Biography & Autobiography

Eminent Doctors: Their Lives and Their Work; Vol. 2

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George Thomas Bettany


Short biographies of doctors who were leaders in their profession. In this collection, we learn about men who developed specialities, of ten…

Adventures in Idealism

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Eugene Benjamin, Boris Bogen, Saul Drucker, Jacob Lipman, Solomon Lowenstein, Bernard Palitz, Joseph W. Pincus, Katharine Sabsovich and George W. Simon


Professor H. L. Sabsovich is recognized as one of the foremost figures in the field of Jewish social service. A great part of his active lif…

Hobbes

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Leslie Stephen


Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…

Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field - Tales They Told to a Fellow Correspon…

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Henry William Fischer


This work brings new understanding of the life and work of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) while living and traveling abroad. Twain and fellow h…

Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland

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Felix Mendelssohn


A collection of the letters which Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy wrote while in Italy and Switzerland. Mendelssohn, a multifaceted talent of th…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 06

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne


Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…

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