Desigualdades en un mundo postpandemia

Este libro titulado Desigualdades en un mundo postpandemia: exploraciones sobre migraciones, mercados de trabajo y género, presenta un conjunto de propuestas y debates necesarios para repensar las políticas públicas y laborales, con enfoques que favorezcan la equidad de género y el respeto a…

The Masonic Book Club

The Masonic Book Club (MBC) was formed in 1970 by two Illinois Masons, Alphonse Cerza, 33°, and Louis L. Williams, 33°. The MBC primarily reprinted out-of-print Masonic books with scholarly introductions; occasionally they would print additional texts as “bonuses.” Westphalia Press is…

Freemasonry in Mexico: A Secret Heritage

In this thought-provoking book, De Los Reyes argues that Freemasonry, through its lodges, played a decisive role in shaping Mexico’s national thought, contributing to the creation of a liberal and secular State and fostering anticlerical sentiments among the laity that endured well…

The 32nd Infantry “Red Arrow” Division in World War II

From Buna to Aitape, from Leyte to Luzon, the 32nd not only fought the Japanese but weather, terrain, and at times their own higher headquarters. The 32nd was the first formation deployed in combat in the Pacific at Buna.

Fathoming Trump: “It’s All About the Devils in My Mind”

This book is about Donald J. Trump, the billionaire who become the 47th president in 2025, after losing the 2020 presidential election following his term as the 45th president. He brings to his presidency, his flawed character—his arrogance, unpredictability, overhastiness, and changeability,…

Contours of Being and Becoming: Identity, Memory, and Cultural Encounters

This project stems from an urgent need to question the human condition within the actual sites of interconnections and divisions, creating glocal bridges and borders. It explores thus a wide range of topics related to identity and culture, and their intersections in…

33° Scottish Rite Masons of the Southern Jurisdiction Who Served in US Congress

Since its founding on May 31, 1801, the Scottish Rite has, like all aspects of Freemasonry, made an impact on America. The Supreme Council, 33°, Ancient and Accept Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Southern Jurisdiction, USA, has been particularly blessed to…

Lotus in the Desert – Mahapajapati: A Theravada Nunnery in California

Lotus in the Desert is Mahapajapati, A Theravada Nunnery, in California that is reviving the Theravada nuns’ lineage broken for the past several centuries.

Welcome to the War Economy!

While China has been preparing for this new Cold War for ten years, will our Western democracies be able to adapt? David Baverez calls for a collective awareness of the changing international balance of power. And at a time when companies are…

Damascus Has Fallen

In Damascus Has Fallen, we see Syria through the eyes of its storm-tossed people in a place where every place is a secret, every choice a moral quandary and by the minute everything in a person’s life can change. This is a…

Born in the Desert: The Education of a Saudi Nomad and the Rise of Modern Saudi Arabia

Born in the Desert is the remarkable story of Dr. Faisal Al-Mershed who was born a Bedouin to an illiterate family and rose to the highest levels of educational and professional achievement. His life parallels the rise of Saudi Arabia from an…

The Original Indiana Territory: It Was in West Virginia

Virgil Anson Lewis (1834–1902) was an American historian, archivist, and educator known for his significant contributions to the historical understanding of West Virginia, particularly during the early days of the state’s formation. He played a pivotal role in preserving and documenting the…

Embassy Kid: An American Foreign Service Family Memoir

Embassy Kid: An American Foreign Service Family Memoir follows Robert and Nancy Amerson, a courageous couple from the American Heartland, and their two daughters as they carry out the mission of the US Information Agency to “win hearts and minds for democracy”…

Reprints of Rituals of Old Degrees

Originally printed by Albert Pike in 1879, this enlarged edition includes a variety of important early rituals. In 1789 the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania chartered a lodge in Port-au-Prince, which introduced “Ancient York” Masonry to Saint-Domingue.

