Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language is one of the most famous dictionaries in history. First published in 1755, the dictionary took just over eight years to compile, required six helpers and listed 40,000 words. Each word was defined in detail, the definitions illustrated with quotations covering every branch of learning. It was a huge scholarly achievement, a more extensive and complex dictionary than any of its predecessors – the comparable French Dictionnaire had taken 55 years to compile and required the dedication of 40 scholars....
Number of pages: ~ 53 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.7/5

by Benjamin L. D'Ooge
Latin for Beginners
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D'Ooge designed this beginners grammar to prepare a student for reading Caesar and other classical Latin authors. The lessons are very well structured, gradually introducing new vocabulary and grammar. There is plenty of accumulative knowledge, meaning that you don´t forget what you learned in previous lessons. The book also contains a dictionary and an extensive index....
Number of pages: ~ 149 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.7/5

Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
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Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Grace Christie is a practical guide on these noble arts. The author describes the tools for embroidery and tapestry weaving, different sorts of materials, and techniques. In addition, much attention is dedicated to examples obtained photographically from various collections....
Number of pages: ~ 350 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.8/5

by John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
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A celebration of individuality, diversity, and nonconformity, On Liberty still makes a persuasive argument for what John Stuart Mill believed to be humankind’s essential liberties: the freedoms of speech, assembly, and the pursuit of pleasure, so long as one’s actions do not impede the liberty of another. These freedoms, he maintained, result in a far more successful society than one ruled by the tyranny of the majority. An exploration of the limits of government over the individual, this treatise on personal liberty has inspired debate since its publication in 1859, and has provided the...
Number of pages: ~ 146 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.8/5

by Royal Dixon
Forest Friends
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It was a beautiful evening in the forest, and under the moonlight there was a great gathering of friends. Mr. and Mrs. Elephant, and the Kangaroos, the Foxes, and the handsome Leopards, even sprightly little Miss Lynx, and a number of the aristocratic jungle Deer were seated, all in a great circle, around the pleasant pool which shone in the moonlight, and displayed the loveliest of lilies afloat upon its surface....
Number of pages: ~ 252 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.7/5

by Alice Mabel Bacon
Japanese Girls and Women
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In 1891 the author described the life of girls and women growing up in Japan. 120 years later this book is republished to give the 21st century reader an historical perspective....
Number of pages: ~ 252 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.7/5

The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere
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José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda, popularly known as José Rizal; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896), was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement which advocated political reforms for the colony under Spain. He was executed by the Spanish colonial government for the crime of rebellion after an anti-colonial revolution, inspired in part by his writings, broke out. Though he was not actively involved in its...
Number of pages: ~ 252 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.7/5

by Silvanus P. Thompson
Calculus Made Easy
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Calculus Made Easy is a popular math book to help modern readers of all levels understand the subject on calculus through simple way and explanation. It's not just theory-based but contains exercises and answers so readers can test and practice the understanding for each chapter. Besides that, this 2020 edition also comes with additional fun and enjoyable numbers logic puzzle challenges for readers to strengthen thinking power. Here's the comprehensive topics on calculus you'll learn inside: To Deliver You From The Preliminary Terrors On Different Degrees of Smallness On Relative Growings...
Amazon Rating ~ 4.8/5

by Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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Marcus Aurelius was born in Rome in 121 AD and would become its Emperor from 161 to 180. Considered by Machiavelli as the last of the good Emperors, Marcus Aurelius would become one of the most important of the Stoic philosophers. Educated in oratory, he would turn aside from rhetoric to the study of the Stoic philosophy, of which he was the last distinguished representative. The "Meditations," which he wrote in Greek, are among the most noteworthy expressions of this system, and exhibit it favorably on its practical side. The work is a series of twelve books that he intended for his own...
Number of pages: ~ 142 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.7/5

by Max C. Thompson
Birds from North Borneo
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Birds from North Borneo is a classic Borneo birding journal by Max C. Thompson. The major part of this report is an account of birds collected by the expedition of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum of Honolulu, Hawaii, to North Borneo, from June 24, 1962, through January 14, 1963. Most of the time spent in the then British Colony was devoted to collecting in lowland habitats. The chief collecting localities were in the vicinity of Quoin Hill on the Semporna Peninsula, and near Kalabakan. Approximately two weeks were spent in surveying the Tenom area. Additional work was done by the North Borneo...
Number of pages: ~ 94 pages
Amazon Rating ~ 4.8/5