by L. T. Meade and Clifford Halifax MD Purchase through Amazon Clifford Halifax was actually the pseudonym of Edgar Beaumont (1860-1921). Interestingly, he used this name only when writing with L. T. Meade. Beaumont was indeed a physician operating in the UK and wrote a variety of works related to being a physician, including This… Continue reading Stories from the Diary of a Doctor: Snippets of Early Medicine and Life in England
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Chinese Nights Entertainments: Stories of Old China
Collected by Brian Brown, preface by Sao-ke Alfred Sze Purchase through Amazon “In a small country town in China there lived a great scholar named Kno Tzu Chien. This sage was an authority upon the old classics, and he also loved the folklore and fairy tales of ancient China. On winter evenings the home of… Continue reading Chinese Nights Entertainments: Stories of Old China
History of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers of the City of London: Otherwise the Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass
by Charles Henry Ashdown Purchase through Amazon Despite the name, The City of London is only a small part of metropolitan London, and is further unique in that it boasts of its own government. This centers on the ancient companies, or guilds, which in the Middle Ages held sway over the various crafts—fish mongering, goldsmithing,… Continue reading History of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers of the City of London: Otherwise the Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass
Trademark Power: An Expedition into an Unprobed and Inviting Wilderness
by Glen Buck Purchase through Amazon Glen Buck was an owner, author and marketer operating the Gardner-Glen Buck Company, an advertising agency operating out of New York, Chicago and St. Louis. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and rose from being the advertising manager at Olds Motor Works to directing advertising at the Ford Motor… Continue reading Trademark Power: An Expedition into an Unprobed and Inviting Wilderness
Jiu-Jitsu Combat Tricks: Japanese Feats of Attack and Defence in Personal Encounter
by H. Irving Hancock Purchase through Amazon Jiu-Jitsu is a style of combat that emerges from feudal Japan and has developed into various forms of other popular styles, such as Judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. In its original form, which developed in Japan during the 1500s, it was developed as a way to combat fighting techniques… Continue reading Jiu-Jitsu Combat Tricks: Japanese Feats of Attack and Defence in Personal Encounter
Mexico en 1554
by Francisco Cervantes De Salazar, with a preface by Guillermo De Los Reyes Purchase through Amazon La presente edición, quizás la primera que se publica en este siglo, tiene como objetivo revisitar un clásico de suma importancia del periodo colonial novohispano: México en 1554 de Francisco Cervantes de Salazar. Esta obra, además de considerarse una de las… Continue reading Mexico en 1554
Egypt: The Death of Philae
Egypt: The Death of Philae by Pierre Loti, Translated by W. P. Baines Purchase through Amazon Louis Marie-Julien Viaud (1850-1923) adopted the pseudonym, Pierre Loti, while in Tahiti. He served in the French military, ultimately becoming a naval officer. His service led him to travels around the world, and his keen eye for observations was quickly… Continue reading Egypt: The Death of Philae
New Crimes and New Solutions: International Journal of Criminology
New Crimes and New Solutions: International Journal of Criminology Edited by Alain Bauer Purchase through Amazon Coming to Kindle soon! Is using the humanities and social sciences (psychology, sociology,law, etc.) to understand the crime, the criminal, the victim, criminality, and society’s reaction to crime ascience? A crime is the unique combination of a perpetrator, a victim,… Continue reading New Crimes and New Solutions: International Journal of Criminology
Freemasonry: A French View
by Roger Dachez and Alain Bauer Purchase through Amazon Perhaps one should speak not of Freemasonry but of Freemasonries in the plural. In each country Masonic historiography has developed uniqueness, but it is safe to say that one of the highest levels of scholarship has been in France. This book is a case in point, as… Continue reading Freemasonry: A French View
Secret Chambers and Hiding Places: The Historic, Romantic & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc.
by Allan Fea Purchase through Amazon Allan Fea (1860-1956) went to Grove Hall School, Highgate, became a researcher in the India Office Library and then Private Secretary to Field Marshal Lord Strathnairn before a career in the Bank of England, 1880-1900. His history of hiding places features many illustrations. The work focuses on English history and… Continue reading Secret Chambers and Hiding Places: The Historic, Romantic & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc.