Albert Pike’s Magnum Opus: A History and Facsimile Edition of Pike’s First Revision of the Scottish Rite’s Rituals, 4°-32°

In 1855 the Scottish Rite’s “Mother Supreme Council of the World” at Charleston, S.C., appointed a committee of five persons to review and standardize its initiation ceremonies and rituals. Only one person completed the task, 46-year-old Albert Pike who would ultimately become…

De la socialización a la subjetivación: Antología de la memoria

Este libro representa para la autora una especie de cierre en la línea de investigación sobre el tema de la identidad, desde el cual se llegó al tema de la subjetivación, para finalmente arribar al tema del cuerpo.

Uganda in Transformation, 1876-1926

This never-before-published work includes the complete collection of rituals which Albert Pike received when he joined the Scottish Rite in 1853. After receiving the degrees, Pike borrowed the manuscript rituals, and over the next two years he transcribed his own copies. He…

Murder on Madison Street

From a batch of letters he found in his father’s files, Larry Roth has put together a first-hand glimpse of what life was like for a young man in postwar East Germany. From the ruins of firebombed Dresden to the University of…

Letters from East Germany: The Postwar Journey of Christoph Haufe

From a batch of letters he found in his father’s files, Larry Roth has put together a first-hand glimpse of what life was like for a young man in postwar East Germany. From the ruins of firebombed Dresden to the University of…

Light on Masonry: The History and Rituals of America’s Most Important Masonic Exposé

The disappearance and presumed murder of William Morgan in 1826, by Masons, set off an intense anti-Masonic period which lasted until ca. 1842. The fraternity, which was once called the “handmaid of religion,” was denounced as an institution of the devil.

When Duty Called: An Oral History of Oregon’s World War II Veterans

When Duty Called: An Oral History of Oregon’s World War II Veterans is a series of engaging personal stories from Oregon World War II veterans who participated in some of the most well-known engagements of the war. These stories range from Pearl…

The Porch and the Middle Chamber: The Book of the Lodge

Although not widely used in the United States, the Scottish Rite (the largest Masonic system in the world) has a unique type of ritual which is used in more countries than any other.

Cosmodeism: A Worldview for the Space-Age: How an Evolutionary Cosmos is Creating God

Bisk suggests that understanding our place in this cosmic ‘godding’ process will go a long way in assuaging that sense of meaninglessness of it all that is the cause of so much civilizational pessimism and angst. A subsequent rebirth of optimism might…

Cerneauism and American Freemasonry

LES PLUS SECRETS MYSTÈRES des Hauts Grades de la Maçonnerie Dévoilés (The Most Secret Mysteries of the High Degrees of Masonry Unveiled), edited by M. de Bérage, was an exposé published in 1766 and was the first printed book to give the…

The Most Secret Mysteries of the High Degrees of MASONRY Unveiled

LES PLUS SECRETS MYSTÈRES des Hauts Grades de la Maçonnerie Dévoilés (The Most Secret Mysteries of the High Degrees of Masonry Unveiled), edited by M. de Bérage, was an exposé published in 1766 and was the first printed book to give the…

Arab Issues: Historical Approaches to the Arab Spring, Human Rights and Other Middle East Concerns

This book deals with several Arabic and Islamic issues, some more recent in nature, while others have been longstanding issues across the region.

Irish Witchcraft and Demonology

Irish Witchcraft and Demonology was originally published in 1913. It is a thorough investigation into Ireland’s historical accounts of witchcraft and supernatural occurrences.

