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Excerpt from Malaria: What It Means and How Avoided Of all preventable diseases, of all human suffering that can be avoided by a little general knowledge, the myriads of symptoms ascribed to malaria stand pre-eminently high. Of all affections about which public misapprehension is very great, malaria is entitled to the highest rank. Of all unsatisfactory terms, this title of malaria is by far the most unsatisfactory. Whenever a person feels ou...

Excerpt from The Labour Annual: The Reformers Year-BookWomen, subjects up till two years ago generally tabooed by politicians and the Press.The interest of the man in the street in Socialism was first aroused by the return of 30 Labour Members to Parliament at the General Election, a success representing the emergence into the light of day of forces which had long been working silently underground. The woman's movement has been the bursting fo...

Excerpt from Improvement of New York Harbor: 1885 to 1891When it is considered that the City of New York, with its adjacent cities, is soon to become, if it is not already the greatest commercial centre Of the world, and that its social as well as business relations with all nations is rapidly increasing, it is evident that nothing can be of more importance to the interest, not only of the City of New York, but of the Whole country, than an am...

Excerpt from Land and Real Tariff Reform: Being the Land Reformers Handbook for 1909 "Near the window by which I write a great bull is tethered by a ring In his nose. Grazing round and round he has wound his rope about the stake until now he stands a close prisoner, tantalised by rich grass he cannot reach, unable even to toss his head to rid him of the flies that cluster on his shoulders. Now and again he struggles vainly, and then, after pi...

Excerpt from Differential Calculus, With Applications and Numerous Examples: An Elementary TreatiseThe object of the present volume is to offer to the student a fairly complete account of the elementary portions of the Differential Calculus unencumbered by such parts of the subject as are not usually read in colleges and schools.Where a choice of method exists, geometrical proofs and illustrations have been in most cases adopted in preference ...

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The tie that binds all Americans, regardless of their demographic background, is faith in the American system of government. This faith manifests as a form of civil, or secular, religion with its own core documents, creeds, oaths, ceremonies, and even individuals. In The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion: Symbols, Sinners, and Saints, contributors seek to examine some of those core elements of American faith by exploring the proverbial saint...

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Excerpt from An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus: With Applications and Numerous ExamplesI have consulted a large number of university and college examination papers set in Oxford, Cambridge, London, and elsewhere, and many of the examples given have been extracted from them. Such papers clearly define the extent of knowledge expected from students by the large body of distinguished scholars who from time to time are engaged in...

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As an investigative journalist, E.J.'s first priority is to report the truth, no matter the cost. But this time, the price is too high. An oblivious world suddenly finds itself on the receiving end of judgment. A strange visitor, possessing what appears to be supernatural powers, levels charges of negligence against the third planet from the sun and conveys a cryptic message: "In seventy days, your most precious asset will be taken from you." ...

As an investigative journalist, E.J.'s first priority is to report the truth, no matter the cost. But this time, the price is too high. An oblivious world suddenly finds itself on the receiving end of judgment. A strange visitor, possessing what appears to be supernatural powers, levels charges of negligence against the third planet from the sun and conveys a cryptic message: "In seventy days, your most precious asset will be taken from you." ...

Excerpt from The Annals of Hygiene, Vol. 3: January 1 November 1, 1888When I look in Upton's Tactics, he says the movements in the tactics are confined principally to the movements required in war, and he acknowledges that the military drill is not all that is desirable for physical culture, therefore he sets a great deal by the setting up drill, but this is generally gone through with in a very slighting manner.The military drill was brought ...