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They highlight successful intergenerational programs and discuss the historical, developmental, cultural, societal, and political perspectives that must be considered if more productive exchanges are to take place in the future. This empowering book will be particularly valuable to professionals and advocates who work with children and the aged, the systems and agencies that represent these two generations, public and private funding sources, ...

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Contributions chiefly to the early History of the late Cardinal Newman is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. 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 toda...

This text adresses the problem of desiging and testing modern displays and other cockpit systems. It shows that there is little communication between the users, designers and testers of these display systems. The book attempts to offer better ways of evaluating these display systems.

Excerpt from On the Relations of Free Knowledge to Moral Sentiment: A Lecture Delivered in University College, London, on the 13th of October, 1847, as Introductory to the Session of 1847-8 Lord's Supper was compulsory on the students. If the' modern race of university-men has improved, it is not be cause these institutions have adopted a new creed or new Observances, but because they enforce more diligence in study, and because a more moral ...

Excerpt from The Cure of the Great Social Evil: With Special Reference to Recent Laws Delusively Called Contagious Diseases' Acts It is not amiss to add, that a private International Society of ladies is rising on the Continent, to put down the heart breaking and disgusting enormities of the system, which amiable materialists are straining every nerve to impose upon England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousand...

Excerpt from Translations of English Poetry Into Latin Verse: Designed as Part of a New Method of Instructing in LatinIf any teacher use these pieces as 1 design them, he will make the English an exercise of Eloention then it will be gradually impressed on the memory with little effort. Yet learning by heart ought to be cultivated, and has in my opinion been unwisely given up or lessened since I was a schoolboy. The knowledge of the English pi...

Excerpt from On the Constitutional and Moral Right or Wrong of Our National Debt Those who traffic in the Public Debt of a country have, in one important respect, an interest directly the opposite to the fixed creditor, just as the speculators in Railway Stock have an opposite interest from the shareholders in general. The permanent holder will be benefited by knowing the whole truth of the concern. If it have weak points, - if his rights hav...

Excerpt from Regal Rome: An Introduction to Roman History In attempting to reconstruct the picture of most ancient Rome, much aid is gained from the singu lar adherence of the Romans to precedent and form in the development of their constitution. This often enables the modern critic to read the ancient state of things, as the print in a rock shows to a geologist the nature of the leaf which marked it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books pub...

Excerpt from A Handbook of Modern Arabic: Consisting of a Practical Grammar, With Numerous Examples, Dialogues, and Newspaper Extracts, In an European Type I distributed this handbill in many quarters, and re ceived several letters. One learned gentleman brie¿y replied that he could not see any use in my proposed change, - entirely ignoring the eleven uses which I had enumerated. Similar rebuffs came from other quarters. I suppose, therefore,...

Excerpt from The English Universities, Vol. 1: From the German of V. A Huber The following Work presents the English reader with the general history of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, from the earliest period to its natural termination at the Revolution of 1688. It contains ample details concerning the ancient University Constitution and its later changes, - concerning that curious and dark subject, the Academic Nations, - the Town ...

Excerpt from Select Speeches of KossuthNearly all the points on which attempts have been made to misrepresent in England the cause of Hungary are cleared up in these speeches. On two subjects only does it seem needful here to make any remark, first, on the Republicanism of Kossuth secondly, on the Hungarian levies against Italy in the year 1848.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find m...

Excerpt from Reminiscences of Two Exiles (Kossuth and Pulszky) And Two Wars: Crimean and Franco-AustrianI therefore here insert a paper issued in November, 1849, by the London Hungarian Committee, in which I took an active part.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of...

Excerpt from Homeric Translation in Theory and Practice: A Reply to Matthew Arnold, Esq., Professor of Poetry, OxfordI will not assert that this is everywhere improper in the Odyssey, but no part of the Iliad occurs to me in which it is proper, and I have totally excluded it in my own practice. I notice it but once in Mr. Gladstone's Specimens, and it certainly offends my taste as out of harmony with the gravity of the rest, viz.About the Publ...