Three Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806

The Lewis & Clark Expedition of 1804-06 was the greatest act of exploration in the history of the U.S. This historic enterprise explored the Western U.S. along a route beginning near St. Louis & traveled up the Missouri River, over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of ...

Old Age in Late Medieval England

In Old Age in Late Medieval England, Joel T. Rosenthal explores the life spans, sustained activities, behaviors, and mentalites of the individuals who approached and who passed the biblically stipulated span of three score and ten in late medieval England. Drawing on a wide variety of documentary...

Of Elephants & Roses

This illustrated book explores the fascinating history of the natural sciences in the turbulent years of post-revolutionary and Restoration France, from Empress Josephine’s black swans and rare Franklinia tree to a giraffe that walked 480 miles across France to greet the king. It is the catalogue...

Waiting Game

Amelia Markley returns in the spicy final installment of her Canyon Creek series as Lincoln Cooper attempts to convince his stubborn coworker that their fake relationship could become something very real.

Build It! Outer Space

Build It! Outer Space provides simple, step-by-step visual instructions to construct twenty-five futuristic space models using the classic LEGO® bricks kids already own. It turns standard brick collections into rockets, rovers, and alien outposts—delivering endless screen-free play without needin...

Buried Treasures

Hoarder Henny Wiley is back again in the cozy third installment of the Hazardous Hoarding Mysteries by Silver Falchion Award Finalist Michelle Bennington! All Henny wants is to hang her Christmas lights, sip her coffee, and keep her treasures exactly where she left them. But that's going to prove...

Tainted

Tainted is a dystopian fantasy featuring a fiercely driven heroine trying to outrun her cursed fate, her oppressive militarized unit, and the friend she’s too afraid to admit she loves.

My Demon Exchange Student

When twenty-one-year-old valedictorian Hannah Thomas mistakenly enrolls a hot demon in her university’s foreign exchange program, her strict academic plans fall apart as she begrudgingly partners with said demon to save her school from a sinister science experiment that pushes their sizzling tens...

Caring for Patients from Different Cultures

This extensively updated edition of a definitive text provides healthcare workers with a solid frame of reference for understanding—and successfully addressing—cultural differencesHealthcare workers in the American medical system may find that patients from different cultures bring unfamiliar exp...

Candidates Defeated in Roman Elections

his is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Contents: Abbreviations; I. Introduction; II. Candidates for the Consulship: 1. Candidates Defeated in the Elections; 2. Candidates Who Withdrew or Were Prevented From Competing; III. Candidates for the Censorship; IV. Candidates for...

Bust of Thomas Paine

The first president of The Amer. Philosophical Society (APS), Benjamin Franklin, was favorably impressed with Thomas Paine when he met him in London. Franklin became Paine’s patron and introduced him to America, where Paine arrived in 1774. His pamphlet Common Sense electrified the American peopl...

What’s a Naturalist?

Studies in Byzantine Astronomical Terminology

This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. 13 plates.

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 14, Part 3, 1871

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Continuations of the Old French Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes. 5

Contents: Introduction: The Manuscripts, The Redactions, Plan of this Vol., Outline of the Second Continuation; Text of Manuscript A; Text of Manuscript E; Textual Notes; Appendix; Index of Proper Names; Errata and Corrigenda in Vols. I, II and III.

Latin Technical Phlebotomy and Its Middle English Translation

This is a print on demand publication. Contents: (I) Introduction: Phlebotomy in the Middle Ages; The Latin Treatise; Late Medieval English Medicine & Middle English Medical Texts; & The Middle English Text: Related Tracts, Date & Dialect, Manuscript; (II) “Tractatus magistri enrici d...

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 19, Part 3, 1898

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 19, Part 2, 1898

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Interpretation of Dreams in the Ancient Near East. With a Translation of an Assyrian Dream Book

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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 19, Part 1, 1896

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Franks, Burgundians, and Aquitanians and the Royal Coronation Ceremony in France

Deals with two unusual French “ordines” in which relevance took precedence over tradition. In both the pregnant phrase “Franks, Burgundians, & Aquitanians” appeared in the prayer following the king’s unction in the place traditionally occupied by the alien triad “Saxons, Mercians, & North...

The Tribute Roll of Montezuma

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Native Writings in Massachusett (2 volume Set)

An edition of all known manuscript writings in the Massachusetts language by native speakers. Basic linguistic, historical, and ethnographic analyses are included. Massachusetts is an extinct Eastern Algonquian language spoken aboriginally and in the Colonial period in what is now southeastern Ma...

Paradise Restored

This is a print on demand ed. Since the Renaissance, historians, philosophers, and others have judged the positive and negative contributions of the Middle Ages (MA) to the development of Western civilization. These writers have assessed the extent to which medieval culture and institutions may h...

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 20, Part 3, 1902

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 15, Part 2, 1875

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 20, Part 2, 1901

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Continuations of the Old French Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes. 3, part 2

Originally published in 1950; reprinted 1965.

Contributions to Ethnography and Philology of the Indian Tribes of the Missouri Valley

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia and Reptilia of North America

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Rising People

Catalogue of a joint exhibition to celebrate the American Bicentennial, held in Philadelphia from April 28 through Nov. 1976, with materials from the collections of the American Philosophical Soc. (APS), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and The Library Company of Philadelphia. The catalogu...

