-Titulo Original : Alcoholics Anonymous 1939 First Edition-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: 2016 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in 1935 by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith, who developed the organizations twelve-step program. In 1939, they published this volume, which sets forth the cornerstone concepts of recovery and relates stories of those who have overcome alcoholism. Informally known as The Big Book, it has gone through numerous editions, and as a lifeline to millions worldwide, it is the most widely used resource for recovering alcoholics. Later editions added more personal stories. Our edition reprints the first edition of 1939, which got the enterprise started...

-Titulo Original : Think And Grow Rich-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: 2019 Reprint of 1944 Edition. Think and Grow Rich is based on Hills earlier work The Law of Success, and said to be the result of more than twenty years of study of many individuals who had amassed personal fortunes. Hill studied their habits and drew some 16 laws to be applied to achieve success. Think and Grow Rich condenses them, providing the reader with 13 principles in the form of a Philosophy of Achievement. The book maintains that desire, faith, and persistence can propel one to great heights if one can suppress negative thoughts and focus on long-term goals. The 13 steps listed in the book are:Desire, Faith, Autosuggestion, Specialized Knowledge, Imagination, Organized Planning, Decision, Persistence, Power of the Master Mind, The Mystery of Sex Transmutation, The Subconscious Mind, The Brain, The Sixth SenseWhile the books title and much of the text concerns increasing income, the author insists that his philosophy can help people succeed in any line of work; to do and be anything they can imagine. First published in 1937 during the Great Depression, the book by Hills death in 1970 had sold more than 20 million copies. By 2015 more than 100 million copies had been sold worldwide....

-Titulo Original : The Richest Man In Babylon Illustrated-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: 2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Illustrated Edition. In this financial classic Clason dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set 4,000 years ago in ancient Babylon. The book remains in print almost a century after the parables were originally published and is regarded as a classic of personal financial advice. The parables are told by a fictional Babylonian character called Arkad, a poor scribe who became the richest man in Babylon. Included in Arkads advice are the Seven Cures (or how to generate money and wealth), and the Five Laws of Gold (or how to protect and invest wealth). A core part of Arkads advice is around paying yourself first, living within your means, investing in what you know, the importance of long-term saving, and home ownership. The book is often referred to as a classic of personal financial advice and appears in modern recommended reading lists on personal financial advice and wealth management. It has sold over 2 million copies...

-Titulo Original : The Watch Repairers Manual Second Edition-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: 2022 Hardcover Reprint of 1961 Second Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. As The New York Times wrote after his death, Henry B. Fried was widely acknowledged as the dean of American watchmakers. In the revised, 1961 edition of his classic book The Watch Repairers Manual, reprinted here, Fried addresses topics important to contemporary watch repairers, such as self-winding watches, waterproofing, calendar watches, alarm wristwatches, and chronographs. The Watch Repairers Manual also includes a fine visual dictionary of exploded views in isometric, which are very helpful for ordering watch parts.One of the few modern books available on the techniques of watch repair and certainly the most esteemed, The Watch Repairers Manual is outstanding for its sequence of presentation and its many useful illustrations, including enlarged details of alarm and self-winding watches. The consummate craftsman and master of details, Fried himself created the illustrations. From teaching others, Fried has learned that if you have a good understanding of how and why the mechanisms work, you will become better at fixing any problems you face-often without needing to consult a book.The Watch Repairers Manual provides: - Helpful background material, such as full descriptions of the main divisions of the modern watch mechanisms, including the purpose and function of each unit.- Complete directions for cleaning and overhauling a watch movement for casing.- A section devoted to general repairs and troubleshooting.For anyone interested in watch repair, this volume will serve as a working manual, a reference manual, and even a course of study. Assuming little previous knowledge on the part of the reader, Fried provides complete and clear detail on each operation. The Watch Repairers Manual should be of great value to the student, hobbyist, watch collector, and instrument maker. Henry B. Fried wrote and illustrated 14 books, many pamphlets, and hundreds of articles on horology, the science of timepieces. The first American to receive the Silver Medal of the British Horological Institute, he served as president of the New York City Horological Society and the New York State Watchmakers Association and vice president of the old Horological Institute of America. He taught and lectured on horology and served as an industry consultant. He also was a consultant for the Random House Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary...

