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Book Synopsis Burton's Book on California and Its Sunlit Skies of Glory by : George Ward Burton
Download or read book Burton's Book on California and Its Sunlit Skies of Glory written by George Ward Burton and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Burton's Book on California and Its Sunlit Skies of Glory (Classic Reprint) by : George W. Burton
Download or read book Burton's Book on California and Its Sunlit Skies of Glory (Classic Reprint) written by George W. Burton and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Burton's Book on California and Its Sunlit Skies of Glory The main purpose in offering to the public the pages that follow is to make known to readers outside of California the attractiveness and beneficial effects of life inside of this Golden State. After more than a quarter of a century of newspaper work in the State, many readers of the "copy" produced by the author at frequent intervals suggested the publication of some of it in book form. Yielding to these suggestions, the author collected the best things he had to offer, and about the beginning of the current year undertook to test the sincerity of the admiration expressed by his friends. They stood the test in a manner which the author hopes will not add to his conceit, but will make everlastingly permanent his deep sense of gratitude for the depth and firmness of this friendship. To express it in exact terms is to state that in three months he sold the whole first edition of 1000 copies, and when the matter went to press about the end of March every book had been subscribed for. The author acted as his own book agent, and during the three months never went outside of the corporate limits of the city of Los Angeles. The name given this book requires more apology than the matter itself. It came in a perfectly natural way. Friends who had subscribed for a copy met others on the street and said, "Have you heard of Burton's book?" So one of the nearest and best friends of the author caught the inspiration and named the book for him. To those abroad who shall read the pages here offered and think there is a little too warm admiration expressed for "California and its sunlit skies of glory" the following quotation from a little talk made in January of this year before the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association of Los Angeles at an annual banquet is offered, not as an excuse, but as an explanation for the authors love of his adopted State: "I have lived in the State of California nearly all the time for the last forty-three years and of all these, thirty-five or more of them were spent here in Southern California, nearly all of them in Los Angeles - on this most fruitful of all soils, under these most brilliant skies of glory that shine upon the earth from pole to pole, from the meridian of Greenwich or that of Washington, around the equator to the place of beginning. My comment upon this important fact is that life here on these flower-decked mesas, beneath the shadows of these purple mountains, by the rippling music of these turquoise seas, among good people like these gathered around us here tonight, has been to me a more valuable asset than all the millions our friend John D. Rockefeller ever became possessed of, not to mention the millions the United States tried to fine him, but seems to have met with a little debacle in that enterprise. To make this more plain, let me say that forty-three years ago in June I had undergone an examination by three physicians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis BURTONS BK ON CALIFORNIA & ITS by : George Ward 1839 Burton
Download or read book BURTONS BK ON CALIFORNIA & ITS written by George Ward 1839 Burton and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Burton's Book on California and Its Sunlit Skies of Glory by : George Ward Burton
Download or read book Burton's Book on California and Its Sunlit Skies of Glory written by George Ward Burton and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts by : Charissa Bremer-David
Download or read book Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Decorative Arts written by Charissa Bremer-David and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated work brings together more than one hundred objects from the J. Paul Getty Museum’s collection of European decorative arts. Included here is a generous selection of French and Italian furniture from the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Masterpieces by André-Charles Boulle, Bernard (II) van Risenburgh, and others reveal the virtuoso craftsmanship that makes these objects such compelling examples of the furniture maker’s art. Many of the Museum’s finest pieces of porcelain, glass, and tin-glazed earthenware are also represented. Tapestries from Gobelins and Beauvais, bronze firedogs from Fontainebleau, and a lathe-turned ivory goblet of astonishing complexity from Saxony are among the other highlights of this handsome volume.
Book Synopsis Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 by : Harris Newmark
Download or read book Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 written by Harris Newmark and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The End of an Era by : John Sergeant Wise
Download or read book The End of an Era written by John Sergeant Wise and published by Boston New York, Houghton, Mifflin. This book was released on 1899 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Empathy Exams by : Leslie Jamison
Download or read book The Empathy Exams written by Leslie Jamison and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From personal loss to phantom diseases, The Empathy Exams is a bold and brilliant collection, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Essay Collection of Spring 2014 Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions about our basic understanding of others: How should we care about each other? How can we feel another's pain, especially when pain can be assumed, distorted, or performed? Is empathy a tool by which to test or even grade each other? By confronting pain—real and imagined, her own and others'—Jamison uncovers a personal and cultural urgency to feel. She draws from her own experiences of illness and bodily injury to engage in an exploration that extends far beyond her life, spanning wide-ranging territory—from poverty tourism to phantom diseases, street violence to reality television, illness to incarceration—in its search for a kind of sight shaped by humility and grace.