Chinese Immigration: Turn of the Century Views
by Mary Roberts Coolidge Purchase on Amazon This volume is one of a number of Westphalia titles significant in the story of the not always happy and often controversial Chinese contact with Western society. In the American case, despite appreciation by scholars for Chinese civilization, cries against Chinese immigration began in response to the development of… Continue reading Chinese Immigration: Turn of the Century Views
Los BRICS y el Discurso del Nacionalismo en el Siglo XXI
Edited by Myrna Rodriguez Anuez, Luis Ochoa Bilbao, and Marisa Pineau Purchase through Amazon En el siglo XXI el nacionalismo sigue latiendo con fuerza y se expresa de multiples formas ya sea en los sentimientos sociales aparentemente compartidos como en las retoricas literarias, las expresiones artisticas, el marketing turistico y en los proyectos politicos. Pero… Continue reading Los BRICS y el Discurso del Nacionalismo en el Siglo XXI
The Sweden File: Memoir of an American Expatriate
by Bruce Stevens Proctor and Alan Robert Proctor Purchase through Amazon Bruce Proctor’s journey was a harrowing one – from top secrete Pentagon war-policy insider to American deserter. Interpreting reconnaissance photos taken over Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, he concluded that the conflict was immoral, misguided and deceptive. He suddenly quit the Defense Intelligence Agency… Continue reading The Sweden File: Memoir of an American Expatriate
California Chinese Chatter
by Albert Dressler Purchase through Amazon by Albert DresslerCalifornia Chinese Chatter contains telegrams sent in 1874 between Chinese citizens living in Downieville, California, and a court transcript of the murder trial of Ah Jake. It offers a unique view of the difficulties that Chinese immigrants had in the United States, particularly in the midst… Continue reading California Chinese Chatter
Freemasonry in the Holy Land, or, Handmarks of Hiram’s Builders
by Robert Morris, LLD. Purchase through Amazon In 1868, Robert Morris (1818-1888), a sometime grand master of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky and founder of the Order of the Eastern Star, gathered a group of Masons for Secret Monitor ceremonies in a cave in King Solomon’s Quarries in Jerusalem. Building on that, Morris obtained a… Continue reading Freemasonry in the Holy Land, or, Handmarks of Hiram’s Builders
Manual of the Eastern Star: Containing the Symbols, Scriptural Illustrations, Lectures, etc. Adapted to the System of Speculative Masonry
by Robert Macoy Purchase through Amazon The secret cyphers and ritual books of the Eastern Star as well as of other fraternal societies inevitably make their way to the shelves of antiquarian book dealers. Efforts to get families to return documents and regalia when a member dies are more often than not end in frustration.… Continue reading Manual of the Eastern Star: Containing the Symbols, Scriptural Illustrations, Lectures, etc. Adapted to the System of Speculative Masonry
Elixir of Empire: The English Public Schools, Ritualism, Freemasonry, and Imperialism
by P. J. Rich Purchase through Amazon A companion volume, Chains of Empire: English Public Schools, Masonic Cabalism Historical Causality, and Imperial Clubdom, is the second in P. J. Rich’s trilogy about schooling as a political force. Explored are the ways in which the history of education contributes to political science, and the problems facing… Continue reading Elixir of Empire: The English Public Schools, Ritualism, Freemasonry, and Imperialism
History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851
by Mary Floyd Williams Ph.D. Purchase through Amazon Mary Floyd Williams gives a detailed account of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance formed in 1851 (it was later reincarnated in 1856. Although the Committee, formed by a group of vigilantes, lasted only about three months, they were responsible for the hanging of at least eight… Continue reading History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851
Zigzagging: An American Female Nurse’s Experiences During WWI
by Isabel Anderson Purchase through Amazon Isabel Anderson was born Isabel Weld Perkins (1876-1948). Though a wealthy socialite, she wrote numerous books including On the Move, The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines, Circling Africa and The Spell of Japan. Her favored genres included children’s literature, accounts of travel and family memoirs such… Continue reading Zigzagging: An American Female Nurse’s Experiences During WWI
Chains of Empire: English Public Schools, Masonic Children, Historical Causality, and Imperial Clubdom
by P. J. Rich Purchase through Amazon The British Empire’s and the English public schools’ peculiar system of rituals and rewards had more in common than has been realized. In Chains of Empire, Paul Rich related this to controversies about historical causality, morphic resonance, chaos, and the claims to influence of other bastions of the… Continue reading Chains of Empire: English Public Schools, Masonic Children, Historical Causality, and Imperial Clubdom
Disaster Response: Medical and Health Policies
by Arnauld Nicogossian, Edited by Bonnie Stabile Purchase through Amazon Disaster Response offers research and insights from medical professionals and policy scholars to help improve interventions and reduce suffering when disasters occur, whether they result from natural or human made threats.
Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington Vol. V
by Philosophical Society of Washington Purchase through Amazon The Philosophical Society of Washington was founded on March 13, 1871. It was preceded by gatherings at the home of Joseph Henry, the great scientist whose discoveries laid the foundations for advances in magnetism and electromagnetism. Since 1887 it has met at the Cosmos Club, in whose… Continue reading Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington Vol. V
Discourse on the Life and Character of William Wirt
by John P. Kennedy Purchase through Amazon Wirt made headlines most recently in 2005, but for an unfortunate reason. Someone had broken into the Wirt Tomb, located in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington DC, and his skull was taken and later found in a tin box with gold letters announcing that it was the skull… Continue reading Discourse on the Life and Character of William Wirt
Masonic Poems
by Masonic Service Association US Purchase through Amazon Masonic poems can be maudlin or marvelous, but critics must concede that Rudyard Kipling and Robert Burns cannot be accused of being amateurs. In short, the poetry of Freemasonry is a very mixed bag. It often is on show at table lodges, which are ceremonial meals that… Continue reading Masonic Poems
Strategies for Online Education: New Paradigms: Internet Learning Journal: Vol. 4, No. 1
by Melissa Layne Purchase through Amazon Internet Learning Journal (ILJ) is a biannual, open-access, doubleblind peer-reviewed academic publication sponsored by The Policy Studies Organization (PSO) and American Public University System (APUS). The aim of Internet Learning Journal (ILJ) is to provide a venue for the publication of quality academic research with an emphasis on representing… Continue reading Strategies for Online Education: New Paradigms: Internet Learning Journal: Vol. 4, No. 1
Socrates: An Oration
by Thomas Starr King Purchase Boston fancied itself the Athens of America when Thomas Starr King delivered his celebrated lecture on Socrates to rapt audiences. On January 29th, 1849, he wrote his friend Randolph Ryer: The first of the week I was engaged in retouching my lecture (before the Mercantile Library Association)… Such a house… Continue reading Socrates: An Oration
Famous Stars of Light Opera
by Lewis C. Strang, Introduction by Matthew Brewer Purchase through Amazon In his catalogue of their character and artwork, Strang’s book becomes as much an exploration of the requisites of comedic performance as of the individuals who epitomized it. In the narratives of their lives, one sees the power these individual performers had to shape… Continue reading Famous Stars of Light Opera
Plain Thoughts on Secret Societies
by John Lawrence Purchase through Amazon John Lawrence (1824-1899) was a historian of the United Brethren churches and an abolitionist. When he wrote Plain Thoughts there was a clear consensus among his fellow believers that Freemasonry was insidious and diabolical. But in 1889 the United Brethren split into two denominations. Contributing to the schism was… Continue reading Plain Thoughts on Secret Societies
The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funeral Archeology
by E. A. Wallis Budge Purchase through Amazon E. A. Wallis Budge, despite having to leave school at the age of twelve to work, never stopped learning. He studied languages such as Hebrew and Assyrian, and volunteered at the British Museum. There he was introduced to leaders in Egyptian study, including Samuel Birch and George… Continue reading The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funeral Archeology
Joe Strong, the Boy Wizard
by Vance Barnum Purchase through Amazon Joe Strong was a favorite hero and could ride any horse, juggle most anything, and climb buildings, all with a steel reserve. He was the child of unique parents: a mother that rode trick horses and a magician for his father. However, in Horatio Alger fashion, by age five,… Continue reading Joe Strong, the Boy Wizard
The Magic of Oz
