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Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of The Universe: Introduction

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Alexander von Humboldt - Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of The Universe: Introduction

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of romantic philosophy. Many consider him to be the last of the great polymaths. After his...

David Wales 2 hours 40 minutes

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E. G. Fulton - Vegetarian Cook Book

Cookbook from the era of John Kellogg, whose vegetarian meat substitutes Protose and Nuttolene are featured heavily in this volume. Production of this item was available as recently as the mid 2000's via Scandinavia,...

VfkaBT 4 hours 51 minutes

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Gustave Le Bon - Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

«Civilisations as yet have only been created and directed by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds. Crowds are only powerful for destruction. Their rule is always tantamount to a barbarian phase. A...

Oxenhandler 5 hours 52 minutes

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Walter George Bell - Tower of London

A short book, whose chapters were originally published in The Daily Mail, which explores the history and facts of each of the structures that make up the Tower. — Summary by Janet 99

Janet 3 hours 1 minute

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United Nations - United Nations Agreements

The Charter of the United Nations signed at San Francisco on 26 June 1945 is the constituent treaty of the United Nations. It is as well one of the constitutional texts of the International Court of Justice which was...

Kathryn Magee and 3 more 2 hours 28 minutes

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James Allen - Way of Peace (version 2)

James Allen (1864 — 1912) was a philosopher and a pioneer of New Thought movement. His works have formed the basis of much of the curriculum used today by many motivational and self-help groups. His first book,...

Algy Pug 1 hour 58 minutes

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Hugh Walpole - Joseph Conrad

This is a literary biography of Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) who is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Though he did...

David Wales 2 hours 17 minutes

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Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs

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William Tecumseh Sherman - Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs

This librivox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. The chapters deal with a posting to California in his pre-Civil War military career in the years...

David Wales 4 hours 7 minutes

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Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs

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William Tecumseh Sherman - Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs

This librivox recording comprises part of chapter 22 and all of chapter 23 (The March To The Sea – From Atlanta To Savannah – November And December 1864) of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s...

David Wales 3 hours 24 minutes

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Russell Conwell - Acres of Diamonds (Version 2)

One of the most requested motivational lectures of all time. «I say that you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich… The men who get rich may be the most honest men you find in the community. Let me say...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 40 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include literary figures--Alice Mangold Diehl, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Arthur Hugh Clough; philosophers--Hegel,...

Michele Fry and 8 more 6 hours Short Nonfiction Collections

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Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

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Cotton Mather - Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous «Salem Witch Trials». In addition to Mather's interpretation of the Book of Revelations (which he calls «God's last letter to the people of earth»),...

Michele Fry and 9 more 9 hours 1 minute

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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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