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The world's most famous detective in large easy to read print!
I have tried to show how Christmas is or has been kept in various lands and ages, and to trace as far as possible the origin of the pagan elements that have mingled with the Church's feast of the Nativity.
Old Testament Apocrypha : A collection of apocryphal books dealing with the History of the World, from the Creation to the Death of Judas Maccabeus. Translated for the 1st time from a unique manuscript found in the Bodlian Library.
To the best of my knowledge, the theme of European Troglodytes has remained hitherto undealt with, though occasional mention has been made of those on the Loire. It has been taken for granted that cave-dwellers belonged to a remote past in civilised Europe; but they are only now being expelled in Nottinghamshire and Shropshire, by the interference of sanitary officers.
This book may be prophetic... not in a religious sense but of a political prophecy. The author has indeed predicted the dire straits the US government is in today. Even scarier is the title of his last addendum to the book... "When the towers fall"...written in 1891
A remarkable book on observations of the greatness of Texas culture, people, and geography, written in 1876.
Written in 1690, this is one of John Locke's most expansive and famous works, republished by TGS Historical Reprints.
This is the first and most general division of the objects of our understanding. This seems to me the first and most general, as well as natural division of the objects of our understanding. For a man can employ his thoughts about nothing, but either, the contemplation of things themselves, for the discovery of truth
3 Books in ONE Volume!: THE hand of eternal progress is brushing the cobwebs from the corridors of time and is again revealing to the human race the mysteries of being. As there is "nothing new under the sun," the searchlight of Truth is bringing to light only what has been known to the few in all generations.
In the following pages I have endeavoured to tell in a popular way the story of the Norman Conquest, and to give an idea of the principal personages who figured in England at the period when that memorable event took place; and I have endeavoured, I hope not without some degree of success, to treat the subject in a popular and picturesque style, without any sacrifice of historic truth.
Trevor Cameron's story continues as he is attacked on Biscayne Bay by Drug Smuggling Terrorists. He tracks them to the Bimini and finds the smugglers are really Terrorists with a plan to bring a nuclear bomb to Miami. Only Trevor is in a position to stop them. But can he?
The Great Pyramid has excited many researchers. Some of these were so impressed with its magnificance they turned their studies into new religions. Russell was one such researcher. While there's no need to adhere to these errant religions, there also much to glean from these author's observations and research. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater?
When the powers-that-be succeeded in ignoring-and then silencing-the nation's widespread dissent over war, one man stood on an Oscar stage and, in front of a billion people, outed the commander in chief for his fictitious presidency and his fictitious war. Now, just a few months later, those words have remarkably become the accepted truth of the land.
A valuable research effort from 1874. Had the people of earth heeded it's revelations would our planet be ailing from human destruction today? George P. Marsh offers an object, fair, and balanced look at how mankind is destroying the planet and how man has benefitted the planet. Nearly 500 pages and heavily documented with over 640 footnotes. This is one of the early books published on 'greening' the earth and making our planet sustainable. An environmentalist's resource!
In this volume the myths and legends of ancient Egypt are embraced in a historical narrative which begins with the rise of the great Nilotic civilization and ends with the Gr
This may be the only translation of the New Testament that attempts to bring in the emphasis from the ancient Greek language to the English reader.
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