Personal account of one of the Westerners who helped build modern Japan (see also study by Pedlar - also available from Curzon Press).

""Treatise On The Great Art"" is a comprehensive work by Antoine-Joseph Pernety that explores the principles of Hermetic philosophy and their application ...

A Lady And Her Letters is a book written by Katherine Eleanor Conway and published in 1905. It is a collection of letters written by a lady named Mary ...

Der Büchernachlass des Dichters und Schriftstellers Matthias Claudius (1740-1815) wurde nach dem Tod seiner Witwe Rebecca (1754-1832) aufgelöst. ...

Once again, Juna reminds us that even though change may be difficult to accept, it remains to be the foundation of human adventures that inspire innovation ...

CIA officer Grady Dawson secretly enlists the aid of a wealthy New Yorker and asks him to start a foundation to support artists. Six years later, the nightmare ...

Explains in non-technical terms how to use the dichroscope to identify colored gems, and how to separate natural gems from imitations, treated gemstones ...

Recollections of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Late Dean of Westminister - Three lectures delivered in Edinburgh in November, 1882 is an unchanged, high-quality ...

""Einf�����hrung in die Wahrscheinlichkeitslehre"" ist ein Buch von Bruno Borchardt, das im Jahr 1889 ver������ffentlicht ...

In this, his first published novel, George Gissing establishes the hallmarks of his life-long literary obsession with class, money and sex. Against the ...