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Lyrics that come from the heart, are lyrics in which to warm the heart. To make readers laugh, to cry and to wonder why.

The gripping story of a well-known battle told from the perspective of the "other" side--the Confederates who just barely lost the fight for Little Round Top at the battle of Gettysburg

This volume presents Professor Cohen's original interpretation of the revolution that marked the beginnings of modern science and set Newtonian science as the model for the highest level of achievement in other branches of science. It shows that Newton developed a special kind of relation between abstract mathematical constructs and the physical systems that we observe in the world around us by means of experiment and critical observation. The...

Dekker traces the American historical novel from its origins in the early 1800s to the beginning of World War II, examining the genre's connections with Enlightenment and Romantic theories of history, the rise of literary regionalism, the ambitions of Romantic writers to revive the epic and romance, changing gender roles, and individual authors' troubled responses to the modern era's great revolutionary and imperialistic conflicts. Though conc...

This classic biography details the life of one of Germany's most celebrated authors, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. From his early years as a lawyer to his rise as a literary icon, readers will uncover the events and influences that shaped Goethe's prolific career.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United S...

This work consists of three lectures, delivered at Harvard University in the spring of 1910, to mark the centenary anniversary of the appearance of Ricardo's first important publication, The High Price of Bullion, a Proof of the Depreciation of Bank Notes. At the time of original publication Jacob H. Hollander, Ph.D., was Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University.

The area covered in this book is vast, and so are the topics. The reader will embark upon a long journey and become involved in a complex series of events, ranging from guarding inland waterways to fighting the Japanese, from rounding up one forlorn German on the coast of Greeland to battling German submarines, from conducting staff conferences with the Navy to negotiating with His Britannic Majesty¿s ministers, from withstanding the cold of t...

Self-preservation and military measures to insure the territory of the United States against violation by foreign powers - the subject of this book - ceased to be of serious concern to the United States Government and nation during the nineteenth century. In World War I, the Americans concentrated on the offensive. In World War II, as the authors of this book remark in their Preface, we passed to the offensive so soon and with such force after...

An extremely readable survey of the national characteristics, manners and cultural achievements of the English people, written by America's greatest essayist. Contains: First Visit to England, Voyage to England, Land, Race, Ability, Manners, Truth, Character, Cockayne, Wealth, Aristocracy, Universities, Religion, Literature, The Times, Stonehenge, Personal, Result, Speech at Manchester, and a rather brusque final essay in reflection on the nat...

This book contains the five important pamphlets published by Ricardo, as selected by E. C. K. Gonner. The five pamphlets are writings of great importance, because both of the subjects with which they deal and of the principles laid down in their treatment of those subjects."...I feel that the trend of economic thought and the new importance attached to economic inquiry make more valuable than ever the study of a writer whose attitude was so di...

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This book was written at the request of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, The Assistant Attorney General (Tax Division), and the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (Tax Policy).The purpose of this book was to develop an overview of tax havens and the use of tax havens by United States taxpayers. The study sought to determine the frequency and nature of tax haven transactions, identify specific types of tax haven transactions, obtain a des...

Eckhart Tolles Grundlagenwerk "The Power of Now" (dt."Jetzt", Kamphausen Verlag 2000) ist in den Vereinigten Staaten und Deutschland ein großer Erfolg. Das vorliegende Arbeitsbuch "Leben im Jetzt" präsentiert in gestraffter und überarbeiteter Form die Essenz aus "The Power of Now". Es enthält Tolles fundamentale Erkenntnisse und seine konkreten Anleitungen, wie wir durch Achtsamkeit unsere verhängnisvollen unbewussten Verhaltensmuster durchbre...

From the author of "The Big Picture" and "The Job" comes this latest novel in paperback, set in post-war New York, against the backdrop of the nightmare of the McCarthy witch hunts. A tragic love story, and a tale of divided loyalties, described by Kate Atkinson, author of "Behind The Scenes At The Museum" as "a compulsive read".