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The great World War was more than two-thirds over when America entered the struggle, and yet in a sense this country was in the war from its very beginning. Three great inventions controlled the character of the fighting and made it different from any other the world has ever seen. These three inventions were American. The submarine was our invention; it carried the war into the sea. The airplane was an American invention; it carried the war into the sky. We invented the machine-gun; it drove the war into the ground. Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - Preface 00:05:27 - 01 - Chapter 1 The War In And Under The Ground 00:24:34 - 02 - Chapter 2 Hand-Grenades And Trench Mortars 00:46:13 - 03 - Chapter 3 Guns That Fire Themselves 01:11:30 - 04 - Chapter 4 Guns And Super-Guns 01:41:48 - 05 - Chapter 5 The Battle Of The Chemists 02:08:47 - 06 - Chapter 6 Tanks 02:28:51 - 07 - Chapter 7 The War In The Air 02:59:20 - 08 - Chapter 8 Ships That Sail The Skies 03:25:24 - 09 - Chapter 9 Getting The Range 03:44:29 - 10 - Chapter 10 Talking In The Sky 04:12:44 - 11 - Chapter 11 Warriors Of The Paint-Brush 04:38:36 - 12 - Chapter 12 Submarines 05:01:38 - 13 - Chapter 13 Getting The Best Of The U-Boat 05:27:07 - 14 - Chapter 14 'Devil's Eggs' 05:51:48 - 15 - Chapter 15 Surface Boats 06:05:50 - 16 - Chapter 16 Reclaiming The Victims Of Submarines

Rainbow Valley, the seventh book in the Anne of Green Gables series explores the world of Anne & Gilbert's six children along with the exploits of the Meredith's, the children of the town's new minister. With no mother and an absent-minded father, the Meredith children are not being properly brought up. This leads to their many adventures causing the ladies of the town to gossip, risking their father's job. These kind-hearted, but misguided children fumble their way through bringing themselves up, and learn about life and love along the way. Summary by Robin Cotter Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - Home Again 00:10:20 - 02 - Sheer Gossip 00:32:29 - 03 - The Ingleside Children 00:48:07 - 04 - The Manse Children 01:09:25 - 05 - The Advent of Mary Vance 01:37:09 - 06 - Mary Stays at the Manse 01:48:00 - 07 - A Fishy Episode 02:04:44 - 08 - Miss Cornelia Intervenes 02:20:41 - 09 - Una Intervenes 02:42:32 - 10 - The Manse Girls Clean House 02:56:58 - 11 - A Dreadful Discovery 03:05:46 - 12 - An Explanation and a Dare 03:22:52 - 13 - The House on the Hill 03:44:29 - 14 - Mrs. Alec Davis Makes a Call 04:05:41 - 15 - More Gossip 04:22:17 - 16 - Tit for Tat 04:48:54 - 17 - A Double Victory 05:09:18 - 18 - Mary Brings Evil Tidings 05:19:54 - 19 - Poor Adam! 05:28:31 - 20 - Faith Makes a Friend 05:40:22 - 21 - The Impossible Word 06:02:06 - 22 - St. George Knows All About It 06:14:47 - 23 - The Good-Conduct Club 06:36:00 - 24 - A Charitable Impulse 06:50:57 - 25 - Another Scandal and Another 'Explanation' 07:06:30 - 26 - Miss Cornelia Gets a New Point of View 07:20:49 - 27 - A Sacred Concert 07:29:04 - 28 - A Fast Day 07:38:48 - 29 - A Weird Tale 07:46:53 - 30 - The Ghost on the Dyke 07:57:32 - 31 - Carl Does Penance 08:08:10 - 32 - Two Stubborn People 08:21:12 - 33 - Carl Is--not--whipped 08:32:42 - 34 - Una Visits the Hill 08:45:17 - 35 - 'Let the Piper Come'

