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This is a translation of a scuba diving manual originally published by the publishing house of the U.S.S.R. Ministry of Defense.The manual contains information, practical recommendations and informative data on underwater exploration and repair of various types of scuba diving equipment; the technique of water safety and the execution of underwater work; medical precautions and specific illnesses of scuba divers; the method of instruction, including the technique of underwater swimming and the execution of light diving work, underwater hunting, photo- and cinematography.The manual was designated for divers of the Soviet Army and Navy and the transportation and commercial fleets. It is also of interest to a wide circle of readers interested in problems of the underwater sport.

CONTENTS:Proclamation upon the Death of Woodrow Wilson, February 3, 1924The Democracy of SportsThe United NationFreedom and its ObligationsThe Progress of a PeopleEconomy in the Interest of AllEducation: the Cornerstone of Self-governmentWhat it Means to Be a Boy ScoutEquality of RightsThe High Place of LaborOrdered Liberty and World PeaceAuthority and Religious LibertyA Free RepublicGood SportsmanshipPatriotism in Time of PeaceReligion and the RepublicThe Genius of AmericaDiscriminating BenevolenceThe Duties of CitizenshipThe Press under a Free GovernmentInaugural Address, March 4, 1925The Spiritual Unification of AmericaThe Reign of LawThe Navy as a Instrument of PeaceContribution of the Norsemen to AmericaWashingtonToleration and LiberalismJose De San Martin, Latin-American LiberatorGovernment and BusinessThe Farmer and the NationConstructive EconomyJournalism in the New WorldThe New Responsibilities of WomenTraining Youth for CharacterStates Rights and National UnityJohn EricssonWays to PeaceThe Inspiration of the DeclarationIndex

CONTENTS: OrganizationThe Deer Creek FightPacksaddle Mountain FightEnlistment and First ScoutFugitive ListLost Valley FightSecond Saline Fight"The Wind Up"Third Saline FightMoved Camp to Las MorasThe Staked Plains FightViewing Out a RoadCaptain Roberts MarriedThe Mason County WarRio Grande CampaignOn the MarchFort Davis ScoutThe Potter ScoutWaiting on the CourtsPegleg Stage RobbingStealing SaddlesCattle StealingMavericksThe Killing of Sam BassConsidering ResultsFence CuttersHorrel WarThe Old Texas RangersAdios RangersOld Spanish FortOld San Antonio RoadA New TexasDan W. Roberts was Captain of Company "D" of the Texas Rangers.

An account of the development of Canadian industry. Myers lays bare the corruption, swindling, land deals, bribery that are the basis of Canadian history. The heros of other history books come out looking quite different. The Canadian Pacific Railway, Hudson's Bay Company, Lord Selkirk, John A MacDonald, Laurier - all fall under Myers's scrutiny, and the facts he records about them are startling. Contents include: The Quest of Trade and New Sources of Wealth; The Ecclesiastical and Feudal Lords; The Hudson's Bay Company; Wars of the Fur Traders and Companies; The Landed and Mercantile Oligarchy; The Landed Proprietors; Revolt against Feudalism; Sovereignty of the Hudson's Bay Company; Passing of the Hudson's Bay Company's Sovereignty; Inception of the Railroad Power; First Period of Railway Promoters; Contest for the Pacific Railway; Era of Railway Magnates; Progress of the Railway Lords; Extension of Railway Possessions; Appropriation of Coal, Timber and Other Lands; and Distribution of Railway Subsidies. Gustavus Myers (1872-1942) was an American historian who worked on a number of newspapers and magazines in New York City, joined the Populist party and the Social Reform Club, and was a member (1907-12) of the Socialist party. Such books as The History of Tammany Hall (1901), History of the Great American Fortunes (1910), and History of the Supreme Court of the United States (1912) were detailed, realistic exposes through which Myers made his reputation in the muckraking era of American literature.

