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Excerpt from Technocracy: Human Instincts in Reconstruction: An Analysis of Urges and Suggestions for Their Direction, National Industrial Management: Practical Suggestions for National Reconstruction, Ways and Means to Gain Industrial Democracy, Skill Economics for Industrial DemDoubtless this simple con¿ict (of raw strength and brute cunning) waged with varying results, slowly oscillating, age by age and race by race, in favor of one or othe...

Excerpt from Sketch of the Present State of the Island of SardiniaBy a singular coincidence, two other Works on this hitherto neglected subject made their appear ance nearly at the same time with La Marmora's. One Of them, by M. Mannu, is, I am told, a detailed history Of the island, but not having been able.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis boo...

Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Family Coins Belonging to His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K. GIN the formal manufacture of a book, we are taught that its body should be preceded by a Preface and an Introduction, the one treating of the design and proceedings of the author, the other to prepare the reader's mind for the matter given in the work. Now, in a discursive Catalogue like the present, we are at liberty to...

Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Imperial Large-Brass MedalsThe large-brass series comprises the whole of what is termed the Higher Empire, from Julius Caesar to Gallienus, and exhibits Roman art from the dawn of its perfection to the eve of its decline. The facts thus recorded are also clear and satisfactory, not obscured by the dense mists with which the stream of time too often throws an impenetrable gloom over the p...

Excerpt from The Sailor's Word-Book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen, As Well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, EtcThe recent loss of Admiral William Henry Smyth, noticed as it was by the leading periodicals, will have recalled to many, not only the social character and amiable qualities of the compiler of this Work, but also his distinguished professional car...

Excerpt from A Cycle of Celestial Objects, Vol. 1: For the Use of Naval, Military, and Private Astronomers, ProlegomenaUnder this somewhat startling title, the reader is not about to be in¿icted with a detailed history of astronomy: it is only intended to place before him, a condensed introduction to the present conditions of the science, in fact - a reminder. It is in the heavens that the Sovereign Wisdom manifests order and harmony, regulari...

Excerpt from Technocracy: Social UniversalsNote: The First and Second Series of these Technocracy essays were devoted almost exclusively to social Mechanics, in the present series the emphasis is upon the still more important element in our Social Problem - the social mechanic himself - Man.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproductio...

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The astronomer John Lee (1783-66) inherited Hartwell House in Buckinghamshire in 1827, building there an observatory designed by his friend William Henry Smyth (1788-1865). Smyth's illustrated account of Hartwell - the two volumes appeared in 1851 and 1864 - illuminates both the history of the estate and the practice of contemporary astronomy.

Excerpt from Sketch of the Present State of the Island of SardiniaBy a singular coincidence, two other Works on this hitherto neglected subject made their appear ance nearly at the same time with La Marmora's. One Of them, by M. Mannu, is, I am told, a detailed history Of the island, but not having been able.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis boo...

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Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Family Coins Belonging to His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K. GIN the formal manufacture of a book, we are taught that its body should be preceded by a Preface and an Introduction, the one treating of the design and proceedings of the author, the other to prepare the reader's mind for the matter given in the work. Now, in a discursive Catalogue like the present, we are at liberty to...