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Politics after Hitler is the first book to demonstrate the importance of America, Britain, and France in the development of party politics in Germany after 1945. In the wake of the war, rightists of all descriptions, Communists, nationalists, and founders of small splinter parties all came under intense and deliberate pressure from the Western occupying forces. The occupiers arrived in Germany in 1945 without firm plans for reviving German pol...

Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 4: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament (1259) To the Commencement of the Continental War (1793)The material progress of England was for a time ao companied by great advances in political liberty and by the noble energy of the Commons in Parliament. The action of the House of Commons in the first half of the fifteenth century supplied the precedents on which the liberties o...

Excerpt from First Nine Years of the Bank of England: An Enquiry Into a Weekly Record of the Price of Bank Stock From August 17, 1694, to September 17, 1703 The most necessary materials for illustrating the facts are the Journals of the two Houses and the Statute-book for the period. 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...

Excerpt from The Doctrine of Election: Stated, Defended and Applied in Three DiscoursesThe following Discourses were prepared and delivered in the ordinary course of the Author's pulpit labors, and Without any reference to publication.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 s...

Excerpt from The Story of Holland The story which is contained in the following pages is, Of necessity, brief, for I cannot go beyond the limits Of the series. But it need not be given in great detail. It is possible by a short narrative to recount the prin cipal facts in the greatest and most important Of all European wars, that in which the seven provinces Of Holland secured their independence against the monarch who was supposed to possess...

Excerpt from Six Centuries of Work and Wages: The History of English Labour Since I published, nearly eighteen years ago, the first two volumes of my history of agriculture and prices, I have been frequently urged to extract and exhibit those parts of my researches which illustrate the history of labour and wages. To have done this to any purpose, it was necessary that I should have in my possession such a continuous record of wages actually ...

Excerpt from A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Vol. 1: From the Year After the Oxford Parliament (1259) To the Commencement of the Continental War (1793), Compiled Entirely From Original and Contemporaneous Records There is no need of any apology in offering the facts in these volumes to such persons as are interested in the social history of the southern part of our island. They are an attempt to satisfy a total void - the comp...

Excerpt from Everything in Christ: An Exposition of First Corinthians Any attempt, however humble, to recommend the Blessed Saviour to the faith and love of men, and to induce them to seek for all they need in Him, calls for no apologetic introduction. This little treatise is such an attempt. It contains no new or original views of the great doctrines of the Gospel, and this, the Author hopes, will prove one of its merits. The views of standa...

Excerpt from Education in Oxford: Its Method, Its Aids, and Its Rewards The author of the following pages has more than one purpose in what he has written, and hopes to attract the attention of more than one class of readers. First of all, he wishes to give information to that very large body of persons who may think of placing their sons in the University of Oxford, but who know nothing but what is very vague about the studies of the univer...

Excerpt from A Manual of Political Economy There is I believe reason to differ from some of the views generally entertained by economists on the sub jects of Population, Rent, Wages, Profit, and one or two other cognate terms. My reader will be able to judge whether I have succeeded in substantiating the con elusions at which I have arrived on those topics. The ordinary theory of Rent is not historically supported by the facts which it has as...

Excerpt from Epistles, Satires, and Epigrams To George Waring. Why is it that the meed of changeless fame Is grudged the present, granted to the past? Why is it that the praise will seldom last With which its flatterers deck a living name? Must a success be bounded by its aim? Shall unsought glory brighten and grow vast? Does future time its warmest radiance cast On what its own day left to scorn or blame, As the true crop thrives by the wi...

Excerpt from The Relations of Christianity to Law and the Legal Profession: A Discourse It may be proper to state that this Discourse was prepared for the Author's congregation, among whom arc a large number of highly respectable members of the Legal Profession. It was, subsequently, preached before the Governor and members of the Legislature of Georgia, daring the late session at Milledgeville. The substance of it has also appeared in the fo...

Excerpt from A Handy Guide to Jewish Coins Grace before and after meals is not only a pious custom but the mark of a properly grateful man. This Preface is by way of being both Graces rolled into one. As it comes first in place in this little book, it is meant to express the gratitude of the reader for all that is best in it: as it comes last in order of time of writing, it is meant to express the gratitude of the author for all the help and ...

Excerpt from Social Economy The object of this little book is to give instruction in the rudiments of social science, and to do so in such language and in such a form as will make the subject clear to the youngest students. The author has stated what he has to say in the shape of a series of lessons, each of which should be carefully read and understood before the pupil passes on to the next. It is hoped that when he has read through the whol...

Excerpt from Historical Gleanings: A Series of Sketches, Wiklif, Laud, Wilkes, Horne Tooke The Essays contained in this Second Series 'were written with the same purpose as those \which have been already published, and on the same plan. They are lectures, in which it has been my, object to state the social facts of the time in which the individual, whose history is handled, took part in public business. Hence, as before, each person is introd...

The History of Democracy from the Middle East to Western Civilizations is a unique text laying out the broad outline of the History of Democracy. The book is based on the historical works of leading American and foreign historians and is written in a straightforward, readable way summarizing the main themes of history. This permits the reader of the news media to make in depth sense out of the jumble of headlines and articles pouring out of th...

The Gift of Sunderland is entertainment that educates. It is a middle grade fantasy that introduces young readers to the unusual flora and fauna of Australia via a fast-paced imaginative tale of adventure. A glossary at the back of the book provides tidbits of information about the interesting animals and places mentioned in the story. There are also web links in the glossary, which readers can use to explore more information if they so desire...

Provides a complete and unified approach to discrimination testing in sensory evaluation Sensory evaluation has evolved from simple "taste testing" to a distinct scientific discipline. Today, the application of sensory evaluation has grown beyond the food industry--it is a sophisticated decision-making tool used by marketing, research and development, and assurance in industries such as personal care, household care, cosmetics, fragrances, aut...