Elements of Vision

The mathematical, medical, and physical-philosophical traditions of medieval visual theory provide important insights and arguments in response to very specific questions defined by the respective interests of these traditions. Each of these three traditions also appears to have a larger framewor...

Continuations of the Old French Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes. 2

Between 1949 and 1983, William Roach produced the sole modern ed. of the First, Second, and Manessier Continuations of the Old French Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes, based on all the manuscripts. Most vol. are out of print, but the popularity of King Arthur and the Grail legend keeps interest in ...

Copepodologist's Cabinet

Copepod crustaceans are the most numerous multicellular animals on earth. They occur in every free-living and parasitic aquatic niche. Copepods have been known since the time of Aristotle, yet there has never been a history of the study of copepods. This volume, the first in a planned three-volum...

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 15, Part 1, 1873

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 17, Part 3, 1893

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Iohannis Philoponi

To anyone who has ever examined in any of its printed forms the little work on Greek words which differ in meaning according to difference in accent, which is attributed to John Philoponus, it must be evident that this text is of interest to the historian of lexicography or of pedagogy rather tha...

Old Babylonian Inscriptions Chiefly from Nippur. Part II

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 13, Part 3, 1869

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Antikythera Shipwreck Reconsidered

This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. 83 illustrations.

On Calculating the Factor of Chance in Language Comparison

While all human languages are likely to be genetically related, the remoter relationships cannot be demonstrated by reliable linguistic methods because the languages in question have diverged too much. Any demonstration of a relationship between languages depends on finding words & grammatica...

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 12, Part 1, 1862

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Philadelphia Unitarianism, 1796-1861

From the Preface:"This study is concerned with Unitarianism in the life of Philadelphia—from its first appearance until the outbreak of the Civil War. The history of new England Unitarianism has been amply set forth but the Philadelphia story has not been told until now. Here, in part, is that st...

The Labor Relations Climate and Management Rights in Urban School Systems

Social Culture of the Nunivak Eskimo

This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. 84 illustrations.

Myriapoda of North America

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 17, Part 1, 1892

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, New and Full Moons, A.D. 1650-1805

These tables cover the period from the mid-17th to the 19th cent. when astronomical ephemerides were evolving most rapidly. These tables resemble those previously pub. by the APS: Tuckerman’s “Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, 601 B.C. to A.D. 1” and “A.D. 2 to A.D. 1649” and Goldstine’s “Ne...

Indoeuropean Classification

The lexicostatistical method is frequently used to gain information about family trees of languages which are not accessible in study by more traditional methods. The first & major purpose of this work is to validate the lexicostatistical method by presenting the classification it yields for ...

Historia Francorum Qui Ceperunt Iherusalem

This is a print on demand pub. Raymond D’Aguilers, chaplain of Count Raymond IV of Toulouse, wrote an eyewitness account of the crusades entitled “Historia Francorum qui ceperunt Iherusalem.” His 12th-cent. history has influenced later historians in their accounts of the First Crusade and has led...

Dal Pozzo-Albani Drawings of Classical Antiquities in the British Museum

This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. More than 100 illustrations.

Contents of a Rock Retreat in Southeastern Pennsylvania

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Prussia in Transition

Contents: (I) The Stein Ministry in Historical Perspective: Hero History and Beyond; (II) Social Change and a New Ideology Confront Prussia’s Old Regime; (III) Optimism Springs From Crisis: The Reform Party; (IV) Bureaucratic Change and Accommodation of the Aristocracy; (V) Government by Property...

History of the Pelycosauria, with a Description of the Genus Dimetrodon, Cope

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 13, Part 1, 1865

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

The Mammalian Fauna of the White River Oligocene: Part II. Rodentia

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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 18, Part 2, 1895

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Religion and Industrial Society

This is a print on demand publication. The Protestant Social Cong. (“Evangelish-Sozialer Kongress”), met each year from 1890 to 1914 to discuss Germany’s sudden transformation into an industrial capitalist society. It served as a forum for Wilhelmine Germany’s educated middle class. Prof. & p...

Maistre Nicole Oresme

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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 16, Part 3, 1890

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Koch Centennial Memorial

Koch Centennial Memorial, March 1982, Vol. 125, No. 3 (part 2 of 2 parts). Contents: Robert Koch, Tuberculosis (TB), & the Subsequent History of Medicine; TB & Medical Science; Epidemiology of TB; Disease Transmission & Contagion Control; TB: Susceptibility & Resistance; Pathogen...

Continuations of the Old French Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes. 3, part 1

Originally published in 1949; reprinted 1965.

Cape Gelidonya

This book forms the final report of the underwater excavation which the author directed at Cape Gelidonya, Turkey, in 1960, for the Univ. Museum of the Univ. of PA. The formation of such a novel excavation, involving divers and equipment from five countries, took an unusual amount of paperwork. T...

Migration and Economic Opportunity

Stimulated by the depression, this final report of the Study of Population Redistribution is a pioneer effort to evaluate the relative economic opportunities of various sections and types of communities in the United Sates—the levels of living they have supported in the past, and impending change...

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 16, Part 2, 1888

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902