c - Libros y biografía

Adaptation of the story of Robinson Crusoe for grammar school children. Tells how the shipwrecked sailor makes a new life for himself on the island, providing shelter, food, and clothing for himself from...

Published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself was written in response to critics who questioned the authenticity of the experiences Douglass drew...

This is a narrative poem written by C.S. Lewis, begun in his teen years and published when he was a tutor at Oxford. It appeared in print under the pseudonym of "Clive Hamilton," which is the author's...

”Let no one make you think that you are too young to serve God. That is not true. As soon as you know right from wrong, you are old enough to begin taking the right way. As soon as you are old enough...

A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days before surfaced roads and automobile tourism. As the author explains, the spectacular views are well worth the effort of pushing your bicycle up the...

It is here proposed to give some account of Jewish life in the first and second centuries A.D., under Roman rule in Syria, which—in spite of the terrible episodes of the sieges of Jerusalem in 70 A.D....

Shipwrecked and castaway, Daniel DeFoe’s hard-luck character is still the standard for “growing where you’re planted.” Captured by pirates, he makes his break in a small boat and undergoes desperate adventures...

A charming and informative volume about the trees one might find in one's backyard and farther environs. A touch of science and a love of beauty are displayed here.

Jim, an axe-man for a sawmill, who is a hard-knuckled, two-fisted fighting man when he has to be, but is shy around women, longs to find a wife and settle down. Two women, one a mercenary widow of the...

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the essence of practical wisdom, set forth in admirable order and...

Follow the intertwined lives of the stunningly beautiful, committed, and unashamedly Christian pacifist, and missionary from Capo Delgado Mozambique, Mandy Koulsen, Colonel Nick Pavalios, the commanding...

Betsy Thoughtless is about marriage, rather than dealing with courtship and thus differs from the type of domestic writing that would develop in the 19th century such as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre....

How does occultism regard vegetarianism? It regards it very favorably, and that for many reasons. These reasons may be divided into two classes: those which are ordinary and physical, and those which...

Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. The fables remain a popular choice...

Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, also known as James Albert, was a freed slave and autobiographer. His autobiography is considered the first published by an African in Britain. Gronniosaw's autobiography was produced...

A fictionalized version of the self-discovery of primitive man, including: fire, cooking, defense and protection, architecture, community, communication, religion, government, and social interaction

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The work was first published in book form in 1915 and sold over 60,000 copies in nine editions within the...

Canada's past is more dramatic than any romance ever penned. . . . All that has been attempted here is such a story of the romance and adventure in Canada's nation building as will give the casual reader...

This book is often described as an instruction manual on the subject of rat-catching. It does indeed contain a good deal about rats, ferrets and dogs, but it is much more than that. Barkley fills the...

Charles Pinckney, member of the South Carolina legislature, Confederation Congress, U.S. Congress, and notably the Constitutional Convention of 1787, may have been regarded by some as perhaps the true...

"“Digger Smith” is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a leg and with “ANZAC eyes” ... what a later war would call “The Thousand...

The Sex Cycle Collection is a collection of four books: The Sex Cycle, Seduced by Seduction, Fires of Fornication and After All is Said .... The Sex Cycle: Foreplay, Intercourse & the After. Read...

Abby and Pembrake are thrown further into trouble and closer together as the fight for the past heats up.They'll have one chance to save the future. If it slips away, so will their lives....The Witch...

The Force arrive, and this time, they can't lose.Diana and Sampson reach Baxan A. But so do their enemies. The Force won't let them open the time gate to buy the Milky Way one last chance.But Sampson...

Great. Jerome now knows about ghosts. Things couldn't get worse, right? Wrong. Arcane continues his march into the city, and before him, things start to crumble.The body count soon mounts, and Lily is...

This is it. No going back now. I've drunk from the most powerful vampire in the city, and he won't let me go.I'm thrust head-first into the dark world of vampires and greed. But I will soon find out I...

Four nifty Science Fiction stories by the great C. M. Kornbluth. The Adventurer - The Altar at Midnight - With These Hands and The Marching Morons. All were first published in the 1950s - Summary by...

La première partie de ce chapitre donne un exposé de la place d’Ehrenberg dans le milieu universitaire de l’époque. La deuxième partie reprend ses principales contributions, la troisième partie discute...

It's time to find out who she truly is.No more hiding from her destiny – Elizabeth Luck must hunt it down. And that hunt will turn into a fight. A brutal one. For some dark force has a fate in mind for...

The end arrives.When Benson turns against Lizzie, she has no choice but to fall into the Shadow's arms. He welcomes her, but at a price. If she wants his help to save Hope City and Benson's life, it will...