West Press

While this volume is written as a series of lectures and in a somewhat free and easy style, every effort has been made to present facts in unmutilated form and to state theoretical positions with...

This vintage book contains a complete guide to canning and preserving, with chapters on making ketchup, pickling, making jams and marmalades, and much more. With easy-to-follow instructions and a...

William Halse Rivers Rivers, FRCP, FRS, (1864-1922) was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work with soldiers during World War I who were...

This vintage work contains a treatise on an anthropological interpretation of sadism, masochism, and lycanthropy, which has been compiled from the notes of a lecture delivered at a meeting of the...

Originally published in 1849, this early work by traveller, archaeologist and collector Sir Austen Henry Layard is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the religion, art...

This volume contains a detailed guide to the methods and equipment of livestock keeping, with information on the breeding, rearing, and management of horses. Complete with a detailed illustrations,...

This vintage book is a comprehensive history of the development of the piano from the monochord to the concert grand player piano. "Pianos And Their Makers" provides extensive historical information...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high...

This vintage volume contains a collection of angling tips and tricks that will be of considerable utility to the fisherman. This text originated as a list of tricks the author scribbled on pieces of...

A guide for racing yachtsman that is as useful today as when it was first published. Teaching the fundamentals of the start line, beating to windward, rounding a mark, wind abeam, before the wind...