Little Visits with Great Americans - OR, Success, Ideals, and How to Attain Them - Volumes 1 - 3


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This book contains all three volumes of, “Little Visits with Great Americans” is a 1905 motivational book by Orison Swett Marden (1848–1924). It looks at the power of the individual with reference to notable people from American history ranging from statesmen and industrial leader to musicians and writers, looking at how they attained success in an attempt to motivate and inspire readers. Dr. Orison Swett Marden was an American author of inspirational books. He wrote primarily on the subject of being successful and founded “SUCCESS” magazine in 1897. Marden's books deal with attaining a fruitful and well-rounded life, with many of his ideas being based on the New Thought movement. Contents include: “Inspirational Talks with Famous Americans”, “Invention”, “Manufacture”, “Commerce”, “Finance”, “Transportation”, “Labor”, “Public Life”, “Education and Literature”, “Art”, “Amusement”, “Philanthropy”, “Divinity”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.




Astronomy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in Chile and the United States


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This Palgrave Pivot tells the transnational story of the astronomical observatory in the hills near Santiago, Chile, built in the early twentieth century through the efforts of astronomers from the Lick Observatory in California. Venturing abroad to learn from largely unmapped Southern skies and, hopefully, answer lingering questions about the structure of the galaxy, they planned a three-year research expedition—but ended up staying for more than twenty-five years. The history of the Mills Expedition offers a window onto the history of astronomy, the challenges of scientific collaboration across national lines, and the political and cultural contexts of early-twentieth-century Chile and the United States.




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Monthly Bulletin


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Philippine Education


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Publishers' Weekly


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The Publishers Weekly


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Myth of the West


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Covering a period from 1832 to the present, and beginning with some of the earliest renderings of Western art by artists of the European tradition, here is the work of such famous artists as George Catlin, Frederic Remington, and many others. Essays by experts in the field analyze the historic West and its relevance in mainstream American culture.