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Excerpt from Civic Science in the CommunityChildren's interests in science. In the midst of such a life as this our children are growing up. Science beckons to them from every side. In every device used at home for comfort and better living, science speaks. The telephone and telegraph, the trolley and the automobile, the airplane and submarine, have all become part and parcel of their daily lives. Many of the common things of science which dir...

Excerpt from New Civic Biology: Presented in ProblemsAt the beginning of each of the following chapters (except the first and the last) are a series of suggested problems. These should serve as a review of the chapter for both teacher and stu dent. They constitute, to a degree, the key which opens the way to the understanding of the chapter. Following the problems are laboratory suggestions, many of which are worked out fully in Hunter's Labor...

Big Bob" Bashara put on a respectable face. To his friends in Detroit's affluent suburb of Grosse Pointe, he was a married father of two, Rotary Club President, church usher and soccer dad who organized charity events with his wife, Jane. To his "slaves, " he was "Master Bob, " a cocaine-snorting slumlord who operated a sex dungeon and had a submissive girlfriend to do his bidding--and he wanted more slaves to serve him. But Bashara knew he co...

Excerpt from Inside the House That Jack Built: The Story, Told in Conversation, of How Two Homes Were FurnishedH. Kimball and F. Y. Joannes, the archi teets of the House that Jack Built, and to Messrs. Hiss and Weeks, the architects of Tom's house, for their courtesy in allowing me to se cure the necessary photographs, and use them as I have used them, to help present in dialogue facts and fancies about house furnishing. While I believe that t...

Excerpt from Laboratory Manual of BiologyThe note and question method of presenting the subject has the advantage of giving the student the new terms just as they are needed, while the notes and the student's answers to the given questions together make a fairly complete description of the form studied.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a...

Excerpt from Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Eighteenth Century and Modern American TapestriesTapestries are a form of art exceedingly easy to understand. Their large size, and the large size of the personages in them, makes it unneces sary to re-scale them as we regard them. Their soft and agreeable surface makes it unnecessaryto seek a special point of view from which they can be seen to advantage. Their extra...

Excerpt from Decorative Furniture: A Picture Book of the Beautiful Forms of All Ages and All Periods, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Chinese, Japanese, Persian, Romanesque, Gothic, French Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, Later Italian, Louis XIII, XIV, XV, XVIThe illustrations are the important part of this book. The text furnishes background and scale for the complete understanding of the periods.About the PublisherForgotten Bo...

Excerpt from Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Eighteenth Century and Modern American TapestriesTapestries are a form of art exceedingly easy to understand. Their large size, and the large size of the personages in them, makes it unneces sary to re-scale them as we regard them. Their soft and agreeable surface makes it unnecessaryto seek a special point of view from which they can be seen to advantage. Their extra...

Excerpt from Decorative Furniture: A Picture Book of the Beautiful Forms of All Ages and All Periods, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Chinese, Japanese, Persian, Romanesque, Gothic, French Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, Later Italian, Louis XIII, XIV, XV, XVIThe illustrations are the important part of this book. The text furnishes background and scale for the complete understanding of the periods.About the PublisherForgotten Bo...

Excerpt from Decorative Textiles: An Illustrated Book on Coverings for Furniture, Walls and Floors, Including Damasks, Brocades and Velvets, Tapestries, Laces, Embroideries, Chintzes, Cretones, Drapery and Furniture Trimmings, Wall Papers, Carpets and Rugs, Tooled and Illuminated LeathersThe main text of my book is of course Texture. The word is Latin for weave, and as might be expected, it is produced most richly on the loom. It is of Textile...

Excerpt from Reminiscences of an Old Timer: A Recital of the Actual Events, Incidents, Trials, Hardships, Vicissitudes, Adventures, Perils, and Escapes of a Pioneer, Hunter, Miner and Scout of the Pacific NorthwestIn the compilation of the narrative contained in this work, the author has told in graphic language the history of his early youth and subsequent incidents that partake of more than ordinary interest. Colonel George Hunter, one of th...

Reminiscences of an Old Timer - Vol. 1 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 antiques only. Hansebooks ne...

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