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A short history of the printing press and of the improvements in printing machinery from the time of Gutenberg up to the present dayThe simple form of wooden press, worked with a screw by means of a movable bar, continued in use for about...

This book is a short introduction to the development of the Roman Rite of Mass, the most widely used of the Church's liturgical rites, from its origins in early Christianity until the present day. Over the centuries, the form of Mass most Catholics are...

A Short History of the Royal Navy, 1217 to 1688A glance at a globe turned so as to bring the British Isles directly under the eye will at once reveal the most effective of all the material causes which have made them the seat...

A Short History of the Royal Navy, 1217-1815. Volume II, 1689-1815I submit this second part of the Short History of the Royal Navy to the kindness of the reader and the animadversions of reviewers with a profound sense of its deficiencies. That some were...

A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials - Illustrated by a Verbatim Report of the Trial of Mrs. Elizabeth HoweThe proceedings in witchcraft in 1692 to us who are two hundred and twenty years removed from the scene, seem, at first, impossible,...

A Short History of the 6th Division: Aug. 1914-March 1919This short history has been compiled mainly from the War Diaries. My reason for undertaking the task is that there was no one else to do it, the units composing the Division being scattered far...

"In 2008, Americans face war, terrorism, recession and the rising economies of China and India. Yet the author avers there is still reason to hope for good leadership. Astute assessments of an evolving nation and ideal reading for November voters." -- Kirkus ReviewsA much-needed,...

A Short History of the United States for School UseThe aim of this little book is to tell in a simple and concise form the story of the founding and development of the United States. The study of the history of one's own country...

A Short History of the World The story of our world is a story that is still very imperfectly known. A couple of hundred years ago men possessed the history of little more than the last three thousand years. What happened before that time...

Explore the failures, mistakes, and missed opportunities that shaped history. From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder to the unsuccessful stint in medical school that led to a career in naturalism for Charles Darwin, to the missile detection system...

A Short History of the Worshipful Company of HornersThe discovery of the Old Book of the Worshipful Company of Horners, which has probably been missing for some 250 years, has brought added interest to the consideration of what is, perhaps, the oldest of the...

Nominated for the Man Booker Prize "A charming comedy of eros . . . A ride that, despite the bumps and curves in the road, never feels anything less than jaunty." --Los Angeles Times "Charming, poignantly funny." --The Washington Post Book World'Two years after...

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the best books in trans studies in recent years" by Susan Stryker "A beautifully written and argued book." - Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby There is no shortage...

The trans panic has not always been with us: it was invented Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson's richly detailed narrative takes us from New York, London, and Paris to the colonial districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawai'i to tell a richly detailed...

A Short History of WalesThis little book is meant for those who have never read any Welsh history before. It is not taken for granted that the reader knows either Latin or Welsh. A fuller outline may be read in The Story of Wales,...

A Short History of Women's Rights - From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.While making some researches in the evolution of women's rights, I was impressed by the...

A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln - Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A HistoryAbraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States, was born in a log cabin in the backwoods of Kentucky on the 12th day of February 1809. His father,...

A Short List of Scientific Books Published and Sold by E. & F. N. Spon, Limited. September 1909 MYRON C CLARK, NEW YORK THE BUSINESS CODE COMPANY, CHICAGO SPON & CHAMBERLAIN, NEW YORK NOTE: The Prices in this Catalogue apply to books sold in...

A Short List of Scientific Books Published by E. & F. N. Spon, Limited. February 1914Spons' Architects' and Builders' Pocket Price-Book and Diary, 1913. Edited by Clyde Young. Revised by Stanford M. Brooks. Forty-first ed., viii + 308 pp., 16mo, green leather cloth (size...

A Short List of Scientific Books Published by E. & F. N. Spon, Limited. June 1913 A SHORT LIST OF SCIENTIFIC BOOKS PUBLISHED BY E. & F. N. SPON, Limited, 57, Haymarket, London, S.W. MYRON C. CLARK, NEW YORK SPON & CHAMBERLAIN, NEW YORK...