Originally published in 1878, this compilation of text and more than 400 illustrations assembled by the 19th-century bibliophile, librarian and amateur historian Paul Lacroix unfolds an unusual panorama of the life of the period, putting the reader into closer touch with the scholars and surgeons, the magicians, rulers and actors who peopled these centuries. It was an age of slowly widening horizons for scientists and philosophers, yet an age of stubborn superstition, when sorcerers flourished in pacts with demons and scholars pursued their studies alert to accusations of influence by evil spirits. Paul Lacroix was curator of the Imperial Library of the Paris Arsenal. Born in 1806, he was well known during his lifetime as the author of many popular historical works.

This book contains speeches and writings between 1948 and 1975 of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung on the subject of reunification of Korea. His thoughts offer interesting insights into the communist view of reunification on the Korean Peninsula.

The letters in this volume were written for the most part to Turgenev's friends among that group of remarkable Frenchmen who made Paris what it was in the 1850s and 1860s. These letters possess a double interest, due, first, to their own intrinsic value, which they share with everything that came from the pen of this master of style, and, secondly, to the fact of their being a revelation of a side of his literary life hitherto unknown.

In addition to the 77 letters of Dostoevksy, this book includes contemporary judgments in letters from Turgenev to Slutchevsky, Dostoevsky, Polonsky, Mme. Milyutin, and Saltykov, as well as letters from Pobyedonoszev to Aksakov, and Asksakov to Pobyedonoszev, and Tolstoy to Strachov. There are also recollections of Dostoevsky by D. V. Grigorovitch, A. P. Milyukov, P. K. Martyanov, Baron Alexander Vrangel, and Sophie Kovalevsky.

"My object in publishing the results of my own studies in Indian philosophy was not so much to restate the mere tenets of each system, so deliberately and so clearly put forward by the reputed authors of the principal philosophies of India, as to give a more comprehensive account of the philosophical activity of the Indian nation from the earliest times, and to show how intimately not only their religion, but their philosophy also, was connected with the national character of the inhabitants of India..." - F. Max Muller Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900) was an Anglo-German orientalist and comparative philologist. He was a theologian who also wrote and translated books about the religions and sacred texts of the Far East, such as Buddhism and Confucianism. In 1898 he received the high honor of being made a Privy Councillor.

CONTENTSThe Spanish GypsyThe Legend of JubalAgathaArmgartHow Lisa Loved the KingA Minor ProphetBrother and SisterStradivariusA College Breakfast-PartyTwo LoversSelf and Life"Sweet Evenings Come and Go, Love"The Death of MosesArion"O May I Join the Choir Invisible"

An attempt to deal, by inductive methods, with the consolidation and dissolution of those administrative masses which we call empires. Includes bibliographical references and index. In 1866, being asked by his publisher to write a short history of Massachusetts, Brooks Adams (1848-1927) broke upon the literary world with The Emancipation of Massachusetts in which he demolished and rewrote the history of the colony and province of Massachusetts Bay, originally chronicled by the priestly oligarchy against which the book was launched, and in later times principally by eminent members of the Congregational clergy. It made a great stir, especially in religious circles, and brought severe criticism and even denunciation upon the author, but he lived to see it pass to a second edition as accepted history. He then turned to a study of trade-routes and their influence upon the history of peoples and nations and in 1896 published The Law of Civilization and Decay: An Essay on History, a work of a high order as history which laid down the principle that human societies differed among themselves in proportion as they were endowed by nature with energy, a principle later developed by Henry Adams. He regarded this as his most significant work. Beginning in 1907 he successfully filled the chair of constitutional law in Boston University."Pursuing a line of argument already worked out in his Law of Civilization and Decay, Mr. Adams offers an explanation, a theory it may be called, of the rise and decline of successive "empires" from the dawn of history to the present. The objective point of the argument is to account for the present, or imminent, supremacy of America as an imperial power." -Thorstein Veblen

Thomas Paine's "theological works," including his lengthy essay on "The Rights of Man." There are several long essays in this volume, along with copies of letters to Lafayette and others that were an important part of Paine's ongoing dialogue on morality, government, and human development. The three long essays in the book are titled: The Age of Reason; An Examination of the Passages of the New Testament, Quoted From the Old, and Called Prophecies of the Coming of Jesus Christ; and The Rights of Man. Paine writes very well and his style is quite easily appreciated by today's reader. This is scholarly, direct, and common sensical stuff. In "The Age of Reason," Paine explains that he believes in one God, and no more, and that he hopes for happiness beyond this life. Beyond that, he does "not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church." "I have always held it an opinion... that it is better to obey a bad law, making use at the same time of every argument to show its errors, and promote its repeal, than forcibly to violate it; because the precedent of breaking a bad law might weaken the force and lead to a discretionary violation of those which are good."

