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The Rev. Jermain Wesley Loguen was a pioneering figure in early nineteenth-century abolitionism and African American literature. A highly respected leader in the AME Zion Church, Rev. Loguen was popularly known as the "Underground Railroad King" in Syracuse, where he helped over 1,500 fugitives...

An analysis of works written during the Great War—while the fate of the world was still unknown—by W. B. Yeats, Edith Wharton, W. E. B. Du Bois, and others.   Since the hundredth anniversary of World War I, the literary canon of the war has consolidated around memoirs written in the years...

This prophetic statement made by W. E. B. Du Bois over a century ago is from The Souls of Black Folk. One hundred years later, Souls remains the most important treatment of African-American life and culture published in the twentieth century. Richly illustrated, this special edition of Du Bois's seminal...

The Chaldæan Oracles of Zoroaster by W. Wynn Westcott "Attributed to, but probably not of Chaldean origin; not oracles (in the sense of prophecies); and definitely not Zoroastrian; this is a famous collection of aphorisms cherry-picked from classical sources. The earliest editions of...

ABOUT THE OCCULT COLLECTION OF C. W. LEADBEATER Six Books In One The Astral Plan Invisible Helpers Clairvoyance Thought-Forms The Masters And the Path A Textbook Of Theosophy About Charles W. Leaderbeater Charles Webster Leadbeater (/ˈlɛdˌbɛtər/; 16 February 1854 – 1 March 1934)...

For most of her life, Jay W. MacIntosh (born Janet Tallulah Jewell) has loved flowers. It started when she was little. When her mother planted vegetables, she planted flowers. When her mother harvested carrots or lettuce or squash, she picked flowers. As she grew older, she knew most of the homes...

In Lover of Life the distinguished author Dr. F. W. Boreham draws back the curtain to pay tribute to one of his mentors, Joseph John Doke. This is a tantalizing sketch of a pastor, artist, author, who later in South Africa became a friend and freedom fighter with Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle for...

The American Robert W. Chambers was a pioneer writer of weird, fantasy and supernatural tales, whose seminal collection of stories ‘The King in Yellow’ has had a lasting influence on the horror genre. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete Weird short story collections of Robert W. Chambers,...

A radical new explanation of how life and consciousness emerge from physics and chemistry. As physicists work toward completing a theory of the universe and biologists unravel the molecular complexity of life, a glaring incompleteness in this scientific vision becomes apparent. The "Theory...

#KNOWYOURROLE : "Every Woman's Little Black Book" The highly anticipated book, #KNOWYOURROLE, written by B.W. Blocker is a book that will make women think! Its groundbreaking life applications and lessons expounded on reassures an optimistic approach towards understanding the...

**From the national bestselling authors of Stand Your Ground comes an explosive story of citizens’ rights, government wrongs, and freedom’s last stand—deep in the heart of Texas… AMERICA UNDER FIRE** G.W. Brannock is proud to be a rancher, a West Texan, and a American. The land...

THREE IN A BOX is an ebook collection of books 4 - 6 in the Rafferty P.I. series. WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME A double caseload means multiple mayhem for Rafferty. A trigger-happy octogenarian collides with a larger-than-life bounty hunter. One will win him an unexpected friend. The other...

ROBERT W. CHAMBERS’S WORKS contained 6 works written by Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories entitled The King in Yellow, published in 1895. These are the 6 works of Robert W Chambers ...

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological...