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Het Groot handboek bergsport is een ambitieus en uitermate compleet werk voor iedereen die de rotsen en bergen van deze wereld wil trotseren, van de beginnende bergwandelaar tot de doorgewinterde alpinist. Werkelijk elk aspect van deze fantastische en tot de verbeelding sprekende sport komt in dit ultieme naslagwerk aan bod, waaronder: - Bergwandelen en trekking - de basics, van het op de juiste manier inpakken van de rugzak en het opzetten v...

bTitle:/b Movements of the British Legion, with strictures on the course of conduct pursued by Lieut.-General Evans. Second edition. To which is added, with new views, a continuation of the operations ... to the close of March 1837.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million ite...

God is Mystery. Yet this Mystery has often been obscured by the outward trappings, teachings and actions of Christian Churches. Rev. Dr. George Richardson seeks to answer the age-old question of, "What is Christianity?" by unwrapping the Mystery which is beyond simple definition. Using plain language, Rev. Richardson examines how and why people in previous periods of history have understood God in their own way, and how these concepts of God h...

Human activities are causing species extinctions at a rate and magnitude rivaling those of past geologic extinction events. Exploring mediterranean-type ecosystems - the Mediterranean Basin, California, Chile, Australia, and South Africa - this volume addresses the question whether biological diversity plays a significant role in the functioning of natural ecosystems, and to what extent that diversity can be reduced without causing system mal...

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Excerpt from Neighborhood Letters Just water and sky still. Passed the Azores a few days ago and expect to make Gibraltar after a while, where I shall mail this and perhaps you can tell by the stamp what date it is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-a...

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Excerpt from Latin in the Preparatory School If time allows, reading at sight should not be postponed until Caesar is begun, and the reading lessons on page 21 I will afford practice in this regard. Should additional, or less dim cult, passages be desired, an admirable collection will be found in Gradatim [ginn which book also teachers will find it worth their while to procure and examine. It has been widely used in the class-room with conspi...

Story: The Clash with Robin and Squirrel The Clash with Robin and Squirrel is a story about the struggles and conflicts that animals experience in the nature. Robin and Squirrel agreed to be civil to each other by respecting each other's areas. Robin's basic instinct tells her not to trust Squirrel who kept a curious eye on her nest. Also, Robin encounters several close calls where her life was almost taken away by other predators in search of...

The discourse of civic education privileges liberal democratic understandings of citizenship. Yet we know that such understandings do not accurately represent the complex, plural, and problematic nature of citizenship in contemporary society. To stimulate discussion about new possibilities for teaching citizenship, this volume brings together the work of Canadian and American curriculum scholars to «trouble» the existing canon of citizenship e...

This book documents the failed attempt of successive social studies curriculum to create a sustainable mythic structure of Canadian identity, and it situates teachers in the uneasy space between the modernist concepts of national identity prescribed in the curriculum and the lived world of the classrooms they experience daily. In The Death of the Good Canadian, George H. Richardson endeavors to represent the ambivalence of curriculum «delivery...

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Excerpt from Conscience: Its Origin and Authority Those who are interested in the study of Ethics, and particularly Christian Ethics in relation to Christian Theology, must have been disappointed at the cursory treatment which the Conscience has received at the hands of English writers. For the most part Ethical writers have left it to the Theologians, and Theologians have referred inquirers back to Ethics. From the year 1660, when Jeremy Ta...

Excerpt from King Mammon and the Heir Apparent And, Reader, if you be a serf in this realm of Mammon, do not ¿atter your foolish self with the idea that tyranny dwells only in the hearts of kings and courtiers. Do not think for a moment that lack of power means the absence of tyranny. Do not cheat yourself with the belief that because Mammon has not honored you, a nobler spirit dwells in your own breast than those which animate other tyrants ...

Excerpt from Patriotism in Three Cantos, And Other Poems At a period, probably without precedent in the annals of any provincial district, when the press has for some years past, and is still, issuing upon the great ocean of literature a variety of works by persons of acknowledged genius and talent in that sacred emanation of the soul - that pure Castaly of thought which floweth from the inmost fountain of the human heart - Poetry, as well as...

Excerpt from Geology for Beginners, Comprising a Familiar Explanation of Geology, and Its Associate Sciences The motives which have induced the author to prepare this production for the public are briefly these: - During the course of some experience as a lecturer on Geology, he has constantly recommended the various works already published on the science, and, as constantly, has been requested to name some treatise more particularly intended...

Excerpt from The Foundations of Stereo Chemistry: Memoirs by Pasteur, Van't Hoff, Lebel, and Wislicenus Stereo-chemistry, or as it has sometimes been called, Chemistry in space, or Geometrical chemistry, is that branch of chemistry in which the relative position of the atoms in space is taken into consideration. The stereo-chemical theories, like most useful scientific theories, are the result of the necessary expansion of the older views to...

Excerpt from The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ: From the Meditations of Anne Catherine Emmerich As I am now more than eighty-six years old I don't think it probable that I shall attempt any more translations of Sister Emmerich's revelations. I wish, therefore, to say a few words about dear Sister Emmerich before parting. I have read through her revelations several times during the last sixty years, and I have more frequently read through ...