"Operational Naval Logistics is devoted to the thesis that while we must expect to make new mistakes in the logistics of a future war, we should not repeat the old ones. It is a philosophical approach to the study of logistics as a command responsibility and it is dedicated to the principle that the cost of military operations can be reduced by the avoidance of past mistakes, by the adherence to proven methods and techniques, and by the conscious, unremitting effort on the part of everyone to improve the operating efficiency of our logistic support systems. In peace or war, or in the shadowy vale which lies between the two, the answer to the question of how much logistic support should be provided for an operation must always be "No more than absolutely necessary." "The object of Operational Naval Logistics is to challenge its readers to find better, cheaper, more efficient ways of supporting military operations. If it results in a single worthwhile saving being made, or a single better, more efficient technique being devised, it will have been well worth the effort and expense of its publication."D. B. BearyVice Admiral, United States NavyPresident, Naval War College

CONTENTSThe Turkish LanguageEarly Turkish LiteraturePre-Ottoman and Ottoman LiteratureTurkish Folk PoetryTurkish Mystic PoetryTurkish Classic PoetryThe Transition Period- The Tanzimat School- The Serveti-F?nun School- The Nationalist School- The IndependentsContemporary Turkish PoetryNon-FictionThe Short Story and NovelDrama and TheatreIndex

Like several of the main characters in Defoe's stories (Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders), Colonel Jacque never really knew his real parents; and he is always looking out for the main chance. His chief interest is commerce, and he becomes an Anglo-Saxon trader. It is the story of his successful trading which probably accounts for the continued popularity of this story throughout history. The following fairly well sums up the story of Colonel Jacque, (and was included on the title-page of earlier printings of this story which was first published in 1722)... "The History and Remarkable Life of the truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, vulgarly called Col. Jack, who was born a Gentleman; put 'Prentice to a Pickpocket; was six and twenty years a Thief, and then kidnapped to Virginia; came back a Merchant; was five times married to four Whores; went into the Wars, behaved bravely, got Preferment, was made Colonel of a Regiment; came over, and fled with the Chevalier, is still abroad Completing a Life of Wonders, and resolves to die a General."

This book will close a curious gap in Marine history. It is hard to believe that no other volume anywhere tells the story of the Marine Corps Reserve. This Golden Anniversary edition covers the 50 crucial years from 1916, when Congress first authorized a Marine Corps Reserve, to 1966 when the 4th Marine Division/Aircraft Wing Team is an integral part of the muscle of American armed strength. The officers who worked diligently over a three-year period to research and write this volume have performed a real service. I hope that his history will be read by Marines and their friends. I started reading it as a duty and soon became very interested in the story itself. I enjoyed the book and hope that it will better inform the American people concerning the role and mission of the Marine Corps Reserve. Wallace M. Greene, Jr. General, U. S. Marine Corps Commandant of the Marine Corps

Included in this edition are several poems to give a proper introduction and conclusion to Comus, and to reveal the element of unity and growth. The notes furnish biographical, historical, and critical material to give an insight into the forces which went to form the mind and art of the great poet. This volume also includes the most significant of the many estimates of Milton's greatness, including Matthew Arnold's address at the unveiling of the Milton Memorial Window in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.

An excellent collection of letters and biographical information of Lewis Carroll, including his achievements in children's literature, mathematics, logic, and his relationships. This biography was written, at the invitation of Lewis Carroll's brothers and sisters, by his relative Stuart Dodgson Collingwood. There are over seventy illustrations, mostly photos taken by Lewis Carroll and also illustrations by him. Photos included are of Alice Liddell, the little girl who he befriended and based his story Alice in Wonderland on.

