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  • Vampyre (and the other Tales of Macabre)

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    Series series Great Books
    The collection of Victorian Vampire Stories is an anthology of works created in an era when the vampire myth began to actively penetrate literature and popular culture. These stories, written in the 19th century, reflect the fears and fantasies of Victorian society, exploring themes of death, immortality, sexuality and morality through the prism of Gothic literature. The collection includes such ... Read more

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  • Prometheus

    How Fire Was Given to Men

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    Prometheus is a hero of Grecian mythology who is considered as a friend of men, as stealing fire from heaven for their benefit. "With fire they could at least warm their bodies and cook their food," Prometheus thought, "and later they could make tools and build houses for themselves and enjoy some of the comforts of the gods." On account of various services rendered to men, he was chained by Zeus ... Read more

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  • 2024 Summer Games

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    Series Book 6 - Manga Library
    The Ipsen Foundation is proud to offer you this one-of-a-kind manga, the result of an inspiring collaboration between 22 mangakas and 22 extraordinary athletes. In celebration of the 2024 Summer Games, we undertook an ambitious project to highlight the 22 sports disciplines that will showcase the greatness of this competition.Page by page, each discipline comes to life through the artistic skills ... Read more

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  • History of Cotton, Wool and Textiles

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    On the 3d of May 1734, there was a hanging at Cork which made a good deal more noise than such a very ordinary event generally did in those days. There was nothing remarkable about the malefactor, or the crime he had committed. He was a very commonplace ruffian, and had earned his elevation to the gallows by a vulgar felony. What was remarkable about the affair was, that the woollen weavers of ... Read more

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  • The Franks

    A History of European Nations

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    Who were the Franks? Anyone who wants to know the history of European nations, must read the history of the Franks. Beyond the Roman Empire, the foundation of medieval Europe also depends on the Franks whose empire evolved into the modern France and other European countries. This book, based on historical works, deals with the rise and development of the Franks, and their influence in the history ... Read more

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  • Jules Verne

    The Scientific Novelist

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    Jules Verne was the prophet, the foreseer and foreteller of our great mechanical age. This great writer belongs today not to his country France, but to the world. Widely as his works have been read in his own country, their popularity has been yet wider in America and England. Much as he has been honored at home, even higher glory has been accorded him, we are told, in far Japan. His books have ... Read more

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  • Montaigne, the Founder of the Modern Essay

    Life of a Representative Man of the Western Literature

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    This book deals with the life andworks of "Montaigne, the founder of the modern essay". He was known as one of themost significant philosophers and writers of the Western literature.The French author of the Essays was born, as he informs ushimself, between eleven and twelve o'clock in the day, the last of February1533, at the chateau of St. Michel de Montaigne. His father, Pierre Eyquem,esquire, ... Read more

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  • Diogenes and the Cynic Philosophy

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    Diogenes was a famous Greek philosopher, known as one of the founders of Cynicism.Banished from his native country and without any resource, Diogenes was reduced to great indigence. He perceived one day, a mouse running briskly up and down, without any fear of being surprised by the approach of night, without any anxiety about a lodging-place, and even without thinking of food. This reconciled him ... Read more

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  • Thomas Edison: How He Succeeded

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    The public is familiar with the record of Thomas Edison, who is considered the greatest inventor the world has ever known. How did he succeed?“On February 11th, 1845, was born at Milan, Ohio, Thomas A. Edison...At eight or nine years of age he began to earn his own living, selling papers. When twelve years old his enterprise, pushed by ambition, secured him a position as newsboy on the Grand Trunk ... Read more

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  • Natural History of Cetacea

    Whales and Dolphins

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    This book deals with a natural history of Whales and Dolphins, aquatic mammals within the order of Cetacea.The Whales form one of the most extraordinary groups of the Mammalia, for they are warm-blooded, air-breathers, and sucklers of their young, and are most strangely adapted for life in a watery element. Oddly enough the term “Fish” is still applied to them by the whalers, though they have ... Read more

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  • The influence of diet on endurance and general efficiency

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    Experimental study of the physiological needs of the body for food has indicated that the real requirements of the system, especially for proteid foods, are far below the amounts called for by existing dietary standards, and still farther below the customary habits of the majority of mankind. The ability of the body to maintain a condition of physiological equilibrium, with a true nitrogen balance ... Read more

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  • Pioneers of Science in America

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    This book presents the stories of american pioneers distinguished in science: Benjamin Franklin; Joseph Henry; John Torrey; James Dwight Dana; Edward Drinker Cope; Spencer Fullerton Baird; John James Audubon ; Alexander von Humboldt; Louis Agassiz; Joseph Leidy... ... Read more

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