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Excerpt from A Historical Account of Useful Inventions and Scientific Discoveries: Being a Manual of Instruction and EntertainmentIt has been demonstrated that the desire of obtaining knowledge is one of the most natural, and, at the same time, most ennobling attributes of' the human mind. There is at the present time a great number of' inquiring minds among the working classes of this kingdom, and a. Still greater number of the young of all c...

Excerpt from A Treatise on Gear Wheels The present object is practical, to reach and interest the man that makes the thing written of, the machinist or the millwright that makes the gear wheel, or the drafts man or foreman that directs the work, and to teach him not only how to make it, but what it is that he makes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks...

Excerpt from Joseph Howe And at thirteen years of age he was taken from school and sent to the Gazette office, under his half-brother, to learn. 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 origina...

Excerpt from The Life and Adventures of Sir William Wallace: The Liberator of Scotland William Wallace appears to have been born about the middle of the reign of Alexander III., but the exact year of his birth is not satisfactorily ascertained. He was descended from a respectable family in the west of Scotland. He was the second son of Sir Malcolm Wallace of Ellerslie, near Paisley, and his mother appears to have been a sister of Sir Reginald...

The mixed-cultural heritage of the Caribbean islands and the deep tenacles of the drug trade take center stage, in a saga of displaced Africans, Europeans, Chinese, East-Indians, and Arabs. Fidel Castro lays on his death-bed, putting China and America on a collision course, while a drugs trans-shipment gang, with access to the government, takes hostages, at a Jamaican beach resort. Centuries-old rivalries, from the Old World, carry over into r...

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Picturesque Canada - The Country as it was and is is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1882. 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 antiques only. H...

Picturesque spots of the north - historical and descriptive sketches of the scenery and life in the vicinity of Georgian Bay, the Muskoka lakes, the upper lakes, in central and eastern Ontario, and in the Niagara district is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and...

If Grant had not already been thinking the matter through for some time, he could not have prepared Philosophy in the Mass Age so quickly. What is my book going to be about? Start out with the American spirit. What is good & what is bad in it?

In Time as History, a collection of his 1969 Massey lectures, George Grant reviews the thought of Nietzsche and concludes that the conception of time as history is not one in which it is possible to live a fully human life. Grant was the first Canadian philosopher to pay serious attention to the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, and his analysis of the German philosopher forms the central focus of the lectures.William Christian has restored mate...

George Grant was one of Canada's foremost political and religious thinkers. In his published writings, Grant was a careful and guarded writer, but in his letters he was frank and spontaneous, expressing ideas and opinions that he hesitated to convey in print. Grant's letters are remarkable for their continuity – about twelve hundred letters survive from 1923 to his death in 1988 – and for their quality. For more than fifty years, he favoured h...

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Natural disasters are woven into humankind's collective DNA. From the ancient Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh to the Book of Revelation, apocalyptic literature has permeated every chapter of humankind. But what if those disasters weren't natural? What if those events were man-made? With a best-seller, a bottomless bank account, and a bombshell girlfriend, reclusive author / adventurer Kain Sennoa is the portrait of modern-day success -- but he hide...

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