Wilfrid: 97 books

From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” to “Big Spender,” from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in popular culture. For four glittering decades, geniuses like Jerome Kern,...

I ought perhaps to have named this volume “The Awakening of India,” because it describes the condition of Indian things at the time of Lord Ripon’s viceroyalty, which was in truth the awakening hour of the new movement towards liberty in India, the dawn of that day of unrest which is the necessary prelude to full self-assertion in every subject land.

Mexican Martyrdom is a series of true stories of the terrible anti-Catholic persecutions which took place in Mexico in the 1920s. Told by the Jesuit priest, Fr. Wilfrid Parson, these stories are based upon cases he had seen himself or that had been described to him personally by the people who had...

The most important ingredient in life is honesty. None of us are perfect yet life is not about perfect. It is about falling down, getting up, and trying again. This book takes some of the wrappers off to see what’s inside. Life is inviting us all to do the same. In 2001 I was fortunate enough...

England-born poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson's work epitomizes the peak of late Romanticism. Readers whose poetic taste runs to the classic and traditional will find much to admire in this collection, which brings together some of Gibson's most accomplished and stirring verse.

Un fabuleux voyage dans les secrets du temps… À la banque du temps, la belle Manie Ganza a fait un terrible marché : des siècles de vie contre des milliers de morts. Et alors que sa propre mère, la reine d’Éther, cherche à la tuer, des royaumes entiers se déclarent la guerre. Partout,...

If a man supports Arsenal one day and Spurs the next then he is fickle but not necessarily illogical. From this starting point, and assuming no previous knowledge of logic, Wilfrid Hodges takes the reader through the whole gamut of logical expressions in a simple and lively way. Readers who are more...

'Medical technology is beneficial for well researched dangerous diseases. However, most symptoms that people bring to their primary care physician have no single clearly identifiable cause: investigations and drugs do more harm than good - and also waste resources - ' - Wilfrid Treasure Diagnosis...

If you enjoy calypso, the battle of the drums, the containment of a serpent in a nice circus, may your imagination and the wanders of life take you into Some Moments in My life. This collection of poems, thoughts and prayers inspired by Wilfrid Amisial's life explores a journey in rhythm with the love of God.

EXTRAIT: Tel est, comme nous l’avons dit dans notre article nécrologique sur Jean-Baptiste Donati, le nom de la science nouvelle que l’immortel directeur de l’Observatoire d’Arcetri a créée, quelques mois avant d’être enlevé par une terrible épidémie.

EXTRAIT: Coste (Jean-Jacques-Marie-Cyprien-Victor), célèbre naturaliste français, que nous venons de perdre, était originaire du département de l’Hérault. La petite ville de Castries, située au milieu d’un des plus riants cantons des environs de Montpellier l’a vu naître, il...

EXTRAIT: Le père Denza, directeur de l’observatoire de Moncalieri, a attaqué, dans une lettre que publient la plupart des journaux italiens, les prédictions faites par les astronomes de Paris sur les pluies et les chaleurs de l’été. Le savant astronome a eu la bonne idée de donner...

EXTRAIT: Le 19 juin 1873, le Great-Eastern, escorté de trois ou quatre puissants steamers, quittait Valentia et mettait le cap vers l’Amérique.