Author: Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2958442896
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Author: Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2958442896
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Une Petite plume
Author: Diane PommeraiePublisher:
ISBN: 9782867640025
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 42
Book Description
Marie Marvingt, Fiancee of Danger
Author: Rosalie MaggioPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476675503
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Marie Marvingt (1875-1963) set the world's first women's aviation records, won the only gold medal for outstanding performance in all sports, invented the airplane ambulance, was the first female bomber pilot in history, fought in World War I disguised as a man, took part in the Resistance of World War II, was the first to survive crossing the English Channel in a balloon, worked all her life as a journalist, spent years in North Africa and invented metal skis. Her life story was so unusually rich in exploits and accomplishments that some dismissed it as a hoax. This biography explores the life of "the most incredible woman since Joan of Arc" and investigates the reasons she has been forgotten. Known as the "fiancee of danger," she was the model for the silent film series The Perils of Pauline.
Anthologia Anthropologica
Author: James George FrazerPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780700713417
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Edited by R. A. Downie. Volume I: The Native Races of Africa dn Madagascar (1938); volume 2: The Native Races of Australia (1939); volume III: The Native Races of Asia and Europe (1939); volume IV: The Native Races of America (1939).
Dance Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
A New Dictionary French and English, with another English and French, etc
Author: Guy MiègePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands
Author: Mark CatesbyPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5879564703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Their descriptions in English and French.
Polyglott Lexicon: Being a New Dictionary
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionaries, Polyglot
Languages : en
Pages : 1462
Book Description
Democracy and Education
Author: John DeweyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
. Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
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