The Army and Its Air Corps was James P. Tate's doctoral dissertation at Indiana University in 1976. During the past 22 years, Tate's remarkable work has gained wide acceptance among scholars for its authoritative and well-documented treatment of the formative years of what eventually became the United States Air Force. Thoroughly researched but bearing its scholarship lightly, Tate's narrative moves swiftly as it describes the ambitions, the frustrations, and the excruciatingly slow march to final success that never deterred the early airmen. Robert B. Lane Director Air University Press

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher, best known for his scientific writings. Together with Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley he was responsible for the acceptance of the theory of evolution. His well-known essay on Education: Intellectual, Moral and Physical was considered one of the most useful and profound books written on education. He projected a vast 10-volume work, Synthetic Philosophy, in which all phenomena are interpreted according to the principle of evolutionary progress. Together with Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley he was responsible for the acceptance of the theory of evolution. Although no longer influential in biology, his extension of his theory of evolution to psychology and sociology remains important. His "Social Darwinism" was particularly influential on early evolutionary economists such as Thorstein Veblen. As subeditor of the Economist (1843-53), Spencer was an influential exponent of laissez-faire. His early book Social Statics (1851) was strongly tinged with an individualistic outlook.

CONTENTS Introduction and Early History Natural Features, Population and Government The Whites The Mulattoes and the Color Line The Slaves The Eve of the Revolution in San Domingo First Stage of the Colonial Struggle in France The First Troubles in San Domingo The Assembly of Saint-Marc The Decree of May 15, 1791 The Negro Insurrection in the North The Mulatto Insurrection in the West The First Civil Commissioners The Law of April 4, 1792 The Second Civil Commissioners Sonthonax's Rule in the North Polverel's Government of the West The Destruction of Le Cap Emancipation The English Intervention The Advent of Toussaint Louverture The Third Civil Commissioners The Mission of General H?douville The War Between the Castes The Triumph of Toussaint Louverture The Advent of Bonaparte The Coming of Leclerc The Coming of the Yellow Fever The Last Phase

CONTENTSPart I- Foundations of TransformationChapter 1- Assessing New MissionsChapter 2- Harnessing New TechnologiesChapter 3- Choosing a StrategyPart II- Transforming the ServicesChapter 4- The Army: Toward the Objective ForceChapter 5- The Naval Services: Network-Centric WarfareChapter 6- The Air Force: The Next RoundPart III- Coordinating Transformed Military OperationsChapter 7- Integrating Transformation ProgramsChapter 8- Transforming JointlyChapter 9- Coordinating with NATOPart IV- Broader Aspects of TransformationChapter 10- Strengthening Homeland SecurityChapter 11- Changing the Strategic EquationChapter 12- Controlling SpaceChapter 13- Protecting CyberspaceChapter 14- Maintaining the Technological LeadChapter 15- Getting There: Focused Logistics

These 22 stories were collected and translated in 1904 by Capt. W. F. O'Connor, who was Secretary and Interpreter for the British Mission to Lhasa.

Originally published in 1903, the chapters are:Men Who Build Fine HousesThe Colonial ResidenceThe Meaning of the Transitional DwellingThe Character of the Transitional DwellingThe Beginnings of the Greater Modern ResidenceThe Modern American Residence - Economic and Social ConditionsThe Modern American Residence - Its ExteriorThe Modern American Residence - Its Interior Vintage photos (both interior and exterior) are included with history about the homes, and architectural opinions of the time are given. A large number of homes are covered in extensive detail, including the residences of William Waldorf Astor, Andrew Carnegie, Henry M. Flagler, Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. Pierpont Morgan, Potter Palmer, Lawrence C. Phipps, and many more.

The author rails against the moronic, rebellious, Bolshevik Under Men of the world and suggests "world eugenics" to remedy their impending takeover and the ruin of civilization. Stoddard's arguments were once taken seriously by the American establishment and President Warren G. Harding publicly praised eugenicist Lothrop Stoddard's book, The Rising Tide of Color, at a public speech on 26 October 1922.A Harvard Ph.D in history, Lothrop Stoddard was the author of The Rising Tide of Color and other works that played a key role in the enactment of America's 1924 immigration act. Margaret Sanger appointed Lothrop Stoddard as a board member of the Birth Control League (the forerunner of Planned Parenthood).This work is important original source material for historians and scholarly researchers.

