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Notes on Nursing - What It Is, and What It Is Not by Florence; Florence Nightingale; Ramona Salotti (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading Ser.
No one knows if Florence Nightingale deliberately set out to become a nursing champion, but it is clear that the 1859 publication of her book Notes on Nursing: What It Is, And What It Is Not secured her place in nursing history. By the author's own admission, the work was not written as a training manua ...Show more
The Antichrist (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) by Ludovici, Anthony M..
Category: Philosophy | Series: Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading Ser.
The Antichrist is the most powerful criticism ever offered against modern values and beliefs. In earlier books Nietzsche had announced, "God is dead," and in The Antichrist he seethes with contempt for Christianity's imposition, upon humanity, of its perverse and unnatural vision. Nietzsche contends tha ...Show more
The Ball and the Cross by G. K. Chesterton
Category: No Category | Series: Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading Ser.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whene ...Show more
The Birth of Britain - A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston S. Churchill; Michael Frassetto (Introduction by)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading Ser.
The Birth of Britain is the first volume of A History of the English Speaking Peoples, the immensely popular and eminently readable four-volume work by Winston Churchill. A rousing account of the early history of Britain, the work describes the great men and women of the past and their impact on the de ...Show more
The Innocence and Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton; Bruce F. Murphy (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading Ser.
Contrary to first impressions, G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown is not senile, nor easily rattled. In fact, this village priest wanders into challenges that pale in comparison to the things he has heard through the screen of the confessional. For to hear Father Brown tell it, crime is a manifestation of ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton; Bruce F. Murphy (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading Ser.
It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the author of the Father Brown stories should tell a detective story like no-one else. On this level, ther ...Show more
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