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America's 60 Families

Biographies & Memoirs

Lundberg, Ferdinand

Professionals & Academics

Lundberg Press

Originally published in 1937, this early work on American politics is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the history of industrial trusts, finance, business and the federal government during the early twentieth century. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in American history. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

SULEIMAN M MAGNIFICENT. Suleiman the Magnificent in From an engraving made in Constantinople by Melchior Lorichs cf. p. 294. PREFACE: I MUST BEGIN by telling my readers that this book is only partially my own. The inspiration to undertake it and a portion of the material it contains were derived from an unfinished life of Suleiman the Magnificent which was written by my beloved friend, the late Archibald Gary Coolidge in 1901-02. He and I discussed it constantly dur ing the next five years, and I frequently urged him to com plete and publish it but other things intervened, and when he died in 1928 the manuscript was deposited in the Har vard Archives just as he had left it twenty-six years be fore. There, some twenty months ago, I found it, with the words For R. B. Merriman written in his secretarys hand on the fly leaf and this I took as a summons to put it in shape for publication. My first intention was to leave as much as possible of his work untouched, write the three chapters which had been left undone, and edit the book under his name but this plan did not prove practicable. So instead I have rewritten it ab initio, and made a number of changes in the original form. I hasten, however, to add that a considerable portion of Chapter I and scattering paragraphs and sentences in Chapters II-VI and IX-XI have been taken, with some revision, from Professor Coolidges manuscript. Chapters VII, VIII, and XII are wholly my own. No apology is offered for the fact that the following pages are chiefly a story of diplomacy and campaigns. Mili tary considerations invariably came first in the Ottoman mind, and Suleiman was primarily a conqueror. Professor Coolidges unfinished manuscript is even more of what has trumpet history than is this book, but I arri glad to take this opportunity to testify to my un shak4n,- dief in the doctrine which he constantly preached namely that a knowledge of the narrative is the indis pensable foundation for everything else. Constitutional, economic, social, psychological, and all the other various aspects of history which have been successively labelled with capital letters, and have temporarily, each in turn, held the center of the stage in recent years, are perfectly meaningless without it. Moreover they are none of them really new, as their chief proponents would have us believe they have all been studied without their modern titles ever since the time of Herodotus. I trust that the publication of this life of one of the great est yet least known sovereigns of the sixteenth century will serve among other things to remind Harvard men all over the world of the immense debt which the University owes to Professor Coolidge. To one who, like myself, has stud ied and taught here for over half a century, that debt looms larger and larger as the years go by. Others have already written of his unfailing kindness, humor, and tact, of his boundless generosity and unselfishness. Here, however, I want especially to emphasize the greatness of his achieve ment in broadening the Universitys horizon. The Widener Library and the collections which he gave or obtained for it are perhaps the most conspicuous monument to his suc cess in this respect but the Corporation records and the University Catalogues of the last fifty years tell a no less notable tale for the curriculum. When Professor Coolidge came back to Harvard in 1893, on ty undergraduate instruction given in modern history outside of the United States consisted of two general courses on Western Europe in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries the Scandinavian, Slavic, Ottoman, and Iberian worlds were left practically untouched the African, Asiatic, and Preface vii Latin-American ones wholly so. Two years later we find Professor Coolidge himself offering two half courses, to be given in alternate years, on the history of the Scan dinavian lands and on the Eastern Question, and in 1904 05 another on the Expansion of Europe since 1815...

Suleiman the Magnificent 1520-1566

Merriman, Roger Bigelow

The World as Will and Idea - Vol. II.

This vintage book contains the second volume of Arthur Schopenhauer’s 1818 treatise, "The World As Will And Idea". One of the most influential philosophical works of the nineteenth century, it is Schopenhauer’s greatest endeavour, and constitutes the summation of a lifetime of contemplation. In it, he postulates that our existence is fuelled by an unsatisfied will, perpetually searching for satisfaction. This fascinating book is highly recommended for students of psychology, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) was a seminal German philosopher. Many antiquarian texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Literature & Fiction

SCHOPENHAUER, ARTHUR

Genre Fiction

FORE WORD THIS volume is not an attempt to deal with the elephant throughout its range in Africa, as the authors experiences of hunting these animals only apply to the territories of Nyasaland, North- Eastern Rhodesia, and Portuguese East Africa., . Probably there never lived a man who has hunted the elephant in all its habitats in Africa, and having read practically all the literature on the subject in the English language I have not discovered such an individual. Selous hunted in Mashonaland and Matabeleland, now known as Southern Rhodesia Neumann in British East Africa, now called Kenya Colony and Stigand in Nyasaland and the Congo. Perhaps Sir Alfred Sharpe has had a more varied experience of elephant hunting than any living person, and it is a pity he does not write more on the subject. Before the days of licences, when a hunter could not find a large tusker he took a small one, and if there were no bulls worth a shot he would fire at cows. Pound for pound cow ivory is of much greater value than that of the bulls, but the tusks seldom grow heavier than 15 lbs. Of course, it was imperative that restrictions should be made, for the improvement in sporting weapons and the development of communications would soon have brought the animals to the point of extinction. Therefore, though the modern hunter is apt to chafe at the limitations imposed, he has gained in usually having more time for nature study. The elephants, owing to increased molestation, now seek thicker country and do not as formerly spend much time in open exposed places. I believe that elephant hunting to-day, not- withstanding the great improvement in weapons, is more dangerous than it was in the past, for constant persecution naturally makes the animals more apt to resent interference and to act offensively. However, there is a tendency on the part of cinema photographers, who cannot be expected to know very much about the true habits of game, to describe charges when the animals are only frightened and trying to escape. Scent being the strongest sense in most mammals, when one or more animals are disturbed they try to go upwind, so that they can smell danger from their front. In doing so they may often seem to come directly for the disturber of their peace and may rush almost over the hunter or photographer in their efforts to come round towards the wind. Should a herd of elephants or buffaloes do this and be suddenly startled by the appearance of a human being they almost invariably split up and pass to either side. Moreover, a real charge is one made with intent to do harm, and herds of game seldom act in combination in this way. This is a good thing for hunters and photographers, for if such were the case there mould be few left to relate their experiences or show their fine pictures to the audiences of picture-houses...

The African Elephant And Its Hunter

Lyell, Denis D.

Sports & Outdoors

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The Ladies Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Loudon, Jane

Gardening & Landscape Design

Life Of Wallenstein - Duke Of Friedland

MITCHELL, JOHN

Some Great Stories And How To Tell Them

Wyche, Richard Thomas

This volume contains a classic account of a sailing experience in the Arctic. It describes a voyage through the Kara Sea and around the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, which is North of Russia and in the extreme North-east of Europe. An exciting and authentic account of the travails and vicissitudes experienced on the trip, this volume will appeal to those with an interest in sailing, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Many old books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on sailing.

Yachting in the Arctic Seas - Or, Notes of Five Voyages of Sport and Discovery in the Neighbourhood of Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya.

History

Lamont, James

World

Reformed Judaism And Its Pioneers - A Contribution To Its History

Schreiber, Emanuel

Religion & Spirituality

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