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Excerpt from Lucknow and Oude in the Mutiny: A Narrative and a Study This account of the part played by Lucknow and Oude in the Bengal mutiny is not meant to be anything more than what it is called - a narrative and a study, and it has been written with the desire to show, in their true pro portion and colour, some of the important points of that convulsion and contest, including its antecedents, its characteristics and its issues, as well as...

(Fred Bock Publications). Included in this second volume are easy arrangements of: Blessed Be the Name * Hasanna, Loud, Hosanna! * O Jesus, I Have Promised * Near to the Heart of God * and three more pieces for the traditional worship service.

(Fred Bock Publications). John Innes has set some beautiful carols of Christmas in this third volume especially for the Advent season: Joy to the World * Lo, How a Rose E're Blooming * What Child Is This * and more.

Excerpt from Letter to the Lord Glenelg, Secretary of State for the Colonies: Containing a Report, From Personal Observation, on the Working of the New System in the British West India Colonies The following Letter was not written for publication. A few copies were printed for persons officially and Otherwise connected with the colonies, who alone can introduce, and give effect to, the measures recommended as indispensable to the eventual suc...

¿The standard text on development of artillery survey and work on the Western Front. How the observation groups & sound ranging sections came to be formed and fulfilled their purpose, survey posts & their equipment, and experiences of participants in France & Italy. A very useful & informative work.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

JOHN L. INNES University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada The interactions between biomass burning and climate have been brought into focus by a number of recent events. Firstly, the Framework Convention on Climate Change and, more recently, the Kyoto Protocol, have drawn the attention of policy makers and others to the importance of biomass burning in relation to atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Secondly, the use of prescribed...

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This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were presented at an international workshop on the impacts of climatic variability held in Wengen, Switzerland, September 1997. For the first time, an assessment is made of the interactions between physical and biological elements of the Earth System on the basis of shifts in extreme climatic conditions, rather than simply changes in mean atmospheric conditions which research has tend...

Corporate Social Responsibility" is based on critical insight gained by analysing four large companies experiences of corporate social responsibility. This study highlights the inadequacies of social and ethical reporting by business, both in terms of the ad-hoc nature of the information currently reported, and the absence of internal reporting. It will serve as evidence to companies, that producing a glossy report does not necessarily equal s...

This book examines the importance of air pollution for the forests of rapidly industrializing countries and regions. Its geographical coverage includes South and Central America, Africa, and Asia, including Siberia, China and Korea. The problems presented by air pollution are placed within themore general context of sustainable development within these regions and the historical legacy that they are attempting to deal with. Attention is drwan ...

Excerpt from A Description of the Human Muscles: With Their Several Uses, and the Synonyma of the Best AuthorsSeveral full and accurate descriptions of the Muscles have already been published. But their size and prolixity have rendered them of less value to the dissector than the small Trea tise of Dr. Douglas, which was first published about the beginning of this century, and, since that time, has undergone various impressions, without receiv...

Excerpt from Natural History Sport in Moray It is now twenty years since the present Editor compiled these Notes on Moray, which were at once welcomed by all lovers of Nature 'like the scent of heather bells or breeze freshened from the wave.' It has long been his wish to prepare a new edition worthy of the Author and the subject, but year after year passed by without the means of gratifying it, as more pressing duties intervened, and if even...

Excerpt from Morag the SealThe road turning round between the hill and the water now brought us in full view of Airton House standing on a little eminence and towering over the thick woods round it. It seemed from this first glimpse to be largely in ruins, but at the distance of nearly two miles it was not easy to tell.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks....

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Excerpt from A Short Description of the Human Muscles, Chiefly as They Appear on Dissection: Together With Their Several Uses, and the Synonyma of the Best AuthorsThe defcribing of the mufcles according to their origin: and in/ertiom, prevents much circumlocution. This is the method purfued by Dr Douglas and, wherever his defcrip tions feemed tolerably accurate, they have been copied with little alteration. But Dr Douglas's book is peculiarly ...