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Originally published in 1950, this book provides an account of John Graham Kerr's travels and discoveries within the Gran Chaco region of South America.

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Deadliest Volcanoes, from author John Kerr, is about the biggest and most powerful volcanic eruptions the world has seen. It's full of eyewitness accounts and photos of some of history's best known, and not so well known, volcanoes.

The Silent Shore of Memory chronicles the fictional life of James Barnhill from his days as a young Confederate soldier through the trials of Reconstruction in his native Texas and his later career and as a lawyer and judge. Steeped in the history of the South, The Silent Shore of Memory explores the nuances of views on slavery and the dissolution of the Union, the complexity of race relations and race politics during the thirty years followin...

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Excerpt from History of Curling, Scotland's Ain Game, and Fifty Years of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club IN view of the Fiftieth Annual Meeting of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club in 1888, a Special Committee was appointed at the Meeting of the previous year to consider what should be done in the way of celebrating the Club's Jubilee. Among the suggestions sent up in the Report of this Committee, and adopted by the Club, was one to this ef...

Excerpt from Scottish Education School and University: From Early Times to 1908 When, at the suggestion of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, I undertook to write the History of Scottish Education from early times to the present day, I did so with much hesitation. The difficulty of presenting within comparatively narrow limits such an account of a large subject as would be at once solid enough to be useful to the educationist, and...

The Road To Helsinki is the history of how Europe stepped back from the brink of a third World War. Victory in Europe was declared on May 8, 1945. On March 6, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri. It seemed that World War II had not ended. Europe moved immediately into a "Cold War", with armed camps in a divided Europe, but this time with nuclear weapons. The Conference on Security and Cooperat...

Excerpt from An Introduction to the Study of the Books of the New Testament Professor Weiss in the Preface to his masterly Manual of Introduction to the New Testament, says: In my view, the main thing in an Introduction to the New Testament is neither criticism nor apolo getics, but the actual initiation into a living histor ical knowledge of Scripture This states exactly my own View. New Testament Introduction must underlie all intelligent s...

Excerpt from Memories Grave and Gay, Forty Years of School Inspection Since my retirement from the public service five years ago, suggestions have been frequently made to me by a number of my friends about putting into shape reminiscences of my official life, extending over more than thirty-six years. To these suggestions I have till now turned a deaf ear, from a feeling that my experience presents few events of sufficiently outstanding inter...

Excerpt from Lessons From a Shoemaker's Stool While in his neighbourhood a friend of mine gave me such an account of him as made me resolve to see him if possible. By making a start an hour earlier than was necessary for my regular duty, I had no difficulty in making out my visit to him. His workshop being pointed out to me - a humble one-storied house with a thatch roof, and situated in quite a rural district - I went up to the door and knoc...

Excerpt from The Prevalence of Rabies in the United States To summarize brie¿y the results _of this inquiry, there were 111 deaths in human beings from hydrophobia reported from 30 States during the year 1908. Rabies was reported in the lower animals from at least 534 localities in 39 States and Territories, including the Dis triet of Columbia. Evidence has also been secured Of nearly persons who, on account of exposure to rabid or presumably...

Has all the elements of a juicy novel . . . riveting. . . . Reudite and elegant." -NewsdayNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, Directed by David Cronenberg and starring Keira Knightly, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, and Vincent Cassel. In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle...

Excerpt from Genealogical Notes of the Chamberlaine Family of Maryland: Eastern Shore, and of the Following Connected Families, Neale-Lloyd, Tilghman Robins, Hollyday-Hammond-Dyer, Hughes-Stockton, Hayward, Nicols-Goldsborough, and Others This family, represented in Che hire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Great Britain, and in America on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, claims descent from the Count dc Tankerrille, of Tancarville Castle in ...

Three men served the eighteen U.S. Presidents of the 20th Century from William McKinley through William Clinton. The first of these men worked for six presidents (McKinley, T. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding and Coolidge). His son replaced him and worked for the next six presidents (Hoover, F. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson). His grandson then worked for the last six presidents of the 20th Century (Nixon, Ford, Carter, Rea...

Three men served the eighteen U.S. Presidents of the 20th Century from William McKinley through William Clinton. The first of these men worked for six presidents (McKinley, T. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding and Coolidge). His son replaced him and worked for the next six presidents (Hoover, F. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson). His grandson then worked for the last six presidents of the 20th Century (Nixon, Ford, Carter, Rea...

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Genealogical notes of the Chamberlaine family of Maryland - and of the following connected families: Neale-Lloyd, Tilghman Robins, Hollyday-Hammond-Dyer, Hughes-Stockton, Hayward, Nicols-Goldsborough, and others is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other gen...