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Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 6

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Max Arthur Macauliffe - Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 6

This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. Macauliffe had extensive access to manuscripts of the Sikh sacred writings (the Granth), as well...

Jim Locke 10 hours 49 minutes Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors

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Mrs. Humphry - Manners for Men

Many men who go out into the world while still very young to earn their living have few opportunities of acquiring a knowledge of social observances. Should this little manual of manners be of use to any such in...

Foon and 6 more 3 hours 35 minutes

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Carl Werner - Bringing up the Boy

''Bringing up the Boy'' is, according to its subtitle, ''A Message to Fathers and Mothers from a Boy of Yesterday concerning the Men of To-morrow'' and proffers advice for parents on raising boys from infancy until...

Donald Cummings 1 hour 42 minutes

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Jane Grey Swisshelm - Half a Century

In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of that year, the outspoken abolitionist, feminist, and journalist, Jane Grey...

Pamela Nagami 10 hours 20 minutes

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Frank Allaben - Concerning Genealogies

Written over a century ago, this comprehensive book offers insight into the methods used (still to this day, in spite of modern computers) to research and compile a family history. As stated in the preface of the...

Roger Melin 1 hour 56 minutes

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Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox - Christmas Under Three Flags

This work details personal memories of Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox, adopted granddaughter (acutally grand niece) of Rachel Donelson Jackson, wife of President Andrew Jackson, and assumed to be the first baby born in...

DrPGould 1 hour 17 minutes

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Tea Drinking In 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette And Equipage

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Rodris Roth - Tea Drinking In 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette And Equipage

The title of this 1961 Smithsonian Institution bulletin says it all. “In 18th-century America, the pleasant practice of taking tea at home was an established social custom with a recognized code of manners and...

David Wales 1 hour 11 minutes

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Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality. To Gentlemen

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Mary Edwards Walker - Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality. To Gentlemen

Mary Edwards Walker was a physician and surgeon who served in the Civil War. An abolitionist, prohibitionist, and cross-dressing leader of the women's dress reform movement, she published this lively sex manual in...

Pamela Nagami 3 hours 36 minutes

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James W. Donovan - Don't Marry

This book doesn't advise against marriage but just offers advice on the errors some people can make who make the wrong choice when entering into so long a contract. — Summary by Michele Eaton

Kathrine Engan and 3 more 1 hour 49 minutes

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R. B. Armitage - Private Sex Advice to Women

In this book the writer thereof seeks to convey to women—particularly to young wives and women expecting to be married—certain important facts of knowledge, certain necessary information, which all such women should...

Availle and 9 more 7 hours 33 minutes

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Will Rossiter - Art of Kissing

The Art of Kissing is both a history of and a manual for the probably most widely practised enjoyment on the planet. (Summary by Availle )

MaryAnn and 8 more 2 hours 20 minutes

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Nellie McClung - In Times Like These

" Believing that the woman's claim to a common humanity is not an unreasonable one, and that the successful issue of such claim rests primarily upon the sense of fair play which people have or have not according...

DPranitis 5 hours 20 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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