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Painted Windows Elia W. Peattie, american author, journalist and critic (1862-1935) This ebook presents «Painted Windows», from Elia W. Peattie. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- FOREWORD -03- NIGHT -04- SOLITUDE -05- FRIENDSHIP -06- FAME -07- REMORSE -08- TRAVEL

In June 1934, W. B. Yeats gratefully received the award of a Goethe-Plakette from Oberburgermeister Krebs, four months after his early play The Countess Cathleen had been produced in Frankfurt by SS Untersturmfuhrer Bethge. Four years later, the poet publicly commended Nazi legislation before leaving...

THIS WAY TO THE END TIMES: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse, gathers 21 compelling, gripping stories of the not-too-distant demise of the earth as we know it. And what a collection. From little-known, brilliant tales by sci-fi legends Jules Vernes and Olaf Stapledon, to intense short works by sci-fi masters...

In Sands of Empire, veteran political journalist and award-winning author Robert W. Merry examines the misguided concepts that have fueled American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. The emergence in the George W. Bush administration of America as Crusader State, bent on remaking the world...

The first-ever firsthand chronicle of Dr. Gregory W. Frazier’s never-ending motorcycle ride. A little over 40 years ago, a man named Gregory W. Frazier got on his motorcycle, went for a ride, and never returned. He’s still out there, circumnavigating the globe: exploring the jungles of...

What is the truth? A gift of the human condition to the self. Free Verse in Useless Times is the first collection of poetry ever published by the author. Peter W. Chaltas has written 14 collections of poetry over many years. This is the first to be released. The poetry addresses questions that concern...

What do the many examples of "invisible helpers" coming to the aid of those in danger say about higher planes of existence? Do transdimensional beings watch over us from the astral plane? Here, in this seminal work, renowned Theosophist Charles W. Leadbeater explores the universal belief...

“A fascinating collection of essays” by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery (Booklist Online). In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America’s history of slavery is depicted in books,...

The sci-fi author behind Steven Spielberg’s A.I. shares his thoughts on the present, the future, and his own work and life.   “We are infinitely rich, yet we mess about with penny-in-the-slot machines,” writes Brian W. Aldiss in this autobiographical work written over the course of one month....

Dialogues of the Buddha by T. W. Rhys Davids The Digha Nikaya or "the collection of long doctrinary lectures" delivered by the Buddha is first of the five Nikayas or collection belonging to the Suttapitaka or the basket of (Buddha's) discourses which is one of the three major collection...

John W. Robinson's "Midnight Bathing in Far East Russia" includes stories of hitchhiking across western Canada, teaching dentistry in Moldova, hiking in the rain of Scotland and the mud of Hawaii, long distance bicycling, extracting teeth in Jamaica, getting lost in Greece, and exploring...

An intimate look into the life and mind of a writer. Little Red Book follows a year of W. R. Watkins’ life, exploring and detailing the highs and lows experienced, revealing Watkins’ most personal moments on paper, capturing and preserving the raw emotions behind them. As Watkins delicately...

THIS IS A BOOK COMBINING 3 AREAS* OF WORK BY W. DUTCHAK AND ROSE-MARIE BOROWSKY. The first section of the book is a collection of meditations, thoughts, ideas and song lyrics presented in poetic form and covering a period of spiritual growth from 1967 until 2011. The second part...

Essays by Christian G. Appy, Andrew J. Bacevich, John Prados, and others offer “history at its best, meaning, at its most useful.” —Howard Zinn From the launch of the “Shock and Awe” invasion in March 2003 through President George W. Bush’s declaration of “Mission Accomplished”...