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Agustus Henry Keane, A. Hingston Quiggin Man, Past And Present

History
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Ages 18 and up
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Those who are familiar with the vast amount of ethnological literature published since the close of last century will realize that to revise and bring up to date a work whose range in space and time covers the whole world from prehistoric ages down to the present day, is a task impossible of accomplishment within the compass of a single volume. Recent discoveries have revolutionized our conception of primeval man, while still providing abundant material for controversy, and the rapidly increasing pile of ethnographical matter, although a vast amount of spade work remains to be done, is but one sign of the remarkable interest in ethnology which is so conspicuous a feature of the present decade. [more]

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Agustus Henry Keane , A. Hingston Quiggin Man, Past And Present

Language & Literature
English
238600 Words
Ages 18 and up
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Those who are familiar with the vast amount of ethnological literature published since the close of last century will realize that to revise and bring up to date a work whose range in space and time covers the whole world from prehistoric ages down to the present day, is a task impossible of accomplishment within the compass of a single volume. Recent discoveries have revolutionized our conception of primeval man, while still providing abundant material for controversy, and the rapidly increasing pile of ethnographical matter, although a vast amount of spade work remains to be done, is but one sign of the remarkable interest in ethnology which is so conspicuous a feature of the present decade. [more]

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Chung Li June Fang Redhead (2007-Present)

Biography & Autobiography
English
694 Words
Ages 16 and up
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Redhead (2007-Present) is simply a great book about an epiphany that Chung Li June Fang had this morning, [more]

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Agustus Henry Keane , A. Hingston Quiggin MAN, PAST AND PRESENT

Philosophy
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Ages 18 and up
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In order to a clear understanding of the many difficult questions connected with the natural history of the human family, two cardinal points have to be steadily borne in mind--the specific unity of all existing varieties, and the dispersal of their generalised precursors over the whole world in pleistocene times. As both points have elsewhere been dealt with by me somewhat fully[1], it will here suffice to show their direct bearing on the general evolution of the human species from that remote epoch to the present day. [more]

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Arthur H. Norway Naples Past and Present

Fiction
English
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Ages 18 and up
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Arthur Hamilton Norway (1859-1938) was a British civil servant and writer. (He was the father of novelist Nevil Shute, who was born Nevil Shute Norway.) Arthur H. Norway was an eclectic author who wrote everything from the obscure History of the Post-Office Packet Service, between the years 1793-1815 to popular travel books such as Highways and Byways in Devon and Cornwall to the literary Dante; the Divine Comedy, its Essential Significance. Of interest to me is the fact that he was one of those post-Grand Tour grand tourists who wrote a book about Naples: Naples, past and present (1901. pub. Methuen & Co., London). [more]

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Richard Chenevix Trench English Past and Present

Fiction
English
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Ages 18 and up
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Richard Chenevix Trench (Richard Trench until 1873;[1] 9 September 1807 – 28 March 1886) was an Anglican archbishop and poet. In 1851 he established his fame as a philologist by The Study of Words, originally delivered as lectures to the pupils of the Diocesan Training School, Winchester. His purpose, as stated by himself, was to show that in words, even taken singly, "there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up"—a truth enforced by a number of most apposite illustrations. It was followed by two little volumes of similar character—English Past and Present (1855) and A Select Glossary of English Words (1859). All have gone through numerous editions and have contributed much to promote the historical study of the English tongue. Another great service to English philology was rendered by his paper, read before the Philological Society, On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries (1857), which gave the first impulse to the great Oxford English Dictionary. [more]

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