William Matthew Flinders Petrie – the father of Egyptian Archaeology – developed and applied statistical analysis to pottery from prehistoric sites and by this established seriation as a relative dating method as a major contribution to Egyptian Archaeology. In this scientific paper he describes special varieties of the conception of the supernatural in ancient Egypt. The source text also includes a list of "principal works on Egyptian religion" and a list of works "on religions ancient and modern" Table of contents: 00:00:00 01 - Chapter I: The Nature of Gods 00:08:46 02 - Chapter II: The nature of man 00:16:44 03 - Chapter III: The future life 00:26:33 04 - Chapter IV: Animal worship 00:36:44 05 - Chapter V: The groups of gods. Animal-headed gods 00:47:57 06 - Chapter VI: The human gods 01:04:05 07 - Chapter VII: The cosmic gods 01:13:35 08 - Chapter VIII: The abstract gods 01:18:57 09 - Chapter IX: The foreign gods 01:24:18 10 - Chapter X: The cosmogony 01:28:17 11 - Chapter XI: The ritual and priesthood 01:35:15 12 - Chapter XII: The sacred books 01:41:23 13 - Chapter XIII: Private worship 01:47:09 14 - Chapter XIV: Egyptian ethics 01:52:10 15 - Chapter XV: The influence of Egypt

The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and believed the adventures of the characters would inspire children to achieve higher goals with integrity. Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - Preface 00:14:21 - 01 - Part 1 of Perseus: How Perseus and his Mother Came to Seriphos 00:22:40 - 02 - Part 2 of Perseus: How Perseus Vowed a Rash Vow 00:41:29 - 03 - Part 3 of Perseus: How Perseus Slew the Gorgon 01:02:43 - 04 - Part 4 of Perseus: How Perseus Came to the Aethiops 01:29:37 - 05 - Part 5 of Perseus: How Perseus Came Home Again 01:38:35 - 06 - Part 1 of The Argonauts: How the Centaur Trained the Heroes on Pelion 01:53:24 - 07 - Part 2 of The Argonauts: How Jason Lost his Sandal in Anauros 02:12:01 - 08 - Part 3 of The Argonauts: How They Built the Ship 'Argo' in Iolcos 02:20:12 - 09 - Part 4 of The Argonauts: How the Argonauts Sailed to Colchis 03:07:27 - 10 - Part 5 of The Argonauts: How the Argonauts were Driven into the Unknown Sea 04:01:47 - 11 - Part 6 of The Argonauts: What was the end of the Heroes 04:08:06 - 12 - Part 1 of Theseus: How Theseus Lifted the Stone 04:18:00 - 13 - Part 2 of Theseus: How Theseus Slew the Devourers of Men 05:08:32 - 14 - Part 3 of Theseus: How Theseus Slew the Minotaur 05:18:38 - 15 - Part 4 of Theseus: How Theseus Fell by his Pride

Conan the Barbarian is employed by one of the civilized countries to help in it's push to claim lands from the primitive Picts. The Picts are not excited about the idea however. Old gods and mythical creatures are called up by the Pict witches to contest the invading army and Conan finds himself battling for his life amid the blood thirsty hordes that include saber-toothed tigers, 40 foot long venomous snakes and a demon from another dimension who is intent on crushing him. The huge dog Slasher makes an appearance here and distinguishes himself so well in a doomed battle to delay their forces that Conan openly praises his courage and pledges that 7 Pict heads will roll in his honor.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B.C., was the author of the oldest and most influential work on architecture in existence. For hundreds of years, the specific instructions he gave in his "Ten Books on Architecture" were followed faithfully, and major buildings in all parts of the world reveal the widespread influence of his precepts. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, he was "the chief authority studied by architects, and in every point his precepts were accepted as final. Bramante, Michelangelo, Palladio, Vignola, and earlier were careful students of the work of Vitruvius." His book is thus one of those rare works that have been supremely important in the creation of the greatest art masterpieces. Vitruvius describes the classic principles of symmetry, harmony, and proportion in architecture; the design of the treasury, prison, senate house, baths, forum, and temples; the construction of the theater: its site, foundations, and acoustics; the proper style and proportion for private dwellings; the differences between the Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian styles; methods of giving durability and beauty to polished finishings; and many other topics that help us understand the methods and beliefs of the Roman architect. It is a direct, authoritative, and detailed introduction to the ancients' methods of construction, the materials of the architect, and the prevailing aesthetic beliefs of the times; but it is also a work of art. Vitruvius wrote in such a fascinating manner, and digressed from his subject so often (as, for instance, when he wrote about the winds, Archimedes in his bath, and why authors should receive awards and honors at least as often as athletes), that his book has had a continuing appeal to the general reader for many centuries. Besides being an instructive treatise on nearly everything connected with Roman and Greek architecture, it is an entertaining description of some aspects of the life and beliefs of the times. This edition is the standard English translation, prepared over a period of several years by Professor M. H. Morgan of Harvard University.

Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Benedict has for centuries been the guide of religious communities. St. Benedict's rules of obedience, humility, and contemplation are not only prerequisites for formal religious societies, they also provide an invaluable model for anyone desiring to live more simply. While they presuppose a certain detachment from the world, they provide guidance and inspiration for anyone seeking peace and fulfillment in their home and work communities. As prepared by the Benedictine monk and priest Timothy Fry, this translation of The Rule of St. Benedict can be a life-transforming book. With a new Preface by Thomas Moore, author of The Care of the Soul.

John Singleton Mosby, the ‘Gray Ghost’, was one of the most effective military leaders of the American Civil War. Leading his cavalry unit, known as Mosby’s rangers, he hit the Union Army time and time again with lighting raids. After these raids were done his troops would seemingly melt away, blending in with local farmers and townspeople. In his memoirs, first published in 1917, he gives a thrilling account of his tactics. This book is a fascinating account that covers Mosby’s entry into the Confederate army, daily life within it and major battles including Manassas and Gettysburg. Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - Introduction by Charles Russell 00:16:49 - 01 - Early Life 00:30:26 - 02 - The War Begins 00:46:57 - 03 - A Private in the Cavalry 01:01:36 - 04 - Johnston's Retreat 01:19:41 - 05 - Recollections of Manassas 01:30:57 - 06 - The Strategy of Manassas 02:14:43 - 07 - About Fairfax Court House 02:33:27 - 08 - Campaigning With Stuart 03:05:13 - 09 - The Campaign Against Pope 03:38:23 - 10 - First Exploits As a Partisan 04:08:41 - 11 - The Raid on Fairfax 04:55:13 - 12 - Stuart and the Gettysburg Campaign, Part 1 05:35:16 - 13 - Stuart and the Gettysburg Campaign, Part 2 06:14:48 - 14 - The Year After Gettysburg 06:54:04 - 15 - The Campaign Against Sheridan 07:32:40 - 16 - The Greenback Raid 07:51:37 - 17 - Last Days in the Valley 08:27:18 - 18 - Final Scenes 08:44:45 - 19 - In Retrospect 08:59:06 - 20 - My Recollections of General Lee 09:11:00 - 21 - My Recollections of General Grant

