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Author : H L M. Mencken
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Download or read book The Vintage Mencken; Gathered by a Cooke written by H L M. Mencken and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book The Vintage Mencken written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Hadley Press
ISBN 13 : 1443725609
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (437 download)
Download or read book The Vintage Mencken written by Alistair Cooke and published by Hadley Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...earth. r' = radius of moon, or other body. P = moon's horizontal parallax = earth's angular semidiameter as seen from the moon. f = moon's angular semidiameter. Now = P (in circular measure), r'-r = r (in circular measure);.'. r: r':: P: P', or (radius of earth): (radios of moon):: (moon's parallax): (moon's semidiameter). Examples. 1. Taking the moon's horizontal parallax as 57', and its angular diameter as 32', find its radius in miles, assuming the earth's radius to be 4000 miles. Here moon's semidiameter = 16';.-. 4000::: 57': 16';.-. r = 400 16 = 1123 miles. 2. The sun's horizontal parallax being 8"8, and his angular diameter 32V find his diameter in miles. ' Am. 872,727 miles. 3. The synodic period of Venus being 584 days, find the angle gained in each minute of time on the earth round the sun as centre. Am. l"-54 per minute. 4. Find the angular velocity with which Venus crosses the sun's disc, assuming the distances of Venus and the earth from the sun are as 7 to 10, as given by Bode's Law. Since (fig. 50) S V: VA:: 7: 3. But Srhas a relative angular velocity round the sun of l"-54 per minute (see Example 3); therefore, the relative angular velocity of A V round A is greater than this in the ratio of 7: 3, which gives an approximate result of 3"-6 per minute, the true rate being about 4" per minute. Annual ParaUax. 95. We have already seen that no displacement of the observer due to a change of position on the earth's surface could apparently affect the direction of a fixed star. However, as the earth in its annual motion describes an orbit of about 92 million miles radius round the sun, the different positions in space from which an observer views the fixed stars from time to time throughout the year must be separated ...
Download or read book THE VINTAGE MENCKEN written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alistair Cooke
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1446547272
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)
Download or read book The Vintage Mencken written by Alistair Cooke and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
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Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Vintage written by Henry Louis Mencken and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Wagner
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452910170
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book H. L. Mencken written by Philip Wagner and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blends biographical and critical commentary to provide an overview of the controversial newspaperman and writer's life and work
Author : Martin S. Fridson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471174004
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book It Was a Very Good Year written by Martin S. Fridson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1998-01-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bisweilen schießen die Finanzmärkte entgegen allen Erwartungen in die Höhe und verschaffen den Investoren so überdurchschnittlich hohe Renditen von 35% und mehr in einem einzigen Jahr. Einmal ist es der Aktienmarkt, dann der Rentenmarkt oder der Immobilienmarkt. Dies ist das erste Buch, das den Versuch unternimmt, zu erklären, warum bestimmte Investitionen zu verschiedenen Zeiten in die Höhe geschnellt sind, damit Investoren ähnliche Trends in Zukunft rechtzeitig erkennen können. Jedes Kapitel vermittelt dem Leser einen echten Einblick in die Ereignisse der 10 besten Hausse-Jahre des vergangenen Jahrhunderts. Unterhaltsam und fesselnd geschrieben, gespickt mit zahlreichen historischen Anekdoten und schillernden Persönlichkeiten aus der jeweiligen Zeit, ist dieses Buch eine willkommene Lektüre nicht nur für Investoren, Finanzexperten, Journalisten und Studenten der Finanz- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, sondern ebenso für Interessierte Laien. (01/98)
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Total Pages : 258 pages
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Download or read book The George H. Thompson Collection of Henry Louis Mencken written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of the George H. Thompson Collection of Henry Louis Mencken at the Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University.
Author : Simon Louvish
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312252922
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Monkey Business written by Simon Louvish and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-06-08 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange but true: this is the first authentic account of the Marx Brothers, their origins and of the roots of their comedy. First and foremost, this is the saga of a family whose theatrical roots stretch back to mid-19th century Germany. From Groucho Marx's first warblings with the singing Leroy Trio, this book brings to life the vanished world of America's wild and boisterous variety circuits, leading to the Marx Brothers' Broadway successes, and their alliance with New York's theatrical lions, George S. Kaufman and the 'Algonquin Round Table'. Never-before-published scripts, well-minted Marxian dialogue, and much madness and mayham feature in this tale of the Brothers' battles with Hollywood, their films, their loves and marriages, and the story of the forgotten brother Gummo.
