wired - History 49

A "certainly weird . . . strangely wonderful . . . [and] often irresistible" search to find the real Garden of Eden ( The New York Times Book Review). Where, precisely, was God's Paradise? St. Augus……続きを見る

Wie wir zur Wirtschaftsnation wurden In Deutschland setzte die Industrialisierung spät ein – und verlief dafür umso rasanter. Ab Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts werden aus überschaubaren Manufakturen rie……続きを見る

Excerpt: "During the war I have lived in Germany, England and the United States--a week of it in Berlin, three months at different periods in America, and the rest of the time in London. My observat……続きを見る

Excerpt: "It matters not whether the Scottish lad comes from the "dim shieling" or the ancestral castle, when he reaches the shores of Canada he finds the Field Marshal's baton in his pocket, and he……続きを見る

This is the first book to examine how Australian fiction writers draw on family histories to reckon with the nation’s colonial past. Located at the intersection of literature, history, and sociology……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Excerpt from Feeding the Mind HE history of this little sparkle from the pen of Lewis Car roll may soon be to……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: "A good candidate for 'the most under-appreciated work by Mark Twain' would be 'The Treaty With China,' which……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Of course the sinner must repent. But why? Simply because otherwise he would be unable to realise what he had……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: As a matter of fact, as all the advanced students and teachers of the occult doctrine know full well, we have……続きを見る

Charles Robert Darwin, FRS (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scie……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Almost every English boy can be taught to write clearly, so far at least as clearness depends upon the arrang……続きを見る

September 13, 1918 Got no sleep at all last night. About two o'clock in the morning Col. Heintzelman, chief of staff of the corps, came out and he was much pleased with what the division had accompl……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Things That Have Helped People This collection of New Thought nuggets, says the author, “may possess no liter……続きを見る

The era immediately following World War II is usually remembered as an idyllic period in the United States of America. Most people look back at that time as an era of malt shops, school dances, and ……続きを見る

First published in 2003 Consuming the Past covers pilgrimages to popular festivals, from modern spectacles to advertising, from the work of avant-garde painters to the novels of Emile Zola, and expl……続きを見る

This biography of Charles Darwin, first published in 1937, re-lives Darwin’s life year by year, allowing the reader to share his experiences. The book displays Darwin’s ideas and how they developed ……続きを見る

While many older American cities struggle to remain vibrant, New Brunswick has transformed itself, adapting to new forms of commerce and a changing population, and enjoying a renaissance that has le……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: In the current resurgence of interest in the biological basis of animal behavior and social organization, the……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: **The Light of Asia** by Sir Edwin Arnold is a classic, weaves through its poetic verses the life and philoso……続きを見る

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: First published in book form in 1877, this volume of Darwin’s pioneering research on the heterostylous reprod……続きを見る

This book takes a different approach to the history of philosophy, exploring a neglected theme, the relationship between catastrophe and philosophy. The book analyzes this theme within texts from an……続きを見る

First published in 1923. This autobiographical study by Francis William Soutter, an English Radical activist and an advocate for independent labour representation in Parliament, will be of interest ……続きを見る

First published in 1990. What had been left out of Left thought? What had allowed the Left to substitute nostalgia for programme and action, and to continue to address itself exclusively to labourin……続きを見る

First published in 1925. This study examines the advances in engineering and science in the nineteenth century. The author examines topics on locomotion and sea travel, photography, chemistry, elect……続きを見る

By the mid-twentieth century, two things appeared destined for extinction in the United States: the practice of home birth and the profession of midwifery. In 1940, close to half of all U.S. births ……続きを見る

First published in 1998, this volume explores how in the seventeenth century depictions of human oddity, hunchbacks, cripples, dwarfs, appeared regularly in the work of both minor and major artists ……続きを見る

Published in 1921. In this book Dr Albert Churchward proposes that the unity of brotherhood throughout the world is the only means for permanent universal peace. Churchward puts forth his argument a……続きを見る

First published in 1910, this study in social evolution from the 13th to the 16th century functioned as a successor to Jacob Burckhardt’s The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860). The aut……続きを見る

Seventy years on from the liberation of Auschwitz, the contributions collected in this volume each attempt, in various ways and from various perspectives, to trace the relationship between Nazi-occu……続きを見る

First published in 1998, this book explores the physical and technological changes which occurred in the growing bureaucracies of big-business and of government as well as in the small and mid-size ……続きを見る