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The Voynich Manuscript

The Voynich Manuscript

Wilfrid Voynich

The Voynich manuscript, also known as "the world's most mysterious manuscript", is a work which dates to the early 15th century, possibly from northern Italy. It is named after the book dealer Wilfrid Voynich, who purchased it in 1912.
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

Mem Fox

The elderly Miss Nancy is helped by Wilfrid to replace her lost memories with new ones.
Why Africa?: A Continent in a Dilemma of Unanswered Questions

Why Africa?: A Continent in a Dilemma of Unanswered Questions

Bona Udeze

WILFRID GANGBO: The incredible feat of the Republic of Beninborn Wilfrid Gangbo, in his twelve papers in 1996, “Tbe Geometry ofOptimal Transportation.” It remains the only publication by a black so far in the Mittag-Leffler Institute's Acta  ...
Out of Due Time: Wilfrid Ward and the Dublin Review

Out of Due Time: Wilfrid Ward and the Dublin Review

Paschal Scotti

For thinking men cannot be made to run in droves with the same ease as unthinking . Wilfrid Ward, “Edmund Burke and Party Action,” Dublin Review (July ): – . . Lord Hugh Cecil, “The Diseases of the House of Commons,” ...
Nuclear Pursuits: The Scientific Biography of Wilfrid ...

Nuclear Pursuits: The Scientific Biography of Wilfrid ...

Ruth Fawcett

Nuclear Pursuits is the scientific biography of Wilfrid Bennett Lewis, the physicist who dominated nuclear research and the development of nuclear power in Canada for nearly three decades, from the end of World War II until his retirement ...
Directory of Brokers and Salesmen

Directory of Brokers and Salesmen

California. State Real Estate Division

EDWARDS, Sam A. (br) Dba Mill Edwards Mill 1115 E. Ramsey St. FLAVIN, Irving Sylvester (Mike) (S) Wilfrid Francis Roberge HANSEN, William A. (S) Wilfrid Francis Roberge HICKET, Grace Snyder (S) Carrie Cahill LEONARD, LeRoy (B)  ...
History Is Wrong

History Is Wrong

Erich von Däniken

The author takes a look at the Voynich manuscript, the Book of Enoch, a lost subterranean labyrinth in Ecuador, and the mysterious lines in the desert of Nazca.
Voynich Manuscript [Translated]: Translation of First Pages: ...

Voynich Manuscript [Translated]: Translation of First Pages: ...

Anita Israël

By searching for common words, found in electuaries, such as the Theriac: Snake, Valerian, Opium, as well as expressions used by apothecaries: wash - cut – filter- chop, or even the expression “as custom”, that were picked out in the ...
Experience: A Chapter of Prolegomena

Experience: A Chapter of Prolegomena

Wilfrid John Richmond

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Christian Economics

Christian Economics

Wilfrid Richmond

We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Economic Morals: Four Lectures

Economic Morals: Four Lectures

Wilfrid John Richmond

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The Life of Bishop Wilfrid

The Life of Bishop Wilfrid

Eddius Stephanus

This book has been reissued in a format for students and teachers of history, literature, theology and Anglo-Saxon studies.
In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery

In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery

Wilfrid Sheed

In this rare book, Sheed's words, like the recoveries he describes, are healing.
Religious Thought in the Victorian Age: A Survey from ...

Religious Thought in the Victorian Age: A Survey from ...

Bernard M. G. Reardon

When our morality lands us in a social problem, we take refuge in some naked economic law. So he wrote in a preface he contributed to a book on Christian Economics by his friend, Canon Wilfrid Richmond, published in 1890, but went on to ...
Some Postulates of a Christian Philosophy

Some Postulates of a Christian Philosophy

Herbert Maurice Relton

It was Canon Wilfrid Richmond 1 who taught our generation the great truth that personality is the capacity for fellowship. Bradley and a whole school of modern philosophers have insisted again and again upon " limitation " as the essential ...
The life and work of John Richardson: as portrayed by his ...

The life and work of John Richardson: as portrayed by his ...

John Richardson Illingworth

Wilfrid Richmond Br1ghton, 1880. I have written to Wilson naming my train and asking him to send me word how many will come by it, that I may order supper and beds. You had much better come by it if you can, and so get a night's rest before ...
Global Spencerism: The Communication and Appropriation of a ...

Global Spencerism: The Communication and Appropriation of a ...

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Readers. Marwa Elshakry In the summer of 1903, the British traveler, essayist, and activist Wilfrid Scawen Blunt introduced the eighty-three-year-old Herbert Spencer to an Egyptian admirer of his, the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Muhammad ' Abduh.
Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist

Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist

Wilfrid Blunt

Here is a lively account of Linnaeus the man-from poor student to professor of medicine and founder of the Royal Academy of Sciences-as well as his landmark scientific achievements, such as naming 9,000 plants, 828 shells, 2,100 insects and ...
A Mathematical Theory of Large-Scale Atmosphere/Ocean Flow

A Mathematical Theory of Large-Scale Atmosphere/Ocean Flow

Michael J P Cullen

As one who sits between physics and mathematics, I would like to thank the mathematicians who proved the results, Yann Brenier, Jean-David Benamou, Wilfrid Gangbo, Robert McCann, Hamed Maroofi and Misha Feldman. This page is ...
Life and Ministry of William Booth

Life and Ministry of William Booth

Roger Joseph Green

However, the most insightful study and criticism of this matter can he seen in Andrew Mark Eason, Women in God's Army: Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003).
Children in English-Canadian society: framing the ...

Children in English-Canadian society: framing the ...

Neil Sutherland

Now reissued in Wilfrid Laurier University Press's new series "Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada," with a new introduction by series editor Cynthia Comacchio, this book remains relevant today.
Histoire Sociale

Histoire Sociale

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Gloria Neufeld Redekop — The Work of Their Hands: Mennonite Women's Societies in Canada. Studies in Women and Religion, no. 2. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1996. Pp. 172. The Work of Their Hands is a brief and ...
Fides Et Historia

Fides Et Historia

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Andrew Mark Eason, Women in God's Army: Gender & Equality in the Early Salvation Army. Waterloo, Ont: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003. Pp. 242. $34.95. Reviewed by Norman H. Murdoch, University of Cincinnati This book, written by ...
SANACS Journal 2012-2013

SANACS Journal 2012-2013

Young Lee Hertig, Editor

Jiwu Wang (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006) Jiwu Wang's examination of Protestant missions to Chinese immigrants to Canada from 1859 to 1967 should have been an important intervention into Asian American and ...

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