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British Popular Customs, Present and Past - Illustrating the Social and Domestic Manners of the People. Arranged According to the Calendar of the Year.In presenting the following pages to the Public I do not lay claim to any originality, my object simply having been...

British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII - January and April, 1871American Press, The,; Influence of the Press on Civilization, 1, 2; Raymond's Life, 3; The Newspaper in America, ib.; Reviews, 5; Want of a Comic Periodical, ib.; Roman Catholic Organs, 6; Religious Journalism,...

British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV - July and October, 1871The history of the Roman Empire must ever have an interest peculiar to itself. It stands alone. Nothing in the past has been, nothing in the future can be, like it. It was...

British Royal Proclamations Relating to America, 1603-1783This volume is the outgrowth of action taken by the Society at its annual meeting in October, 1906, when a committee consisting of Mr. Waldo Lincoln, Professor William MacDonald, and Dr. J. Franklin Jameson was appointed to arrange...

British Sea BirdsAmongst the many natural objects that confront the visitor to the sea, there are none more readily detected than birds. The wide waters of the ocean and its varied coast-line of cliff or sand, shingle or mud-flat, are the haunts of many...

British Secret Service During the Great WarThis book is not published with the sole idea of increment to its builder; it presumes to venture beyond. When old machinery is continued in use year after year with no thought for wear and tear, no effort...

British Socialism - An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical ProposalsIts opponents have described it as "a doctrine of sordid materialism and of atheism," they have denounced it as "the gospel of everlasting bellyful,"[1] and as "the coming slavery."[2] They have stated...

British Sports, for the Amusement of Children Title: British Sports, for the Amusement of Children Author: William Belch Release Date: May 20, 2010 [EBook #32452] Language: English Credits: Produced by Roberta Staehlin, David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file...

British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 The essay which follows had been printed, and was on the point of being published, when the outbreak of war involved my venture in the general devastation from which we are only now emerging. More than four years...

The New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, and Anxious People captivates readers with this "warm and satisfying" (People) story "about a woman rediscovering herself after a personal crisis...fans of Backman will...

BrittanyThe gray and somewhat uninteresting village of Douarnnez undergoes a change when the fishing-boats come home. Even with your eyes shut, you would soon know of the advent of the fishermen by the downward clatter of myriads of sabots through the badly-paved steep streets,...

BrittanyBrittany can hardly claim the attention of the tourist as a superlatively beautiful country. The way in which trees are clipped and tortured out of shape disfigures the sylvan landscape; and of mountain scenery there is none. The ranges of the Montaignes Noires and...

Brittany & Its Bywayssome account of its inhabitants and its antiquities; during a residence in that country. DinanAscent of the RanceStatue of Du Guesclin, 44Siege of 1359Duel of Du Guesclin and Thomas of Cantorbry, 45Castle of MontfilantStory of Gilles de Bretagne, 46Lunatic AsylumCastle of...

2025 Eisner Award Nominee!New York Public Library Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2024American Library Associate Top 10 Best Graphic Novels for Adults of 2024Starred Review from Publishers Weekly. "It's a revealing visualization of a rare, 'depersonalizing' condition and how Sweeney finds 'drops of disabled...

Brknk's BountyThis job is better than anything I could get in the newspaper racket. I work all summer, it's true, but I get the winter off, though some of the offers for winter work are mighty tempting. Maybe if I hadn't been kicked off...

Broad Grins - Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, ThoseMy Booksellers informd me, lately, that several inquiries had been made for My Night-Gown and Slippers,but that every copy had been sold;they had been out of print these two years.Then publish them again, said...

Broad Stripes, Bright Stars is a look book of our most cherished American icons --the Flag, the Eagle, Uncle Sam, and Lady Liberty--through hundreds of patriotic objects created during the past two and a half centuries, and how these permeated the lives of Americans....

Broad-Sword and Single-Stick - With Chapters on Quarter-Staff, Bayonet, Cudgel, Shillalah, Walking-Stick, Umbrella and Other Weapons of Self-DefenceThe favour with which my little brochure on boxing has been received induces me to put together a few ideas on the subject of attack and defence...

New York in the Roaring Twenties--a riveting true-crime novel, based on one of the most notorious unsolved murders of the era, where power, politics, and secrets conspire to bury the truth.Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her Midtown apartment, a...

A groundbreaking exploration that reveals the powerful impact of marginalized groups on the evolution of the Broadway Musical. At the turn of the 20th century, immigrants, Jews, Queers, and African Americans faced exclusion from mainstream American society, with limited employment opportunities. They found their...