Volumesofvalue: 611 books
by James Weldon Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
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Several years ago I attended a great meeting in the interest of Hampton Institute at Carnegie Hall. The Hampton students sang the old songs and awoke memories that left me sad. Among the speakers were R.C. Ogden, ex-Ambassador Choate, and Mark Twain; but the greatest interest of the audience...
by Dan Beard
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
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I. FIRE MAKING BY FRICTION
II. FIRE MAKING BY PERCUSSION
III. HOW TO BUILD A FIRE
IV. HOW TO LAY A GOOD COOKING FIRE
V. CAMP KITCHENS
VI. CAMP FOOD
VII. PACKING HORSES
VIII. THE USE OF DOGS. MAN PACKING
IX. PREPARING...
by Thomas Day Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
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Introductory,
Building Cheese Factories,
Production of Milk,
Composition of Milk,
Taints and Odors,
Cooling Milk,
Delivering Milk,
Receiving Milk,
Big Averages,
Conductors, Strainers, &c.,
Color,
Rennets,
Preparing...
by Ike Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2013
Introduction.
In placing before my readers in the following pages the results of my twenty-five years’ experience of Rat-catching, Ferreting, etc., I may say that I have always done my best to accomplish every task that I have undertaken, and I have in consequence received excellent testimonials...
Hints on Horsemanship
Or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Hints On Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece
Or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding
BY COLONEL GEORGE GREENWOOD, AN OFFICER OF THE HOUSEHOLD BRIGADE OF CAVALRY.
Late Lieut.-Col. commanding 2nd Life Guards.
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CHAPTER...
The Sailor's Word-book
An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including Sme More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; As Well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
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About the Author
"ADMIRAL WILLIAM HENRY SMYTH, K.S.F., D.C.L., &c., (1788 – 1865) was an English sailor, hydrographer, astronomer, and numismatist." -- Wikipedia
Ku Klux Klan
With Appendices Containing the Prescripts of the Ku Klux Klan, Specimen Orders, and Warnings
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.
Chapter I. The Origin
Chapter II. The Spread of the Klan
Chapter III. The Transformation
Chapter IV. The Decline
Chapter V. Disbandment
APPENDICES.
Appendix I. Prescript...
by Annie Martin
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
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CONTENTS (abridged list)
CHAPTER I. PORT ELIZABETH AND WALMER.
CHAPTER II. SOME OF OUR PETS.
CHAPTER III.PLANTS OF THE KARROO.
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CHAPTER XII. KARROO BEASTS, BIRDS AND REPTILES.
CHAPTER XIII. OUR NEIGHBOURS.
CHAPTER XIV. GOOD-BYE.
The Prairie Traveler
A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions with Maps, Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The Prairie Traveler
A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions with Maps, Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific
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CHAPTER I.
The different Routes to California...
by Henry W. Boynton
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
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I. Early Years and Surroundings
II. Man about Town
III. Man of Letters—First Period
IV. Man of Letters—Second Period
V. A Public Character
VI. The Man Himself
"Washington Irving...
The Life of Galileo Galilei
With Illustrations of the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy and Life of Kepler
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
The Life of Galileo Galilei
With Illustrations of the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy and Life of Kepler
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Chapter I. Introduction.
The knowledge which we at present possess of the phenomena of nature and of their...
by Francis Miltoun, Blanche McManus, Illustrator
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
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By Way of Introduction
I. A General Survey
II. Feudal France—Its People and Its Châteaux
III. The Pyrenees—Their Geography and Topography
IV. The Pyrenees—Their History and People
V. Roussillon...
by Ernst Haeckel, Joseph McCabe, Translator
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
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Author’s Preface
Translator’s Preface
CHAPTER I The Nature of the Problem
CHAPTER II Our Bodily Frame
CHAPTER III Our Life
CHAPTER IV Our Embryonic Development
CHAPTER V The History of Our...
by Charles Francis Abdy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
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CHAPTER I The Bachs of Thuringia—Veit Bach, the ancestor of John Sebastian—His sons and descendants—A breach of promise of marriage—J. Christoph Bach of Arnstadt—His...