General Abner Doubleday (1819-1893) is best known as the man who "invented" baseball, but his admirable service on behalf of the Union earned him a reputation as a solid commander and patriot. He saw action at Fort Sumter where he aimed the first gun fired against the rebellion; at Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville, where he lead the First and later the Third Divisions of the First Corps of the Army of the Potomac; and finally at Gettysburg, where he commanded the entire First Corps after the death of General Reynolds early in the morning of the first day. Facing powerful assaults from Confederates, the outnumbered First Corps fought, under Doubleday's calm leadership, a valiant holding action that culminated in high casualties, but gave General Meade the crucial time he needed to reinforce the battlefield. Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, originally commissioned as part of the landmark Campaigns of the Civil War series, provides stern judgements of Generals Meade and Howard; astute insights into other generals such as Hooker, Reynolds, and Sickle; and penetrating, minute-by-minute analyses by a leading participant of these two pivotal battles. Although the fierce resistance by the First Corps during the bloody late afternoon of July 1 never received its due praise, Doubleday's account of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg stands as a passionate, uncompromising tribute. Chapters: 00:00:00 - 00 - 00 - Preface 00:04:39 - 01 - 1-01 - The Opening of 1863 - Hooker's Plans 00:23:30 - 02 - 1-02 - Friday, The First of May 00:38:33 - 03 - 1-03 - The Disastrous Second of May 00:48:29 - 04 - 1-04 - The Rout of the Eleventh Corps 01:08:56 - 05 - 1-05 - Jackson's Advance Is Checked 01:20:40 - 06 - 1-06 - Sickles Fights His Way Back; Arrival of the First Corps 01:28:40 - 07 - 1-07 - The Battle of the Third of May 02:04:17 - 08 - 1-08 - May 4th: Attack on Sedgwick's Force 02:29:34 - 09 - 1-09 - Preparations to Renew the Conflict 02:40:54 - 10 - 1-10 - Battle of Brandy Station: Fleetwood 02:47:52 - 11 - 2-1 - The Invasion of the North 03:08:51 - 12 - 2-2 - Hooker's Plans. Hooker Superseded by Meade 03:44:40 - 13 - 2-3 - Stuart's Raid 03:57:43 - 14 - 2-4a - The First Day at Gettysburg, Part A 04:27:57 - 15 - 2-4b - The First Day at Gettysburg, Part B 05:00:22 - 16 - 2-5a - Battle of Gettysburg - The Second Day, Section 1 05:27:07 - 17 - 2-5b - Battle of Gettysburg - The Second Day, Section 2 05:57:31 - 18 - 2-6 - The Battle of the Third Day 06:32:06 - 19 - 2-7 - General Retreat of the Enemy

The sacred cat of Bubastes has accidentally been slain; now young Chebron must pay for the offense with his own life, as this is the law of the Pagans in Egypt, 1250 BC. Chebron, the son of a high Egyptian priest, flees for his life taking his sister Mysa, one of the household slaves Amuba and several companions with him. They escape through closely guarded Egyptian exits only to find themselves in unfamiliar and dangerous lands inhabited by a very different culture of people. Along the way, the roving band of refugees encounters and befriends a Hebrew girl, who exposes them to very strange ideas including the worship of "one true God."

Arms and the Man is a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw, and was first produced in 1894 and published in 1898, and has become one of the most popular plays of George Bernard Shaw. Like his other works, Arms and the Man questions conventional values and uses war and love as his satirical targets.

In the summer of 1869, John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, joined a crew of shepherds in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. The diary he kept while tending sheep formed the heart of this book and eventually lured thousands of Americans to visit Yosemite country. First published in 1911, My First Summer in the Sierra incorporates the lyrical accounts and sketches he produced during his four-month stay in the Yosemite River Valley and the High Sierra. His record tracks that memorable experience, describing in picturesque terms the majestic vistas, flora and fauna, and other breathtaking natural wonders of the area. Today, Muir is recognized as one of the most important and influential naturalists and nature writers in America. This book, the most popular of the author's works, will delight environmentalists and nature lovers with its exuberant observations.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 00:00:00 - INTRODUCTION Period of Oar and Close Fighting 00:03:51 - SALAMIS B.C. 480 00:52:07 - ACTIUM B.C. 31 01:20:53 - THE BATTLE OF SVOLD ISLAND A.D. 1000 01:51:00 - SLUYS 1340 02:14:41 - LEPANTO 1571 Period of Sail and Gun 03:33:15 - THE GREAT ARMADA 1588 04:50:05 - THE BATTLE OFF THE GUNFLEET 1666 05:23:30 - THE BATTLE OF THE SAINTS' PASSAGE 1782 05:54:08 - TRAFALGAR 1805 Period of Steam, Armour, and Rifled Artillery 07:04:48 - THE FIGHT IN HAMPTON ROADS 1862 08:06:52 - LISSA 1866 08:48:02 - THE BATTLE OF THE YALU 1894 09:36:18 - SANTIAGO DE CUBA 1898 10:20:53 - TSU-SHIMA 1905

