Health & Fitness
3 books
Health & Fitness
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Caroline Kane Mills Everett - Privilege of Pain
We have seen that as mankind rises in the scale of civilization the body becomes increasingly less important. Nevertheless, I wish it to be clearly understood, that I do not maintain that it is preferable to be ill...
1 hour 45 minutes
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Thomas Southwood Smith - Use Of The Dead To The Living
In 1827 Thomas Southwood-Smith published The Use of the Dead to the Living, a pamphlet which argued that the current system of burial in the United Kingdom was a wasteful use of bodies that could otherwise be used for...
2 hours 2 minutes
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D. de Quelus - Natural History of Chocolate
The Natural History of Chocolate being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Excellent Properties, and Medicinal Virtues of its Fruit. Wherein the Errors of...
2 hours 4 minutes
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Guide to Health
Mahatma Gandhi, known today as a fascinating political leader and pacifist, also considered himself «something of an authority on matters of Health and Disease as well. Very few of us perhaps are aware that he is the...
3 hours 27 minutes
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Rupert H. Wheldon - No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes
Though little is known about its author, this is considered the first vegan cookbook ever written. At the time of its composition, the Vegetarian Society and other advocates of vegetarian diets were engaged in a...
3 hours 38 minutes
*Non-fiction
452
W. N. P. Barbellion - Journal of a Disappointed Man
The journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from his early childhood through to his early death from complications stemming from multiple sclerosis. The diary combines beautiful, lyrical...
11 hours 48 minutes
