Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher:
Published: 1898
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13:
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
Author: William James
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 824
ISBN-13: 1877527467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."
Understanding Media
Author: Marshall McLuhan
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-09-04
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781537430058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.
A Patriot's History of the United States
Author: Larry Schweikart
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2004-12-29
Total Pages: 1373
ISBN-13: 1101217782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.
Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World
Author: Sir Isaac Newton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-15
Total Pages: 714
ISBN-13: 0520321723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1934.
Catalogue of the Twenty-First Public Sale, Magnificent Rare Coin Collection of the Late James B. Wilson, Esq. of New York City (Classic Reprint)
Author: Thomas L. Elder
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-10-28
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780266882879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Catalogue of the Twenty-First Public Sale, Magnificent Rare Coin Collection of the Late James B. Wilson, Esq. Of New York City Besides these are included numerous examples of the early and later dates in perfect condition. There are many half dollars, including many mint-marks, in superb preservation, with two very fine 1 7975 and an uncirculated 1815. The quarter dollars run uniformly choice from the early to the later dates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Investigating Iwo
Author: Breanne Robertson
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781732003071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Investigating Iwo encourages us to explore the connection between American visual culture and World War II, particularly how the image inspired Marines, servicemembers, and civilians to carry on with the war and to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure victory over the Axis Powers. Chapters shed light on the processes through which history becomes memory and gains meaning over time. The contributors ask only that we be willing to take a closer look, to remain open to new perspectives that can deepen our understanding of familiar topics related to the flag raising, including Rosenthal's famous picture, that continue to mean so much to us today"--
That's the Joint!
Author: Murray Forman
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780415969192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpanning 25 years of serious writing on hip-hop by noted scholars and mainstream journalists, this comprehensive anthology includes observations and critiques on groundbreaking hip-hop recordings.
Doctors
Author: Sherwin B. Nuland
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-10-19
Total Pages: 547
ISBN-13: 0307807894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way. How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human, but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us a fascinating history of modern medicine. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery.
Culture and Imperialism
Author: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-10-24
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0307829650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.
