This edition includes the complete notebooks (volume one and two). Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist's eye and a scientist's curiosity, he recorded in these pages his observations on the movement of water and the formation of rocks, the nature of flight and optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. He jotted down fables, epigrams, and letters and developed his belief in the sublime unity of nature and man. Through his...
Robert M. Vogel is Associate Professor in the Department of Education at La Salle University. He received an Ed.D. degree in psychoeducational processes from Temple University. A former special education teacher at the secondary level, much of his early work was in the area of experiential education and its effects on learning. More recently, he has written, received, and directed several major grants that focus on active learning. His latest grant, funded by the Jim Joseph Foundation, was a four-year initiative that studied, designed, and implemented flexible scheduling models and staff...
The riot of the individual against the impersonal system. All MUST BE beautiful. At a certain age, everyone undergo a transformation procedure. All beautiful, all the same, all good? She does not want to become forever young and beautiful. This is her father and grandfather knocked down with a pantalica. To read the books and cheerfully, although they are nowhere left now - brain-diluted in beautiful heads is enough of a film. Do you want to stay in your body?...
In the late 1800's, Horatio Alger's books were eagerly devoured by thousands of boys who, like his heroes, aspired to make something of themselves in life. His values, and the values of his era, were simple ones of basic decency, hard work, and optimism. In "Strive and Succeed", we follow the continuing story of Walter Conrad (introduced in "Slow and Steady"), as he attempts to regain his inheritance, swindled out of him by unscrupulous mine operators. Excerpt: “You look very comfortable here, Mr. Barclay,” said Walter. “Yes, I have made the room pleasant. The books and pictures I brought...
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Fragment from Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving: A Treatise Containing Practical Instructions in Cooking; In the Combination and Serving of Dishes; And in the Fashionable Modes of Entertaining at Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner No claim is laid to originality. Receipts which have not stood the test of time and experience are of but little worth. The author has willingly availed herself of the labors of others, and, having carefully compared existing works - adding here and subtracting there, as experience dictated - and having also pursued courses of study with cooking teachers in America and...
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. This work was dedicated to extent people's knowledge about IBM 1401 decimal computer with some description of how it's programming systems work....
The common name is the 13 autobiographical writings of St. Augustine, written around 397-398 AD. er and telling about his life and conversion to Christianity. “Confession”, which is considered to be the first literature in Europe devoted to a Christian writer. It contains only the most valuable information about his spiritual path and the development of philosophical and religious views. The title emphasizes the Christian basis of the work. Turning to the Lord, Augustine confesses the sins of his entire life. He describes his transition from wordless infancy to childhood. Augustine confesses...
The book written by Lebanese-American poet and writer Gibran Khalil Gibran, consisting of 26 prose poems written in English. It was published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. "The Prophet", the most famous writer's work, translated for more than 40 different languages and never stopped to be published. “The Prophet” of Almustafa, who lived in the city of Orfalese, foreign to him, is 12 years old and he's going to board a ship that takes him home. He was stopped by a group of local residents who ask him questions on some philosophical topics. The book is divided into chapters on the main...
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The protracted struggle between science and the classics appears to be drawing to a close, with victory about to perch on the banner of science, as a perusal of almost any university or college catalogue shows. While a limited knowledge of both Greek and Latin is important for the correct use of our own language, the amount till recently required, in my judgment, has been absurdly out of proportion to the intrinsic value of these branches, or perhaps more correctly roots, of study. The classics have been thoroughly and painfully threshed out, and it seems impossible that anything new can be...
The plot of the story revolves around the family of degenerate aristocrats Whateley (Eng. Whateley) [~ 1], living in Massachusetts, in a small settlement Dunvich, located in the upper reaches of the Miskatonic River (Eng. Miskatonic). Dunvich has a very bad reputation, due to the fact that in the local mountains from time to time there is a terrible rumble from under the ground, and the nightjars behave very strangely, according to local beliefs, they are guides to the world of the dead. The Whateley family consisted of a sullen old man, rumored to be engaged in black magic and his albino...
There is much to say. Many have a part in this story of our days. Their work is on the table. Yet no manuscript, no chapter, is a real beginning. One must start a book this way—with a fresh sheet in the machine and tell what he is going to tell about.... First of all, it has to do with the unfolding of the child mind; all the Stonestudy work has been for that, but the brimming wonder of it all is that we have chiefly been employed unfolding ourselves....
In July of 1904 the eighty-seven mortal years of George Frederick Watts came to an end. He had outlived all the contemporaries and acquaintances of his youth; few, even among the now living, knew him in his middle age; while to those of the present generation, who knew little of the man though much of his work, he appeared as members of the Ionides family, thus inaugurating the series of private and public portraits for which he became so famous. The Watts of our day, however, the teacher first and the painter afterwards, had not yet come on the scene. His first aspiration towards monumental...
