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Boy Wanted - A Book of Cheerful Counsel
by Nixon WatermanIn presenting this book of cheerful counsel to his youthful friends, and such of the seniors as are not too old to accept a bit of friendly admonition, the author desires to offer a word of explanation regarding the history of the making of this volume.So many letters have been received from people of all classes and ages requesting copies of some ..
Success (Second Edition)
by Baron Max Aitken BeaverbrookThe contents of this volume originally appeared as weekly articles by Lord Beaverbrook in the Sunday Express. They aroused so much interest, and so many applications were received for copies of the various articles, that it was decided to have them collected and printed in volume form. He who buys Success, reads and digests its precepts, will ..
Successward - A Young Man's Book for Young Men
by Edward William BokThe average young man is apt to think that success is not for him. To his mind it is a gift to the few, not to the many. "The rich, the fortunate—they are the only people who can be successful," is the way one young fellow recently expressed it to me, and he thought as many do. It is this wrong conception of success which this book aims to remove. ..
The Young Man in Business
by Edward William BokA well-known New York millionaire gave it as his opinion not long ago that any young man possessing a good constitution and a fair degree of intelligence might acquire riches. The statement was criticized—literally picked to pieces—and finally adjudged as being extravagant.Now, as every young man naturally desires to make a business success, it is ..
Why I Believe in Poverty as the Richest Experience That Can Come to a Boy
by Edward William BokTHE article in this little book was published in The Ladies’ Home Journal for April, 1915. Much to the surprise of the author, the call for copies was so insistent as to exhaust the edition of the magazine containing it. As the demand did not appear to be supplied, the article is now reprinted in this form. It is sent out with the hope of the autho..
The Martyrs of Science
by David BrewsterAlthough in these days, when Science constitutes the power and wealth of nations, and encircles the domestic hearth with its most substantial comforts, there is no risk of its votaries being either persecuted or neglected, yet the countenance of those to whom[vi] Providence has given rank and station will ever be one of the most powerful incitement..
Pioneers of Science
by Oliver LodgePreface by Author: This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the history and progress of Astronomy arranged for me in the year 1887 by three of my colleagues (A.C.B., J.M., G.H.R.), one of whom gave the course its name. The lectures having been found interesting, it was natural to write them out in full and publish.If I may claim for th..
Sir William Herschel - His Life and Works
by Edward S. HoldenIn the following account of the life and works of Sir William Herschel, I have been obliged to depend strictly upon data already in print—the Memoir of his sister, his own scientific writings and the memoirs and diaries of his contemporaries. The review of his published works will, I trust, be of use. It is based upon a careful study of all his pap..