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2024 Reprint of the 1947 Edition. Decline and Fall is Waugh's first novel publishing in 1928. It is based, in part, on Waugh's schooldays at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford, and his experience as a teacher at Arnold House in north Wales. It is a social satire that employs the author's characteristic black humour in lampooning various features of British society in the 1920s. Reviews "Irresistible....One of Waug...

2024 Reprint of the 1928 Edition. Blue is a young man who decides to take Christianity seriously, not as a chore but as a challenge. He spends his inherited wealth almost as soon as he gets it. He lives in a packing box on a New York City rooftop. He embraces the poor as his best friends and wisest companions, distrusts the promises of technology (except for the movies), and is fascinated by anything involving the wide expanse of God's univers...

2024 Reprint of the 1928 Edition. Propaganda, an influential book written by Bernays in 1928, incorporated the literature from social science and psychological manipulation into an examination of the techniques of public communication. Bernays wrote the book in response to the success of some of his earlier works such as Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) and A Public Relations Counsel (1927). Propaganda explored the psychology behind manipul...

2024 Reprint of the 1909 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. An eccentric and exhaustive guide to preparing sandwiches. Anyone looking for new, easy ways to liven up a casual gathering will appreciate this eminently useful cookbook. Dating from 1909, this vintage collection presents 400 tasty recipes based on common, easily obtained fixings. No skill is required for following the rec...

2024 Reprint of the 1946 Edition. ¿Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Nothing could be more American than the simple cabin. Not many generations ago, it was the backbone of American life, the headquarters of that important unit, the home. It provided shelter, protection, and a foundation upon which to build a great empire. The pioneer cabin was, in other words, a necessity." - From the Intr...

2024 Reprint of Two Separate Publications Published in a Single Volume. ¿Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The Collected Writings of Edward Leedskalnin is a compilation of two of Leedskalnin's works, A Book in Every Home and Magnetic Current. This eccentric sculptor and amateur scientist devoted most of his life to creating a large complex of megalithic stones that he quarried and carved hi...

2024 Reprint of the 1928 Edition. Mead's classic account is based upon her research and study of youth - primarily adolescent girls - on the island of Tä¿ in the Samoan Islands. The book details the sexual life of teenagers in Samoan society in the early 20th century, and theorizes that culture has a leading influence on psychosexual development. First published in 1928, the book launched Mead as a pioneering researcher and as the most famous ...

2024 Reprint of the 1928 Edition. The House at Pooh Corner is a 1928 children's book written by A. A. Milne and illustrated by E. H. Shepard. This book is the second novel, and final one by Milne, to feature Winnie-the-Pooh and his world. The book is also notable for introducing the character Tigger. Return to the Hundred Acre Wood in A.A. Milne's second collection of Pooh stories, The House at Pooh Corner. Here you will rediscover all the cha...

2024 Reprint of the 1928 Edition. Poirot boards Le Train Bleu [The Blue Train] bound for the French Riviera. So does Katherine Grey, who is having her first winter out of England, after recently receiving a relatively large inheritance. On board the train Grey meets Ruth Kettering, an American heiress leaving her unhappy marriage to meet her lover. When the fabled Blue Train, the luxury overnight passenger express to the Riviera, arrives at Ni...

2024 Reprint of the 1928 Edition. Inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend, it is arguably one of her most popular novels. Orlando is a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a femi...

2023 Reprint of the 1949 edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this volume Hall explains the mind or mental culture by putting forward a series of separate, yet correlated, facts bearing upon the subject. For him the mind is man's sharpest tool and, having a razor-like edge, is quite capable of wounding the one who handles it unskillfully. The mind lifts man out of the darkness...

2023 Reprint of the 1943 edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The purpose of this small volume is to render available in compact and simple form the leading facts of astrological history. Our treatise is by no means complete--the subject is entirely too vast to be enclosed by the narrow covers of so slight a work. Yet as few historians have appeared to present the claims of the a...

2023 Reprint of the 1960 edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "Little is known of Franklin Hall's background. His birth and death are unknown. Along with many others of the depression era Hall grew up in rural poverty and was deeply religious. Initially he was with the Methodist church but their stance against healing forced him elsewhere. During the depression and World War II h...

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2023 Reprint of the 1953 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The Russell Cosmogony with its new concepts of light, matter, energy, electricity and magnetism is a simple yet complete, consistent and workable cosmogony/cosmology which will enable future scientists to visualize the Universe as a Unified Whole, and will open the door to the New Age of Transmutation." -Walter Russel...

2023 Reprint of the 1927 U.S. Edition. Set in 18th century Lima, Peru, a rickety bridge which has spanned a deep gorge for ages suddenly breaks, and five people plunge to their deaths. A priest who is deeply affected by the catastrophe decides to make an investigative study of the lives of the victims to determine if he can find some clue to God's intention in casting five individuals into eternity at precisely the same moment. The novel won...

2023 Reprint of the 1912 edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. A subject of perennial study and the focus of a recent surge of popular interest, Kabbalah is an ancient Jewish doctrine of esoteric knowledge concerning God, creation, and nature. This essential guide was written by one of the most influential figures in modern occultism. And unlike lesser works, it focuses on the act...

2023 Reprint of the 1930 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The present manual is intended to supply in a uniform presentation an account of the history, principles, and practical uses of the slide rule. Among its specific aims are: to show the unity of the principle of operation of all slide rules, to explain this principle in a manner which shall be easily understood, to give...

2023 Reprint of the 1911 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Theurgy, also known as divine magic, is one of two major branches of the magical arts, the other being practical magic or thaumaturgy. Theurgy describes the ritual practices associated with the invocation or evocation of the presence of one or more deities (also called "godforms"), especially with the goal of achieving...