Early Buddhism

Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843–1922) was a British scholar and a key figure in the field of Buddhist studies and Pali language studies. He made significant contributions to the understanding of Buddhism and its early texts, particularly through his work on Pali…

Elliot Richardson: A Man of Principle

Attorney General Elliot Richardson knew that U.S. Attorney George Beall was investigating kickbacks in the Baltimore County Executive’s Office. On July 3, 1973, Richardson met with Beall and his three assistant prosecutors. The meeting was preceded by a telephone call Richardson received…

Masonic Formulas and Rituals: Transcribed by Albert Pike in 1854 and 1855

This never-before-published work includes the complete collection of rituals which Albert Pike received when he joined the Scottish Rite in 1853. After receiving the degrees, Pike borrowed the manuscript rituals, and over the next two years he transcribed his own copies. He…

The Role of Values in Sustainability Transition: The Case of Chinese Ecological Agriculture

This book focuses on ecological agriculture in China through the lens of values, examining the underlying motivations for practicing such agriculture. Within these pages, you will discover thought-provoking insights and compelling analyses that elucidate the intricate interplay between values, ecological agriculture, and…

Exploring the Vault: Masonic Higher Degrees 1730–1800

The study of the development of the ‘Higher Degrees’ after 1730 has, for the past century, failed to produce new insights. Previous research has been geographically narrow or limited to one degree or order and thus failed to offer new insights. The…

Étienne Morin: From the French Rite to the Scottish Rite

Étienne Morin: From the French Rite to the Scottish Rite presents a fresh perspective on the ancestor of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, the Order of the Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret from the perspective of the founder of the…

Freemasonry’s Royal Secret: The Jamaican “Francken Manuscript” of the High Degrees

Many have heard of the Thirty-third Degree and the Scottish Rite, but lesser known is that it sprung from an equally important Masonic system. Created by the Frenchman Stephen Morin in the 1760s, the 25-degree system known as the “Order of the…

Stratagems of Land Warfare in the Ancient World: A Collection of Essays

The essays in this book investigate warfare from the late Bronze Age of Egypt and the Near East, through the historiographic period of ancient Greece and Rome. While the themes of these essays reveal the changes that took place in warfare within…

A Historic Point of Departure: Bringing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict to a Close and Creating a New Regional Geopolitical Order

Suzan Khairi is a novelist whose passion for storytelling is deeply rooted in her experiences as a lawyer and as a member of the Yazidi community. Born and raised in Sinjar town in Iraq, Suzan was profoundly impacted by the tragic events…

Thirst: A Story of a German ISIS Member & Her Yazidi Victim

Suzan Khairi is a novelist whose passion for storytelling is deeply rooted in her experiences as a lawyer and as a member of the Yazidi community. Born and raised in Sinjar town in Iraq, Suzan was profoundly impacted by the tragic events…

Queer Diplomacy: A Transgender Journey in the Foreign Service

Join Robyn McCutcheon, an out and proud transgender woman, on her journey as a diplomat with the U.S. Department of State. Follow her on travels that took her through the Soviet Union as a historian, to the stars as an engineer in…

The French Rite: Enlightenment Culture

This book, focused on the French Rite, covers the founding principles of the Enlightenment and their influence on the birth of modern Freemasonry as we know it today. The authors revisit the fundamental values of the Enlightenment, from a rational approach to…

The Perfect Elect: A Transatlantic Adventure the ‘Sharp’ Documents, Volume 1 & 2

The Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite in 33 degrees is the most widespread system of masonic higher degrees worldwide. It was developed in the 18th century, drawing on the most diverse well springs of esoteric traditions and philosophical currents. It is represented wherever…

Insilio: La cárcel del silencio: Invisibilidad lesbiana y resistencia

In this remarkable book, Skidmore discusses his “atypical life and career,” and reprints representative articles and book chapters from his long life in academe. The first of the essays considers Alito’s Dobbs decision, demonstrating that it distorts history, ignores the 13th and 9th Amendments,…

Cash and Credit

In this remarkable book, Skidmore discusses his “atypical life and career,” and reprints representative articles and book chapters from his long life in academe. The first of the essays considers Alito’s Dobbs decision, demonstrating that it distorts history, ignores the 13th and 9th Amendments,…

Notes from Flyover Country: An Atypical Life and Career

In this remarkable book, Skidmore discusses his “atypical life and career,” and reprints representative articles and book chapters from his long life in academe. The first of the essays considers Alito’s Dobbs decision, demonstrating that it distorts history, ignores the 13th and 9th Amendments,…

The Case for an Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian Confederation Why Now and How?

