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Excerpt from Turbine Wheels: On the Inapplicability of the Theoretical Investigations of the Turbine Wheel, as Given by Rankine, Weisbach, Bresse and Others, to the Modern Constructions Introduced by Boyden and FrancisTms Essay on Turbines is reprinted from van nostrand's magazine, to which it was originally contributed by the author.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www....

Excerpt from Gossip of the Caribbees: Sketches of Anglo-West-Indian LifeI have endeavored in the following sketches to give as accurate an idea as possible of social life in Her Majesty's West Indian dominions, and if I have hurt the patriotic sensibilities of my compatriots, I heartily crave their pardon. Barbados and the adjacent colonies are too dear to me to wilfully cast stones at their institutions. Nowhere in the empire will be found a ...

Excerpt from Gossip of the Caribbees: Sketches of Anglo-West-Indian LifeI have endeavored in the following sketches to give as accurate an idea as possible of social life in Her Majesty's West Indian dominions, and if I have hurt the patriotic sensibilities of my compatriots, I heartily crave their pardon. Barbados and the adjacent colonies are too dear to me to wilfully cast stones at their institutions. Nowhere in the empire will be found a ...

Excerpt from Heat as a Source of Power: With Applications of General Principles to the Construction of Steam Generators, an Introduction to the Study of Heat-EnginesThese elementary principles constitute the real basis of the science of heat, in its chemical as well as its dynamic relations, and a thorough comprehension of them is necessarily the first step to be taken in the study of heat-engines.The steam-engine being the principal heat-engi...

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Excerpt from A Dazzling ReprobateThe pestilential forests of satire are as full of them as the Andes with unexplored wealth. Your sober novelist, like the long-established merchant, looks askance at any attempt to develop such realms. They smell of wild cat. 80 their exploitation is left to dare-devil, adventurous, and consequently questionable pioneers who, if they come back from the frontiers of literature with fortune, are belauded and, if ...

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The Complete Book of Kong, by William Trowbridge, gathers the poetic wit, woe, and wisdom of both new and favorite Kong poems from Trowbridge's books as well as numerous literary magazines and anthologies into a collection that will rattle your cage. Kong is hip and horrendous, always terribly in love with a small screaming blonde, and still bearing the biggest, brightest heart that Hollywood has ever broken. Kong treads fortissimo where morta...

Excerpt from A Dazzling Reprobate The pestilential forests of satire are as full of them as the Andes with unexplored wealth. Your sober novelist, like the long-established merchant, looks askance at any attempt to develop such realms. They smell of wild cat. 80 their exploitation is left to dare-devil, adventurous, and consequently questionable pioneers who, if they come back from the frontiers of literature with fortune, are belauded and, i...

This book consists primarily of poems about a character based on the fool archetype, which appears not only in silents and standups (e.g. Keaton, Pryor, Woody Allen) but also in tales running back to the beginning of storytelling. To borrow from Yiddish comedy, he is a combination of" schlemiel" and "schlimazel. "The difference is that the "schlemiel" is a bungler who's always accidentally breaking things and spilling stuff on people and the "...

bTitle:/b Gossip of the Caribbees. Sketches of Anglo-West-Indian Life.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 items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around ...

bTitle:/b The Children of Men. [Stories.]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 items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with ...

A lost classic of American literature--a narrative of race and sexual intrigue in antebellum America--rediscovered

A lost classic of American literature--a narrative of race and sexual intrigue in antebellum America--rediscovered

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

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