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KEEP CALM AND STEAMPUNK ON The whole of Victorian London knows there is something not quite right about the Lady Verity Hart. She may be the daughter of an MP and the sister of famed inventor Lord David Hart, but she is a spinster whose own father threatens to send her to the madhouse every...

KEEP CALM AND STEAMPUNK ON The whole of Victorian London knows there is something not quite right about the Lady Verity Hart. She may be the daughter of an MP and the sister of famed inventor Lord David Hart, but she is a spinster whose own father threatens to send her to the madhouse every...

KEEP CALM AND STEAMPUNK ON The whole of Victorian London knows there is something not quite right about the Lady Verity Hart. She may be the daughter of an MP and the sister of famed inventor Lord David Hart, but she is a spinster whose own father threatens to send her to the madhouse every...

"Come oot o' the gutter, ye nickum!" cried, in harsh, half-masculine voice, a woman standing on the curbstone of a short, narrow, dirty lane, at right angles to an important thoroughfare, itself none of the widest or cleanest. She was dressed in dark petticoat and print wrapper. One of her...

Pilote sur la ligne Toulouse-Dakar, Jacques Bernis - comme le narrateur - a trouvé dans le monde de l'aviation postale un milieu dur, net, précis, qui le sauve de l'inquiétude et le défend contre le sentiment de sa fragilité. Les livres ne lui ont appris « aucun secret qui le protégeât de...

The line between domestic economic policy and foreign economic policy is now almost invisible, and getting these policies right matters for more than just U.S. living standards. Through insightful analysis and engaging graphics, How America Stacks Up outlines the challenges faced by the United States and prescribes solutions that will ensure a healthy, competitive U.S. economy for years to come.

Never before or since has a single philosopher produced such a tremendous effect as Karl Marx. His great vision of a society without private property was heeded worldwide and had huge historical effects. Allegiance to his ideas was proclaimed by revolutionaries, parties, governments and states. Marxism...

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable...

In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways-Who was to be the new bishop? The death of old Dr. Grantly, who had for many years filled that chair with meek authority,...

"About the book" The Gift of Minimalism is Freedom: Throw ballast overboard liberated! (Minimalism: Declutter your life, home, mind & soul) We live too fast, rush through overfull days, and there is always too much lying around. But that could change. Because: In every one of us is the...

Inspired sayings by Reshad Feild, Bülent Rauf, Ibn Arabi, Rumi, Hafiz and other mystic teachers - in a cycle of 52 weekly themes -to serve as impulses and intimate companions on the journey through life. with "pausing" - fotos in black and white.

Les « Légendes Rustiques », texte injustement méconnu de la célèbre George Sand, font partie de ces livres qui parlent à un pan de notre esprit que nous pensions endormi: cette petite part de nous-mêmes que nous combattons la nuit, au moment d'éteindre la lumière, celle-là même qui nous...

These strange facts would never have been placed on record, nor would this exciting chapter of an eventful life have been written, except for two reasons: first, because the discovery I made has been declared to be of considerable importance to scientists, bibliophiles, and the world at large; and,...

This is the story of the first fifty years of my life. Many people wonder what life was really like back then, so here it is, from childhood, to my service in the navy, my career in butchery and electronics, through marriage, children, love and loss, with some tears but also many laughs along the way.