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A Collection Of Stories, Reviews And Essays

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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather



Stories and essays by Willa Cather - Summary by david wales

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 4

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François Pierre Guillaume Guizot



François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prio…

The World's Lumber Room

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Selina Gaye



If this book were written today, it would be called "The Story of the World's Rubbish".That may not sound a promising subject for …

The Quiet Flame

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Eva K. Betz



“You will never be a leper nor will any Sister of our Order.”The amazing promise was made by Mother Marianne of Molokai, the “Quiet Flame” o…

Human Nature and Conduct - Part 3, The Place of Intelligence In Conduct

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John Dewey



John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist, saw Social Psychology as much a physical science…

Afloat on the Ohio

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Reuben Gold Thwaites



Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

The Book of the National Parks

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Robert Sterling Yard



Robert Sterling Yard was an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Yard graduated from Princeto…

The Secrets of the Italian Language 2 - I Segreti della Lingua Italiana per Stra…

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Antonio Libertino



Have YOU ever wanted to listen to real Italian, read it and understand it? How can YOU understand Italian even if YOU are an absolute beginn…

Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago

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Hannah Trager



Hannah Trager published Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago in 1926, so the book is a portrait of day to day life for a Jewish fami…

What Dress Makes of Us

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Dorothy Quigley



A wickedly funny book of advice on women's dress. However old, fat or plain you are, Dorothy Quigley will tell you what not to wear. (Summar…

The Dancing Mania

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Justus Hecker



Numerous theories have been proposed for the causes of dancing mania, and it remains unclear whether it was a real illness or a social pheno…

There Are Realistic Alternatives

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Gene Sharp



Violence in society and politics, whether in the form of war, terrorism, dictatorship, oppression, usurpation, or genocide, is widely recogn…

The Lost Art of Reading

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Gerald Stanley Lee



Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…

Hunting Dogs

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Oliver Hartley



The title of this book quotes its object. To tell something of night hunting, and especially to suggest how the ever necessary dog can best …

The Masque of Anarchy

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Percy Bysshe Shelley



The Masque of Anarchy was Shelley's response to the Peterloo massacre at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, where 18 died and hundreds were inju…

Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus

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Rufus Estes



Rufus Estes was born a slave in 1857 in Tennessee, and experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville …

Hallel (Psalms 113-118) (JPSA)

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Jewish Publication Society Of America



Hallel (Hebrew: הלל‎ "Praise [God]") is part of Judaism's prayers, a verbatim recitation from Psalms 113-118, which is used for pr…

Epitome of the Formula of Concord

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Jakob Andreae



Formula of Concord (1577) is an authoritative Lutheran statement of faith (called a confession, creed, or "symbol") that, in its t…

The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children

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Jane Andrews



"You may think that Mother Nature, like the famous "old woman who lived in the shoe," has so many children that she doesn't k…

The Andes and The Amazon

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James Orton



This book, with the subtitle "Across the Continent of South America" describes the scientific expedition of 1867 to the equatorial…

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