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Reading the Bible on your own can be intimidating. But it doesn't have to be! This short, simple guide will equip and inspire kids 8+ to explore God's word for themselves.Features: - Explanations of how the Bible fits together- Brief introductions to the various...

A Short History of a Long Travel from Babylon to BethelWritings of the first Quakers, even minor writings, often kindle in us today an ardor to seek what they sought and to find what they found. The excellent book by Luella M. Wright entitled...

A Short History of AstronomyI have tried to give in this book an outline of the history of astronomy from the earliest historical times to the present day, and to present it in a form which shall be intelligible to a reader who has...

A Short History of Birds & Beasts, for the Amusement and Instruction of ChildrenThere is no bird treated with so much cruelty as the Cock; for he, poor[6] thing, (without the least offence,) is tied to a stake, and thrown at by a set...

Ten beautifully illustrated essays tell the stories of handcrafted objects and their makers, providing inspiration and insight into Black history and craftsmanship. Black artisans have long been central to American art and design, creating innovative and highly desired work against immense odds. Atlanta-based chairmaker...

Until 2004 and the publication of A Short History of Boston, there was no good short history of the city of Boston, not in print anyway. With economy and style, Dr. Robert Allison brings Boston history alive, from the Puritan theocracy of the seventeenth...

A Short History of Christianity - Second Edition, Revised, With AdditionsIn the dozen years that have passed since this book was written there has probably been some change in the outlook of the more critical of the readers to whom it might be said...

Dissects Man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces. "To miss reading this book would be a deprivation."--Los Angeles Times E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history--focusing on such major issues of the...

A Short History of EBooks- This book is dedicated to all those who kindly answered my questions during ten years, in Europe, in America (the whole continent), in Africa, and in Asia. with many thanks for their time and their friendship. - Marie Lebert...

A Short History of EnglandIt will be very reasonably asked why I should consent, though upon a sort of challenge, to write even a popular essay in English history, who make no pretence to particular scholarship and am merely a member of the public....

A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland Will the readers of this little work please bear in mind the difficulties which must attend the painting of a very large picture, with multitudinous characters and details, upon a very small canvas! This book is...

A Short History of English Agriculture'A husbandman', said Markham, 'is the master of the earth, turning barrenness into fruitfulness, whereby all commonwealths are maintained and upheld. His labour giveth liberty to all vocations, arts, and trades to follow their several functions with peace and...

A Short History of English LiberalismNo rational man ever did govern himself by abstractions and universals.... A statesman differs from a professor in an university; the latter has only the general view of society.... A statesman, never losing sight of principles, is to be...

A Short History of English MusicThis book is not, in any sense, technical. It is an attempt to give a simple and rational, though in a volume of this size, necessarily incomplete, account of events that have led to the complex state of music...

A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898hen Mr. Plomer consented at my request to write a short history of English printing which should stop neither at the end of the fifteenth century, nor at the end of the sixteenth century, nor at 1640, but...

The world-renowned economist offers "dourly irreverent analyses of financial debacle from the tulip craze of the seventeenth century to the recent plague of junk bonds." --The Atlantic. With incomparable wisdom, skill, and wit, world-renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith traces the history of the major...

A Short History of France One of the greatest achievements of modern research is the discovery of a key by which we may determine the kinship of nations. What we used to conjecture, we now know. An identity in the structural form of language...

A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 1 of 2 - Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumesThis, the third edition, represents a considerable expansion of the second (1906), which in its turn was a considerable expansion of the first (1899)....

A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 - Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumesWhile France was thus passing from general fanaticism to a large measure of freethought, England was passing by a less tempestuous path to a...

A Short History of French LiteratureAn attempt to present to students a succinct history of the course of French literature compiled from an examination of that literature itself, and not merely from previous accounts of it is, I believe, a new one in English....