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An essay collection that explores late nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture through close study of the ways in which writers, including Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov, approached the fin de siecle when the golden age of Russian realism was coming to an end.

This memoir covers the first six decades of the life of Klaus Bowers: born in Germany in 1929, after a comfortable early childhood, a tough transition to being an impecunious refugee in England, then an outstanding academic career at Oxford (Balliol and Christ Church), followed by thirty-three years with AT&T, 's Bell Labs during its glory days before its dismemberment. The introduction by Charles D. Snelling tells the genesis of this memoir. ...

Show your style in every room of the house with more than 150 stickers. Create your own grand design by filling this house with more than 150 stylish stickers. This fantastic activity book features a different room on every spread, waiting for your designer's eye. More than 25 integrated flaps throughout let you choose what's chilling in the fridge and what's hiding under the bed. Artwork from Bloomingdales' illustrator Jenny Bowers makes this...

Fish Springs and Black Rock, two long-forgotten settlements in Owens Valley, California, were thriving communities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From 1864 to 1922, more than nine hundred people lived there, earning precarious livings as farmers, ranchers, miners, millwrights, merchants, and lumbermen. This is their story, and it is also the story of how the City of Los Angeles, by purchasing water rights throughout Owens Val...

This nonfiction book celebrates women and their curves, seen as not just physical curves but obstacles/challenges that enter into a woman's path and cause her to doubt her self-worth. Once she realizes her place in God's plan through Jesus, she will realize more is purposed for her than originally thought.

Featuring stealthy extraction and surveillance missions to overt raids and assaults, this volume offers a wargame of tactical espionage combat that recreates the tension and excitement.

Complete history and roster of the Georgia 54th Volunteer Infantry during the War Between the States.

S.L. Bowers is transparent in this heartfelt semi-autobiographical chronicle of her life. She takes us on her journey as an innocent, naive, young Christian girl to dipping her toe into an untapped secular world as a young adult and finally taking the true plunge of faith. In this narrative, we see her learning, discovering, sailing, and stumbling her way through in this new world. We follow her as she copes with life's challenges and grapples...

Excerpt from The Pawns of Fate A bareheaded, wildly-excited young man raced across the Bedford Boulevard, in front of speeding automobiles, defying death almost, in his zigzag course from one side of the avenue to the other. Behind him, on the sidewalk, were two stalwart, blue-coated officers, puffing and blowing like wind-broken horses, from the violent exercise of chasing this pickpocket a city block in their determined effort to make a rec...

Excerpt from Sleeping for Health For five hundred thousand years or more human beings have been going to sleep. But only within a few score years have they had any definite idea why they slept. Even to-day, with all the data of experience, and the science that explains experience, the average man knows nothing about sleep as a process. And science knows but little more. There are any number of theories to account for sleep. But there is no g...

Sapphire is a human, at least in every other human's eyes. As for those who like to drink blood and kill those humans? She is their executor. Vampire Assassin, code named Firestorm, lives with her sister Jade. For many years Sapphire has protected and hid them both from their hunter who wants their powers. When Jade tries to help her sister protect them, Sapphire gets a taste of what a true vampire is and just how powerful they can be when two...

Excerpt from Accounting for Property, and Its Uses: Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 This presentation of elementary accounting attempts to divide the subject into two parts. The first part presents principles and procedures used to account for assets and for the uses made of these assets. While some reference to liabilities and other equities is necessary, this is placed in bac...

In the past 10 years the number of twin births has risen 52 percent and the number of higher-order multiples has increased more than 400 percent! Written by a perinatal nurse specializing in multiple birth education, The Multiple Pregnancy Sourcebook explores the physical, financial, and emotional challenges of this high-risk condition. Included is an extensive list of support resources.

Volume #20 in Whitman's best-selling Bowers Series covers three classic U.S. coin denominations: the dimes, quarters, and half dollars designed by Charles E. Barber, chief engraver of the U.S. Mint. These classic silver coins were first made in 1892, and their production lasted to the eve of America's entry into World War I. In this colorfully illustrated book, the workhorses of late-19th and early-20th-century American commerce are given the ...

Take a poetic sojourn on the bridge between dream and reality. In her second book of poetry, Bianca Bowers shifts between consciousness and sleep, reality and dreams, as she seeks to find passage in a restless landscape. "My feet were fused with a 7-lane highway. My spine, dismantled, a map of bones with no instruction." Passage is a surreal and real exploration of the transient spaces that have the power to destabilise our relationships, iden...

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Law of Conversion I have sought to make such arrangement in the discussion of my theme as will preserve its simplicity and clearness and enable the practitioner to readily come upon the principles governing the point which he has in consideration. I have further endeavored to give all cross-references to the citations herein so that the cases referred to may be found in any library whether great or small. With ...

Excerpt from Life of Abraham Lincoln The story of Lincoln, revealing how one American, by his own honest efforts, rose from the most humble beginning to the most high station of honor and worth, has inspired millions and will inspire millions more. The log cabin in which he was born, the ax with which he split the rails, the few books with which he got the rudiments of an education, the light of pine knots by which he studied, the flatboat on...

When he is found by his family, sixteen-year-old Alex McNaire is in a coma due to the storm that destroyed his family's farmhouse, barn, and outbuildings. Found with him are twenty gold coins, worth a small fortune-and his family has no idea where it came from or what to do with it. Before Alex wakes up, his grandfather is visited by a leprechaun named Roe, who asks the old man to pass a message to the boy, whom he says will soon wake up: ...

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Excerpt from The Vailan or Annular Theory: A Synopsis of Prof. I. N. Vail's Argument in Support of the Claim That This Earth Once Possessed a Saturn-Like System of RingsAt that age rolled the first born ocean around the globe. Clouds formed, rain descended, and winds swept the earth. There was sum mer and winter, and day and night.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.for...