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This is the second of three novels in which the central character is Karl Marbach. This story begins on the first Saturday in August of 1945, three months after the end of the war in Europe. Stephan Kaas-former SS Major Stephan Kaas-is walking the Ringstrasse, the great circular boulevard of Vienna, Austria. Vienna is a Soviet-occupied city. There are only token numbers of American, British, and French soldiers in the city, but newspapers are ...

This is the second of three novels in which the central character is Karl Marbach. This story begins on the first Saturday in August of 1945, three months after the end of the war in Europe. Stephan Kaas-former SS Major Stephan Kaas-is walking the Ringstrasse, the great circular boulevard of Vienna, Austria. Vienna is a Soviet-occupied city. There are only token numbers of American, British, and French soldiers in the city, but newspapers are ...

The Ondt and the Gracehoper is James Joyce's peculiar and hilarious re-telling of Aesop's ancient fable The Ant and the Grasshopper. Although Aesop's fable has been illustrated many times, Joyce's unique take, presented in his last great work, 'Finnegans Wake', has never been interpreted. This book consists of a series of vibrant colour illustratio

An acclaimed hypertext novelist's reflections on art and technology, nonlinearity, and the creative process

Excerpt from Mexican Archæology, an Introduction to the Archæology of the Mexican and Mayan Civilizations of Pre-Spanish America The actual area withwhich this book deals is, roughly, that portion of Mexico which lies between the tropic of Cancer and the northern strip of Honduras. It is divided naturally into two portions, a northern and western, and a southern and eastern, by the depression which cuts across the isthmus of Tehuantepec. The ...

Excerpt from Central American and West Indian Archæology: Being an Introduction to the Archæology of the States of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and the West Indies by Thomas A. Joyce, M.A., With Many Illustrations Two MapsIt was already approaching completion when the war broke upon Europe, and, though it was finished by the end of the year, circumstances combined to prevent its publication for the time.Having been engaged for the better part...

Excerpt from South American Archaeology: An Introduction to the Archaeology of the South American Continent, With Special Reference to the Early History of Peru Ing moisture upon the Andes, which thus rob the coast of its rainfall. But there is reason to believe that at one time the Andes were several thousand feet lower, and did not offer an insurmountable barrier to the rains. At this period the coast must have been wooded, and a forest mus...

Excerpt from Women of All Nations The first edition of this work, published in 1907-8, consisted of two large quarto volumes, and contained a comprehensive survey of the position, life, occupations, etc., of woman throughout the world. In preparing an abridged, though, it is hoped, no less comprehensive, edition, care has been taken to preserve more or less intact those passages dealing with customs which are especially characteristic of part...

The British anthropologist and archaeologist Thomas Athol Joyce (1878-1942) made American archaeology more accessible to non-specialist readers, also stimulating further study. This highly illustrated textbook, first published in 1914, focuses on Mexico and the Maya, providing a thorough overview of their culture, society and mythology.

Excerpt from Women of All Nations, Vol. 3: A Record of Their Characteristics, Habits, Manners, Customs and Influence The Eskimo differ from the Indians in skin colour, which is yellowish or light brown, with a pronounced redness in the face, which is large and. ¿at. The nasal bones are narrower than in any other people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenb...

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Excerpt from Women of All Nations, Vol. 2: A Record of Their Characteristics, Habits, Manners, Customs and InfluenceThe important political part played by the women before the French Conquest is only one of the aspects of the situation. Among the Sakalava, as among the Anti merina and other tribes, are found unmis takable traces of a former matriarchate, a political economical system in which the man is subordinate to the woman. As the social ...

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