Brethren: Behold Your Supreme Council is a reference volume about the Leadership of the Scottish Rite in the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States from its inception on May 31, 1801, to present time. During these 222 years, 565 Deputies and Sovereign Grand…

Brethren: Behold Your Supreme Council: Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary of the SGIG and Deputies of the Supreme Council, 33°, Southern Jurisdiction, U.S.A

Brethren: Behold Your Supreme Council is a reference volume about the Leadership of the Scottish Rite in the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States from its inception on May 31, 1801, to present time. During these 222 years, 565 Deputies and Sovereign Grand…

Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone: A Biographical Sketch, with Documentary Testimony, Translations of the Original Papers of the Inventor and Contemporary Publications

Philipp Reis (1834-1874) was a German inventor and physicist best known for his pioneering work on the development of the early telephone. Despite not having a formal background in electrical engineering, he had a keen interest in the emerging field of telecommunication…

Public Health in European Capitals: Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Christiania, Stockholm, and Copenhagen

Sir Thomas Morison Legge dedicated his life to public health, especially for the working person who might be exposed to toxins, especially anthrax and lead poisoning. He was born in Hong Kong in 1863, and went on to get his MD from…

A Study in American Freemasonry

Arthur Preuss (1871-1934) was a German-American Catholic journalist, editor, and writer. He is best known for his significant contributions to Catholic journalism in the United States and his work as an apologist for the Catholic Church. Preuss was born in Germany and…

Farm Ballads

Farm Ballads is a collection of poems written by American poet Will Carleton. The book was first published in 1873 and quickly gained popularity for its portrayal of rural life in the United States during the 19th century. Carleton, born in 1845…

Springfield Memories: Odds and Ends of Anecdote and Early Doings, Gathered from Manuscripts, Pamphlets, and Aged Residents

Springfield was founded in 1636 by English Puritan William Pynchon and was named after his hometown of Springfield, Essex, in England. It is one of the oldest cities in the United States and played a significant role in the early colonial history…

How to Teach Paper-Folding and Cutting: A Practical Manual-Training Aid

Papercutting, also known as paper cutting or paper art, is a form of art where intricate designs are created by cutting paper with scissors or a knife. It is a traditional art form that has been practiced in various cultures for centuries.…

My Ten Years’ Imprisonment

Silvio Pellico was an Italian writer, poet, and dramatist who lived during the 19th century. He was born on June 24, 1789, in Saluzzo, and he passed away on January 31, 1854, in Turin, Italy. Pellico is best known for his role…

Money and Banking

John Thom Holdsworth penned this volume with the hopes of creating a comprehensive history of monetary and banking systems in the United States. Holdsworth discusses the theory, history and principles of money, and more specific topics such as Federal reserve currency and…

ESOTERIKA by Albert Pike: The Symbolism of the Blue Degrees of Freemasonry 

Many of the Freemasonry symbols of our rituals are hidden from everyone in the Order. The symbolic degrees are a vault in which secrets and esoteric teachings are enclosed, whose origin and meaning were transmitted orally in antiquity, many of which today have…

Blood Debts: What Putin and Xi Owe Their Victims

Blood Debts: What Putin and Xi Owe Their Victims goes to the core dilemma of world affairs—how to cope with two powerful dictatorships that have inflicted severe harm on their own peoples and menace their neighbors and the entire world. Global cooperation…

A League to Enforce Peace

Henry Edward Krehbiel (1854 – 1923) was an American music critic and author. Krehbiel’s interest in music developed at a young age, and he pursued his passion by studying music theory and composition. However, he soon turned to music criticism and journalism,…

Washington and the Hope of Peace

Henry Edward Krehbiel (1854 – 1923) was an American music critic and author. Krehbiel’s interest in music developed at a young age, and he pursued his passion by studying music theory and composition. However, he soon turned to music criticism and journalism,…