-Titulo Original : The Seven Last Words-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: 2022 Hardcover Reprint of 1952 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Our Lord spoke seven times from the Cross; these are called His Seven Last Words. In His goodness, Our Blessed Lord left His thoughts on dying. He was representative of all humanity. In this sublime hour He called all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every word He said to them was set down for the purpose of an eternal publication and an undying consolation. There was never a preacher like the dying Christ; there was never a congregation like that which gathered about the pulpit of the Cross; there was never a sermon like the Seven Last Words. In the work Bishop Sheen expounds upon the Seven Last Words of Christ, elaborating on their meaning for Christians since the time of Christ to the present day...

-Titulo Original : The Torrents Of Spring-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: 2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. The Torrents of Spring is a novella written by Ernest Hemingway and first published in 1926. It is Hemingways first long work and was written as a parody of Sherwood Andersons Dark Laughter. It was written as an elaborate parody of Anderson in particular and the Chicago School of Literature in general. Mixed reaction greeted the novella upon publication as it was itself sharply critical of other important writers of the era. The work is generally dismissed by critics and seen as vastly less important than The Sun Also Rises, which was published in the same year. Hadley Richardson, Hemingways wife at the time, believed his characterization of Anderson was nasty, while John Dos Passos considered it funny but did not want to see it published. F. Scott Fitzgerald, on the other hand, considered the novella a masterpiece. Little scholarly criticism has been devoted to The Torrents of Spring, as it is considered less important than Hemingways subsequent work. American readers would have recognized a Great Race in the subtitle as alluding to Madison Grants The Passing of the Great Race, an eugenic history and argument for the superiority of Nordic blood, influential in the USA and Germany when first published (1916.) Contents: Part One. Red and black laughter -- Part Two. The struggle for life -- Part Three. Men in war and the death of society -- Part Four. The passing of a great race and the making and marring of Americans -- Authors final note to the reader...

-Titulo Original : To Know Christ Jesus-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: 2022 Hardcover Reprint of 1962 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Sheeds concern with the Gospels is to come to know Christ as he actually lived among us and as he interacted with all the various people he encountered from his infancy to his passion and death. Sheed attempted to show Jesus through his effect upon others--seeing how they saw him, trying to see why they saw him so. There is much about Mary and Joseph in their task of bringing up a Jesus; about John the Baptist; about Mary of Bethany and Mary Magdalen; about Nicodemus; about people we meet only for a moment, like the man born blind and the owners of the drowned swine; and why the Pharisees, not only the worst of them but some of the best, would not accept Christ. Faith, doctrine, prayer, worship--all the content and consequences of Christian belief--rest on the person of Christ Jesus as recorded in the Gospels. In this classic study, Frank J. Sheed employs wide learning, theological sophistication, spiritual insight, and a lucid style to bring the reader to a personal encounter with the living Lord. Sheed had a distinguished career as a publisher, lecturer, street-corner evangelist, and popular writer. He and his wife Maisie Ward were the founders of the publishing house Sheed & Ward...

