LM Publishers
-
-
The Energies of Men and The Hidden Self
William James
- Lm publishers
- 3612225852844
"We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources. In some persons this sense of being cut off from their rightful resources is extreme, and we then get the formidable neurasthenic and psychasthenic conditions, with life grown into one tissue of impossibilities, t...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
The Development of Glass Industry in America since Columbus
Charles H. Henderson
- Lm publishers
- 3612225852837
This book deals with the history of Glass Industry Development in America since Columbus. "The progress of the glass industry in America has been far from constant. It has suffered severe and violent fluctuations, amounting almost to annihilation. Several times it has needed to be born again. But th...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
The Deluge in Human History
William J. Sollas; William R. Harper; History and Civilization Collection
- Lm publishers
- 3612225852813
This book deals with the stories of the deluge found in history and literatures. Deluge is the name given to a submersion of the world, related by various nations as having taken place in a primitive age, and in which nearly all living beings are said to have perished. The expression usually refers ...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
On the Evolution of the Family
History of Scientific Knowledge; Herbert Spencer
- Lm publishers
- 3612225852806
This book based on the work of Herbert Spencer and published by the collection "History of Scientific Knowledge", deals with the evolution of the family and analyses the contrast between the principle of family life and the principle of social life. ...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
Moliere : Story of the Greatest French Writer
Margaret Oliphant; Andrew Lang; Great Authors Collection
- Lm publishers
- 3612225852790
This book presents the Story of the Greatest French Writer: Moliere. "Among the many great names which make French literature illustrious, there is scarcely one which is so universally acknowledged and of such national importance as that of Moliere. The graver poets, of whose works Frenchmen are pro...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
History of the Principles of Taxation
History and Civilization Collection; David A. Wells
- Lm publishers
- 3612225852783
This book deals with the History of Taxation and the struggle against arbitrary system of taxation. What is the place of taxation in ancient civilizations and how has it evolved in our present countries (United States of America, England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, China, India...)?...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
History of New Zealand
History and Civilization Collection
- Lm publishers
- 3612225852677
This book presents the History of New Zealand : the "Land of the Long White Cloud". New Zealand is an Island country of the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The date of man's arrival in New Zealand is uncertain. All that can be safely asserted is that by the 14th century A.D. Polynesian canoe-men had rea...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
History of New Guinea and its People
John W. Lindt; Alfred R. Wallace
- Lm publishers
- 3612225852660
This book presents the History of New Guinea and its ihabitants. "Immediately north of Australia, and separated from it at Torres Straits by less than a hundred miles of sea, is the largest island on the globe - New Guinea, a country of surpassing interest, whether as regards its natural productions...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
History of Antarctic Exploration
J.W. Gregory; J.F. James; A. Heilprin
- Lm publishers
- 3612225852653
This book presents the History of Antarctic Exploration. "The search for the supposed great southern continent roused interest in the South Polar area, even earlier than the commercial need for the Northeast or Northwest Passage directed the attention of the European nations to the Arctic seas. Long...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
History of Agriculture : Origin of the Plow and Wheel-Carriage
Louis Bourdeau; Edward B. Tylor; History and Civilization Collection
- Lm publishers
- 3612225850826
This book deals with the History of Agriculture and the Origin of the Plow and Wheel-Carriage. (With illustrations) "Not only the beginning of agriculture, but the invention of the plow itself, is prehistoric. The plow was known to the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians, and the very existence of t...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
History and Evolution of American Agriculture
History and Civilization Collection
- Lm publishers
- 3612225850819
This book deals with the evolution of American agriculture, the effect of machinery both upon production and rural population; and the last chapter attempt to show the development of a distinctly proletarian class upon the farms. "Five periods mark the agricultural history of the United States sin...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
From Freedom to Bondage
Herbert Spencer; History of Scientific Knowledge
- Lm publishers
- 3612225850802
This book based on the work of Herbert Spencer, is published in the collection "History of Scientific Knowledge" "Speaking broadly, every man works that he may avoid suffering. Here, remembrance of the pangs of hunger prompts him; and there, he is prompted by the sight of the slave-driver's lash. ...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
Antiquities of Mexico
History and Civilization Collection
- Lm publishers
- 3612225850796
This book deals with the antiquities of Mexico (with illustrations). "The Mexican Republic extends from the fifteenth to the thirtieth degree of north latitude, and embraces an area of about 750,000 square miles. It is traversed by the continuation of the Cordillera of South America, here called t...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
Ancient History of East Central African Customs
James MacDonald
- Lm publishers
- 3612225850789
"The following account of a few of the customs common among the tribes of east central Africa, in the region of Lake Nyassa, has been gathered from many sources; most of the statements have been revised and corrected by missionaries and others who have, during the past years, been resident in the la...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
What Pragmatism Means
William James
- Lm publishers
- 3612225871470
Based on the work of William James on Pragmatism Method, this book deals with the question : What Pragmatism Means? "The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable. Is the world one or many? - fated or free? - material or spiritual? ...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
What is Love
Great Authors Collection
- Lm publishers
- 3612225871463
What is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves. If we reason, we woul...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
Theories of Primitive Marriage
Herbert Spencer; Lorimer Fison
- Lm publishers
- 3612225871456
This book deals with the history of primitive marriage as that developed by Ferguson McLennan through his work on primitive marriage. Arguing from the prevalence of the symbolical form of capture in the marriage ceremonies of primitive races, he developed an intelligible picture of the growth of the...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
The Survival of African Music in America
Jeannette R. Murphy; Francis H. Jenks
- Lm publishers
- 3612225871449
"Several years from now, when every vestige of slavery has disappeared, and even its existence has become a fading memory, America, and probably Europe, will suddenly awake to the sad fact that we have irrevocably lost a veritable mine of wealth through our failure to appreciate and study from a mus...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
The Origin of Holidays and History of Games
Harlow Gale; Edward B. Tylor
- Lm publishers
- 3612225871432
This book published in "History and Civilization Collection", deals with the historical beginnings and development of holidays and Games. "As ballads are the essence of a people's history, so holidays are the free utterance of their character. Spontaneity is always valuable evidence, and holidays ar...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
The History of Twins and their Character
Galton Francis
- Lm publishers
- 3612225871425
"The exceedingly close resemblance attributed to twins has been the subject of many novels and inlays, and most persons have felt a desire to know upon what basis of truth those works of fiction may rest. But twins have many other claims to attention, one of which will be discussed in the present me...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
Ancient and Modern Ideas of Hell
Frederik A. Fernald; Joseph Hontheim
- Lm publishers
- 3612225872958
The idea of a place for the punishment after death of wicked men is found in most, though not all, of the religions of the present time and of antiquity. According to some beliefs, the punishment is to last forever; according to others, the torments are to continue only for a time, and are to result...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
The North America Indians
Clark Wissler; Franz Boas
- Lm publishers
- 3612226007823
"In North America, as a whole, anthropologists usually recognize from ten to eleven more or less clearly defined culture areas, the approximate borders of which are indicated on the accompanying map. Yet, in most cases these divisions are not absolute, but relative, for rarely can a group of Indians...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe -
The West Indian Bridge between North and South America
Joseph William Spencer
- Lm publishers
- 3612226007731
A glance at a map of the American continent, inclosing the West Indian seas within its mass, suggests that these basins are sunken plains, submerged to only a moderate extent, but the soundings show depths reaching to more than three miles. "It is not too much to say that every spot which is now dry...
20 prêts - durée illimitée
20 Prêt(s) simultané(s)
LCP
Adobe
