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Successward -  A Young Man's Book for Young Men

Successward - A Young Man's Book for Young Men

by Edward William Bok

The 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

The Young Man in Business

by Edward William Bok

A 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

Why I Believe in Poverty as the Richest Experience That Can Come to a Boy

by Edward William Bok

THE 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

The Martyrs of Science

by David Brewster

Although 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

Pioneers of Science

by Oliver Lodge

Preface 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

Sir William Herschel - His Life and Works

by Edward S. Holden

In 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..

The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition

The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition

by A. W. Duncan

We may define a food to be any substance which will repair the functional waste of the body, increase its growth, or maintain the heat, muscular, and nervous energy. In its most comprehensive sense, the oxygen of the air is a food; as although it is admitted by the lungs, it passes into the blood, and there re-acts upon the other food which has pas..

Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes

Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes

by Jane Andrews

Child's Health Primer For Primary Classes, With Special Reference to the Effects of Alcoholic Drinks, Stimulants, and Narcotics upon The Human System. As this little book goes to press, Massachusetts, by an act of its legislature, is made the fourteenth state in this country that requires the pupils in the primary, as well as in the higher grades o..