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Lead, Kindly Light

By: Vincent Sheean

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In this book, the author of Personal History, Vincent Sheean, demonstrates that Gandhi’s life, work and teaching were for the whole world as well as for India. it is suggested that the terrifying weapon of non-violence, having freed India, might be about to free the world. Though this book is in one sense an attempt to reveal the meaning of Mahatma Gandhi’s power and life and teaching, it is, in a more important sense, the author’s eloquent testament of belief in Gandhi’s mission. Vincent Sheean went to India to ask Gandhi many questions. It was a quest brought on by the failure of every other human institution to supply hope for the future. What he learned there, from Gandhi and others, is of immense, immediate importance to all men everywhere and to the future of humanity. Thoughtful men have begun to see that the only weapon even more awesome than the atom bomb, the only weapon able to contend with it on anything like equal terms, is the irresistible weapon of non-violence conceived by Mahatma Gandhi. Here is the record of its first great success, the story of how it was created, and a clear, sympathetic explanation of the philosophy that brought it into being, indeed made it inevitable. Here, also, are chapters on the background of Hindu philosophy, on Gandhi’s own beliefs and how he applied them, on Gandhi’s progress from an obscure lawyer in South Africa to his position as India’s leader and deliverer and the greatest force for peace at the present time, on the author’s own meetings with Gandhi, the assassination and funeral, both of which he witnessed, and a final chapter of the author’s conclusions on Gandhi’s meaning to the future of world peace in this atomic age. The title of the book comes from Gandhi’s favourite hymn, which was always sung on solemn occasions, including the funeral march to the Ganges.

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1789123577

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Lead, Kindly Light

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Madame Curie - A Biography by Eve Curie

By: Vincent Sheean

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Madame Curie - A Biography by Eve Curie

By: Vincent Sheean

Marie Curie is a women who changed the face of science for all time, not just because of her discovery of the radioactive element Radium and her work with it, but because of her incredible strides forward in a such a male dominated world as laboratory science at the turn of the 19th century. This is the Madame Curie many people know but here is a biography written by her daughter Eve that shows her human side, in a way that can only be viewed and admired from a family member describing her as a caring mother, devoted and passionate wife. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Read Books Ltd

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1447485459

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Into the World’s Great Heart

Selected Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

By: Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Into the World’s Great Heart

Selected Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

By: Edna St. Vincent Millay

An annotated selection of the letters of the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay, from childhood through the last year of her life Throughout her life, Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote hundreds of letters, which together create a colorful tapestry of her inner life. This selection, based on archival research, represents Millay’s correspondence from 1900, when she was eight, until 1950, the last year of her life. Through her letters, readers encounter the vast range of Millay’s interests, including world literature, music, and horse racing, as well as her commitment to gender equality and social justice. This collection, edited by Timothy F. Jackson, includes previously unpublished correspondence, as well as letters containing early versions of poems, revealing new dimensions in Millay’s creative process and influences. It is enriched by Jackson’s thoughtful introduction and notes, plus a foreword by Millay’s literary executor, Holly Peppe. Millay’s observations on her inner life and the world around her—which speak to contemporary concerns as well—add to our understanding of American literature in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Yale University Press

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0300271662

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9780300271669

At the Edge of the World

The Heroic Century of the French Foreign Legion

By: Jean-Vincent Blanchard

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At the Edge of the World

The Heroic Century of the French Foreign Legion

By: Jean-Vincent Blanchard

The remarkable story of the French Foreign Legion, its dramatic rise throughout the nineteenth century, and its most committed champion, General Hubert Lyautey. An aura of mystery, romance, and danger surrounds the French Foreign Legion, the all-volunteer corps of the French Army, founded in 1831. Famous for its physically grueling training in harsh climates, the legion fought in French wars from Mexico to Madagascar, Southeast Asia to North Africa. To this day, despite its reputation for being assigned the riskiest missions in the roughest terrain, the mystique of the legion continues to attract men from every corner of the world. In At the Edge of the World, historian Jean-Vincent Blanchard follows the legion's rise to fame during the nineteenth century--focusing on its campaigns in Indochina and especially in Africa--when the corps played a central role in expanding and protecting the French Empire. As France struggled to be a power capable of rivaling the British, the figure of the legionnaire--deadly, self-sacrificing, uncompromisingly efficient--came to represent the might and morale that would secure a greater, stronger nation. Drawing from rare, archival memoirs and testimonies of legionnaires from the period and tracing the fascinating career of Hubert Lyautey, France's first resident-general in Morocco and a hero to many a legionnaire, At the Edge of the World chronicles the Foreign Legion at the height of its renown, when the corps and its archetypically handsome, moody, and marginalized recruits became both the symbols of a triumphant colonialism and the stuff of legend.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0802743870

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9780802743879

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

A Neurochronometrics of Mind

By: Vincent Walsh,Alvaro Pascual-Leone

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

A Neurochronometrics of Mind

By: Vincent Walsh,Alvaro Pascual-Leone

A guide to the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation to reversibly disrupt cortical functioning as a means of studying perceptual and cognitive functions.

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MIT Press

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0262232286

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9780262232289

Internet Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Television Series, 1998-2013

By: Vincent Terrace

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Internet Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Television Series, 1998-2013

By: Vincent Terrace

This is the first ever compilation on Internet television and provides details of 405 programs from 1998 to 2013. Each entry contains the storyline, descriptive episode listings, cast and crew lists, the official website and comments. An index of personnel and programs concludes the book. From Barry the Demon Hunter to Time Traveling Lesbian to Hamilton Carver, Zombie P.I., it is a previously undocumented entertainment medium that is just now coming into focus. Forty-eight photos accompany the text.

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McFarland

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0786479930

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9780786479931

Anatomic Study of the Clitoris and the Bulbo-Clitoral Organ

By: Vincent Di Marino,Hubert Lepidi

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Anatomic Study of the Clitoris and the Bulbo-Clitoral Organ

By: Vincent Di Marino,Hubert Lepidi

This eagerly awaited book offers a unique, comprehensive scientific study of the anatomy of the organ of female sexual pleasure. The authors use macroscopic and microscopic research to guide the reader from the glans, the visible part of the clitoris, where they explore the impressive sensory corpuscles, to the hidden roots of the bulbo-clitoral organ. They show its complexity, its exact location within the external genitalia and its intimate relationship with the urethro-vaginal pyramid. They also remind us that throughout history there has been a failure to understand this organ and explain that this misunderstanding remains the cause of persistent excisions, criminal mutilating practices that have not yet been eradicated. Using extensive iconography, they demonstrate throughout this book that the bulbo-clitoral organ is an exceptional natural treasure that every woman possesses and that every man should know well.

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160

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Springer

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3319048945

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9783319048949

Madame Curie - A Biography by Eve Curie

By: Eve Curie

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Madame Curie - A Biography by Eve Curie

By: Eve Curie

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140673246X

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Book's by Vincent Sheean

Lead, Kindly Light

Lead, Kindly Light

Lead, Kindly Light

Lead, Kindly Light

Madame Curie - A Biography by Eve Curie

Madame Curie - A Biography by Eve Curie

Into the World’s Great Heart

Into the World’s Great Heart

At the Edge of the World

At the Edge of the World

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Internet Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Television Series, 1998-2013

Internet Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Television Series, 1998-2013

Anatomic Study of the Clitoris and the Bulbo-Clitoral Organ

Anatomic Study of the Clitoris and the Bulbo-Clitoral Organ

Madame Curie - A Biography by Eve Curie

Madame Curie - A Biography by Eve Curie

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