-Titulo Original : The Secret Of Perfect Living-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: 2022 Reprint of the 1963 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Are you your own worst enemy? Psychologists say yes! Science has long known that within every human soul are two powerful forces fighting each other for control. Mangan proposed a break-through in mind science and puts this Secret into your hands with this book. Perfect Living means Self-Togetherness-perfect union of the two opposed forces within you: THE POSITIVE FORCE: This is the side of your personality that strives for peace, love, happiness, and achievement. This part of you is good . .. it is the force behind everything you ever done well, every objective you have reached, every great accomplishment.THE NEGATIVE FORCE: But a second power is warring for mastery within your mind and spirit. This force is the cause of all your destructive impulses, negative thinking, irrational acts, and bad moods. This force is constantly at work, leading you into temptation, giving you bad habits, battling the reasonable man you call yourself.THE MAGIC WORDS OF POWER: Mangan proposed a magic method by which you can unite the two opposing forces within you. Through the use of the Magic Switch Words you can help your own worst enemy join forces with your conscious plans, decisions and objectives, to achieve a Self-Togetherness that makes you invincible. These key words are semantically loaded-they trigger a powerful release within your mind and character. Since your Subconscious thinks in a dream-language of imagery and symbols, these Switch Words give you conscious control . .. and for the first time in your life, you can weld the two opposed forces together in the miracle-working state that means a veritable heaven on earth . . . the Secret of Perfect Living...

-Titulo Original : Winnie-the-pooh-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: 2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) is Milnes best-selling classic childrens book. It is the first volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, written by A. A. Milne and illustrated by E. H. Shepard. The book focuses on the adventures of a teddy bear called Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, a small toy pig; Eeyore, a toy donkey; Owl, a live owl; and Rabbit, a live rabbit. The characters of Kanga, a toy kangaroo, and her son Roo are introduced later in the book, in the chapter entitled In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest and Piglet has a Bath. The bouncy toy-tiger character of Tigger is not introduced until the sequel, The House at Pooh Corner. One of the best-known characters in British childrens literature, a 2011 poll saw Winnie the Pooh voted onto the list of top 100 icons of England. Forbes magazine ranked Pooh the most valuable fictional character in 2002, with merchandising products alone generating more than $5.9 billion that year. In 2005, Pooh generated $6 billion, a figure surpassed by only Mickey Mouse. In 2006, Pooh received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, marking the 80th birthday of Milnes creation. The bear is such a popular character in Poland that a Warsaw Street is named for him. There is also a street named after him in Budapest, Hungary...

-Titulo Original : Smoky The Cowhorse Trade Edition Without Illustrations-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: 2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Trade Edition without the illustrations. Smoky knows only one way of life: freedom. Living on the open range, he is free to go where he wants and to do what he wants. And he knows what he has to do to survive. He can beat any enemy, whether it be a rattlesnake or a hungry wolf. He is as much a part of the Wild West as it is of him, and Smoky cant imagine anything else. But then he comes across a new enemy, one that walks on two legs and makes funny sounds. Smoky cant beat this enemy the way he has all the others. But does he really want to? Or could giving up some of his freedom mean getting something in return thats even more valuable? There have been many horse stories. But not one of them can compare with this book. -- New York Times Book Review One of the finest horse stories ever told. -- Herald Tribun...

-Titulo Original : The Absorbent Mind-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indicates a major theme of the book: the contrast between the way of life in the industrial north of England and the wealthier south, although it was only under pressure from her publishers that Gaskell changed the title from its original, Margaret Hale.The book is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The heroine of the story, Margaret Hale, is the daughter of a Nonconformist minister who moves to the fictional industrial town of Milton after leaving the Church of England. The town is modeled after Manchester, where Gaskell lived as the wife of a Unitarian minister. Gaskell herself worked among the poor and knew at first hand the misery of the industrial areas...

-Titulo Original : Philosophy And Opinions Of Marcus Garvey [volumes I & Ii In One Volume]-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: 2022 Hardcover Reprint of the Two Volume Edition, First Published from 1923 to 1926. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with OCR. This collection of Garveys writing remains the most famous collection of Garveys speeches and essays. Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association form a critical link in black Americas centuries-long struggle for freedom, justice, and equality. As the leader of the largest organized mass movement in black history and progenitor of the modern black is beautiful ideal, Garvey is now best remembered as a champion of the back-to-Africa movement. In his own time he was hailed as a redeemer, a Black Moses. Though he failed to realize all his objectives, his movement still represents an attempt at liberation from the psychological bondage of racial inferiority...

