Author: RomancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Romance of the Olden Time. Fourteen Tales from History
Author: RomanceHistory of Suicide
Author: Georges MinoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Minois concludes with comments on the most recent turn in this long and complex history--the emotional debate over euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the right to die.
The Old-Time Saloon
Author: George AdePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022641230X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Originally published: New York: R. Long & R.R. Smith, 1931.
A History of Old Age
Author: Pat ThanePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Seven contributors examine how the best thinkers and artists of each historical epoch in the West have treated old age. Full of surprising and fascinating facts, this is an uplifting companion for those who, like it or not, are beginning to understand the inevitability of their own aging process.
The history of the old town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880
Author: Samuel OrcuttPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5879692949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 963
Book Description
The history of statistics
Author: John KorenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Bible History Old Testament New Updated Edition
Author: Alfred EdersheimPublisher: Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN: 1565638328
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1025
Book Description
In this enduring classic, Alfred Edersheim explores the broad sweep of Old Testament history. He brings to his work his immense learning and familiarity with Judaism, as well as his love for Scripture and his desire for every Christian to know and understand the story of God's redemptive work in history. This new edition of Edersheim's classic features the following improvements: - Entirely reset in a modern and easy-to-read typeface - Complete and unabridged in one volume - Arabic numbers replace roman numerals - New maps to provide for richer understanding "In writing it " Bible History: Old Testament]" I have primarily had in view those who teach and those who learn, whether in the school or in the family. But my scope has also been wider. I have wished to furnish, what may be useful for reading in the family, --what indeed may, in some measure, serve the place of a popular exposition of the sacred history. More than this, I hope it may likewise prove a book to put in the hands of students, to show them what the Bible really teaches." --Alfred Edersheim
Madras in the Olden Time: Being a History of the Presidency from the First Foundation
Author: Old and New London: a Narrative of Its History, Its People and Its Places
Author: George Walter ThornburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Old Age in English History
Author: Pat ThanePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191542172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
At the end of the twentieth century more people are living into their seventies, eighties, nineties and beyond, a process expected to continue well into the next millennium. The twentieth century has achieved what people in other centuries only dreamed of: many can now expect to survive to old age in reasonably good health and can remain active and independent to the end, in contrast to the high death rate, ill health and destitution which affected all ages in the past. Yet this change is generally greeted not with triumph but with alarm. It is assumed that the longer people live, the longer they are ill and dependent, thus burdening a shrinking younger generation with the cost of pensions and health care. It is also widely believed that 'the past' saw few survivors into old age and these could be supported by their families without involving the taxpayer. In this first survey of old age throughout English history, these assumptions are challenged. Vivid pictures are given of the ways in which very large numbers of older people lived often vigorous and independent lives over many centuries. The book argues that old people have always been highly visible in English communities, and concludes that as people live longer due to the benefits of the rise in living standards, far from being 'burdens' they can be valuable contributors to their family and friends.