"Sermons at Rugby" by John Percival is a collection of thought-provoking sermons delivered at Rugby School, where Percival served as headmaster. The book reflects his deep commitment to education and moral development, emphasizing the importance of character formation in young people. Percival's eloquent prose and insightful reflections on faith, duty, and the human experience resonate with readers, encouraging them to contemplate their own values and beliefs. His sermons are not only rele...

THE WAY OF THE DOLLARTRADING CURRENCIES FOR PROFITAs readers know, my approach to analysing the currencies – its method – is essentially anti-crowd. We look where the crowd is not looking for an underlying rationale for the direction of the main trend. And we use a series of contrarian* sentiment indicators designed to orient us in the opposite direction to the crowd. This method has worked well, and it is timeless so it should ...

A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John FreemanIn the past fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of styles have brought this unique genre a thrilling burst of energy. The Pengui...

Money Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, on the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 is a seminal work capturing a pivotal moment in American economic history. Delivered by Senator John P. Jones, a prominent advocate for the interests of the Western mining states, this speech passionately argues for the free and unlimited coinage of silver, a hotly debated issue in the late 19th century. Jones meticulously dissects the economic and social consequen...

The Complete Works of John Percival JonesJohn Percival Jones was an American politician who served for 30 years as a Republican United States Senator from Nevada. He made a fortune in silver mining and was a co-founder of the town of Santa Monica, California.This collection includes the following:India, Its Life and ThoughtIndia's Problem Krishna or ChristMoney: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States S...

This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 2, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews of the very latest research on ageing. It reports the outcomes of the most concerted investigation ever undertaken into both the influence shaping the changing nature of ageing and its consequences for individuals and society.This book concentrates on three major themes: active ageing, design for ageing well and the relationship between ageing and socio-economic de...

English grammar taught through jokes and Leech's cartoons - the parts of speech illustrated by the people who misuse them. Leigh wrote for Punch and produced this in 1840 for readers who had been beaten through Lindley Murray at school. This edition adds six bound plates, among them works by John Leech, George Cruikshank and John Everett Millais, alongside thirty-nine in-text illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.

**One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction From 2024The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience**In this vividly rendered historical narrative, M. G. Sheftall layers the stories of hibakusha—the Japanese word for atomic bomb survivors—in harrowing detail, to give a minute-by-...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • “A wise, tremendously moving exploration of what it means to seek companionship and understanding, in books and in life.”—Hua Hsu, author of Stay True“Stirring and sparkling.”—The Washington PostBooks can seduce you. They can, Sarah Chihaya believes, annihilate, reveal, and provoke you. And anyone incurably obsessed with books understands this kind of unsettling literary encounter...

A collection of the year’s best contemporary fiction, these short stories are selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and series editor Heidi Pitlor.“There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor Lauren Groff in her introduction. This abundance led to a volume of robust stories from diverse voices, each with the nerve to push against narrative ...

Malm unearths the shared roots of colonial adventurism in Palestine and fossil fuelled warfare.Israel’s pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has inflicted on Palestine since October 2023 has merely ushered in a new phase in a long history of colonization and extraction that reaches back to the nineteenth century. In this urgent pa...

AN ORIGIN STORY BOOK'Provides clarity, scholarship, wit and essential insight into why our world is the way it is' Adam Rutherford'I wish I could make Ian and Dorian's work mandatory' Sathnam SangheraWhy is 'fascist' used to describe everyone from dictators to parking wardens? Does the word 'fascism' describe a historical movement or an enduring ideology? And could we see it rise again today, in an age of populism?...