Product Description
Volume: 2Publisher: Cambridge : At the University pressPublication date: 1901Subjects: ElectricityMagnetic inductionDielectricsNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

Product Description
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Elias Boudinot, Francis Hopkinson, John Witherspoon, Richard Stockton, Jonathan Dayton, Frederick Frelinghuysen, John Hart, William Livingston, Lambert Cadwalader, John Cleves Symmes, Abraham Clark, Josiah Hornblower, John Stevens, William Houston, Nathaniel Scudder, James Schureman, Stephen Crane, John Beatty, William Burnet, Jonathan Elmer, John de Hart, Samuel Dick, Jonathan Sergeant, James Kinsey, John Fell, Richard Smith, Charles Stewart, Silas Condict. Excerpt:Abraham Clark Abraham Clark's signature Abraham Clark (February 15, 1726 September 15, 1794) was an American politician and Revolutionary War figure. He was delegate for New Jersey to the Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence and later served in the United States House of Representatives in both the Second and Third United States Congress , from March 4, 1791, until his death in 1794. Abraham was born in Elizabethtown , New Jersey . His father, Thomas Clark, realized that he had a natural grasp for math so he hired a tutor to teach Clark surveying. While working as a surveyor , he taught himself law and went into practice. He became quite popular and became known as "the poor man's counciler" as he offered to defend poor men when they couldn't afford a lawyer. Clark married Sarah Hatfield in 1748, with whom he had 10 children. While Hatfield raised the children on their farm, Clark was able to enter politics as a clerk of the Provincial Assembly. Later he became High Sheriff of Essex County and in 1775 was elected to the Provincial Congress. He was a member of the Committee of Public Safety. Early in 1776, the New Jersey delegation to the Continental Congress was opposed to independence from Great Britain . As the issue heated up, the state convention replaced all their delegates with... ... Read more

Product Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.
++++
The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++
British Library

W028865

Dedication signed: Edmund Hogan. Philadelphia, January, 1795.No more published.Errors in paging: p. viii, 559 misnumbered iii, 549."The names of the subscribers."--p. [ix]-xii."An account of the impeachment and trial of the late Francis Hopkinson

Philadelphia : Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's Head, no. 116, High-Street, for Edmund Hogan, M,DCC,XCIV [i.e., 1795] xii, 776 p. ; 8° ... Read more

Product Description
Volume: 1Publisher: Cambridge : At the University pressPublication date: 1901Subjects: ElectricityMagnetic inductionDielectricsNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: Robert Maxwell, Nicholas Budgen, George F. Hopkinson, John Cliffe Watts, William Heneker, Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, Thomas Francis Wade, John Montagu, H. Ryan Price, Peter Russell, Aubrey de Sélincourt, Derek Boorman, Bernard Braine, John le Marchant, Eustace Jotham, Sir John Wedgwood, 2nd Baronet, Robert Ratcliff, John Waldegrave, 6th Earl Waldegrave, Edward Elers Delaval Henderson, Cecil Wedgwood, Charles Lyon, James Freeth, Bernard Cruddas, George Coventry, 7th Earl of Coventry, John Yate Robinson, Alexander Leslie, Sir David Baird, 3rd Baronet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 100. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ian Robert Maxwell MC (10 June 1923 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and former Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire. Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvík Hoch in the small town of Slatinské Doly, Carpathian Ruthenia, the easternmost province of pre-World War II Czechoslovakia (now Solotvino, Ukraine) into a poor Yiddish-speaking Jewish family. His parents were Mechel Hoch, and Hannah Slomowitz. He had 6 siblings. In 1939, the area was reclaimed by Hungary. Most members of his family were gassed in Auschwitz after Hungary was occupied in 1944 by its former ally, Nazi Germany but he had already escaped, arriving in Britain in 1940 as a 17-year-old refugee. Maxwell joined the British Army Pioneer Corps in 1941 and transferred to the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1943. He was involved in action across Europe from Normandy beaches to Berlin, ranked sergeant. He gained a commission in 1945 and promoted to captain. In January 1945 he received the Military Cross. It was during this time that British Intelligence changed his name several times (Maxwell was in British Inte...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5409978 ... Read more

Product Description
Chapters: North Staffordshire Regiment Officers, Robert Maxwell, Nicholas Budgen, George F. Hopkinson, John Cliffe Watts, William Heneker, Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde, Thomas Francis Wade, John Montagu, H. Ryan Price, Peter Russell, Aubrey de Sélincourt, Derek Boorman, Bernard Braine, John le Marchant, Eustace Jotham, Sir John Wedgwood, 2nd Baronet, Robert Ratcliff, John Waldegrave, 6th Earl Waldegrave, Edward Elers Delaval Henderson, Cecil Wedgwood, Charles Lyon, James Freeth, Bernard Cruddas, George Coventry, 7th Earl of Coventry, John Yate Robinson, Alexander Leslie, Sir David Baird, 3rd Baronet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 96. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ian Robert Maxwell MC (10 June 1923 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and former Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire. Robert Maxwell was born Ján Ludvík Hoch in the small town of Slatinské Doly (now Solotvino), Carpathian Ruthenia, the easternmost province of pre-World War II Czechoslovakia (now Solotvino, Ukraine) into a poor Yiddish-speaking Jewish family. His parents were Mechel Hoch, and Hannah Slomowitz. He had 6 siblings. In 1939, the area was reclaimed by Hungary. Most members of his family were gassed in Auschwitz after Hungary was occupied in 1944 by its former ally, Nazi Germany but he had already escaped, arriving in Britain in 1940 as a 17-year-old refugee. Maxwell joined the British Army Pioneer Corps in 1941 and transferred to the North Staffordshire Regiment in 1943. He was involved in action across Europe from Normandy beaches to Berlin, ranked sergeant. He gained a commission in 1945 and promoted to captain. In January 1945 he received the Military Cross. It was during this time that British Intelligence chang...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5409978 ... Read more

Product Description
Publisher: Cambridge, At the University pressPublication date: 1901Subjects: ElectricityMagnetic inductionDielectricsNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

Product Description
Here's an ingenious historical fiction picturebook about the 16th president of the United States. It’s atale of two boys who get themselves into more trouble than bear cubs in a candy store.

The year is 1816. Abe is only seven years old, and his pal, Austin, is ten. Abe and Austin decide to journey down to Knob Creek. The water looks scary and deep,and Austin points out that they don’t know how to swim. Nevertheless, they decideto traverse it. I won’t tell you what happens, but let’s just say that our countrywouldn’t be the same if Austin hadn’t been there to help his friend. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

This is a fascinating tall, thin tale about Austin Gollaher, Abe Lincoln's childhood playmate who changed the face of history!
Abe and his friend Austin got into "more trouble than bear cubs in a candy store."They were just a couple of normal boys who liked to have a little adventure now and then without getting caught.In 1816 the boys lived in Kentucky near Knob Creek.Abe was busy hauling in some wood for his mother while his friend Benjamin Austin Gollaher, "Austin, for short," waited for him on a nearby rock.They were best friends and had a lot of fun together.Austin was three years older, but with boys you never can tell which one is the leader.Abe told Austin about some partridges he'd seen near the creek and they were off to find them.Of course they only wore their "long homespun shirts" just in case they got a little wet.

Nancy, Abe's mother, had warned them about the creek and there it was churning and splashing around the rocks.Abe was pointing toward the other side, while Austin crooked his finger and pensively held it up to his face."I don't know, Abe.The water's darn high. . .and we can't swim."A little dare from Abe and off they went.Those mudcaked toes made their way across a log, first Austin and then Abe. . . no, it didn't go like that.They crawled across.Austin carefully pulled and pushed himself across the log until he made it to the other side."YEE-HAW!WHOOOP!He made it.It was Abe's turn and all of a sudden he was "head over heel, and then. . . "What happened to Abe?Was he going to drown in the churning waters of Knob Creek?"

This was an unusual take on a story, a story that changes in the middle of the stream.The author and illustrator are telling their tall tale when all of a sudden they start over and change it a couple of times."WHOA. . .hold on a minute."Then with the stroke of a pen and brush the story is changed.Everyone has heard of Abraham Lincoln, but few ever think of Austin Gollaher, his best friend.Austin unwittingly played a part in American history and I was very interested in the story.The art work was fun and complimented the tale perfectly.This book is a Vermont Red Clover nominee for the 2009-10 year and a Junior Library Guild Selection.This book is turning out to be a real SPLASH!

Reviewed by Carolina Mora's First grade class William Land Elementary, Sacramento
This book required students to have some background knowledge about Abe Lincoln, which our class does. They were interested to learn about Lincoln. To really do justice to this book, the adult must read the story beforehand to find the voice necessary to draw the listeners in. It had an element of suspense, which the students really enjoyed. They didn't know if Abe or Austin were going to fall into the creek. Some of the humor was too advanced for the first graders. As an adult, I thought it was very cleaver to have a part where the author stops and rewinds like if it were a movie. The students didn't quite get that, because they had just seen Abe fall into the creek. The illustrations were wonderfully done.

Reviewed by Carolina Mora's
First grade class
William Land Elementary, Sacramento

Outstanding book for teachers to read aloud!
I am a literacy coach in a K-4 school.I used this outstanding book for interactive shared reading lessons in grades 1 through 4, and all of the students enjoyed it very much!The text and illustrations are perfect for focusing on comprehension strategies including predicting, questioning, summarizing, interpretation of author's message, and reflection of most important event.The boys and girls enjoyed this tall tale and the engaging elements of humor that the author weaves into the story.The illustrations lend themselves well to discussion, too.This is a beautiful picture book that every elementary reading teacher should add to their collection!Thank you to the author Deborah Hopkinson and the illustrator John Hendrix for a job well-done! ... Read more

Product Description
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more