A biographical and critical study of one "English Literary Great" by another. In this biographical sketch of the great 19th century English novelist and poet, who the author knew personally for some years, Trollope writes: "He passed through the course of mingled failure and success which, though the literary aspirant may suffer, is probably better for the writer and for the writings than unclouded early glory." Thackeray's writings were originally published in Fraser's Magazine and Punch, and Trollope discusses Thackeray's novels Vanity Fair, Pendennis, and Henry Esmond, as well as Thackeray's burlesques, lectures, ballads, and finally, his style and manner of work. Trollope uses a tone that is historical and critical. This is an interesting study into the obscure, little-known life and work of a writer whose works have become classics of English literature.

This book is a collection, an assembly, gathered from many sources of the most intimate and significant of the O. Henry memoirs. They will give a glimpse of the little known life of Sydney Porter, and the alphabetical index will be a convenient guide to his works. The authoritative "O. Henry Biography," by Professor C. Alphonso Smith of the United States Naval Academy was published in 1916. Many years earlier the plans for this book were laid by Harry Peyton Steger, a friend of Sydney Porter's who visited, in 1912, every haunt of O. Henry in the South and brought to light a quantity of the dijecta membra of O. Henry's early literary efforts. These were later collected in the volume called Rolling Stones. Steger's faith in the ultimate position which O. Henry would occupy in American literature was of the type which moves mountains. He was an indefatigable worker for the spread of O. Henry's fame after he died, and probably did more than any other individual to lay the foundations of O. Henry's popularity. The article by George MacAdam, O. Henry's only interviewer, is new material, now printed in full for the first time. The sketches by Arthur Page and Richard Duffy are reprinted from The Bookman.

The author's only purely philosophical work - an examination of the possibility that the morality of an individual was the result of the demands of the survival of a social being and not, as widely held at the time the outcome of rational calculation or an inexplicable intuition. The agnostic, he held, must place morality on a scientific basis, and this means that there must be nothing in his ethics that is outside the competence of scientific enquiry. Brought up on John Stuart Mill and profoundly influenced by Darwin, Stephen attempted to cut through what he impatiently dismissed as academic debates about morality by showing that moral beliefs were the result neither of excessively rational utilitarian calculation nor of mysterious intuition but of the demands of the social organism in its struggle for survival. Leslie Stephen was the first serious critic of the novel, and he was also editor of the great Dictionary of National Biography from its beginning in 1882 until 1891. In 1859 he was ordained a minister. As a tutor at Cambridge his philosophical readings led him to skepticism, and later he relinquished his holy orders. He wrote several essays defending his agnostic position. Throughout his life Stephen was a prominent athlete and mountaineer. Virginia Woolf was the younger of his two daughters by his second wife. His first wife was Harriet Marian Thackeray, daughter of the novelist.

CONTENTSThe WifeDifficult PeopleThe GrasshopperA Dreary StoryThe Privy CouncillorThe Man in a CaseGooseberriesAbout LoveThe Lottery Ticket

Gorky first met Lenin at a Party Congress in London in 1907. They met again many times - during Lenin's exile in Europe and after the successful revolution of November, 1917. With the perspicacity of "a literary man, obliged to take notes of little details," Gorky gives a profoundly intimate picture of Lenin, a picture of which the developing revolution is an integral part, for it is impossible to separate the man from his role in history, so closely are they linked. In clear outline, Lenin the Bolshevik, the builder of his Party, the organizer and the leader of the revolution, arises from these pages. And it is all the more real, seen through the eyes of Gorky, for he tells of Lenin in his moments of rest and leisure as well as in moments of heated political debate; shows him at rest in Capri, playing chess and talking to the fishermen; looking after the health and comforts of his comrades; debating about the role of the intellectuals in the revolution; talking with workers about all the details of their lives.