Abraham Lincoln's Life StoryFrom a one-room log cabin in the Kentucky woods to the highest office in a nation tearing itself apart, Abraham Lincoln's life remains one of America's most powerful stories of self-made character, moral courage, and tragic greatness.Born February 12, 1809, to poor frontier parents, Lincoln received almost no formal schooling. He taught himself by firelight, split rails, clerked in a store, served briefly in the Black Hawk War, a...

Susan B. Anthony: The Woman Who Would Not WaitBorn in 1820 into a Quaker family that believed in equality, Susan B. Anthony spent her life refusing the limits placed on women. She taught, then left the classroom to fight slavery, temperance, and the legal fiction that a wife was her husband's property. With Elizabeth Cady Stanton she built the organized women's rights movement, traveled thousands of miles by train and wagon, and was arrested in 1872 for the crime o...

Abraham Lincoln's Life StoryFrom a one-room log cabin in the Kentucky woods to the highest office in a nation tearing itself apart, Abraham Lincoln's life remains one of America's most powerful stories of self-made character, moral courage, and tragic greatness.Born February 12, 1809, to poor frontier parents, Lincoln received almost no formal schooling. He taught himself by firelight, split rails, clerked in a store, served briefly in the Black Hawk War, a...

Susan B. Anthony: The Woman Who Would Not WaitBorn in 1820 into a Quaker family that believed in equality, Susan B. Anthony spent her life refusing the limits placed on women. She taught, then left the classroom to fight slavery, temperance, and the legal fiction that a wife was her husband's property. With Elizabeth Cady Stanton she built the organized women's rights movement, traveled thousands of miles by train and wagon, and was arrested in 1872 for the crime o...

In the 17th century Hugo Baskerville is killed by a vicious hellhound. Generations later, Sir Henry Baskerville is found dead at the family estate, and the hound of legend is to blame. Can Holmes and Watson save the next Baskerville heir from an ancient curse before it's too late? Sherlock Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skilful use of deductive reasoning, astute observation, and forensic skills to solve difficult cases. Deductive reasoning allows Holmes ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of the first twelve short stories based on the famous detective, including the cases of The Red-Headed League, The Speckled Band, and A Scandal in Bohemia. Holmes will need to use his various skills, including an aptitude for acting and disguise, tracking footprints, hand to hand combat, deciphering different types of tobacco ash, and knowledge of psychology to solve cases of blackmail, treachery and murder. Sherlock Holmes is famous for his i...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories, including the adventures of The Silver Blaze, The Musgrave Ritual, and The Final Problem. This collection not only introduces the term "smoking gun", it also introduces Holmes' greatest nemesis, Professor Moriarty. Holmes will need to use his various skills, including a knack at cracking ciphers, deciphering riddles, tricking thieves, analyzing tracks, and faking sickness to solve cases involving impersonation, burglary and reve...

Sherlock Holmes's appearance in The Strand Magazine in July, 1891, was an immediate success--starting a full-year run of twelve stories collective known as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Through the illustrations by Sidney Paget, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved "consulting detective," became immortalised in the public imagination with his pipe and his deerstalker cap.This epub-edition includes all the twelve stories by Conan Doyle, and the 104 illustrations by Sidney Paget, as...

A Study in Scarlet is the first story to feature Sherlock Holmes, and the first work of fiction to incorporate the magnifying glass as a detective tool. The story opens with Holmes and Watson meeting each other for the first time, and their decision to become flat-mates at 221B Baker Street. Soon they are involved in a murder-mystery involving kidnapping, enslavement and revenge that will test the limits of Holmes' skills and establish a life-long relationship with Watson. Sherlock Holmes is ...

This textbook develops the abstract algebra necessary to prove the impossibility of four famous mathematical feats: squaring the circle, trisecting the angle, doubling the cube, and solving quintic equations. All the relevant concepts about fields are introduced concretely, with the geometrical questions providing motivation for the algebraic concepts. By focusing on problems that are as easy to approach as they were fiendishly difficult to resolve, the authors provide a uniquely accessibl...

This Top Five Classics edition of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes includes:• All 98 of the original Strand illustrations by Sidney Paget• All 12 of the Sherlock Holmes stories from the original edition of Memoirs• An informative introduction• A detailed author bio and bibliographyCould it be that Sherlock Holmes has finally met his match in the villainous Professor Moriarty? Quite possibly. The...

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles includes:• All 61 illustrations by Sidney Paget from the original Strand serials from 1901–1902• An informative introduction• A detailed author bio and select bibliographyThe Hound of the Baskervilles, which returned Sherlock Holmes to readers eight years after his apparent death at the hands of Professor Mor...