Percy: 428 books

Professor Quarles is the most lovable, the most learned, the most unpoliceman-like detective we have yet met. As a matter of fact he is not a detective at all, but a scholar, specialising in philosophy and keenly interested in the human motives behind every act. Criminal cases interest him only when...

Written in the 1800's or early 1900's. This takes place during the French Revolution in the 1700's. Richard is the main character as is Jeanne an aristocrat whom Richard helps. (Goodreads)

This book is set in the 1600's. The Duke of Monmouth was trying to set up a rebellion against King James. Barbara Lannison was an orphan and in the care of her uncle, Sir John. She was supposed to marry someone with status and carry on her good English name. One problem, she was madly in love with a Highway man. (Goodreads)

Roy encounters a frightening mystery while in camp. A great tale for young readers and grown ups as well.

A classic detailing a Boy Scout troop. Exciting reading for Boy Scouts and older men as well.

In the character and adventures of Roy Blakeley are typified the very essence of Boy life. He is a real boy, as real as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He is the moving spirit of the troop of Scouts of which he is a member, and the average boy has to go only a little way in the first book before Roy is...

A thrilling tale of a hike, starring Roy and his buddy Pee Wee, the star of his own stories. Approved by the Boy Scouts of America, this tale is great reading for the whole family.

Few countries possess a richer architectural heritage than India, a country whose buildings are rooted in history, culture, and religion. As a results of India's global discourse with other regions around the world, there have been many influences that have been assimilated into its architecture,...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. When an American sets out to found a college, he hunts first for a hill. John Harvard was an Englishman and indifferent to high places. The result is that Harvard has become a university of vast proportions and...

First published in 1912. 17 black-and-white illustrations. According to the Preface: "It is frequently and emphatically asserted by reviewers of golf books that golf cannot be learned from a book. If they would add 'in a room' they would be very near the truth--but not quite. It would be quite possible...

Unique in the literature of planners, architects, and urban officials, Rebuilding Cities is a compendium and analysis of the achievements of city planning from the ""Ideal City"" of Palmanova in 1593 to the innovative achievements of planners and designers of the twentieth century....

One of the most important unsolved problems of current physics, astronomy, and cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy. These two invisible components of the universe seem to control the behavior of galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and the accelerating expansion of the universe, but...

L’auteur de Mandeville est un des plus illustres exemples du pou-voir intellectuel du siècle présent. Il a fait preuve de cette variété, de cette universalité de talents qui distingue l’homme destiné à hériter d’un renom durable, d’avec ceux qui possèdent une célébrité passagère....

Camarades, je ne suis pas Irlandais, et cependant j’ai de la sympathie pour vous. J’espère qu’il ne se trouvera parmi vous personne pour lire cet appel avec prévention ou avec dédain, parce que son auteur est un Anglais ; certes je crois que pas un de vous ne pensera de la sorte....