A cruel joke at a country fair goes too far when a drunken laborer auctions off his wife and child to the highest bidder. So begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy's gripping tale of a man's rise and fall amid the natural beauty and human brutality of a rural English community. First published serially in 1886, the novel was praised by critics for its realism and poetic style. Most agreed, however, that its plot hinges upon unlikely turns of events. Hardy replied, "It is not improbabilities of incident but improbabilities of character that matter." In this book — originally subtitled "A Story of a Man of Character" — the author perpetually tests his characters with frequent intrusions by the hand of fate. Rich in descriptive powers and steeped in irony, this timeless tale offers a spellbinding portrayal of ambition, rivalry, revenge, and repentance.

“Why are we here? Why have we left home, friends, relatives, associates, and loved ones, who have made so large a part of our lives and added so much to our happiness?” On May 1, 1865, Sarah Raymond mounted her beloved pony and, riding alongside the wagon carrying her mother and two younger brothers, left war-torn Missouri and headed west. With the sole motive of bettering themselves, the Raymonds began their journey undecided as to whether California or Oregon would be their ultimate destination. By the middle of June, however, they had been persuaded that Montana was in fact the place to make for and the train altered path accordingly. As they passed through Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming towards the Rocky Mountains, they faced all manner of perils in experiencing the harsh reality of life on the Great Plains. After four months and four days, the wagon train finally arrived in Virginia City, Montana in early September, and they set about beginning their new lives. Unvarnished and evocative, Days on the Road is an extraordinary journal of what it was really like on the trail for the many who emigrated west in a bid to start over.

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity.

When his wife is murdered on his wedding day, Lucas Trask launches himself on a quest for revenge. Using his personal fortune, he buys a spaceship and becomes a Space Viking, raiding worlds while hunting for his wife's killer. But raiding is not his destiny, and he gradually becomes a trader, starting to build a galactic empire. Before he can achieve his new goals, however, he must still deal with his wife's killer. A thrilling intergalactic saga!

Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and - above all - theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but who can be transformed through faith in God's grace.

This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder. The speech is significant both because its topic remains timely and because its arguments illustrate the applicability of the principle of utility to questions of large-scale social policy.

It was in Rome during the autumn of 1877; a friend then living there but settled now in a South less weighted with appeals and memories happened to mention -- which she might perfectly not have done -- some simple and uninformed American lady of the previous winter, whose young daughter, a child of nature and of freedom, accompanying her from hotel to hotel, had "picked up" by the wayside, with the best conscience in the world, a good-looking Roman, of vague identity, astonished at his luck, yet (so far as might be, by the pair) all innocently, all serenely exhibited and introduced: this at least till the occurrence of some small social check, some interrupting incident, of no great gravity or dignity, and which I forget I had never heard, save on this showing, of the amiable but not otherwise eminent ladies, who weren't in fact named, I think, and whose case had merely served to point a familiar moral; and it must have been just their want of salience that left a margin for the small pencil-mark inveterately signifying, in such connections, "Dramatize, dramatize!" The result of my recognizing a few months later the sense of my pencil-mark was the short chronicle of DAISY MILLER. -- Henry James

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, or ‘social contract’, that should exist between all the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, he goes on to consider issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of democratic principles.

This vivid, sensitive tale of adolescent love follows a 16-year-old boy who falls in love with a beautiful, older woman and experiences a whirlwind of changing emotions, from exaltation and jealousy to despair and devotion.

The Life story of a public man cannot help being to some extent the same thing as a history of the times in which he lived, and to the case of none does this remark apply with more force than to that of the "Father of his Country;" which very title shows the degree to which the personality of its bearer became identified with the public life of the nation. While a great deal of the space in this book, consequently, has had to be devoted to American Revolutionary History, it is hoped that excess in this direction has been avoided, and that the main purpose of the work will be attained, i.e. to give its young readers a distinct and vivid idea of the exalted character and priceless services of Washington, so far as these can be brought within the understanding of a child.

Life and adventures of Frank and Jesse James (1880)

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