Editor Introduction: 3 books

Book cover of Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk
by Fanny D. Bergen, Editor, William Wells Newell
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013

This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Notes CONTENTS Introduction I. Babyhood Baptism. — Physiognomy. — Introduction to the World. — First Actions. — Various. II. Childhood Asseveration. — Challenge. — Fortune. — Friendship. — Mythology. — Punishment. — Sport....
Book cover of Surveillance Nation
by David Cole (Introduction), Richard Kreitner (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015

We’ve been living in 1984 since 1941. That was the year the Justice Department first authorized the wiretapping of Americans. “We shudder to think of what its agents will do with this new authorization,” The Nation warned in an editorial that year. Ever since then, our writers have investigated,...
Book cover of The Adventures of John Wetherell
by C. S. Forester, Editor & Introduction, John Wetherell
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013

 First published in 1954, The Adventures of John Wetherell, is part of a much larger manuscript professing to be a diary kept by seaman John Porritt Wetherell, a native of Whitby, England who was born in 1780 and died sometime after 1834.  John Wetherell's records of his nautical life have...
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