Afro-American Folk Songs: A Study in Racial and National Music

Henry Edward Krehbiel (1854 – 1923) was an American music critic and author. Krehbiel’s interest in music developed at a young age, and he pursued his passion by studying music theory and composition. However, he soon turned to music criticism and journalism,…

A Short History of Engraving and Etching: For the Use of Collectors and Students with Full Bibliography, Classified List and Index of Engravers

Arthur Mayger Hind (1880-1957) was a British art historian who worked at the British Museum. He attended the City of London School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He always maintained a focus on prints and engravings, with an emphasis on Italian artists. Despite…

An Historical Sketch of the Unitarian Movement Since the Reformation

Joseph Henry Allen (1820 – 1898) was a Unitarian clergyman and author from Massachusetts. He attended a school his father ran, and then later attended Harvard College, graduating from its Divinity School in 1843. From 1843-1857, he served as a clergyman in…

A Practical Guide to Whist: By the Latest Scientific Methods with the Laws of the Game

Whist is a unique, trick-taking card game that was developed in England during the 17th century. It requires four players, takes about 30 minutes to play a game, and uses a simple deck of cards to play. It is descended from a…

The Pathway of Peace: Representative Addresses Delivered During His Term as Secretary of State (1921-1925)

Following his presidential campaign, Hughes served as Secretary of State under President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1925. As Secretary of State, he advocated for disarmament and worked to improve international relations in the aftermath of World War I. He played…

The War, the World and Wilson

George Creel (1876-1953) was an American journalist, writer, and political activist. He is best known for his role as the head of the United States Committee on Public Information (CPI) during World War I, which shaped public opinion in support of the…

Ancient Mysteries and Modern Masonry: The Collected Writings of Jewel P. Lightfoot

Jewel P. Lightfoot. Former Attorney General of the State of Texas. Past Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas. From humble beginnings in rural Arkansas, he worked to become an educated man who excelled in law and Freemasonry. He was…

How the Rampant Proliferation of Disinformation Has Become the New Pandemic, and What To Do About It

How the Rampant Proliferation of Disinformation has become the new Pandemic, examines the causes of the overwhelming tidal wave of fake news, misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda, and the increase in information illiteracy and mistrust in higher education and traditional, vetted news outlets…

When Dewey Came to Manila; or, Among the Filipinos

This work, When Dewey Went to Manila, or, Among the Filipinos, was originally published in 1899 as a historical juvenile novel. It focuses on the Spanish-American War, and the American occupation of Manila Bay led by Commodore George Dewey in 1898.

Successful Patents: A Conservative, Reliable and Complete Treatise on the Protection of Ideas by Patents, Trade-Marks, Designs and Copyrights

This was volume was originally published in 1912. Richard B. Owen had offices in Washington DC and advertised in various magazines, such as Popular Mechanics, in order to gain interest in his patent law enthusiasms.

Chips from the White House: Or, Selections from the Speeches, Conversations, Diaries, Letters, and Other Writings, of all the Presidents of the United States

Jeremiah Chaplin (1776 – 1841) was a theologian, educator and an author. He was born in 1776 in Massachusetts, later attending Brown University. After he graduated, he remained studying theology while tutoring students at Brown. In 1802, he moved to Danvers, Massachusetts…

Sinking into the Honey Trap: The Case of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Sinking into the Honey Trap: The Case of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict describes how Israeli society has positioned itself in the comfort zone, ignoring the reality in which it exists. It is about the story they tell us, and most of the people…

Our Engines of War, and How We Got to Make Them

Henry Jervis-White Jervis (1825-1881) was an author, a British army officer and a politician. He was interested in the military, and attended the Royal Military Academy in Woolrich. Afterwards, he joined the Royal Artillery in 1844. During his military career, he also…

Essay on The Mysteries and the True Object of The Brotherhood of Freemasons: Considerably expanded and corrected from the original in 1776

