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Excerpt from Leisure-Time Studies, Chiefly Biological: A Series of Essays and LecturesIn this latter View, the author would hope that the essays on the relations of biology to common educa tion may receive their due meed of attention from both educationists and scientists. Of these efforts to state the case for biology as a mighty in¿uence in modern culture, the author would only say that they are the direct products of a long experience in bi...

Excerpt from Selected Memory GemsThis collection of poems is a combination of the recommendations of the Department of Public Instruction of the state of Pennsylvania and the recommendations of the Education Department of the state of New York.There are for each grade many more selec tions than can be used in any one year. The Pennsylvania Course of Study recommends that at least one selection be memorized each month. The New York Syllabus rec...

Old Sea Dogs of Tasmania Book 1 is a number #1 best selling title with over 4500 books sold Australia wide. Offered now for the first time to international audiences, this joyful collection of tall tales and stunning black and white portrait and seascape photographs is set deep in the southern seas, where the Roaring Forties batter Australia's smallest state - Tasmania. Meet tough salt encrusted sailors, fishermen and shipwrights, who have exp...

Excerpt from The Principles of PhilosophyJuf't fo it is with the whole fyf'tem of nature. You cannot take up any parcel of matter and fay of it, This has efi'ential feparate properties, which impower it to be a natural agent. A philofopher ought to confider it as a concrete, with a certain difpofition of its parts, liable to be acted upon by the fubtiler parts of the machine, which cannot be ref'trained from it by art. And it may as juf'cly be...

Excerpt from Studies in Life and SenseThe essays included in this volume have appeared from time to time in various magazines. I may discover justification, if such be needed, for their publication in their present form, in the fact that this method of rendering permanent views and opinions which would otherwise vanish away with magazine back stock, finds favour in the eyes of many readers, and has besides become a common prac tice of our day....

Manchmal muss Liebe weh tun! Als der strenge Mr. Gray seine neue Sekretärin für ihre Tippfehler zum ersten Mal übers Knie legt, eröffnet sich für beide eine neue Welt. Die sympathischen Außenseiter ergänzen sich in perfekter Harmonie. Demütigung und Bestrafung werden fortan lustvoll zelebriert, das unscheinbare Büromäuschen erblüht zu verführerischer Schönheit. Und mit den Hieben wächst die Liebe - bis zum Happy End jenseits aller romantischen...

Excerpt from The Royal Natural History: Being a Systematic Arrangement of Descriptive Zoology, From Man to the Lowest Forms, With an Introduction on the Study of Natural HistoryAs above defined, we note that the significance of the old term, Natural History, as used by Hobbes, remains unchanged. It means with us to-day, the complete and entire history of nature around us. As such, it includes the consideration, not merely of living, but of non...

Excerpt from The Human Body: A Popular Account of the Functions of the Human BodyThis Manual is intended to familiarize the general reader with the outlines of the Science which deals with the body in action, and which describes the working of life's mechanisms. In its preparation the author has kept in view the possibility of the work being useful as a text-book for Senior Classes in Physiology at School. AS the whole foundation of the knowle...

Excerpt from Leaves From a Naturalist's NotebookThe present series of sketches has been compiled chie¿y because of the existence of a growing taste on the part of the cultured public, for a knowledge of the objects in which the naturalist professes an interest. The papers, written under divers moods and circumstances, possess at least the merit of variety. I have not hesitated to include under the designation of a biologist's studies, such div...

Excerpt from The Light Side of ScienceCarbonic acid gas and its Story - Mechanisms Of breathing - Gills and lungs - Their respective functions in fishes.The fact that our chests rise and fall fifteen or sixteen times a minute in the act of respiration or breathing is so familiar that it almost escapes popular recognition through its practically auto matic continuous nature. Breathing is one of those actions, which, while absolutely essential f...

The fourth novel in Andrew Wilson's Agatha Christie series, following A Talent for Murder, A Different Kind of Evil and Death in a Desert Land.

A continuation of the mystery series which features Agatha Christie as a detective. Follows success of "A Talent For Murder", A Different Kind Of Murder" and "Death In A Desert Land".

Agatha Christie makes for Baghdad to set to rights whether or not there was foul play in the presumed drugs overdose of an explorer and writer passing through there two years prior. Takes an imaginative slant on Christie's real-life late twenties period of disappearance.

Agatha Christie makes for Baghdad to set to rights whether or not there was foul play in the presumed drugs overdose of an explorer and writer passing through there two years prior. Takes an imaginative slant on Christie's real-life late twenties period of disappearance. Not final jacket image.

Agatha Christie—the Queen of Crime—travels to the breathtaking Canary Islands to investigate the mysterious death of a British agent in this riveting and "stellar" (Publishers Weekly) sequel to A Talent for Murder.Two months after the events of A Talent for Murder, during which Agatha Christie "disappeared, " the famed mystery writer's remarkable talent for detection has captured the attention of British Special Agent Davison. Now, at his behe...

Excerpt from Our Brain, Body and NervesTemps. Everybody roared with laughter at the nigger-like physiognomy which the baronet exhibited. I believe in his agitation be upset his soup into his fair neighbour's lap, and rushed from the room in a state of perturba tion which might be better imagined than described.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis b...

Excerpt from Our Brain, Body and NervesTemps. Everybody roared with laughter at the nigger-like physiognomy which the baronet exhibited. I believe in his agitation be upset his soup into his fair neighbour's lap, and rushed from the room in a state of perturba tion which might be better imagined than described.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis b...

Excerpt from The "Ever-Victorious Army": A History of the Chinese Campaign Under Lt.-Col. C. G. Gordon, C. B. R. E., And of the Suppression of the Tai-Ping RebellionAbout a third of this volume has already appeared in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine but the remainder is entirely new matter, with the exception of a few sentences which I may have used when commenting in the Daily News, ' or Pall Mall Gazette, ' on passing events in the East.Ab...

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