A.L.A. Catalog, 1926: An Annotated Basic List of 10,000 Books

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Isabella Mitchell Cooper, Marion Horton
American Library Association, 1926 - Best books - 1291 pages
 

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Page 468 - THE LIGHT OF ASIA ; or, THE GREAT RENUNCIATION (Mahabhinishkramana). Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India, and Founder of Buddhism (as told in verse by an Indian Buddhist). By Edwin Arnold, MA, CSI , &c.
Page 76 - Bible: showing every word of the text of the common English version of the canonical books, and every occurrence of each word in regular order j together with A comparative concordance of the Authorized and Revised versions, including the American variations; also brief dictionaries of the Hebrew and Greek words of the original, with references to the English words.
Page 317 - Gries has been giving courses in lumbering, business statistics and purchasing as a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University.
Page 88 - In which are described the means and instruments of preparing ourselves and others respectively for a blessed death, &c. In a«tique cloth binding, 4».
Page 115 - Leviathan,"2 which is now mightily called for ; and what was heretofore sold for 8s. I now give 24s. for, at the second hand, and is sold for 30s., it being a book the Bishops will not let be printed again.
Page 326 - BRANNT.— The Metal Worker's Handy-Book of Receipts and Processes : Being a Collection of Chemical Formulas and Practical Manipulations for the working of all Metals ; including the Decoration and Beautifying of Articles Manufactured therefrom, as well as their Preservation.
Page 82 - I have attempted to translate the New Testament exactly as one would render any piece of contemporary Hellenistic prose; in this way, students of the original text may perhaps be benefited.
Page 88 - Aids to Reflection, and the CONFESSIONS OF AN INQUIRING SPIRIT, to which are added the ESSAYS ON FAITH and the BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. 3*. 6d. Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and other English Poets. Edited by T. Ashe 3*.
Page 321 - ENAMELS AND ENAMELLING. An Introduction to the Preparation and Application of all Kinds of Enamels for Technical and Artistic Purposes. For Enamel Makers, Workers in Gold and Silver, .and Manufacturers of Objects of Art.
Page 71 - On the other hand, it is not exclusively a church encyclopedia, nor is it limited to the ecclesiastical sciences and the doings of churchmen. It records all that Catholics have done, not only in behalf of charity and morals, but also for the intellectual and artistic development of mankind

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