by L. Frank Baum Purchase through Amazon When Kiki Aru discovers the magic word “PYRZQXGL” can transform him into anything he chooses (if you pronounce it correctly), he turns himself into a hawk and sets out for adventure. Former Nome King Ruggedo, an old enemy of Oz and Princess Ozma, joins him on his quest.… Continue reading The Magic of Oz
New Ideas for Online Learning: Keeping up with the Changes
Edited by Melissa Layne Purchase through Amazon | Open Access Can a growing number of students in distance education reach such levels that conventional education is permanently changed? Does online education reflect the current economic crisis? Are faculty becoming less and less conventional, while adjunct ranks swell still further? Is “education by Skype” potentially more… Continue reading New Ideas for Online Learning: Keeping up with the Changes
Gold Days: California During the Eventful Days of ’49
by Owen Cochran Coy Purchase on Amazon The California Gold Rush really was a bonanza. Between 1849 and 1855 more than $400 million dollars was gathered by the miners; once adjusted, it is a sum today reaching into the trillions. It was a social phenomenon marked by the carnivalesque. In Mark Twain’s Roughing It (1872),… Continue reading Gold Days: California During the Eventful Days of ’49
Seventy Five Years in California: A History of Events and Life in California During the 1800s
by William Heath Davis Purchase through Amazon Seventy-Five Years in California spans the 19th century, offering William Heath Davis’ view of California’s Pastoral Period. He gives readers a unique look at the disintegration of missions, the rise of the rancheros, the American Invasion, the Gold Rush and the adoption of the territory as a state.… Continue reading Seventy Five Years in California: A History of Events and Life in California During the 1800s
Europe’s Welfare Policies: The Frayed Safety Net
European Policy Analysis, Vo. 1, No. 1: Europe’s Welfare Policies: The Frayed Safety Net Edited by Klaus Schubert, Nils Bandelow, Peter Biegelbauer, and Fritz Sager Purchase on Amazon | Open Access Contents: Editorial Introduction to the First Issue of European Policy Analysis Enhancing gender equity through evidence-based policymaking? Theorizing and tracing the use of systematic knowledge in… Continue reading Europe’s Welfare Policies: The Frayed Safety Net
Feeding the Global South: Food in Asian and African Societies
Edited by Keokam Kraisoraphong Purchase through Amazon | Open Access The second issue of World Food Policy (WFP) Journal continues to bring together research-based papers by invited authors. Diverse in topic and geographical coverage, the papers offer insightful food policy analysis from the approach of the contributors’ area of expertise. Examining food policy agenda from… Continue reading Feeding the Global South: Food in Asian and African Societies
Who is the Enemy?: The Revolution in Terrorism Affairs and the Ways to Understand It
by Alain Bauer Purchase on Amazon Few people have the advantages that Alain Bauer possesses in providing an overview of the current world security crisis. He is the ultimate example of “been there, done that”. Welcome in the inner circles of a half dozen countries, his opinions are eagerly sought as the efforts to cope… Continue reading Who is the Enemy?: The Revolution in Terrorism Affairs and the Ways to Understand It
A Young Volunteer in Cuba: Or, Fighting for the Single Star
by Edward Stratemeyer, Illustrated by A. B. Shute Purchase on Amazon A Young Volunteer in Cuba is a work of historical fiction for young readers written by Edward Stratemeyer. This work, along with his Fighting in Cuban Waters, depicted the Spanish-American War. Stratemeyer used a variety of pseudonyms because he found that the titles sold… Continue reading A Young Volunteer in Cuba: Or, Fighting for the Single Star
Freemasonry’s Research Agenda
by Margaret C. Jacob, Preface by Paul J. Rich Purchase in Print Perhaps it should not be surprising that a secret society remains something of a secret. A telling comment made on several occasions by Pierre Mollier, the librarian of the Grand Orient or premier national body of French Freemasonry, nicely summarizes the state… Continue reading Freemasonry’s Research Agenda
The Symbolic Tradition of Freemasonry
