Henry Thomas: 190 books
by Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at each calendar month through the eyes and minds of our most...
Prairie Bride; or, the Squatter's Triumph
A Reprint Of The Classic Beadle Dime Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
A fight breaks out over a claim in this action-filled homesteading story. The hardships of covered wagon life, the danger of the prairie fire, and the romance of the young bride's new home made this a best-seller in 1869.
One of the things that made dime novels so popular was the lurid cover...
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. I HAVE endeavoured to show, in the preceding Essay, that the ANTHROPINI, or Man Family, form a very well defined group of the Primates, between which and the immediately following Family, the CATARHINI, there is, in the existing world, the...
Enlightenment and Secularism
Essays on the Mobilization of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including...
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
It is an usual and a commendable practice to preface the discussion of the views of a philosophic thinker by some account of the man and of the circumstances which shaped his life and coloured his way of looking at things; but, though Zadig is cited in one of the most important chapters of Cuvier's greatest...
King James - Geneva - American Standard - Basic Bible in English - New Heart English - World English - Youngs literal - Parallel Bible
King James 1611 - Geneva 1560 - American Standard 1901 - Basic English 1949 - New Heart 2010 - World English 2000 - Young'S Literal 1898
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2017
This publication contains King James Bible (1611, Pure Cambridge, Authorized Version) and Geneva Bible (1560) and American Standard Bible (1901) and Bible in Basic English (1949) and New Heart English Bible (2010) and World English Bible (2000) and Young's Literal Bible (1898) translation. It has...
Indigenous Men and Masculinities
Legacies, Identities, Regeneration
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine, concepts that were unimaginable and shocking to Euro-western peoples at contact. "Indigenous Men and Masculinities",...
Kafka's Creatures
Animals, Hybrids, and Other Fantastic Beings
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's. Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman creatures into his writing, this volume is the first collection in English of essays devoted to illuminating...
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
I HAVE selected to-night the particular subject of Yeast for two reasons— or, rather, I should say for three. In the first place, because it is one of the simplest and the most familiar objects with which we are acquainted. In the second place, because the facts and phenomena which I have to describe...
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
NATURAL HISTORY is the name familiarly applied to the study of the properties of such natural bodies as minerals, plants, and animals; the sciences which embody the knowledge man has acquired upon these subjects are commonly termed Natural Sciences, in contradistinction to other so-called “physical”...
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. IN the last Lecture I endeavoured to prove to you that, while, as a general rule, organic beings tend to reproduce their kind, there is in them, also, a constantly recurring tendency to vary— to vary to a greater or to a less extent. Such...
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
The inquiry which we undertook, at our last meeting, into the state of our knowledge of the causes of the phenomena of organic nature, — of the past and of the present, — resolved itself into two subsidiary inquiries: the first was, whether we know anything, either historically or experimentally,...
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
It has been objected to my argument from Leviticus (suprà p. 170) that the Hebrew words translated by “creeping things” in Genesis i. 24 and Leviticus xi. 29, are different; namely, “reh-mes” in the former, “sheh-retz” in the latter. The obvious reply to this objection is that the question...
Rethinking Risk Assessment
The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries. Legislatures, courts, and the public have come to expect that mental health professionals will protect them from violent acts by persons with mental disorders. Yet for...