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Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market
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A vivid depiction of the world of stocks, investments, and trades. As true today as in 1873, this is a classic and a must-read for all would-be Wall Street types.
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In 1903, sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois set out to describe the experience and position of African Americans living in the United States. Du Bois was a tireless writer and thinker, seeking an end to the r ...
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From the chaotic and bloody front lines of battle to a prisoner of war camp, from the rank and file of the Prussian army to the leadership of a military academy, Carl von Clasewitz experienced the man ...
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With the advent of the modern corporate workplace in the twentieth century, more and more Americans were toiling away behind desks, wearily clocking the standard forty-hour week. By 1910, writer Arno ...
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Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
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You know his name. Now, in his own words, read the incredible story of the wealthiest man in history.
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Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appeara ...
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The World War And What Was Behind It
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[Illustration: The Peace Palace at the Hague] The call from Europe.--Friend against friend.--Why?--Death and devastation.--No private quarrel.--Ordered by government.--What makes government?--The infl ...
Best of Technology Writing 2006
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An innovative collection of writing about the fast-moving, high-stakes field of technology ... The Best of Technology Writing 2006 brings together some of the most important, timely, and just plain re ...
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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This autobiographical tale of the author’s addiction to laudanum—a combination of opium and alcohol—was an instant hit when it was published in 1821, making author Thomas de Quincey famous. The ...
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A sensation since it debuted in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is one of the most important political texts ever written. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were German theorists who, by the mid-nineteenth ...
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Written by her nephew, this memoir offers an intimate, familial look at the figure so many readers have come to know, simply and affectionately, as "Jane."
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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CONCORD RIVER. Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell." ^Emerson^. The Musketaquid, or Grass-ground River, though probably as old as the Nile or Eu ...
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
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WITH INTRODUCTION BY JAMES J. PUTNAM, M.D. Although the author is fully aware of the gaps and obscurities contained in this small volume, he has, nevertheless, resisted a temptation to add to it the ...
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It’s a mad world we live in, not least because each of us has a perfectly original story to tell. This Modern Memoirs Sampler brings that range of experience to live. From the Opium Season’s Afgha ...
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by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. When we study law we are not studying a mystery but a well-known profession. We are studying what we shall want in order to appear before judges, or to advise people in ...
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And move thee on to noble ends." Every woman has had, at some time in her life, an experience with man in the raw. In reality, one cannot set down with any degree of accuracy the age when his rawness ...
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth
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If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal rul ...
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The intertwined stories of Richard Stallman and the development of free software that have changed the way we interact with our digital world.
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