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Wood-Carving
- Author: Jack George
- Genre: Arts & Photography
This book contains valuable information on wood-carving both for the beginners and for advances carvers as well. Here you will a number of suggestion of how to start including the ways of sharpening tools and preparing the work place. Although Wood-Carving was written more than one hundred years ago, it would be very useful for modern readers wishing to do a decorative carving work for furniture and buildings. The book contains drawings made by the author and some other picture. Besides, the history on the wood-carving is included here.
the abnakis and their history
- Author: eugene vetromile
- Genre: Native American
Short but informative, this unique book is devoted to a tribe of Native American and First Nations people. Written in 1866, it offers valuable information on the Indians of the Northeast, Abnaki language, writing, customs, religion, and the character of the Indians. “The history of Acadia is strictly connected with the history of the Christian Church in New England, and to preserve its fragments is to give a contribution to the history of the Catholic Church in America. The Aborigines of Acadia were the first native Americans that received the light of the Gospel and embraced the Christian religion”.
Architectural bronze and iron. --
- Author: Canadian Allis-Chalmers
- Genre: Illustration
"Architectural bronze and iron works, Toronto"--Cover
michelangelo buonarroti
- Author: charles clement
- Genre: Artists, A-Z
Michelangelo Buonarotti, one of the greatest artists of all the times. His masterpieces still impress people. In this book Charles Clement tells the story of great artist’s life and about his artistic way. You will find many interesting and amazing facts that yet have been unknown.
The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature
- Author: Schopenhauer Arthur
- Genre: European
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher famous for his atheistic pessimism and philosophical clarity. Schopenhauer's metaphysical analysis of will, his views on human motivation and longing, and his unbelievable writing style influenced many well-known thinkers including Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and many others. This book contains Schopenhauer’s essays in which he discusses human nature.
tales of languedoc
- Author: samuel jacques brun
- Genre: European
A collection of folktales from the South of France, presented as if being narrated by different storytellers, including "The Story of the Three Strong Men", "A Blind Man's Story", and "The Marriage of Monsieur Arcanvel".
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
- Author: Schoolcraft Henry Rowe
- Genre: European
By Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures. With brief notices of passing events, facts, and opinions, A. D. 1812 to A. D. 1842. These memoires appear to be a transcript of author’s daily journals written during the Cass and Doty expedition in 1820 and serving as Indian agent at Sault Ste. Marie and as Michigan's superintendent of Indian Affairs. The book offers much detailed information concerning geographic, political, military, historical, and ethnographic matters, some facts being given by his wife, Jane Johnston.
A House of Gentlefolk
- Author: Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich
- Genre: European
Famous work by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, a Russian novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer, considered to be the founder of the Russian realistic novel. He was the author whose unexceptionable literary skill correlates with not less unexceptionable knowledge of human soul. Turgenev enriched Russian literature with the most fascinating women’s characters and wonderful, poetical descriptions of nature. “A House of Gentlefolk” is one of the most subtle and sad novels of the author. This is a beautiful story of love, broken hopes and complicated life of a brilliant clever man, who made a tragic mistake one day and is forced to pay for it during his entire life. In the centre of the narration a tragic love story of Lisa and Lavretsky: the heroes meet each other, fall in love, but unable to accept the feeling. During a short period of time they experience both hope for happiness and despair, understanding that it is impossible. They are looking for answers for questions life asks them – of personal happiness, of responsibility for people, of self-denial and place in life.