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Some Fruits of Solitude
Including A Sermon Preached at the Quaker's Meeting House, in Gracechurch-Street, London, Eighth Month 12th, 1694
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
"Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims" is a collection of epigrams and sayings edited and put together by the early American Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania William Penn. The work collected in this book presents the wisdom of pre-Revolutionary USA. Contents:...
Qi=mc2
Gnosis: Planetary Initiation
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Qi = mc2 is written and recorded in two volumes to mirror the thinking of the two-hemisphere brain so that each volume stands alone and readers may choose their principal way of knowing to grasp the emerging world-view underlying the chaotic events in our time; Science: Qualium Leap in Evolution and...
All the King's Cooks
The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The massive kitchens at Hampton Court were built to supply the entire household of Henry VIII. They were the first professional kitchens organised on such a scale. Brears provides a practical guide to their running, dispelling many of the misconceptions about the cooking and eating of meals in Tudor...
Toraja
Misadventures of a Social Anthropologist in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In 1985, Dr. Nigel Barley, senior anthropologist at The British Museum, set off for the relatively unknown Indonesian island of Sulawesi in search of the Toraja, a people whose culture includes headhunting, transvestite priests and the massacre of buffalo. In witty and finely crafted prose, Barley offers...
Water Is the Animal
Fin De Millenaire Reflections of Planet Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Rivers are arteries and feeder streams capillaries. It's the same water-based pattern repeated over and over again on the surface of this and other planets where water once flowed. Whether it's the thigh of a human leg, or the Andean borne, blood-red, silt-laden waters of the Rio Paraguay flowing...
by A H Guernsey, Lyman Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
This series of illustrated articles introduced Japan and the Japanese people to the American public in the mid nineteenth century. The impressions of the printed pictures and the words illustrating them were one of the elements that defined Japanese culture in the American mind for many years after...
by Albert Du Casse, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Extrait : "Il y aura le 15 août 1869 un siècle, le jour de l'Assomption, pendant l'office divin, à Ajaccio, qu'une jeune femme Corse quittait précipitamment l'église, prise des douleurs de l'enfantement. En arrivant chez elle, n'ayant pas le temps dé gagner son lit, elle mit au monde, sur un vieux...
New Guinea and Polynesia.
Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea and the D'Entrecasteaux Islands: a Cruise in Polynesia and Visits to the Pearl-shelling Stations in Torres Straits of H.M.S. Basilisk.
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1876 edition by John Murray, London. This edition comes with a map available as a free download. This edition contains illustrations. Captain John Moresby (1830 - 1922) was a British Naval Officer who explored the coast of New Guinea and discovered the site of Port Moresby. This is the account of his explorations and discoveries.
by Bridget Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
The first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember. Bridget Fowler makes great use of the theories of Pierre Bordieu, arguing that obituaries are one important component in society's collective memory. This book, the first of its kind, will find a place on every serious sociology scholar's bookshelves.
Spellbound
Inside West Africa's Witch Camps
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
As I attempted to digest stories of spiritual cannibalism, of curses that could cost a student her eyesight or ignite the pages of the books she read, I knew I was not alone in my skepticism. And yet, when I caught sight of the waving arms of an industrious scarecrow, the hair on the back of my neck...
Diplomat in Japan
An Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
A fascinating inside account of the epic clash between the Japanese in the West in its earliest days.
Sir Ernest Satow entered the British diplomatic service in 1861, a fresh graduate of London University, shortly arriving in Yokohama as the pressure of the Western powers heightened to force...
Through the Eyes of the Soul
Mexico City, Mixquic & Morelos
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
In this publication, interested individuals can find a comprehensive collection of photo essays on the multi-faceted celebration of All Souls Day in Mexico. Award-winning Photojournalist Mary J. Andrade has published the third of a five-part bilingual series of books titled: “Through the...
One Zero Charlie
Adventures in Grass Roots Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Galt Airport in northern Illinois is known to the people who fly out of it as “One-Zero-Charlie” (for its FAA designation as Airport 10C). This evocative excursion into a little-known part of the heart of America takes us to a place where a love of flying draws people together, and a fascination with its sheer exhilaration keeps them that way.
Corsets and Codpieces
A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Have you ever wondered why we wear the type of clothes we do? Packed with outlandish outfits, this exciting history of fashion trends reveals the flamboyant fashions adopted (and discarded) by our ancestors.
In the days before cosmetic surgery, people used bum rolls and bombastic breeches to augment...