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A monograph on sleep and dream - their physiology and psychology
by Edward W. CoxSome papers on the Phenomena of Sleep and Dream, read before The Psychological Society of Great Britain, having excited much interest and caused considerable discussion, I was requested to put them into the more formal shape of a treatise. For this purpose I found it necessary to recast and rewrite the whole.The modern endeavour to pursue Psycholog..
Cadet Life at West Point
by Hugh T. ReedI believe it to be well established that the mental habits are fully as strong as the physical habits of man. That is, thought moves in grooves day after day and day after day as walks in life do. The habit of retrospectant thought fastened itself upon me several years ago, and the habit confined itself largely and almost irresistibly to my life at..
Tactics, Volume 1 (of 2). Introduction and Formal Tactics of Infantry
by William BalckThe first volume of “Tactics,” which appeared in its first edition in 1896, and for which the preparatory work reached back more than a decade, now appears in its fourth edition in a completely changed form. The lessons gained in war and improvements in weapons have corrected many earlier views. While the Boer war confused the views on infantry com..
The Tournament—Its Periods and Phases
by R. Coltman ClephanThose students of arms and armour who have Mr. Clephan’s work on Defensive Armour, Weapons and Engines of War in their libraries will expect to find valuable material for study when they find his name as author of a work on the Tournament. And in this they will surely not be disappointed. It is perhaps a novel experience for one who has for some ye..
Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal Vol. 10
by Various AuthorsTrial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal Vol. 10..
Elementary Botany
by George Francis AtkinsonThe present book is the result of a revision and elaboration of the author’s “Elementary Botany,” New York, 1898. The general plan of the parts on physiology and general morphology remains unchanged. A number of the chapters in the physiological part are practically untouched, while others are thoroughly revised and considerable new matter is added..
Harper's Electricity Book for Boys
by Joseph H. AdamsIf a handy-book of electricity like this had fallen into the hands of Thomas A. Edison when he was a newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railway, or when he was a telegraph operator, he would have devoured it with the utmost eagerness. To be sure, at that time, in the early sixties, all that we knew of electricity and its applications could have been told i..
Historical record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot
by Richard CannonHistorical record of the Twenty-second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1689, and of its subsequent services to 1849.The character and credit of the British Army must chiefly depend upon the zeal and ardour by which all who enter into its service are animated, and consequently it is of the ..