-Titulo Original : Glorified Fasting The Abc Of Fasting-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: Excerpt from La Divina CommediaTali espressioni sono alcune volte immagini; altre sentimenti; al tre idee ma anche quando sono pure immagini ti eccitano sempre de sentimenti e delle idee...

-Titulo Original : Clouds Of Witness A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly referred to as Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668). Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan. The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.[6] Written during the English Civil War (1642-1651), it argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature (the war of all against all) could be avoided only by strong, undivided government. The title of Hobbess treatise alludes to the Leviathan mentioned in the Book of Job. In contrast to the simply informative titles usually given to works of early modern political philosophy, such as John Lockes Two Treatises of Government or Hobbess own earlier work The Elements of Law, Hobbes selected a more poetic name for this more provocative treatise. Lexicographers in the early modern period believed that the term leviathan was associated with the Hebrew words lavah, meaning to couple, connect, or join, and thannin, meaning a serpent or dragon. In the Westminster Assemblys annotations on the Bible, the interpreters believed that the creature was named using these root words because by his bignesse he seemes not one single creature, but a coupling of divers together; or because his scales are closed, or straitly compacted together. Samuel Mintz suggests that these connotations lend themselves to Hobbess understanding of political force since both Leviathan and Hobbess sovereign are unities compacted out of separate individuals; they are omnipotent; they cannot be destroyed or divided; they inspire fear in men; they do not make pacts with men; theirs is the dominion of power on pain of death...

-Titulo Original : The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: The Most Dangerous Game features as its main character a big-game hunter from New York, who becomes shipwrecked on an isolated island in the Caribbean, and is hunted by a Russian aristocrat.The story is an inversion of the big-game hunting safaris in Africa and South America that were fashionable among wealthy Americans in the 1920s...

-Titulo Original : The Complete Poems Of Emily Dickinson-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: The tempest had raged for six days, and on the seventh seemed to increase. The ship had been so far driven from its course, that no one on board knew where we were. Every one was exhausted with fatigue and watching. The shattered vessel began to leak in many places, the oaths of the sailors were changed to prayers, and each thought only how to save his own life. Children, said I, to my terrified boys, who were clinging round me, God can save us if he will. To him nothing is impossible; but if he thinks it good to call us to him, let us not murmur; we shall not be separated. My excellent wife dried her tears, and from that moment became more tranquil. We knelt down to pray for the help of our Heavenly Father; and the fervour and emotion of my innocent boys proved to me that even children can pray, and find in prayer consolation and peace...

-Titulo Original : Candide-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: Princess Isabella loves to eat strawberries more than anything else, but what will she do when all her strawberries are stolen? This is a scrumptious story that little girls everywhere will treasure forever...

-Titulo Original : The Science Of Breath-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: Ce n’est pas comme ça que commencent les contes de fees d’habitude, mais voila comment a commence le mien...Pas d’argent, pas de telephone, et abandonnee au beau milieu de Chicago.Avec mon bebe dans les bras, je m’aventure dans le bar d’un quartier glauque avec l’espoir de pouvoir emprunter un telephone.Mon pere m’a mise a la rue avec ma fille, non sans m’avoir desheritee, et voila que le proprietaire du bar, un mec a tomber par terre, propose de nous heberger… sans contrepartie.Au debut, je reste sur mes gardes.Un beau male alpha.Une mere celibataire malchanceuse. C’est normal d’etre mefiante, non ?Mais Lucio Gallo n’est pas comme la plupart des hommes. Il est farouchement protecteur, fidele, et... est-ce que j’ai precise qu’il etait tout en muscles ?En plus de ça, il est tout ce dont j’ai toujours eu besoin sans le savoir...

