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444
Rabindranath Tagore - Sadhana, The Realisation of Life, version 2
A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: «in these papers, it may be hoped, western readers will have an opportunity of coming...
3 hours 52 minutes
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440
William R. Lighton - Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, two men commanded an expedition which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth of the Missouri River to where the Columbia enters the Pacific, and dedicated to...
3 hours 14 minutes
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453
M. M. Pattison Muir - Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cutting edge of the development of modern atomic theory… and whose developing blind...
5 hours 11 minutes
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447
Charles Austin Beard - History of the United States, Vol. VI
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. He graduated from...
4 hours 37 minutes
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426
Francis Bacon - New Organon Or True Directions Concerning The Interpretation of Nature
The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title translates as «new instrument». This is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon, which was his treatise on logic and syllogism....
8 hours 30 minutes
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519
James Boswell - Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II
Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, is a milestone in the development of biographical...
14 hours 6 minutes
