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The present book title ‘Arms and the Woman’ was written by the famous American novelist, screen writer and short story writer Harold MacGrath. It was first published in the year 1899.

The present book ‘Army Life in a Black Regiment’ was written by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. It gives a description of the life in an army regiment of black Americans. It was first published in the year 1886.

The story of Arnold of Winkelried, the famous hero of Switzerland, and of his heroic death in the battle of Sempach, will never lose its interest. The learned iconoclasts, having the advantage of the obscurity of fourteenth-century history, may continue to declare that he is only a legendary hero, as they have asserted of William Tell, but Winkelried, like Tell, still lives in the hearts of the Swiss people as the actual embodiment of patriotic devotion, love of freedom, and love of humanity, and thus he will remain in the hearts of men for all time.

First published in 1925, ‘Arrowsmith’ is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis. It is arguably the earliest major novel to deal with the culture of science. It was written in the period after the reforms of medical education flowing from the Flexner Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1910, which had called on medical schools in the United States to adhere to mainstream science in their teaching and research.

As A Man Thinketh’ is an ideal read for all those who find peace, solace and motivation in inspirational books. It is the second work of author James Allen and can be considered as a remarkable achievement and a mile stone in his career. As A Man Thinketh will be a priced possession for all the inspirational readers, speakers and thinkers.

Book is the end result of enormous research, analysis and development done by the author James Allen. At the end of her entire research, she drives to the conclusion that a man is the result of his or her own thoughts. Your positive and constructive thoughts can make you touch epitome of success while negative and destructive thoughts can land you at the zenith of failure and depression. Basically, your thoughts are the food for your action and in turn, your actions decide what your destiny will be. Author explains the entire concept of relation between human psychologies, construction of path for the journey called life and ultimately destiny of any human being in a clear and lucid manner.

Second most important point covered by the author by means of this book is that every human being is responsible for the construction of his or her future. We often tend to blame circumstances, friends, family, colleagues or other secondary reasons which may have direct or indirect contribution in our success or failure. But we forget that it is us and only us who can be the architect of our success or future. If we have an optimistic approach towards life, then energies in the entire cosmos supports our cause and pave way for our success.

The book is mainly inspired by Buddhist philosophy of life. As per Buddhist scriptures and monks, it is believed that life of a man is the fruit of his or her own thoughts which in turn becomes his or her action.

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Gandhiji believed that character building on the part of every single individual is the only sure foundation for nation building. Students of his philosophy of life who would like to have an idea of his Rule for self-culture would do well first of all to read Appendices A and B in this book. They should then pass on to a study of From Yeravda Mandir — Ashram Observances and of the present volume, and at last dip into Appendix C, which is Gandhiji’s last will and testament in so far as Ashram life is concerned.

The pure celestial deities may be passed over in this treatise and those alone will be noticed who have anything to do in the arena of human life in their ordinary spheres. The astrological bodies again will not come under my review. There are both benign and malign spirits as well as indifferent ones. Some of the spirits exercise double functions, while others do not. It is a striking fact that the generality of the Assamese spirits are malignant.

“It is a magazine whose stories will anticipate the super-scientific achievements of To-morrow—whose stories will not only be strictly accurate in their science but will be vividly, dramatically and thrillingly told. Already we have secured stories by some of the finest writers of fantasy in the world—men such as Ray Cummings, Murray Leinster, Captain S. P. Meek, Harl Vincent, R. F. Starzl and Victor Rousseau.” -Introduction

Kate Chopin born Katherine O’Flaherty; (February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana.

One rainy morning in the month of March, a young man, carefully wrapped in his cloak, stood under the awning of a shop opposite this old house, which he was studying with the enthusiasm of an antiquary. In point of fact, this relic of the civic life of the sixteenth century offered more than one problem to the consideration of an observer. Each story presented some singularity; on the first floor four tall, narrow windows, close together, were filled as to the lower panes with boards, so as to produce the doubtful light by which a clever salesman can ascribe to his goods the color his customers inquire for. The young man seemed very scornful of this part of the house; his eyes had not yet rested on it. The windows of the second floor, where the Venetian blinds were drawn up, revealing little dingy muslin curtains behind the large Bohemian glass panes, did not interest him either.

The present book ‘At the Time Appointed’ was written by a famous American author A. Maynard Barbour. It was first published in the year 1903 and has the theme of WW1 in its centre. This novel revolves around a man logged by mystery, horror, confusions and romance.

“France formerly possessed in North America a vast empire, extending from Labrador to the Floridas, and from the shores of the Atlantic to the most distant lakes of Upper Canada.
“Four great rivers, deriving their sources from the same mountains, divided these immense regions: the river St. Lawrence, which is lost to the east in the gulf of that name; the Western River, whose waters flow on to seas unknown; the river Bourbon, which runs from south to north into Hudson’s Bay; and the Mississippi, whose waters fall from north to south into the Gulf of Mexico.” -an excerpt

A great many passages in this book testify to Charles Fillmore’s persistent interest in what is popularly called atomic energy and the promise held out by its development of a better world for mankind.

