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Excerpt from The Education of Women in ChinaOf all the remarkable changes which have taken place in China within the last decade, none is more significant than the change of attitude toward the education of women. Active interest and even enthusi asm have taken the place of the indifference or disapproval of the past centuries. China is coming to recognize that if she is to be gen uinely strong, in the new era of her history upon which she is ...

Behind Picket Fences is the story of how four families deal with their trials and triumphs. Sharing the same neighborhood, even spending time together, no family knows the truth about the difficulties the others face. On the outside, Sidra and Farris have the biggest house and the most expensive cars. What no one else sees, is their struggle with infertility. If their dreams do not change to compensate for the blows of fate, their unfulfil...

Excerpt from Testing for the Flotation Process This work was undertaken with the object in view of furnishing, as far as possible, the required information, to give students and any one else testing for the flotation process, a sufficient insight to conduct experiments in an intelligent manner. The theory of flotation has been taken up in a general way, no effort being made to advance any special theory. Those which have been most strongly e...

Excerpt from The Relation of Fatigue to Industrial Accidents: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Sociology Crystal Eastman found that 526 lives were sacrificed to pro duction in one year, ending June 30, 1907, in Allegheny County, Pa. With respect to accidents, her report says there has been no respite - each year has turned t...

Excerpt from Poems If I may say so, without offence, Mr. Roberts is a little like the Mysterious Stranger in a novel. One says of him (as the Count in the novel says. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, ...

Excerpt from The Young Farmer's Manual, Vol. 2: Or, How to Make Farming Pay, Giving Plain and Practical Details of General Farm Management, With a Chapter on Soils, and Their Cultivation, and Much Other Valuable Matter of a Practical Character The first volume of the young farmer's manual treats of Mechanical Agriculture, and should be read with this, as it is intimately connected with it. The first chapter of this volume is made up of brief ...

Excerpt from Thoughts of the Spiritual A few words, by way of introduction to the American Edition of "Thoughts of the Spiritual, " will, I think, not be out of place. This volume is the outcome of a very large correspondence with thoughtful and earnest readers of my two books - "Our Life After Death" and "Man and the Spiritual World, " in all parts of the world. Their study of the subject with which I had dealt, led them to ask many import...

Excerpt from The Physiology of Faith and Fear: Or the Mind in Health and DiseaseWe are now passing through a period of popular reaction against the scientific materialism of the last century. The common people are awaking to the fact that the mental state has much to do With bodily health and disease. The book makers, in their efforts to satisfy the universal demand for teaching on various phases of mental healing, have ¿ooded us with literatu...

Excerpt from Buddha and Buddhism History and comparative mythology are teach ing every day more plainly that creeds grow slowly up. None come into the world ready - made, and as if by magic. The origin of events is lost in the infinite. A great Indian poet has said, The beginning of things evades us their end evades us also. We see only the middle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books...

Excerpt from A Textbook of ChemistryTo illustrate: we find that if we let go of an object held in the hand it will fall. The first time this is observed it is simply a fact of experience or observation. But a further examination of the relations involved leads to the general statement that any body which is not supported will fall. We may, perhaps, call this a law, but it is still a comparatively imperfect statement of the existing relations. ...

¿Every breath you've ever taken has vibrated with the importance of this work. In The Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory, we address the behaviour of atoms and subatomic particles and peer into the scaffolding and instruction manuals of the Gods. Nobel Prize winning physicist Max Planck, despite a reputedly steady and conservative disposition, revolutionised his field and his work on black body radiation and his particular conclusion...

Excerpt from Handbook of Moral PhilosophyIn its higher development, when dealing with relations tran scending the facts of experience, as when treating of our relations to the Absolute Being, Moral Philosophy becomes a Speculative Science. Any denial of a speculative branch of the science must rest on the denial of the need for a philo Sophy of the fact of man's existence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of ra...

Excerpt from The Great Religions of India For nearly eighteen months he was almost exclusively occupied with these, and with such absorption that he could think or speak of little else until the lectures were finished at the close of last year. They were delivered in Edinburgh and Glasgow in the months of January and February of this year, but not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books...

The Brontë sisters are some of the most famous women in literature. Each wrote at least one novel that would go on to become a classic and to be read by women everywhere throughout history. Charlotte Brontë, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters, wrote multiple novels that are still ranked among the most cherished books in literature. Shirley, the novel completed after Jane Eyre, was written during a period of immense turmoil in Charlotte's l...

Excerpt from Book of Etiquette, Vol. 1Success without culture is like old-fashioned straw berry short cake without the whipped cream. It has no ¿avor.There are certain little courteous Observances, certain social formalities that bespeak the true lady, the true gentleman. Some of us call it good form. Some of us call it culture. Some of us call it etiquette. But we all admit that it makes the world a better place to live in.In Italy, young men...

Excerpt from French Etchers of the Second Empire About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfectio...

Excerpt from Textile Manufacturers' Book-Keeping: For the Counting House, Mill and Warehouse, Being a Practical Treatise, Specially Designed for the Woollen and Worsted and Allied TradesThe previous editions have been carefully revised and in many minor matters improved, but substantially the structure of the book.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comTh...

Brick Walls: Tales of Hope & Courage from Pakistan is a heartwarming collection of short stories filled with larger-than-life characters and the seemingly impossible challenges they face. You will be captivated by these fictional depictions of everyday Pakistanis who struggle with poverty, violence, corruption and abuse, yet rise from the ashes stronger and more enduring. There is Asma the lackluster seamstress, Faisal the would-be terrorist, ...

Amina is an Arab American woman attending one of the best universities in the US. During the spring of her junior year, Amina is raped by one of her friends, making her essentially unmarriageable in the eyes of her parents and, possibly, the entire Arab community. When her mother experiences a nervous breakdown, Amina fears that she is to blame for her mother's condition. Eventually she falls in love with Sherif, but his reaction to her rape p...

Excerpt from Babylon Is Everywhere the City as Man's FateBut for a long time great cities have been etching their traces even in the sparsely inhabited parts of the earth. Because Copenhagen and Los Angeles wanted the shortest possible route to each other, airfields were blasted out Of Greenland's ice, because our cities need oil for their factories and their cars, pipelines now run across the Sahara Desert.About the PublisherForgotten Books p...