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2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. A murder in a small English village leads Hercule Poirot into a strange mystery involving a determined, curious spinster, the local doctor, and a wide range of suspects with possible motives and mysterious relationships. Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend, Roger Ackroyd, to pursue a project to perfect vegetable marrows. Soon after, Ackroyd is murdered, and Poirot must come out of retirement ...

2022 Reprint of 1952 first edition. Neville Lancelot Goddard was born in Barbados in 1905. He came to the United States to study drama at the age of seventeen and whilst touring with his dance company in England he developed an interest in metaphysics, after striking up a conversation with a Scotsman who lent him a series of books on the powers of the mind. On his return he gave up the entertainment industry to devote his full attention to the...

2022 Reprint of the 1926 edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition. "Is design intuitive or is it consciously and methodically worked out? Are there basic rules governing design that, when learned, will facilitate the creative process? These questions have been asked by artists, art historians, and art critics throughout the ages. Convinced that design was not purely instinctive, Jay Hambidge ...

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2022 Reprint of the 1947 Edition. Includes 15 illustrations (including plan and diagrams). Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. During his years as a scientist working for the British government in India, Sir Albert Howard conceived of and refined the principles of organic agriculture. Howard's The Soil and Health became a seminal and inspirational text in the organic movement soon after...

2022 Reprint of the 1940 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this title Archbishop Sheen provides a collection of his sermons on the subject of the seven virtues. He encourages the reader to practice and reflect on each. These are the three theological virtues of faith, hope and charity as well as the four cardinal virtues of prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude. She...

2022 Hardcover Reprint of the 1908 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This title illustrates the most important mechanical movements in dynamics, hydraulics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, steam engines, mill and other gearing, presses, horology, and miscellaneous machinery , and including many movements never previously published, and several which had only recently come into use as o...

2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) is Milne's best-selling classic children's book. It is the first volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, written by A. A. Milne and illustrated by E. H. Shepard. The book focuses on the adventures of a teddy bear called Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, a small toy pig, Eeyore, a toy donkey, Ow...

2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Illustrated Edition. In this financial classic Clason dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set 4, 000 years ago in ancient Babylon. The book remains in print almost a century after the parables were originally published and is regarded as a classic of personal financial advice. The parables are told by a fictional Babylonian character called Arkad, a poor scribe who became the "richest m...

2022 Reprint of the 1959 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Presnall was part of a Utah chapter of AA. He considered it a useful guide for anyone seeking peace of mind amidst the tension and turmoil of their lives. Basically self-published, it caught on in the AA community and went onto to sell well since its first publication in 1959. Chapters on: Barometers of the Mind Joining t...

2022 Reprint of the 1924 First Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Gullah was the patois spoken by the Black Americans living on the sea-islands and the tide-water coastal strip bordering South Carolina and Georgia. This group, both on account of their origin and because of certain highly specialized local conditions of environment and isolation, early came to constitute a dist...

2022 Reprint of the 1942 Edition. Profusely Illustrated. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is unquestionably the greatest book on knots and rope work ever published, and it is an invaluable reference for anyone from eight to eighty. First published in 1939, it quickly became--and has remained for more than a half century--the classic in its field. Truly comprehensive in scope, this e...

2022 Reprint of the 1936 First Edition. Profusely illustrated with photos of patients before and after surgery, as well as historical illustrations of plastic surgery from the past. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The curing of facial defects by surgical methods and the rebuilding of the human face nearer to the heart's desire, is not, Dr. Maltz explains, a recent discovery of surgi...

2022 Reprint of the 1920 Ninth Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Charlotte Mason (1842-1923) was a British educator who invested her life in improving the quality of children's education. She was founder of the Charlotte Mason College of Education in England and was 100 years ahead of her time in developing an education philosophy that stressed bringing broad and stimulating ...

2022 Reprint of the 1954 edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This illustrated history of the use of psychological warfare during World War II defines Psychological warfare as "the use of propaganda against an enemy, together with such other operational measures of a military, economic, or political nature as may be required to supplement propaganda." The propaganda used in this...

2022 Reprint of the 1952 edition. The author advises that: "This book is only so much paper, cardboard, and ink until you make it a guide to freedom, power, peace, and happiness by your understanding and by your use of the principles in it. It will accomplish its purpose and come alive in you only as you embody in your consciousness the eternal truths that it contains and as you put them to work. If you read the book just for the sake of ent...

2022 Reprint of the 1950 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book is one of a series of three consecutive metaphysical studies on the Parable of the Prodigal Son and the Elder Brother. Dr. Robert A. Russell was an exceptional author and had an uncanny ability to make the most difficult spiritual subjects easy to understand and apply. He maintains a loyal following to this ...

2022 Reprint of the 1950 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. For as many years as man has known alcoholism, his struggle for the power and means to control it have persevered. In very recent years some medical experts have classified alcoholism as a disease, and alcoholics as those persons whose drinking cannot be controlled but who must resort to it compulsively for the scope ...

2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Two volumes found in One. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. With a general introduction, glossary and index of symbols, commentary, and appendices by D.J. Sloss and J.P.R. Wallis. Poet, painter, engraver, and visionary William Blake worked to bring about a change both in the social order and in the minds of men. Though in his lifetime his work was lar...

2022 Reprint of the 1929 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Its tales are peopled by giants, dwarves, and elves, superhuman heroes and indomitable warrior queens. Its gods live with the tragic knowledge of their own impending destruction in t...