Aneb Publishing: 50 books

The Author of this work, and of the discoveries which it relates, leaves it to his readers to decide whether he excels most as a navigator or a writer, and whether he amuses as much as he instructs. If he has any professional vanity, arising from his enterprises upon the sea, it does not tempt him...

Some portions of the following pages have already appeared in the monthly numbers of the Sanitary Engineer, and the complete work is now published with a view to assist Surveyors of Towns and others who are directly engaged in providing that house dustbins shall be regularly cleared, and streets kept...

When we ask ourselves what are the elements which may constitute China's contribution to the future civilization of the world, what are the characteristics which render her civilization significant to all of us, we enter upon a subject that would in itself require a volume merely to present in outline....

An English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed...

Contents The Last Stroke: A Detective Story (1896) Against Odds (1894) Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter (1883) The Diamond Coterie (1882) Out of a Labyrinth (1885) Dangerous Ground; or, The Rival Detectives (1885) Against Odds (1894) Chicago's 1892 World's Columbian Exposition...

Vicki Barr is a popular mystery series for girls published from 1947 to 1964. Helen Wells wrote volumes #1-4 and 9-16, and Julie Campbell Tatham, the creator of Trixie Belden, wrote volumes #5-8. Wells returned to write the series, but the last volume, The Brass Idol Mystery, though credited to Wells,...

Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Contents Walden On the Duty...

Contents Inhibition Exploiter's End Competition Felony Teething Ring Inhibition- Regardless of scientific attainment, any culture is vulnerable to inhibition. And Saxon was a good agent; no culture nor individual would sway his loyal appraisal.... Exploiter's End- PEOPLE OR TERMITES,...

A New Zealand-born English novelist. A prolific writer, he published thirty-six novels, five volumes of short stories, two plays and three volumes of memoirs. His skill at scene-setting, his vivid plots, his high profile as a lecturer and his driving ambition brought him a large readership in the...

this book is not a spiritualist, nor a psychologist, nor a member of the Society for Psychical Research; nor has he ever had anything more than a transitory and skeptical interest in psychic phenomena of any character. He is a newspaper man whose privilege and pleasure it is to present the facts in...

A playwright and publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. George Baker also performed with comedian Henry C. Barnabee, appearing in "lyceum entertainments" in New England. Contents A Tender Attachment (1871) Santa Claus' Frolics (1868) An Old Man's Prayer (1867) Gentlemen...

John Joy Bell known professionally as J.J. Bell, was a journalist and author. After taking up journalism, Bell worked for the Glasgow Evening Times, and as sub-editor of the Scots Pictorial. His articles depicted the life of working-class Glaswegians, and were often written in the vernacular. He created...

... So we have returned to that which seems to me most important in the relations of paganism and of early Christianity. In many ways paganism provided an environment favorable for the spread of the religion which Jesus founded. The two were at many points irreconcilable, and the former has not always...