Book Synopsis Pioneer to the Past (Abridged, Annotated) by : Charles Breasted
Download or read book Pioneer to the Past (Abridged, Annotated) written by Charles Breasted and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenging and exciting life of James Henry Breasted spanned the most important years of the early western exploration of ancient Egypt. He was at the center of turbulent and world-changing events, including World War I and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter. An immensely talented scholar, he explored the Nile Valley and its antiquities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, recording inscriptions and participating in digs with men like Petrie. At his side was his wife, as well as his son Charles, who wrote this admiring work about the life and times of his father. James Breasted was consulted with by such men as General Allenby during WWI. When Howard Carter discovered Tut's tomb in 1922, one of the first men he and his patron, Lord Carnarvon, contacted was Breasted. He not only saw the tomb shortly after its discovery, his effort to mediate between Carter and the Egyptian government when Carter was later locked out of the tomb is detailed here. You cannot understand ancient Egypt or modern Egyptology without knowing about Breasted's remarkable life. He was the founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers, tablets, and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Book Synopsis The Brightest Stars by : Fred Schaaf
Download or read book The Brightest Stars written by Fred Schaaf and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fred Schaaf is one of the most experienced astronomical observers of our time. For more than two decades, his view of the sky-what will be visible, when it will be visible, and what it will look like-has encouraged tens of thousands of people to turn their eyes skyward." —David H. Levy, Science Editor, Parade magazine, discoverer of twenty-one comets, and author of Starry Night and Cosmic Discoveries "Fred Schaaf is a poet of the stars. He brings the sky into people's lives in a way that is compelling and his descriptions have all the impact of witnessing the stars on a crystal-clear dark night." —William Sheehan, coauthor of Mars: The Lure of the Red Planet and The Transits of Venus In this book, you’ll meet the twenty-one brightest stars visible from Earth. You’ll learn how to find these stars and discover the best ways to see them. Each star is profiled in a separate chapter, with detailed guidance on what to look for while observing it. Suitable for beginners as well as experienced amateur astronomers, the book shares fascinating information about the lore and legends connected with each star through history, as well as what the science of astronomy has to teach us about the star’s physical nature.
Book Synopsis Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 by : Harris Newmark
Download or read book Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 written by Harris Newmark and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913" (Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark) by Harris Newmark. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis The Light Inside the Dark by : John Tarrant
Download or read book The Light Inside the Dark written by John Tarrant and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1999-11-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark guide to the spiritual journey, respected Zen teacher and psychotherapist John Tarrant brings together ancient Eastern traditions and the Western passion for the soul. Using real-life stories, Zen tales, and Greek myths, The Light Inside the Dark shows how our darkest experiences can be the gates to wisdom and joy. Tarrant leads us through the inevitable descents of our journey--from the everyday world of work and family into the treasure cave of the interior life--from which we return with greater love of life's vivid, common gifts. Written with empathy and a poet's skill, The Light Inside the Dark is the freshest and most challenging work on the soul to he published in years.
Book Synopsis Composition-rhetoric by : Stratton Duluth Brooks
Download or read book Composition-rhetoric written by Stratton Duluth Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mother of Peace by : Hak Ja Han Moon
Download or read book Mother of Peace written by Hak Ja Han Moon and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the untold story of Hak Ja Han Moon, the North Korean village girl who is now known to millions as the Mother of Peace. Her heart-wrenching story reveals details of a war-torn childhood and trials of faith as she and her late husband, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, built a vast and still-growing international movement capable of fulfilling God's will for peace in the 21st century. A major milestone of her life, described in never-told-before detail, was her marriage in 1960, at age 17, to the charismatic Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon. For the next 52 years, she joined him in the daunting task of building a global interfaith movement to fulfill God's will for peace in the 21st century. Mother Moon's journey as a religious woman leader is breathtaking: Born in Japanese-occupied Korea in 1943, she spent her early life in nature so she could commune with God. War forced her to flee south with her mother and grandmother; they crossed the Han River Bridge minutes before it was blown up. Later, she walked and worked side-by-side with Father Moon, one of history's most energetic and visionary men. They visited every corner of the earth and, despite relentless persecution, met with world leaders, including Mikhail Gorbachev and Kim Il Sung, to bring God's message for them. During this time, she bore 14 children and buried four. She stood with Father Moon for hours as they officiated at Marriage Blessing Ceremonies for hundreds of thousands of couples. Together, they launched hundreds of organizations and businesses to serve youth, family and peacemaking. Since Father Moon's passing in 2012, Mother Moon has shouldered the leadership of their still-growing movement. She has led "Peace Starts With Me" rallies in six continents and plans to bring Blessing Ceremonies to all people. "As I complete this book, one person I dearly miss at this moment is my beloved husband, Father Sun Myung Moon. We spent our lives together to convey and accomplish God's will ... If he were here to witness the publication of this book, his face would shine with a joy greater than that of anyone else. The sparkle in his eyes is dancing in my heart today. I hope that this book will reveal a taste of our life spent together for God's will." - Hak Ja Han Moon
Book Synopsis Contemporary American Composers by : Rupert Hughes
Download or read book Contemporary American Composers written by Rupert Hughes and published by Boston : L.C. Page. This book was released on 1900 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters by : Bliss Perry
Download or read book The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters written by Bliss Perry and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1921-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: