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  • Boston in Motion

    by Frank Cheney, Anthony M. Sammarco ...
    Series series Images of America
    In Boston in Motion, the various conveyances available to the public over time are presented and explored in a riveting collection of original photographs. Boston in Motion, the sequel to Trolleys under the Hub, is an intriguing collection of photographs that captures the history of transportation in and around Boston. Authors Frank Cheney and Anthony M. Sammarco trace the stories from the ... Read more

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  • When Boston Rode the EL

    by Frank Cheney, Anthony Mitchell Sammarco ...
    Series series Images of America
    The Boston Elevated Railway broke ground in 1899 for a new transit service that opened in 1901, providing a seven-mile elevated railway that connected Dudley Street Station in Roxbury and Sullivan Square Station in Charlestown, two huge multilevel terminals. When the EL, as it was popularly known, opened for service, it provided an unencumbered route high above the surging traffic of Boston, until ... Read more

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  • Boston's Blue Line

    by Frank Cheney ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    Boston's rapid-transit Blue Line covers a distance of 5.94 miles, a twenty-three-minute commute that begins at Bowdoin station in downtown Boston, travels under the harbor, passes Revere Beach, and stops at Wonderland. Today's commuters might be surprised to learn that the line they are riding was once operated by trolley cars and narrow-gauge steam-powered commuter trains, for it was not until ... Read more

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  • Boston's Red Line

    Bridging the Charles from Alewife to Braintree

    by Frank Cheney ...
    Series series Images of America
    When the Boston Elevated Railway Company broke ground for the Cambridge Subway in May 1909, its intention was to provide the cities of Boston and Cambridge with the finest and most efficient rapid-transit system of the time. Other cities, such as New York and Philadelphia, paid close attention, adopting many of the Cambridge Subway's revolutionary design features. The subway became known as the ... Read more

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  • Harvard Classics Volume 51

    Lectures

    by Robert Matteson Johnston, Golden Deer Classics, William Scott Ferguson, Murray Anthony Potter, Frederick Jackson Turner, Carleton Noyes, Charles Burton Gulick, Charles Hall Grandgent, Ernest Bernbaum, Lawrence J. Henderson, W. M. Davis, Ralph Barton Perry, Charles Pomeroy Parker, Chester Noyes Greenough, William Roscoe Thayer, W. S. Ferguson, Chandler Rathfon Post, O. M. W. Sprague, W. A. Neilson, F. N. Robinson, G. H. Maynadier, J. D. M. Ford, Bliss Perry, H. W. Holmes, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey, A. O. Norton, Thomas Nixon Carver, Charles J. Bullock, W. B. Munro, Roscoe Pound, George Pierce Baker, Kuno Francke, R. B. Dixon, George H. Chase, C. R. Lanman, Alfred Dwight Sheffield, Clifford Herschel Moore, C. H. C. Wright ...
    Series Book 51 - Harvard Classics
    Volume 51 contains a total of 60 lectures covering 12 topics: History Poetry Natural Science Philosophy Biography Prose Fiction Criticism and the Essay Education Political Science Drama Voyages and Travels Religion ... Read more

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  • The Story of Philosophy

    by Will Durant, GP Editors ...
    Originally published in 1926, ‘The Story of Philosophy’ profiles several prominent Western philosophers and their ideas, written by Will Durant, an American writer, historian, philosopher, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.In this enlightening and eminently readable book, Will Durant accounts the lives, ideas and views of various critical philosophical thinkers throughout history. Starting with ... Read more

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  • The Portable Enlightenment Reader

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    Series series Portable Library
    The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern ... Read more

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  • History in English Words

    by Owen Barfield ...
    "In our language alone, not to speak of its many companions, the past history of humanity is spread out in an imperishable map, just as the history of the mineral earth lies embedded in the layers of its outer crust.... Language has preserved for us the inner, living history of our soul. It reveals the evolution of consciousness" --Owen BarfieldFor more than three-quarters of a century, Owen ... Read more

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  • WHAT IS MOB MENTALITY? - 8 Essential Books on Crowd Psychology

    Exploring Crowd Psychology: From Delusions to Democratic Dynamics

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Gustave Le Bon, Charles Mackay, Wilfred Trotter, Everett Dean Martin, Gerald Stanley Lee, William McDougall ...
    Translated by G. D. H. Cole ...
    This meticulously edited collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Social Contract (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (Gustave Le Bon) The Psychology of Revolution (Gustave Le Bon) Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Charles Mackay) Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War (Wilfred Trotter) The ... Read more

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    by Bertrand Russell ...
    From one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century: A collection of accessible and enlightening essays on topics from envy to intellectual rubbish.Russell, the sage non-conformist, is always meaningful, no matter what the topic or the issue. In this small book are some of his old but nonetheless remarkable observations, and some of the thoughts he expressed on his 90th birthday. Here ... Read more

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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization

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    Everything you should know--but PC professors won't teach--about Western heritage.Western civilization is the envy of the globe. It has given to the world universally accepted understandings of human rights (rooted in Judeo-Christian principles), created standards for art, music, and literature that have never been equaled, and originated political and social systems that have spread all across ... Read more

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