-Titulo Original : The Cloud Of Unknowing-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: First issued in 1904, L. Frank Baums The Marvelous Land of Oz is the story of the wonderful adventures of the young boy named Tip as he travels throughout the many lands of Oz. Here he meets with our old friends the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, as well as some new friends like Jack Pumpkinhead, the Wooden Sawhorse, the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, and the amazing Gump...

-Titulo Original : Infantry Attacks-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: 2022 Reprint of the 1944 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Infantry Attacks is a classic book on military tactics written by Erwin Rommel about his experiences in World War I. Written directly after combat, Rommel critiques his own battle strategies and tactics during World War I in an attempt to learn further from his losses and victories. Herein Rommel describes his shock troops tactics, utilizing speed, deception, and deep penetration into enemy territory to surprise and overwhelm. Rommel recounts assigning small numbers of men to approach enemy lines from the direction in which attack was expected. The men would yell, throw hand grenades, and otherwise simulate the anticipated attack from concealment, while attack squads and larger bodies of men sneaked to the flanks and rears of the defenders to take them by surprise. These tactics often intimidated enemies into surrendering, thus avoiding unnecessary exertion, expenditure of ammunition, and risk of injury. The book was first published in 1937 and helped to persuade Adolf Hitler to give Rommel high command in World War II, although he was not from an old military family or the Prussian aristocracy, which had traditionally dominated the German officer corps. This edition reprints the 1944 publication by The Infantry Journal...

-Titulo Original : The Complete Guide To Edible Wild Plants-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: 2022 Reprint of those portions of the Department of the Armys manual of survival by consuming edible wild plants. Illustrated with over 100 Photographs of individual plants and a description of their nutritional and survival value. This illustrated guide to identification of edible wild plants in nature is extracted from Army Manual for Survival, the comprehensive Army guide to survival in emergency situations. Only sections on wild edible plants are included in this edition, making it a compact, portable, and handy field guide to learning and mastering this important survival skill. From Abal to Water Hemlock, 127 plants are described, most with color photographs, indicating each plants potential for providing nutrition and survival...

-Titulo Original : 507 Mechanical Movements-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: 2022 Hardcover Reprint of the 1908 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This title illustrates the most important mechanical movements in dynamics, hydraulics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, steam engines, mill and other gearing, presses, horology, and miscellaneous machinery; and including many movements never previously published, and several which had only recently come into use as of 1868, the first date of publication for this classic title. This 1868 compendium of ingenious mechanisms employs simple drawings to explain 507 of the small components that constitute complex machinery. Left-hand pages feature illustrations, and facing pages offer brief descriptions of their use and operation. Ranging from simple to complex, the mechanisms include cranks, pulleys, drills, wheels, and screws...

-Titulo Original : A Childs History Of The World-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: 2022 Reprint of 1924 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Profusely illustrated with drawings and charts. A Childs History of the World is a general history of the world from the beginning of things up to the present, which a child as young as nine years of age can read or have read to him and understand without supplementary help or explanation. It is the result of over twenty years of teaching the subject to young children and of five years writing it. The books is now considered in a classic in its field...

-Titulo Original : I Love Her, Thats Why! An Autobiography-Fabricante : Martino Fine Books-Descripcion Original: 2022 Reprint of the 1955 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Illustrated with Photographs. Burns and Allen, who endeared themselves to American television audiences for decades, were one of the great husband and wife teams in all show business. When people ask George how he could live with such a zany character as Gracie, who puts salt in the pepper-pot and pepper in the, salt- shaker, shortens electric cords to save electricity, etc., he replies quite simply I love her, thats why ! And in telling the story of their thirty years together, a genuinely funny yet very touching story, George has virtually written a love letter to Gracie.This is a warm, laughing, moving experience for everyone who reads it; the story of an Eastside youngster with show business in his blood who one day found a partner for his act and a mate for life, and thereafter never looked back...