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Defines the precepts that became the prototype for contemporary nursing practice. This title provides a historical perspective on the evolution of healthcare delivery, and offers an intimate glimpse into the Victorian Age. It also includes modern-day concepts such as the mind-body connection, plant therapy, and pet therapy.

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Napoleon has been called a giant for the ages, and his influence resonates to this day not only in the field of military endeavor but also in law and governance. This title presents his military maxims that are timeless principles applicable to many aspects of life.

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Focuses on the fundamental role the English-speaking people played in bringing economic progress and political freedom to the world at large. As a work of history, this volume covers the period from the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 to the end of the South African or Boer War in 1902.

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Through its realistic delineation of the complexities of human existence, and in its soul-building optimism about the benefits of aspiring to a Christ-shaped life, this book features short meditations that is relevant for modern readers.

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The author is widely regarded as the most important philosopher of the twentieth century. In this title, he offers a radical new theory of logic, along the way addressing such problems as the foundations of mathematics, solipsism, the nature of ethics and art, and even free will.

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And Afterward An Aide To Jefferson Davis And A Brigadier-General In The Confederate Army.

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Presents the thesis of a thinker who was a scientist, psychologist, metaphysician, and skeptic. The product of both youthful fire and mature consideration, this title contains everything of Consequence relating to the understanding. It endeavors to be nothing less than the construction of an anatomy of human nature.

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The myths and legends of ancient Egypt still reach out to us across nearly six thousand years with timeless and universal expressions of human hopes and fears that are sometimes quite familiar, sometimes quite strange. This book gives an introduction to the study of Egypt.

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Features Phileas Fogg, who is a leisured but taciturn Londoner of such mathematically precise habits that he has fired his servant for bringing him shaving water two degrees too cold. Over a game of cards, Fogg wagers twenty thousand pounds that he can travel around the world in eighty days or less.

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Features multi-eyed protoplasmic entities, flesh-eating ghouls, animate corpses, time-travelling body snatchers, and, yes, huge albino penguins. This collection includes three selections from the "Cthulhu Mythos": the novella "At the Mountains of Madness"; "The Thing on the Doorstep"; and "The Shadow Out of Time".

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Covering everything from Babylonian vampires to the practice of 'baby farming' in Mesopotamia, the author brings to his readers the most famous Mesopotamian myths and legends, such as mankind's first recorded story of the Creation, the Babylonian story of the Great Flood, and the adventures of the world's first epic hero, Gilgamesh.

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Supposing that truth is a woman, what then In this book, the author critiques the mediocre in modernity and challenges the reader to accept their state of becoming and accept improvisation and creativity of the process. It is designed to disorient the reader, to systematically provoke and tease her to the point of stealing away her certainties.

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Known today primarily as the author of "The Great Gatsby", F Scott Fitzgerald was famous in the 1920s and 1930s as a short-story writer. This title features nineteen stories that portrays the emotional depth of a society devoted to excess and racing heedlessly towards catastrophe that was only a few years ahead.

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Offers an account of a nineteenth-century English village dominated by a group of genteel but modestly circumstanced women. By eschewing the conventional marriage plot with its nubile heroines and focusing instead on a group of middle-aged and elderly spinsters, the author underscores the value and dignity of single women's lives.

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Like Copernicus, the author dared to question the ordinary perspective from which we habitually view the world. His moderate form of skepticism is known as 'transcendental idealism', and its primary tenet is that we cannot know things as they are in themselves because we only know things as they appear to us.

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A new edition of Hume"s influential work on religion, including several of his shorter texts.

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This is a new edition of a popular classic, which offers a prayer for each day of the year, reflecting on some aspect of God's relationship with us. George MacDonald had a great influence on C S Lewis and was instrumental in his conversion.

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The author was born in La Haye, known today as La Haye-Descartes in 1596. After studying classical literature, history, rhetoric, and philosophy at the college des Jesuites de la Fleche, he obtained his law degree from the University of Poitiers. In 1618, he enrolled in the Dutch army commanded by the prince Maurice of Nassau.

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