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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

About the Book Books about Teaching Methods discuss the principles used by teachers in educational institutions. Different teaching approaches are recommended for different subject areas, and have varied over the centuries. Examples of these titles include: A History of Education, A History of Education During the Middle Ages, the History of Educational Theories, A Method of Teaching Chemistry in Schools, Essays on Mathematical Education, Meth...

The Effect of War of 1812 - Upon the consolidation of the union is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as an...

Excerpt from Die AmerikanerQin ber überfehnng tvaren beteiligt @err Dr. Er. Sßöhnre unb c{sränlein ©iierfen, benen ich 511 Dani berpflichtet bin, nicht minber fchnlbe ich @errn ®anther _$hornaä EURdanf, ber bie 05iite hatte, einige 6chtnierigteiten bei ber überiehnng anf5uhe¿en.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an impor...

Excerpt from Across the Busy Years, Vol. 2: Recollections and Reflections President of Columbia University President of the American Academy of Art: and Letters President of tbc Carnegie Endowment for International Peace M embre de l'lnm'tnt de France. 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...

Excerpt from The Preparedness of America The situation that now confronts us is one in which we are invited not to maintain the traditional American policy but to depart from it. And we are asked to depart from it in the face of the most impressive and emphatic lesson that history records that the traditional American policy has been right. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find m...

Excerpt from Why Should We Change Our Form of Government?: Address by Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University in the City of New York, Before the Commercial Club of St. Louis, November 27, 1911 A. Republic is a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly fromthe great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their emees during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behavior. About...

Excerpt from The Great War and Its Lessons We are a neutral nation, and the President has rightly enjoined us all to observe neutrality in speech and in deed. But neutrality is not indifference: it is not the neutrality of the casual passer-by who views with amused carelessness a fight between two street rowdies, it is the neutrality of the just judge who aims, without passion and without prejudice, to render judgment on the proved facts. We ...

Excerpt from Magna Carta, 1215 1915: An Address Delivered Before the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York in the Assembly Chamber, Albany, N. Y. June 15, 1915 The meeting, which began on June 15, 1215, and which extended over four days of anxious counsel and debate, was no ordinary gathering. Feelings, hopes, ambitions that had long been forming, tendencies of whose end and significance those who represented and voiced them were...

Excerpt from Les Bases d'une Paix Durable: Écrit à la Demande du New York Times Le New York Times est convaincu que le public ici et à l'étranger accordera à ces articles l'attention la plus sérieuse à cause simplement des connaissances aussi profondes que variées qui s'y révèlent, des vues d'homme d'etat à longue portée qui s'y expri ment et indépendamment de toute considération de la personnalité distinguée dont ils émanent. About the Publ...

Excerpt from Across the Busy Years, Vol. 1: Recollections and Reflections Something like this is true Of biography. Rarely is enough told of the subject's ancestry, of the domestic and social environment in which he was brought up, of the details of his formal education and of other supposedly minor events in his life before he became a character of public significance and importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds o...

Excerpt from Annual Report of the President and Treasurer to the Trustees: With Accompanying Documents for the Year Ending June 30, 1925There is submitted herewith the Annual Report prescribed by the Statutes of the University, together with the reports of the chief administrative officers. Since space does not permit adequate examination and discussion of the important recommendations contained in these reports, the Trustees and the appropria...

Excerpt from Educational Review, Vol. 30: Published Monthly Except July and August, June-December, 1905 Such a study of this is only a preface to the main question: the question of what type of man or woman the American col lege eliminates. Does the lack of money drive pupils from col lege as it certainly does prevent them from entering? Is the lesson-learner, the student in the narrow sense, the type which the college course most attracts an...

Excerpt from Educational Review, Vol. 33: January-May, 1907 Within three decades a great change has become necessary in general methods of administering college affairs, and within that time the University has made its appearance on this side of the Atlantic. There has been constant educational ferment, much has been a-making, the years have been fertile in theory and practise, a multitude of experiments have been made, and new men and new me...

Excerpt from The Argument for Manual TrainingNo phase of the history of civilization is more in teresting than that which deals with the theory and practice of education. In the educational theory of an age we find the summation of its philosophy in the educational practice, an epitome of its activities. The school is a microcosm, and properly studied it will furnish us the clue to the proper estimation of the status of every problem that vexe...

Excerpt from Making Liberal Men and Women: Public Criticism of Present-Day Education, the New Paganism, the University, Politics and ReligionFrench, of Spanish and of German, and yet the high school or college graduate who can speak or write any one of these languages correctly and freely, or read them save with difficulty, is rare indeed, that for fifty years we have poured out money without stint for the teaching of the natural and experimen...

Excerpt from Educational Review, Vol. 1: Published Monthly, Except August and September, January-May, 1891School Reform, the Prussian Com mission on, 173. 200, 273, 490, in Municipalities, 485, in Philadel phia, 486.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tec...

Excerpt from Educational Review, Vol. 29: Published Monthly, Except July and August, January-May, 1905 It would be gratifying if we might speak of educational theory as the system of positive knowledge in the domain of education. But if we limited the term to things known and the sure interpretation thereof, there would be little to tell in any account of what that theory covers. We must extend our use of the word to include not only establis...

This new edition of Nicholas Murray Butler"s The International Mind marks the 100th anniversary of its publication. Widely read at the time, it has reached the status of classic work. Butler is one of the 20th Century's most famous college presidents. He transformed Columbia University into a famous research institution of higher learning. More importantly, this work still has an important message for today's readers: how can we establish ...

This new edition of Nicholas Murray Butler"s The International Mind marks the 100th anniversary of its publication. Widely read at the time, it has reached the status of classic work. Butler is one of the 20th Century's most famous college presidents. He transformed Columbia University into a famous research institution of higher learning. More importantly, this work still has an important message for today's readers: how can we establish ...