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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

Lactantius lived through one of the greatest turning points in the history of Europe. It has been aptly described as the moment when the old world of paganism was in travail, when against its will it gave birth to the Christian Empire. The writings of this author are, together with those of Eusebius, the principal sources for the period of the great persecution of Diocletian and for the first years of the peace of the Church after the Edict of...

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El doctor Ramn Puente vivi intensamente las principales campaas militares del Mxico revolucionario. Con estos antecedentes el autor describe aqu los avatares que debi recorrer para acercarse a la vida y hechos de los personajes revolucionarios y, en particular, a los de Plutarco Elas Calles, el hombre que, en su opinin, ms odios engendr, mayor nmero de discordias promovi y ms denuestos se gan.

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This book is one kind of invitation to learning. It is about the ways in which extremism operates among us to accomplish its peculiar purposes.

Acclaiming the late Eugenio Montale (1897-1981) as "one of the most important poets of the contemporary West, " the Swedish Academy awarded him the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature. This selection, introduced by Glauco Cambon, presents sixty-nine poems chosen from Montale's first three books--Ossi di seppia (Cuttlefish Bones),  Le occasioni (The Occasions), and La bufera e altro (The Storm and Other Things)--as rendered by sixteen translators, ...

Dieses Werk ist die Frucht eines mehr als dreißigjährigen meditativen Umgangs mit dem Johannesevangelium. Zwar berichten die Evangelien Tatsachen und Ereignisse aus dem Leben Jesu, sie sind jedoch in ihrem tieferen Sinn als Einweihungsschriften zu verstehen. Ihr gnostischer Charakter tritt im Johannesevangelium am deutlichsten hervor. Es ist eine kosmische Kraft, ein realer Impuls, der die Erdenwelt, alle Daseins- und Lebensbereiche, die ganz...

Das Thema von Romeo und Julia, das bis ins 15. Jahrhundert zurückgeht und durch Shakespeare seine bedeutendste Gestaltung fand (Hamburger Leseheft Nr. 128), verlegt Keller ins dörfliche Milieu. Wiederholt wurde die Liebesgeschichte als die "schönste deutsche Dorfgeschichte" bezeichnet. Die feindlichen Väter von Sali und Vrenchen widersetzen sich den Gefühlen der beiden Liebenden zueinander. Als sie für ihre Liebe keine Zukunft sehen können, sc...

First published in 1965, "Small Wonder: The Amazing Story of the Volkswagen Beetle" is the most successful book of all time on the Beetle. Originally selling over 1.2 million copies, "Small Wonder" is often quoted as the source by many subsequent histories. Now, Bentley Publishers is releasing this new edition, with new foreword by the author, in honor of the new Beetle and the renewed interest in the original Beetle. Given complete access to ...

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press"A classic in American West literature and the inspiration for Robert Redford's portrayal in the classic film Jeremiah Johnson. Vardis Fisher has captured both the romantic idealism and harsh realism of the wilderness experience with this classic tale of the West.

A favorite yearly devotional guide with the theme of Holiness.

This volume tells about considerably more than half George Washington's life, the forty-three years that elapsed from his birth to his acceptance, at the outbreak of the American Revolution, of the command of the Continental Army.

There are a number of English translations of The Dhammapada, but this version by Irving Babbitt, for many years professor at Harvard and founder, with Paul Elmer More, of the movement known as "New Humanism, " concentrates on the profound poetic quality of the verses and conveys, perhaps more than any other, much of the vitality of the original Pali text. Babbitt devoted many years to this translation--it was a labor of love. Together with hi...