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The story of Oak Ridge, Tennessee is remarkable: a town constructed from scratch in the 1940s to aid the development of the U.S. military's nuclear program in World War II.

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The heartwarming story of Betsy and her little sister Star is presented anew in this delightful edition, which includes all of the original illustrations."--

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Dorothy, the heroine of this novel, performs good works, cultivates good thoughts, and pricks her arm with a pin when a bad thought arises. She then has a series of unexpected and degrading adventures after becoming a victim of amnesia. Though she regains her life as a clergyman's daughter, she has lost her faith.

A history of ideas in action, The Medieval Foundations of England covers a period of a thousand years of historical development—social, economic, ecclesiastical, and cultural as well as political. The fundamental problems of medieval life in England are discussed in relation to the recent research.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

A whole chapter of nineteenth-century history is condensed in the phrase "the conflict between religion and science, " with our Mother Eve and the proto-Ape jostling for places at the head of the family tree. An outstanding figure in the center of this intellectual conflict was John William Draper, author of History of the Intellectual Development of Modern Europe and The Conflict Between Religion and Science, which played an important part in...

A history of the Muhlenberg family is essentially that of the early development of the young American republic. For two centuries and more this famous family name has been associated with distinction in education, the ministry, science, and government. In this book Paul a. W. Wallace tells the story of the first generation of the family in this country, beginning with Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, who came from Germany in 1742 to become the Patri...

Legal reserve life insurance in the United States and Canada as a modern instrument for meeting the quest for economic security, has attained size and significance unparalleled elsewhere in the world. It holds in a fiduciary capacity more than $60 billion and affects the lives of half the population as owners of life insurance and annuity contracts. Still in process of evolution, it helps to shape the pattern of life and is at the same time be...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Die Melton-Brüder haben durch Betrug ein Millionenerbe ergaunert. Old Shatterhand und Winnetou folgen der Spur von Harry (dem "Satan") und dem Verräter Thomas (dem "Ischariot") von New Orleans aus durch den Llano Estacado zum geheimnisvollen Yuma-Schloß und hinauf ins Felsengebirge. Die vorliegende Erzählung spielt Anfang der 70er-Jahre des 19. Jahrhunderts. "Satan und Ischariot" ist der letzte Teil der gleichnamigen Trilogie. Teil I: Die Fel...

Krüger Bei gehört zu Mays kauzigsten Gestalten und hat wirklich gelebt: Der Deutsche Krüger stand in den Diensten des Bei von Tunis als Oberst der Leibwache. Eine weitere Überraschung erwartet den Leser: Bei der Verfolgung der Meltons gelangt der Apatschenhäuptling Winnetou bis nach Afrika! Die vorliegende Erzählung spielt Ende der 60er- und Anfang der 70er-Jahre des 19. Jahrhunderts. "Krüger Bei" ist der zweite Teil der Trilogie "Satan und Is...

With the growing popularity of salt water fly-fishing today, we easily forget that this sport was only begun in the 1930s-1950s. Brooks was one of the earliest pioneers of salt water techniques and salt water flies_both of which still catch fish today. His book, originally published in 1950, remains one of the best overall guides to the sport.

I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me." Innovative and deeply poetic, The Waves is often regarded as Virginia Woolf's masterpiece. It begins with six children-three boys and three girls-playing in a garden by the sea, and follows their lives as they grow up, experience friendship and love, and grapple with the death of their beloved friend Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of ...

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A modern verse play that touches on the sources of longing and the need to be loved. "Never has Eliot's apparently effortless prosody been more precise.... He has achieved complete mastery of words" (Kirkus Reviews). "It is a wise, witty, elegant play whose characters speak finely and shrewdly" (Chicago Sunday Tribune).