Chapter 1: MY UNCLE MAKES A GREAT DISCOVERY. Looking back to all that has occurred to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my adventures. They were truly so wonderful that even now I am bewildered when I think of them. My uncle was a German, having married my mother's sister, an Englishwoman. Being very much attached to his fatherless nephew, he invited me to study under him in his home in the fatherland. This home was in a large to...
Chapter 1: In Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One as Master, the Other as Man Mr. Phileas. Fogg lived, in 1872, at No.7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention. This Phileas Fogg was a puzzling gentleman, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world. People said that he resembled the poet Byron - at least ...
Universal Digital Library
United States -- Politics and government 1775-1783; Explanatory notice -- Introduction -- Common sense -- Appendix -- Epistle to Quakers
Medical Reference Publication
The Inter-Regional Meeting on Health and Trade: Toward the Millennium Round, arranged by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), WHO Regional Office for the Americas (AMRO), was held from 3 to 5 November 1999 at the PAHO Headquarters in Washington, D.C. The objective of the meeting was to explore possible cooperation mechanisms between the health service and trade sectors, in order to develop health protection and promotion st...
When Skyla looks at a person’s shadow she sees through it and into another world. She can see people’s fears, desires, their past sins—all as swimming, living creatures. This has attracted unwanted attention from the theocracy as well as a witch hunter who intends to capture her by whatever means possible. When she disappears, it raises more questions and an unlikely search party is formed.
On cover: Special winter number of the Studio, 1906-7
Cottages ; Architecture, Domestic
Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ; Boston Library Consortium
The financial crisis which erupted in mid-2007 has been widely viewed as the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis which originated in developed countries quickly spread to developing countries and the rest of the world. The turbulence in financial systems was followed by a significant reduction in real economic activity throughout the world. The crisis has highlighted that financial markets are inherently unstable and market f...
Fourier, Mechanical Engineering, August, 2005, pp 30-31 (a condensation of ?Fourier?the Father of Modern Engineering?)
Excerpt: The Famous Philosopher. Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy
Preface: The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art?s aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these t...
Introduction: NATURE (the art whereby God hath made and governs the world) is by the art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an artificial animal. For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within, why may we not say that all automata (engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life? For what is the heart, but a spring; and the nerves, but so...
Excerpt: VOL. I OF THE UNDERSTANDING. ADVERTISEMENT. My design in the present work is sufficiently explained in the Introduction. The reader must only observe, that all the subjects I have there planned out to myself, are not treated of in these two volumes. The subjects of the Understanding and Passions make a compleat chain of reasoning by themselves; and I was willing to take advantage of this natural division, in order to try the taste of the public. If I have the go...
A collection of over twenty Dutch fairy tales including: The Entangled Mermaid, The Princess with Twenty Petticoats, and Why the Stork Loves Holland.
Bibliographies with some of the lectures; 1891 and 1892 never published
The year is 1880, and Jack Baker is a young, driven student at Harvard University for Engineers. In this America, industry depends on "Creation" magic rather than machines, and most engineers are train repairmen, not inventors like Jack. Even his Creationist friend Clare thinks Jack's genius is going to waste at Harvard. There is one man who knows how to put Jack to use, however: famous novelist and sometimes spy Ellis Graveworthy, who wants Jack to come with him...