Author : Wolf Lepenies
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400827035
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Seduction of Culture in German History written by Wolf Lepenies and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Allied bombing of Germany, Hitler was more distressed by the loss of cultural treasures than by the leveling of homes. Remarkably, his propagandists broadcast this fact, convinced that it would reveal not his callousness but his sensitivity: the destruction had failed to crush his artist's spirit. It is impossible to begin to make sense of this thinking without understanding what Wolf Lepenies calls The Seduction of Culture in German History. This fascinating and unusual book tells the story of an arguably catastrophic German habit--that of valuing cultural achievement above all else and envisioning it as a noble substitute for politics. Lepenies examines how this tendency has affected German history from the late eighteenth century to today. He argues that the German preference for art over politics is essential to understanding the peculiar nature of Nazism, including its aesthetic appeal to many Germans (and others) and the fact that Hitler and many in his circle were failed artists and intellectuals who seem to have practiced their politics as a substitute form of art. In a series of historical, intellectual, literary, and artistic vignettes told in an essayistic style full of compelling aphorisms, this wide-ranging book pays special attention to Goethe and Thomas Mann, and also contains brilliant discussions of such diverse figures as Novalis, Walt Whitman, Leo Strauss, and Allan Bloom. The Seduction of Culture in German History is concerned not only with Germany, but with how the German obsession with culture, sense of cultural superiority, and scorn of politics have affected its relations with other countries, France and the United States in particular.
Author : Sheridan Libraries
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
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Download or read book The Robert A. Wilson Collection of H.L. Mencken written by Sheridan Libraries and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1956 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)
Author : Troy Senik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982140771
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book A Man of Iron written by Troy Senik and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A long-overdue biography of Grover Cleveland, the honest, principled, plain-spoken, and incorruptible twenty-second and twenty-fourth president whose country has largely forgotten him"--
Author : Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019533129X
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Mencken written by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the definitive biography of Mencken, the most illuminating book ever published about this giant of American letters. We see the prominent role he played in the Scopes Monkey Trial, his long crusade against Prohibition, his fierce battles against press censorship, and his constant exposure of pious frauds and empty uplift. The champion of our tongue in The American Language, Mencken also played a pivotal role in defining the shape of American letters through The Smart Set and The American Mercury, magazines that introduced such writers as James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Langston Hughes.
Author : Thomas L. Krannawitter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442200642
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Vindicating Lincoln written by Thomas L. Krannawitter and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008-06-27 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Abraham Lincoln a racist, as some critics would have us believe? Was he the father of big government, as some others maintain? Was the sixteenth president a traitor to the cause of free society and constitutional government? Are the political principles that guided him relevant today? In this provocative and timely book, Thomas L. Krannawitter sets out to defend the man many consider to be our greatest president from critics on both the left and the right. For although public opinion polls tend to rank Lincoln among the country's most venerated presidents, he is also, paradoxically, the president who is least understood. While Lincoln's name is frequently invoked in contemporary American politics, few Americans understand or agree with the moral and political principles for which Lincoln gave his last full measure of devotion. Many influential authors view Lincoln as an antiquated monument, a man of his age who knew only nineteenth-century prejudices and lacked twenty-first-century enlightenment. Other writers denounce Lincoln as a tyrant who trampled upon the Constitution and states' rights, and thereby inaugurated big government and the kind of politics feared by the Founding Fathers. Krannawitter argues that both views spring from a misunderstanding of Lincoln. Today, at precisely the moment when America is most in need of his moral and political understanding, we are more removed from Lincoln's thought than ever before. Vindicating Lincoln reintroduces us to Lincoln the statesman, the man who defended our greatest ideals of freedom and equality at the darkest moment in American history. Krannawitter shows us why it is in our interest not only to learn about Abraham Lincoln, but to learn from him—to understand that Lincoln's guiding principles were true not only for his time, but that they remain true for ours as well. On the eve of the bicentennial of his birth in 2009, Lincoln can offer moral and political guidance to us all.
Author : Jacqueline Berke
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 : 9780155924017
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Twenty Questions for the Writer written by Jacqueline Berke and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1981 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TWENTY QUESTIONS FOR A WRITER is structured around twenty questions most often used by writers for finding and developing their topics. This basic structure creates a versatility that sheds light ion the writing process.
