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The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 11
Volume 11: January 1, 1764 through December 31, 1764
Speak Mandarin, Workbook
This is a thorough and expanded revision of Speak Chinese, by M. Gardner Tewksbury (1948), following two decades of classroom use. The twenty-four lessons of the earlier text have been regrouped into twenty, with the...
On Painting
"For a thoughtful approach to the aesthetic and the attitudes of the art of the Renaissance as it emerged, Alberti's On Painting is clearly the one most valuable source book."—Journal of Aesthetics...
Intermediate Chinese Reader, Part I
The general approach in writing this text is the same as that in Beginning Chinese Reader. It is discussed in some detail in the introduction to that work. Salient features include:1) Selection of...
The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787
1937 Revised Edition in Four Volumes, Volume 2
The Federal Convention of 1787 engaged in the great and complex labor of framing the constitution for the union of the states. For thirty years afterwards, little was known of its deliberations, and nothing official was...
The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787
1937 Revised Edition in Four Volumes, Volume 3
The Federal Convention of 1787 engaged in the great and complex labor of framing the constitution for the union of the states. For thirty years afterwards, little was known of its deliberations, and nothing official was...
Intermediate Chinese Reader
Part II
A sequel to Beginning Chinese Reader, this text is closely correlated with the author’s Beginning Chinese, Advanced Chinese, and the character versions of these two texts. It contains 400 new characters, some 2...
The Selected Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
Selected Essays from the "Rambler," "Adventurer," and "Idler"
This selection of the cream of the writing from Volumes II-V of the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson fills the largest remaining gap in easily available eighteenth-century texts for the student and general...
Beginning Cebuano, Part 2
This continuation of the elementary course in Cebuano fills detail into the broad outline of the grammatical structure presented in Part 1, providing exercises and conversations which illustrate these details. Reading...
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 12
Volume 12: January 1, 1765 through December 31, 1765
Momentous public affairs mingle with family concerns to give a varied interest to Franklin's papers for 1765. During the first part of the year he was busy trying to get modifications of existing British revenue laws...