There is a need for a third edition of Essai sur les mystères. The first English translation (W.H. Reece, 1862) is long out of print and contains errors that may hinder readers’ comprehension of the anonymous 1771 letter it contains. This version, discovered…

War Between Japan and Russia: With Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Russia, Siberia, Japan, Korea and Manchuria

War Between Japan and Russia focuses on the Russo-Japanese War fought between 1904–05, and gives additional insight onto the region with numerous photographs. The war began after Russia initiated a campaign of expansionist policy into East Asia. Japan launched an offensive, successful…

Life of Sitting Bull and History of the Indian War of 1890-91

Lydia Maria Child (1802 –1880) was many things, but always an activist. She was deeply involved in many causes, including aSitting Bull (1831 – 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who fought tirelessly against the United States’ genocidal policies. During an attempt…

Letters of Lydia Maria Child: With a Biographical Introduction

Lydia Maria Child (1802 –1880) was many things, but always an activist. She was deeply involved in many causes, including abolition, women’s rights, indigenous rights, and opposing American expansionism. Writer by trade, she was the editor of The National Anti-Slavery Standard, and…

James Hoban’s Secret Society

James Hoban’s Secret Society is a pocket guide to Hoban’s fraternal legacy. This concise history delineates the opportunity and rise of a skilled immigrant craftsman in colonial America. Hoban’s family-centric approach to his work helped establish a tight-knit group of professional woodworkers…

Waheenee: An Indian Girl’s Story

Waheenee-wea was born in 1839, approximately two to three years after a devastating small pox outbreak. This work tells the life of Waheenee, including her great-grandmother, White Corn, and grandmother, Turtle, and the many stories she grew up with, alongside her own…

Greek Sculpture: A Collection of Sixteen Pictures of Greek Marbles 

For this work, Hurrl selected 16 Greek marbles including: The Faun of Praxiteles, Sophocles, Ares, Olympian Hermes, The Discobolus, Zeus Otricoli, Athena Giustiniana, Horsemen from the Parthenon Frieze, Bust of Hera, The Apoxyomenos, Apollo Belvedere, Nike, Pericles, Demeter (Ceres), The Venus of…

Diary of Anna Green Winslow: A Boston School Girl

In this collection of letters to her mother from 1771-3, Anna Green Winslow sheds light on daily life of the wealthy in the Boston area during the beginnings of the American Revolution. The collection was edited by Alice Morse Earle for this…

The Book of Wheat: An Economic History and Practical Manual of the Wheat Industry

This work details the history of the grain trade as it was practiced in the United States up to the early 1900s.

Female Emancipation and Masonic Membership: An Essential Collection

Female Emancipation and Masonic Membership: An Essential Combination is a collection of essays on Freemasonry and gender that promotes a transatlantic discussion of the study of the history of women and Freemasonry and their contribution in different countries such as Cuba, Chile,…

A Manual Of Harmony

Of this work, A Manual of Harmony, Jadassohn suggested, “A thorough and complete knowledge of the chords and their inter-combination, such as the artist needs not only for original free composition, but also for preluding and modulating, and for a correct and…

Chancellorsville and Gettysburg: Campaigns of the Civil War VI

Abner Doubleday was born in 1819 in Ballston Spa, NY. Many members of his family served in the military, including his father, who fought in the War of 1812, and later became a congressman. Doubleday studied at the US Military Academy, and…

Money in Politics

Jacob Kendrick Upton Sr. was born in Wilmot, New Hampshire on October 9, 1837. His path to becoming a lawyer began by graduating from the Literary and Scientific Institution at New London, New Hampshire in 1860. Afterwards, he and his brother studied…

The Light of Asia: Being the Life and Teaching of Gôtama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism

The Light of Asia was the most popular work produced by Sir Edwin Arnold, an English poet and journalist. This work is also known as The Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana). The Light of Asia is a narrative poem that focuses on presenting the…

Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams

Abigail Adams (1744-1818) was a founder of the United States. Despite much of the gendered politics that pushed women away from politics, Abigail and her husband, John Adams, corresponded frequently about politics and the new government formation. John Adams served as the…

School History of Florida

Author Edwin L. Green was asked by William N. Sheats, the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Florida, to write a history of the state to be used in public schools. Green began his work with Juan Ponce de Leon’s voyages and his…

250 Meatless Menus and Recipes: To Meet the Requirements of People Under the Varying Conditions of Age, Climate and Work

When this book was originally published in 1910, there was not a great deal of writing about vegetarian diets. The Christians considered themselves dietary, and life experts, and wrote this book which details not only recipes, but also thoughts on the morality…

Chats On Military Curios

Author Stanley C. Johnson opens up this work on collecting military objects with the following, “For centuries past the collection of military curios has been the select pastime of men of title and soldiers of rank. Lately, however, owing to the War…

The Rosicrucian Philosophy in Questions and Answers

Rosicrucianism emerged in Europe possibly as early as the 1500s. It had numerous influences. As Michael Maier, a Rosicrucian described it, “Our origins are Egyptian, Brahminic, derived from the mysteries of Eleusis and Samothrace, the Magi of Persia, the Pythagoreans, and the…

Florida: Its Scenery, Climate, and History: with an Account of Charleston, Savannah, Augusta, and Aiken and a Chapter For Consumptives

Sidney Lanier (1842-1881) wrote this account of Florida. Of it he stated, “The newspapers have abounded with communications from clever correspondents who have done the State in a week or two; the magazinists have chatted very pleasantly of St. Augustine and the…

A Short Unitarian History

Unitarianism is a theological movement which at its start proclaimed that God is a singular entity, rather than a trinity. It rejects other tenants common in Christianity, such as the concept of original sin and the Bible as infallible. The belief emerged…

American Highways: A Popular Account of Their Conditions and of the Means by Which They May be Bettered

Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1841-1906) studied at Harvard College and then went on to become a professor in paleontology there. Although he was from Kentucky, he served in the Union Army as an officer during the Civil war. However, he was an apologist…

Backgrounds of Literature

Hamilton Wright Mabie, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D. (1846–1916) was an author and lecturer. He attended Williams College and later Columbia Law School. However, he hated practicing law and started working at a weekly magazine, Christian Union, later renamed The Outlook. Mabie edited a…

Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners: A Book of Recipes

This collection of recipes by Elizabeth O. Hiller was immensely popular in the early 1900s, as it was reprinted in conjunction with a variety of advertisements. In this work, Hiller offers a collection of large Sunday meals for each month, based on…

The Republican War on America: Dangers of Trump and Trumpism 

Republicans wage war on American democracy. They are driven by an ex-president and his Trumpists–the many politicians who wrap themselves in his cloak of racism, religiosity, and the Big Lie. Political historian Clemens explains what has gone wrong and what needs to…

Siddhartha: Life of the Buddha

Siddhartha: Life of the Buddha is an illustrated story for adults and children about the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and work for social justice. It includes illustrations from Pagan, Burma which are provided by Rev. Sitagu Sayadaw. The story is inspirational about the…

User-Centric Design

Designing applications can be a challenge for many designers. The user can play a crucial role in the development process by including them in the different development phases. The user can provide information on what is critical for the application and where…

The Song Lore of Ireland: Erin’s Story in Music and Verse

Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall (1830 – 1892) was a gifted mathematician and a pioneer for women’s rights.

An Astronomer’s Wife: The Biography Of Angeline Hall

Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall (1830 – 1892) was a gifted mathematician and a pioneer for women’s rights.

Discourse of the Inquisitive

From the basic building blocks of writing to directive feedback, from academic discourse to creative art forms, and from military students to adult learners, the anthology is filled with tips, tricks, and strategies to improve communication skills inside the classroom and out.