Edited by Pierre Mollier Purchase This volume, full of significant work on Freemasonry and kindred subjects, is the result of a bold effort to make the best in articles about fraternalism appearing in tonguesother than English available to the English-speaking scholarly world. The productivity and sophistication of researchers in Europe has meant that important progress… Continue reading The Symbolic Tradition of Freemasonry
Challenges Facing Freemasonry
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World Food Policy
Edited by Keokam Kraisoraphong Purchase through Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace The first issue of World Food Policy (WFP) is one of the three issues for which we have invited the authors of the papers to shed light on current and emerging global, regional and national policy agenda for food. The papers in this… Continue reading World Food Policy
The Story of Secret Service
by Richard Wilmer Rowan, Introduction by Rahima Schwenkbeck Purchase through Amazon Few works attempt to be as ambitious as Richard Wilmer Rowan’s The Story of Secret Service. Rowan packs in thirty-three centuries of world history in this volume, tracing a long history of espionage and its impact. The history of espionage is a particularly difficult… Continue reading The Story of Secret Service
The Republican Manual: History, Priciples, Early Leaders, Achievements of the Republican Party
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The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers
Edited by Robert Henry Newell Purchase through Amazon The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers highlights the sense of humor that was part of the literature of the Civil War in the United States. The Papers originally appeared as a series of installments to Sunday newspapers. Upon completion of the installments, they were edited and bound with… Continue reading The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers
Tales of Old Japan
by A. B. Mitford Purchase through Amazon Sir Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford (1837-1916) was raised to the peerage as Baron of Redesdale in 1902. He was also a Knight of the Bath and a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. After joining the Foreign Service in 1858, Lord Redesdale was posted in St. Petersburg, Peking,… Continue reading Tales of Old Japan
Syria the Land of Lebanon
by Lewis Gaston Leary, Preface by Paul Rich Purchase through Amazon This emphatically is not a book about the territory now constituting Syria but about an era when the terms Lebanon and Syria were used in a politically incorrect inept way even by the foreign powers dominating the region. Leary’s son, Lewis Gaston Leary Jr.… Continue reading Syria the Land of Lebanon
Sturdy and Strong: or How George Andrews Made His Way
by G. A. Henty Purchase through Amazon George Alfred Henty (1832-1902) was born at Trumpington near Cambridge and attended Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge University. He became a war correspondent and covered the Austro-Italian War, the 1868 British invasion of Ethiopia, the Franco-Prussian War, the Ashanti Wars, the Turco-Serbian War and rebellions in Spain. When… Continue reading Sturdy and Strong: or How George Andrews Made His Way
Stories for the American Freemason’s Fireside
by C. W. Towle Purchase through Amazon This is a collection of stories intended to be morality tales for Masons and their admirers. Numerous nineteenth century writers saw a market for fiction whose intention was to inculcate the values of a popular, redefined Freemasonry. The result was a folklore that has been likened to a Disney… Continue reading Stories for the American Freemason’s Fireside
Schooldays of Fred Harley: Or, Rivals for all Honors
by Arthur M. Winfield Purchase through Amazon Arthur M. Winfield was the pseudonym of Edward L. Stratemeyer, who was an incredibly prolific writer. He collaborated in writing over 1,300 books, selling more than 500 million copies. He was behind several incredibly popular juvenile fiction series such as The Bobbsey Twins, The Hardy Boys and the Nancy… Continue reading Schooldays of Fred Harley: Or, Rivals for all Honors
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