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Sir Francis Galton - Art of Travel

The Art of Travel is a handbook of practical advice for the adventure seeking Victorian. We hear how to organize all steps of a voyage, from the very beginnings (qualifications of a traveller, how to organize an...

Availle and 16 more 13 hours 38 minutes

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca - Of the Shortness of Life

Seneca the Younger wrote the moral essay «De Brevitate Vitae» — «On the Shortness of Life» — to his friend Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that men waste much of...

Jonathan Hockey 1 hour 4 minutes

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Prentice Mulford - Thoughts Are Things

Thoughts are Things, authored by Prentice Mulford, is one of the earliest books espousing New Thought teaching. This book contains information on how to better man's spiritual and physical life through the power of...

Andrea Fiore 5 hours 20 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Charles Morris - Historical Tales, Vol V: German

Volume V of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fifth volume covers the history of Germany from its first contact with Rome up to the coronation of...

Kalynda 7 hours 59 minutes Historical Tales

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Aiden Wilson Tozer - Pursuit of God

«As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.» This thirst for an intimate relationship with God, claims A.W. Tozer, is not for a select few, but should be the experience of every...

David Leeson 2 hours 53 minutes

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Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw

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Ukawsaw Gronniosaw - Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw

Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, also known as James Albert, (born ca. 1705 — 1775) was a freed slave and autobiographer. His autobiography is considered the first published by an African in Britain. Gronniosaw's autobiography...

TriciaG 1 hour 21 minutes

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William Ruschenberger - Elements of Botany

The Elements of Botany is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. It is a succinct little textbook that presents a solid introduction to plant science....

Amy Gramour and 5 more 5 hours 5 minutes

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J. Arthur Thomson - Outline of Science, Vol 2

The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects ranging from astronomy to biology to elementary physics in clear, concise and...

Availle and 7 more 8 hours 58 minutes The Outline of Science

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Eddie Rickenbacker - Fighting the Flying Circus

This is the WWI memoirs of Medal of Honor winner, Capt Eddie Rickenbacker. He fought in and eventually became commander of the 94th «Hat-in-the-Ring» Squadron, which ended the war with the highest number of air...

Brett W. Downey 10 hours 6 minutes

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Oscar Wilde - Soul of Man

“(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.” Published originally as “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” this is not so much a work of...

Martin Geeson 2 hours 2 minutes

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Aristotle - Topics

The Topics is is the fifth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon («Instrument»). The Topics constitutes Aristotle's treatise on the art of dialectic—the invention and discovery...

Geoffrey Edwards 7 hours 21 minutes

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Jane Addams - Spirit of Youth and the City Streets

Much of the material in the following pages has appeared in current publications. It is here presented in book form in the hope that it may prove of value to those groups of people who in many cities are making a...

Mary Schneider 2 hours 49 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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