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A Synopsis of the Birds of North America by John James Audubon
“The figures and descriptions contained in the works entitled “The Birds of America,” and “Ornithological Biography, or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States,” having been issued in the miscellaneous manner which was thought best adapted to the occasion, or which was rendered necessary by circumstances, seemed to require a systematic index, in which the nomenclature should be corrected, and the species arranged agreeably to my present views. This Synopsis, then, will afford a methodical catalogue of all the species hitherto discovered in the vast regions, extending from the northern confines of Mexico to the Polar Seas, and which have been described, and, with few exceptions, depicted in the works above named.” -Preface
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill
This book makes no pretense of giving to the world a new theory of the intellectual operations. Its claim to attention, if it possess any, is grounded on the fact that it is an attempt, not to supersede, but to embody and systematize, the best ideas which have been either promulgated on its subject by speculative writers, or conformed to by accurate thinkers in their scientific inquiries.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities begins in London and Paris and presents the most remarkable saga of love, chaos, duality and uprising all through the French Revolution. It was the best of times, the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom and the age of foolishness. In 1775 Lucie Manette, a young orphan realised that she had been living a fake life. Her father whom she had taken for dead was, in fact, alive. Charles Darnay, the self-exiled nephew of the Marquis Evremonde was accused of sedition. Madame Defarge, a victim of the French nobility made a registry of those condemned to die and Sydney Carton, an alcoholic English lawyer in love with Lucie. They were all fighting the social issues that had besieged France and England. A Tale of Two Cities is a masterpiece which captures the reader’s attention towards its haunting narrative of the French Revolution. Charles Dickens presents a picture of sacrifice and redemption through this fiction and believes firmly in the virtues of renaissance and transformation.
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
First published in the year 1859, the present novel ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ by famous Victorian novelist Charles Dickens is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette imprisoned 18 years in the Bastille in Paris, his release from prison and into life in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met, her marriage and the collision between her beloved husband and the people who decades earlier caused her father to be imprisoned. Monsieur and Madame Defarge, sellers of wine in a poor suburb of Paris also figure in the Doctor’s story. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution, and the worst year of it, the Reign of Terror.
A Tale of Two Drops by Harsh Vardhan
A Tale of Two Drops’ is an interesting and inspiring story of a trendsetting campaign for polio eradication in Delhi which became a model for the rest of the country to follow. In fact, it can be adopted as a model for the battle against any wide-spread disease in the developing world. The book should interest medical professionals, health authorities and non-government organizations engaged in public cause campaigns.
It makes an interesting reading how individuals and organizations in diverse fields—religion, sports, films, art and culture, social service and even politics—were motivated and activised to participate in the movement. Innovative and imaginative methods were used, old traditional practices and modern management methods were simultaneously used to achieve quick and effective results.
In brief, it is a guide for policy planners and health workers and an insight in a public campaign which will interest a general reader.
A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll
First published in the year 1885, the present book ‘A Tangled Tale’ is a collection of 10 brief humorous stories by famous children’s author and mathematician Lewis Carroll. These stories present mathematical problems. The mathematical interpretations of the Knots are not always straightforward.
A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams
A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams. The life of a cowboy is tough, but finding love can be even more difficult.
A Textbook of Theosophy by C. W. Leadbeater
“There is a school of philosophy still in existence of which modern culture has lost sight.” In these words Mr. A.P. Sinnett began his book, The Occult World, the first popular exposition of Theosophy, published thirty years ago. [Namely in 1881.] During the years that have passed since then, many thousands have learned wisdom in that school, yet to the majority its teachings are still unknown, and they can give only the vaguest of replies to the query, “What is Theosophy?”
Two books already exist which answer that question: Mr. Sinnett’s Esoteric Buddhism and Dr. Besant’s The Ancient Wisdom. I have no thought of entering into competition with those standard works; what I desire is to present a statement, as clear and simple as I can make it, which may be regarded as introductory to them.
A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Weaver & LeCron
“A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband with Bettina’s Best Recipes” by Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron.
