Author: Luther FarnhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A Glance at Private Libraries
Author: Luther FarnhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A Glance at Private Libraries (Classic Reprint)
Author: Luther FarnhamPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528581905
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Excerpt from A Glance at Private Libraries America has produced a few authors worthy the name but it has been in spite of the want of books in this country, and not through their abundance. Our great authors have found the material of their works in the vast libraries of Europe, or else they have imported it for them selves at a very heavy expense. The late Presi dent Adams undertook to collect the authorities referred to by Gibbon ih-his History of Rome, not half of which. Were then, probably, to be found on this side of the waters The lecturer upon any historical subject, except that pertain ing to America, would be obliged to visit Europe to find ample materials - certainly if he was con fined to the public libraries of this country. Our nation is not to be reproached for its pau city of libraries There were many things that necessarily preceded large public collections of books. The land was to be cleared and cultivated. After bread came the church, the school-house, and the town-house, and such collections of books as might be expected in a new country of vast material resources, that began early to mature. 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.
Catalogue of the Private Library of the Late Hon. Ezra Wilkinson ... Including a Vary Rare Collection of the Statute Laws of Massachusetts ...
Author: Ezra WilkinsonCatalogue of that Portion of the Private Library of Samuel Lane Boardman Relating to American and Local History, Biography etc., To Be Sold by Auction Nov. 27th and 28th, 1883
Author: Samuel Lane BoardmanPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385309557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter
Author: Isaac AsimovPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780345316233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Lucky Starr and Bigman Jones journey to the remote moons of Jupiter to find the spy who is leaking the vital secrets of the hyperatomic engines of a prototype spaceship to the enemy Sirians
Trust Me, I'm Lying
Author: Ryan HolidayPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1591846285
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The cult classic that predicted the rise of fake news—revised and updated for the post-Trump, post-Gawker age. Hailed as "astonishing and disturbing" by the Financial Times and "essential reading" by TechCrunch at its original publication, former American Apparel marketing director Ryan Holiday’s first book sounded a prescient alarm about the dangers of fake news. It's all the more relevant today. Trust Me, I’m Lying was the first book to blow the lid off the speed and force at which rumors travel online—and get "traded up" the media ecosystem until they become real headlines and generate real responses in the real world. The culprit? Marketers and professional media manipulators, encouraged by the toxic economics of the news business. Whenever you see a malicious online rumor costs a company millions, politically motivated fake news driving elections, a product or celebrity zooming from total obscurity to viral sensation, or anonymously sourced articles becoming national conversation, someone is behind it. Often someone like Ryan Holiday. As he explains, “I wrote this book to explain how media manipulators work, how to spot their fingerprints, how to fight them, and how (if you must) to emulate their tactics. Why am I giving away these secrets? Because I’m tired of a world where trolls hijack debates, marketers help write the news, opinion masquerades as fact, algorithms drive everything to extremes, and no one is accountable for any of it. I’m pulling back the curtain because it’s time the public understands how things really work. What you choose to do with this information is up to you.”
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Author: Elliott RooseveltGuide to Reprints
Author: My New Home in Northern Michigan
Author: Charles W. JayPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780364185414
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Excerpt from My New Home in Northern Michigan: And Other Tales HE average reader of those kind of books that are mainly founded on the personality of the writer, are apt to be curiously inclined to know something of the private history of the one who thus ventures publicly before them as a claimant to their favorable consideration. There is generally a feeling of sympathy with such reader toward such author, which strengthens with the progress of perusal, until it ripens into the desire of a more minute knowledge of the outer and inner life of him who has so interested them. Knowing that this little book, the child of my later years, will be kindly received and welcomed by a large number of men, and a far greater number of women - the latter always permitting the flood of sympathy, in which eddies the worth less driftwood of sentiment, to overflow the shallower depths of the brain - I proceed at once to unlock myself to all such as may be under the suggestions of curiosity, or the promptings of interest, for a glance or a stare at the elephant, as he swings his inky trunk through the coming pages. 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.
Guide to Reprints
Author: Albert James DiazPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Editions
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description