EDA - History 1

To cut is to humiliate for no particular reason but, for the satisfaction of the few that seemed not to show human feelings for those being humiliated. Allowing genital mutilation to be practiced in……続きを見る

This volume is a pioneering effort to examine the social, demographic, and economic changes that befell the Jewish communities of Central Europe after the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire. It cons……続きを見る

George Washington's Rules of Civility is an anthology that transcends mere historical documentation, presenting a pantheon of ethical guideposts that have shaped American cultural and social conduct……続きを見る

La schiavitù degli africani ai Caraibi è stata abolita poco più di 150 anni fa. Abbastanza per cambiare la storia, non abbastanza per cambiare certe mentalità e certe memorie. Un viaggio alla ricerc……続きを見る

TO FRENCH EDITION Daudet has had the rare luck of pleasing partisans of almost every school; the realists have joyed in his work and so have the romanticists; his writings have found favor in the ey……続きを見る

A wonderfully comprehensive look at the subject of crime, written by American lawyer Clarence Darrow. Looks at everything from the reasons people commit crimes, to the effects and ethics of punishme……続きを見る

First published in 1999. Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, born 3 February 1830; known as Lord Robert Cecil until June 1865 and thereafter as Viscount Cranborne until his succession as the third ……続きを見る

Meu presado sir Henry. Se podesse haver logar a alguma duvida ácerca da importancia de colligir, e metter no corpo da nossa litteratura, as reliquias dispersas das primeiras relações dos descobrimen……続きを見る

Hollywood has devoted big budgets and established stars to films about controversial issues in the last ten years. Identities considered marginal have come into prominence on the big screen. The aut……続きを見る

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical f……続きを見る

This little volume, now presented to the indulgence of the reader, is the third of a series intended to illustrate the history and manners of our Anglo-Saxon forefathers, whom a great historian very……続きを見る

The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched ……続きを見る

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical f……続きを見る

THE Vedânta Philosophy includes the different branches of the Science of Yoga. Four of these have already been treated at length by the Swâmi Vivekananda in his works on "Râja Yoga," "Karma Yoga," "……続きを見る

In the Preface to the first edition of this work, it was my painful duty to remark with severity on the dissemination of libels on Paine in a work of such importance as Mr. Leslie Stephen's "History……続きを見る

An English lady of my acquaintance, sojourning at Baalbek, was conversing with an humble stonecutter, and pointing to the grand ruins inquired, “Why do you not occupy yourself with magnificent work ……続きを見る

It is perhaps scarcely necessary to say that I use the term Mystic, as applied to the larger portion of this volume, in its technical sense to signify my own initiation into some of the more occult ……続きを見る

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical f……続きを見る

GENT DE MUNTANYA Estimadíssim Ramon: acabo de rebre la teva, de tan enyorada, ja no esperada lletra, de la qual dedueixo amb ver goig que, donant per clos el període de tos estudis complementaris, q……続きを見る

Why am I an agnostic? Because I don't believe some of the things that other people say they believe. Where do you get your religion, anyway? I won't bother to discuss just what religion is. but I th……続きを見る

The colonel entered his sister’s room abruptly, sat down on her bed, and scattered a drawerful of fluffy things laid out for packing. “You don’t seem to think about my side of the matter,” he said g……続きを見る

Franklin paid a short visit to Germany in the summer of 1766, and at Göttingen met a number of the professors of the University. One of them, Professor Achenwall, published in the "Hanoverian Magazi……続きを見る

Dreaming, cherie?” and add, “the books will wait!” Nowーas the child sat balanced on the edge of an old rocker watching Tante tenderly and carefully placing her books into a heavy boxーshe felt that……続きを見る

Last Sunday, Potter took me out driving along upper Broadway, where those long rows of tall new apartment houses were built a few years ago. It was a mild afternoon and great crowds of people were o……続きを見る

In writing ths narrative, which relates to the decisive campaign which freed the Northern States from invasion, it may not be out of place to state what facilities I have had for observation in the ……続きを見る

The art of telling fortunes by cards, known professionally as Cartomancy, has been practiced for centuries. In our day and generation divination by cards is chiefly employed for amusement and pastim……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: A LA CANTINE Lui, c'était Pitou; moi, c'était Dumanet. Lui ne reculait jamais; moi j'avançais toujours. A nous deux nous faisions la paire, comme disait le capitaine Chambard, de Montpellie……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: ENTRE NOTAIRES Alors, c'est-à-dire le 22 mai 1877, mon patron, maître Bouchardy, notaire, homme excellent, justement renommé pour sa finesse, sa gaieté, sa bonne humeur, dans la célèbre vil……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: La Chatte Blanche Il était une fois un roi qui avait trois fils bien faits et courageux; il eut peur que l'envie de régner ne leur prît avant sa mort; il courait même certains bruits qu'ils……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: J'avais à peu près dix ans quand je fis connaissance avec Bernard... Mais avant tout, madame, il faut que je vous parle un peu de ma famille. Mon père était charpentier, et ma mère blanchis……続きを見る