upanishads. Pryse offers a new translation of the Apocalypse based upon undisputed meanings of the original Greek text and comments on it on a verse-by-verse basis to bring to light startling new meaning in a work that many readers will have believed fully explored. Students of comparative mythology, ancient religion, and the Bible will find this an intriguing read. American journalist JAMES MORGAN PRYSE JR. (1859-1942) helped found the Gnostic Society in Los Angeles in 1925. He is also the author of Sermon on the Mount and Other Extracts from the New Testament (1899) and Reincarnation in the New Testament (1900), among other works.

Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose


Alice E. Andrews - 1910
    This book was undertaken in response to the desire for a large body of standard English literature in an accessible, compact form, to accompany and supplement the manuals of literary history in use. The periods included in this volume include Anglo-Saxon; Anglo-Norman; Fourteenth Century, Age of Chaucer; The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries; The Elizabethan Age-Poetry, Drama and Prose; Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; The Romantic Age; and The Victorian Age.

Pattern-Making by Paper Folding


F. Heath - 1910
    The subject is an ingenious one, describing a method of pattern cutting garments for undergarments and children's dresses by folding and proportion rather than by exact measurements.