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At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the Great War stands at the furthest edge of living memory. There are a handful of men alive who fought in the trenches of the Somme and Flanders. Within their own lifetimes, their memories have become epic history. Hardly a month passes without some dramatic and sometimes tragic discovery being made.

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Updated edition. Reveals the reality of life in WWI through archaeology and personal history

Excerpt from Men and Methods: That Win in the Foreign Fields The greatest task confronting the Christian forces is making known the glad tidings unto all the world, disciple the nations as our Master commanded. Christianity has too long looked at the task with the hesitating attitude. Until we are ready to enter fully into the Lord's plan of conquest, we must suffer and struggle in vain against the forces of materialism and other enemies of s...

Excerpt from The Story of Buddhism Buddhism is being eagerly studied in the West, and there is no dearth of books upon it. Yet a brief history of its amazing developments may prove useful in helping those who are not experts to a sane view Of it, and to a knowledge alike of its strength and of its weakness. It is for such readers that this little book has been written it avoids technicalities as far as possible, and ignores many great proble...

Excerpt from The Heart of Buddhism: Being an Anthology of Buddhist Verse Buddhism as a separate religion has almost ceased to exist in India yet it is part, and a vital part, of India's great heritage. It has left its mark upon her great buildings, and not less upon her 'national consciousness. Not only did it absorb and crystallize much from the Hinduism out of which it sprang, and express much of Hindu aspirations and ideals, but it has in...

Excerpt from Gotama Buddha: A Biography, Based on the Canonical Books of the Therava¯din It was a Japanese disciple of Gotama who called him a king of the Spiritual in the mask of beggary, and it is to be hoped that this volume will find readers also in Japan, for although there are several lives Of Buddha written in Jap anese, no one Of them so happily as this combines a popular presentation with the results of recent historical criticism. ...

Excerpt from Buddhism in the Modern World Christian in its standards of thought and conduct is evident to any unbiased observer, and one of the most remarkable proofs of the authenticity and originality of our faith is this - that it is at once reforming and fulfilling the ancient faiths of Asia. What it did with the religions of Rome and Greece it is already doing with the nobler religions of the Orient, and true missionaries of Christ are a...

Excerpt from The Chinese as They Are In the past the West and East have been widely separated, but the time has come when we must walk together. We must know each other, join our civilizations and combine our resources in meeting the world's needs. Before we can do this effectively, we need to understand each other and the forces that have been the basis of our civilization. Travellers and the dwellers in the port towns have written much abou...

The Mongol conquests, culminating with the invasion of Europe in the middle of the thirteenth century, were of a scope and range never equaled. These nomadic peoples from central Asia briefly held sway over an empire that stretched across Asia to the fron

Excerpt from The Coal Fields of Kittitas County Israel C. Russell, in Bulletin 108 of the United States Geo logical Survey, published in 1893, describes in general the geology of central Washington, mentioning the Roslyn coal as belonging to the Kittitas system of sedimentary rocks. In the Twentieth Annual Report of the United States Geological Sur vey, published in 1900, he describes the geology of the Cascade Mountains, including this secti...

Excerpt from The Cross and the Reconstruction of the World: Mankind's One Hope of Conquest The author of this book, the Rev. J. R. Saunders, went from America some twenty years ago, to live and labour in China, with headquarters in Canton. He and his work are quite well known to many in America, and are held in very high esteem wherever known. He has faithfully devoted himself to the many-sided work of the missionary, that is, to preaching, t...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Deciding on cometic surgery should not be like buying a used car. Magazines, television shows, and advertisements have bombarded the average person with unrealistic or totally wrong information. Reality TV shows such as Extreme Makeover, I Want a Famous Face, or Dr. 90210 create hype about cosmetic surgery, but do not always convey realistic expectations or realistic results. Dr. Christopher Saunders weeds through the misinformation and focuse...

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