Category: Biographies Memoirs

By Dorothy Clarke Wilson

By Murray N Rothbard

ISBN-10: 1933550414

ISBN-13: 9781933550411

A yr following the demise of Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard wrote the booklet designed to encourage a brand new new release to absorb the Misesian reason in fiscal concept and political motion. His activity was once to supply an summary of Mises's writings and position within the social sciences. The essay completed remarkable repute. we'd even say that "The crucial von Mises," allotted within the kind of a mini-book, used to be extra answerable for immortalizing Mises than the other essay ever written. The Mises Institute is overjoyed that allows you to deliver it again back. It has misplaced none of its strength within the intervening years. right here it truly is coupled with an excellent biographical piece that Rothbard wrote within the Nineteen Nineties: "Scholar, writer, Hero." It is going into larger biographical intensity, and comprises many discoveries revamped two decades. The content material quite serves as a variety at the first essay instead of an up to date type of a similar, so it is sensible to have them put jointly. for that reason this ebook will be known as "Rothbard on Mises" however it particularly serves because the top, brief, all-round creation to Misesian notion to ever look in print. it's all the necessities of what you need to learn about this nice guy and philosopher. incidentally, the canopy is intensely cool, even though you may no longer have the capacity to inform it from the small photo. it truly is truly made of dozens of tiny photographs of Mises, and very constitutes a creative and technological surprise.

By Mark L. Urban

ISBN-10: 0571205135

ISBN-13: 9780571205134

This paintings supplies a compelling account of the officer who waged the intelligence conflict opposed to Napoleon's military, a forerunner to the nice code-breakers of the twentieth century. The French military, throughout the Peninsular battle, used a code of unrivalled complexity - the "Great Paris Cipher". significant George Scovell used a community of Spanish guerillas to seize coded French messages, after which started working decrypting them.

By Mark Galeotti (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0312164815

ISBN-13: 9780312164812

ISBN-10: 0312164823

ISBN-13: 9780312164829

ISBN-10: 0333638557

ISBN-13: 9780333638552

ISBN-10: 1349253138

ISBN-13: 9781349253135

By Laura K. Egendorf

By Miriam Estensen

ISBN-10: 1741141303

ISBN-13: 9781741141306

By Professor Solomon

ISBN-10: 0912509104

ISBN-13: 9780912509105

Actual stories (or so it used to be claimed) of subterranean trips * King Herla within the cavern of the dwarfs * Enkidu and his descent into Sheol * Orpheus and Aeneas in Hades * Sir Owen in Purgatory * Cuchulain in Tir-nan-Og * Reuben and the mikvah stairway * Reverend Kirk and his abduction * Richard Shaver and the Deros * Saint-Yves d'Alveydre in Agharta * Thomas the Rhymer in Fairyland * Olaf Jansen and the polar starting * Apollonius of Tyana within the domicile of the clever males * Lobsang Rampa underneath the Himalayas * Doreal and the mysteries of Mount Shasta * man Ballard and the Ascended Masters * Captain Seaborn and his voyage to Symzonia * Walter Siegmeister and the Atlantean tunnels * Dianne Robbins and the Library of Porthologos And different viewers to the hidden depths of the earth.

By Robert G. Ingersoll

The phrases 'blasphemy', 'evil' and 'pagan' have been hurled at Robert Ingersoll by means of the prepared Christian Church from the instant he made his first announcement from the pulpit. And, inspite of their unanimous rejection, his phrases live to tell the tale via this present day. As proven during this textual content his prose used to be terse, biting, slicing and just a little smug for he felt it was once his objective to deliver the sacred scriptures into the glare of a extra life like realm. Deemed as being written hundreds of thousands of years after the very fact, he observed the Bible as being not anything greater than an exhaggerated sequence of people stories that have been passed down through a handful of people that, for his or her personal cohesion and value, self-proclaimed themselves as being 'God's selected ones'. whereas Mr. Ingersoll deals no medical facts that his statements have validity (other than basic good judgment) he asks the questions that experience caused the doubt and anger that religionists have repressed in the course of the centuries. From Galileo even though Darwin through...

By Nicola Phillips

ISBN-10: 0199687536

ISBN-13: 9780199687534

A profligate son used to be each Georgian parent’s worst nightmare. To his father, William Jackson’s imprudent spending, incessant partying, and sexual adventures have been a certain signal he was once at the slippery slope to damage. yet to his neighbors, William used to be a “damned reliable fellow,” a captivating, impeccably dressed younger gentleman with enviable seductive abilities who used to be keen to safeguard his honor in duels. Mr. Jackson and his son seen one another throughout a generational hole that neither might bridge, and their wrong courting had catastrophic effects for his or her family.

In The Profligate Son, historian Nicola Phillips hauntingly reconstructs this kinfolk tragedy from a lately found trove of letters and courtroom files. After Mr. Jackson’s acquisition of a fortune in the course of his provider for the East India corporation in Madras used to be undermined by way of fake accusations that ruined his occupation, he invested all his destiny objectives in his merely son. William grew up in nice convenience and was once despatched to the simplest faculties within the nation. but if the kin moved to London, the teen rebelled opposed to the loneliness and sometimes brutal regimes of public education and escaped to discover the pleasures of the city along with his prosperous pals. His makes an attempt to provoke his friends led him into disastrous degrees of debt that led to his imprisonment and ever extra unlawful efforts to meet his collectors, which appalled his prudent, sternly moralistic father. Mr. Jackson made up our minds that the one option to wrestle his son’s wayward habit used to be to fully reduce him off. In doing so, he condemned William to repeated imprisonment and a deadly voyage to an Australian penal colony. In Sydney William sought to rebuild his lifestyles with a kinfolk of his personal, yet even there his father’s legacy introduced additional tragedy.

A masterpiece of literary nonfiction as dramatic as any Dickens novel, The Profligate Son transports readers from the steamy streets of India and the dependent squares and seedy brothels of London to the sunbaked shorelines of Australia, tracing the arc of a existence lengthy buried in historical past.

By Thomas J. Noer

ISBN-10: 0472021974

ISBN-13: 9780472021970

ISBN-10: 0472031864

ISBN-13: 9780472031863

ISBN-10: 0472115081

ISBN-13: 9780472115082