“Mr. Liveing’s story is very well told. It is a simple and most vivid account of a modern battle. No better account has been written in England since the war began.” -Introduction by John Massfeild

“It is customary at the close of a Preface to make some acknowledgment of the services rendered by others in the preparation of a volume; but in my case this aid has been so generous, so abundant, and so helpful, that I must reverse the order of things and begin by saying that my heartiest thanks are due to the many who have assisted me in a work which for many years has been my dream.” -Preface

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This book was written to inspire children all around the world in all nationalities and backgrounds who dare to dream. For if they can think it in their minds, and feel it in their hearts, they can achieve it if they try. Be like Tincy the Ant and don’t listen to people who say what you CAN’T do and what you CAN’T be in life. Tell yourself what you CAN do and what you CAN be in life.

Famous writer Mabel Osgood Wright’s present book ‘Aunt Jimmy’s Will’ is a fictional novel which was first published in the year 1903.

Autobiography of a Yogi introduces the reader to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters with spiritual figures of both the East and West. The book begins with his childhood family life, to finding his guru, to becoming a monk and establishing his teachings of Kriya Yoga meditation. The book continues in 1920 when Yogananda accepts an invitation to speak in a religious congress in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He then travels across America lecturing and establishing his teachings in Los Angeles, California. In 1935 he returns to India for a yearlong visit. When he returns to America, he continues to establish his teachings, including writing this book.

The book is an introduction to the methods of attaining God-realization and to the spiritual thought of the East, which had only been available to a few in 1946. The author claims that the writing of the book was prophesied long ago by the nineteenth-century master Lahiri Mahasaya.

This is the autobiography by the richest man of his time, after Rockfeller, who donated most of his fortune to establish schools and universities in many countries.

As this book is intended not so much for scholars as the general public, I have not attempted more than a series of readable sketches. The same, consideration has led me to adopt the autobiographical form, which, with the supposition of an intelligent companion, gives me some of the advantages of a conversational style.

A 1912 novel by Eliza W. Peattie, ‘Azalea’ is a story of Elia’s life-long goals, to raise her family out of poverty and to have them rise to cultural refinement. A story of real struggles that real people witness in all times, it has a heart warming ending, which no reader could let go.

Bapu’s betrothal with Ba took place when Bapu was only six and Ba seven. The actual marriage came off when he was thirteen years of age. Thus, they lived a long married life of sixty-two years. This means that Ba alone of all persons had the unique opportunity to see and understand Bapu’s life in all its completeness – both at its weakest and strongest. She was a close witness of Bapu’s spiritual progress from overindulgence in sensual pleasure to perfect brahmacharya. When he made a resolve to observe brahmacharya she readily accepted it as her own. Her noblest virtue, to quote Bapu’s words, was this that ‘she was never the temptress.’ Thus, as his partner in the performance of life’s duty Ba played the role of a real helpmate in the making of Bapu’s life. She never came in the way of Bapu’s efforts for his spiritual progress. Writing about it in his Autobiography Bapu says: “Willingly or unwillingly, consciously or unconsciously, she has considered herself blessed in following in my foot-steps and has never stood in the way of my endeavour to lead a life of restraint.” —From the Book

Babbitt’, first published in 1922, is a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Largely a satire of American culture, society and behavior, it critiques the vacuity of middle-class American life and its pressure toward conformity. Sinclair Lewis received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930 for this book.

Several years ago I stood beside a cot in a hunter’s cabin in the heart of the Bitter Root Mountains in Idaho, after a three days’ ride, and watched a valuable young life go out as the result of an unattended compound fracture of the thigh. At another time I amputated a leg to prevent the spread of gangrene from a simple cut across the instep while the camper was splitting wood, an accident which, properly treated, would have resulted at most only in a slight inconvenience. Once again, I transformed my boat into a funeral barge and conveyed a young man who had only been in10 the water three minutes back to his sorrowing parents dead, because his companions were ignorant of how to resuscitate him.

The Essays, which are ten in number, abound with condensed thought and practical wisdom, neatly, pressly, and weightily stated, and, like all his early works, are simple, without imagery. They are written in his favorite style of aphorisms, although each essay is apparently a continued work, and without that love of antithesis and false glitter to which truth and justness of thought are frequently sacrificed by the writers of maxims. from this Book

The present volume is not a record of original work, nor is it a text-book for the laboratory. This book is of a less technical nature. It is an attempt, in response to the editor of the series, to set forth a popular scientific statement of our present knowledge of bacteria.