Karl: 3048 books

Many Americans remember Senator Sam Ervin (1896-1985) as the affable, Bible-quoting, old country lawyer who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973. Ervin's stories from down home in North Carolina, his reciting literary passages ranging from Shakespeare to Aesop's fables, and his earnest lectures...

The Chemistry Of Pottery by Karl Langenbeck. Most of the technical publications on pottery, in book form, dwell on the mechanical technology of the clay industries, the chemical parts consisting merely of receipts, claiming a practical origin. While to many of our chemists, engaged in developing the...

Some historians postulate that the First World War would have ended several months earlier if it were not for the successful strategy and deception employed by German President Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934) and General Erich Ludendorff (1865-1937) of the German High Command. It is believed...

Cryptozoology—the study of hidden animals—is gaining attention thanks to a startling number of zoological discoveries. Karl P.N. Shuker has collected evidence of these mysterious, somewhat mythical creatures in The Beasts that Hide from Man. Shuker provides entertaining, solidly researched tales...

Karl Maramorosch may be best known for his accomplishments as a top scientist, but the story of how he became such a success has never been tolduntil now. Born in Vienna in 1915, his family moved to Poland, and he fled with his wife, Irene, to Romania in September 1939. They spent four...

In this fascinating and sometimes disturbing book, the well-known writer Karl Sabbagh looks at psychologists' present understanding of the nature of memory, especially recollections of childhood, and how, in cases of so-called 'recovered memories', the unreliability and flexibility of memory has led...

In this important short book, Karl Sabbagh, a British-Palestinian writer, proposes a solution to the 100-year-old Palestine-Israel conflict. It is often said that this conflict, a running sore in international politics, is 'too complicated' for most people to understand. Sabbagh shows the opposite...

The island of Bougainville in the South Pacific was the site of one of the largest and most gruelling campaigns fought by Australian forces during the Second World War. During the offensive against the Japanese from November 1944 to August 1945, more than 500 Australians were killed and two Victoria...

'I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge we have', writes Sir Karl Popper in the opening essay of this book, which collects his meditations on the real improvements science has wrought in society, in politics and in the arts in the course...

Cradled among the world’s highest mountains—and sheltering one of its most devout religious communities—Tibet is, for many of us, an ultimate destination, a place that touches the heavens, a place only barely in our world, at its very end. In recent decades Western fascination with Tibet has...

El Manifiesto del Partido Comunista, muchas veces llamado simplemente el Manifiesto Comunista, es uno de los tratados políticos más influyentes de la historia, fue una proclama encargada por la Liga de los Comunistas a Karl Marx y Friedrich Engels entre 1847 y 1848, y publicada por primera vez en Londres el 21 de febrero de 1848.

La presente recopilación recoge una serie de textos de Marx, Engels y Lenin sobre la Comuna de París. Desde La guerra civil en Francia de Karl Marx, hasta el trabajo de Lenin "En memoria de la Comuna", los "clásicos" del materialismo dialéctico e histórico reflexionan sobre...

Paul Ricoeur is one of the most wide-ranging thinkers to emerge in the twentieth century. He has developed a unique 'theory of reading' or hermeneutics, which extends far beyond the reading of literary works to build into a theory for the reading of 'life'. For this reason, his work has impacted not...

A wisecracking activity-story book about the short (shelf) life of a bunch of bruisers--with 7 yummy recipes to save families from "I'm bored" disease. While banana characters try crazy stunts and start turf wars, this cautionary cookbook provides easy, low-sugar recipes (including banana muffins, smoothies,...