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2023 Reprint of 1947 Edition. A comprehensive reference book of scales and melodic patterns, arranged in the form of piano scales and melodic studies, but adaptable for all instruments. Since its publication in 1947, great musicians and composers of all genres - from Arnold Schoenberg and Virgil Thomson to John Coltrane and Freddie Hubbard - have sworn by this legendary volume and its comprehensive vocabulary of melodic patterns for compositio...

Reprint Edition of the 1938 Edition. Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting in the Spanish Civil War for the Republican army. Published in 1938 (about a year before the war ended) with little commercial success, it gained more attention in the 1950s following the success of Orwell's better-known works Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Covering the period between De...

Reprint Edition of the 1953 Edition. Fox provides inspirational insights and practical advice for living a spiritual life every day, from the bestselling author of The Sermon on the Mount. "Dr. Fox has a faculty for discovering deep spiritual truth in everyday events, and he thus makes his message live with contemporary relevance."- The Boston Herald "Dr. Fox show[s] that... down the ages certain people have attained mastery over their misfor...

Reprint Edition of the 1938 Edition. In The Sermon on the Mount, philosopher and early AA influence Emmet Fox suggests Jesus' teachings as a practical approach to shaping life into what people really wish it to be. A cornerstone reference in AA's spiritual development, this book has a place in every recovery library. What did Jesus teach? Distilled from years of study and lecture, affirmed by nearly a million readers over the last fifty years,...

2022 Hardcover Facsimile of the 1929 Edition. Profusely illustrated with maps and drawings. A Child's Geography of the World is a general course in geography for juveniles. Hillyer was headmaster at the famed Calvert School and wrote a series of books as part of the curriculum for his students. This title was the result of many years of teaching the subject to young children and of several more years in authoring it. The books is now considere...

Reprint Edition of the 1934 Edition. This is the abridged edition of Nancy Cunard's classic collection. In 1934, Nancy Cunard self-published this volume in an edition of 1000 copies through her Hours Press. She was an odd source considering she was a wealthy white Englishwoman. Nonetheless, the volume was very well respected. Chapters in the book cover "Slavery, " "Patterns of Negro Life and Expression, " "Negro History and Literature, " "Educ...

Reprint Edition of 1948 Edition. Vos (1862-1949) was a Dutch American Calvinist theologian and one of the most distinguished representatives of the Princeton Theology. He is sometimes called the father of Reformed Biblical Theology. "Biblical theology is that branch of theology that seeks to "exhibit the organic growth or development of the truths of Special Revelation from the primitive pre-redemptive Special Revelation given in Eden to the c...

2022 Reprint of the 1935 Edition. In 1935, Carrel published Man, the Unknown, which became a best-seller. In the book, he attempted to outline a comprehensive account of what is known and more importantly unknown of the human body and human life "in light of discoveries in biology, physics, and medicine", to elucidate problems of the modern world, and to provide possible routes to a better life for human beings.For Carrel, the fundamental prob...

Reprint Edition of 1947 Edition. Originally published in Spanish, with accompanying English text, in 1947 as Sellos del Antiguo Mexico. Here is an unusual collection of pictorial material - 766 primitive designs. Contains 153 leaves of illustrations with 766 illustrations. The book reproduces plumed serpents, calendrical elements, wind gods, insects, toads, lizards, birds, real and mythological animals, flowers, demons, the human head and figu...

2022 Facsimile of the 1936 Edition. This work is the first volume of Stanislavski's trilogy on the art of acting, it explains the art of acting in semi-fiction form. Fusing psychological realism and expressionism, his exploratory exercises teach actors to evoke past emotions that draw out their vulnerability. Stanislavski here introduces such concepts as the "magic if, " "emotion memory, " the "unbroken line" and many more now famous rehearsal...

2022 Facsimile of the 1921 Edition. According to this Catholic spiritual classic, God is to be found in the simplest of our daily activities and especially through total surrender to whatever is his will for each of us. That is the message of this 18th-century inspirational classic by Jean-Pierre de Caussade. Its encouragement to "live in the present moment, " accepting everyday obstacles with faith, humility, and love, has guided generations ...

2021 Facsimile of six novels written by Orwell. Originally published between 1934 and 1949, the works included in this Omnibus edition are:ANIMAL FARM, BURMESE DAYS, A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGHTER, COMING UP FOR AIR, KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING, NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR.ANIMAL FARMA searing satire upon dictatorship in which the pigs, leaders of the animals' revolution against the humans, make their famous declaration "All animals are equal, but some animal...

2021 Facsimile of the 1955 Edition. "Out of the great mass of gardening books here is one that really delights while it instructs.... Most important of all, it is a labour-saving book, explaining how much of the back-ache of gardening, particularly hand-weeding, can be eliminated by an intelligent policy of mulching, and the use of natural rather than artificial methods of cultivation." The Book Exchange [England]The author has, over the cours...

2021 Facsimile of the 1949 Edition. Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is Orwell's famed dystopian novel originally published in 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four is concerned with the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviors within society. Orwell, himself a democratic ...

2021 Facsimile of the 1945 Edition. This is now considered a classic Satire on dictatorship and one of Orwell's most enduring short novels. Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in co...

2020 Facsimile of the 1932 Edition. Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender Is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, which parallels the narrative of her husband, throwing a fascinating light on F. Scott Fitzgerald's life and work. In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story: the confessions of a famous, slightly doomed glam...

2020 Reprint of the 1932 Edition. Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life is a short book by Oswald Spengler, in which the author presents a harsh critique of technology and industrialism, especially in Western Society during Spengler's era. The principal idea in the work is that many of the Western world's great achievements may soon become spectacles for our descendants to marvel at, as we do with the pyramids of Egypt or th...

2021 Facsimile of the 1929 Edition. Profusely illustrated with maps and drawings. A Child's Geography of the World is a general course in geography for juveniles. Hillyer was headmaster at the famed Calvert School and wrote a series of books as part of the curriculum for his students. This title was the result of many years of teaching the subject to young children and of several more years in authoring it. The books is now considered in a cla...

2021 Facsimile of the 1935 Edition. This 1935 science fiction novel explores the theme of the Übermensch (superman) in the character of John Wainwright, whose supernormal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human society and to the destruction of the utopian colony founded by John and other superhumans. The novel resonates with the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and the work of English writer J. D. Beresford, with an allusio...

2020 Facsimile of the 1925 Edition. Originally published in 1918 as Apologetics as Volume One and then followed by Volume Two, Catholic Doctrine, this is a standard high school Catholic curriculum for the faithful. Often published as two volumes in one, our edition reprints only the volume on Apologetics. Review:"Almost 500, 000 copies of this classic high school text were printed, which was used to teach the Faith to generations of English-sp...