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Margaret Warner Morley - Seed-Babies

Seed Babies piques the child's interest about how seeds grow. It provides interesting information about seeds in a conversational style between two brothers and the various seeds they encounter. These seeds offer...

SweetHome 1 hour 20 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Gertrude Chandler Warner - Star Stories for Little Folks

Gertrude Chandler Warner, known mainly for her «Boxcar Children» series of mystery books, published this small book of Astronomy, Constellations, and the stories behind them in 1918. It follows the story of a little...

DebK and 3 more 39 minutes

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Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse

Poetry

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Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for discoveries in branches of science such as botany, astronomy and medicine to be described in book-length treatises in verse. By the end of the 19th century...

Ruth Golding 47 minutes

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Science

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Dr. Albert Philip Sy - Food Values

A short pamphlet from WWI, a sequel of sorts to «Food Preparedness.» It first describes basic nutrition and things to consider when choosing what foods to eat, then lists various foods and their amount of calories,...

TriciaG 1 hour 10 minutes

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Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting

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D. B. Casteel - Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting

The value of the honey bee in cross pollinating the flowers of fruit trees makes it desirable that exact information be available concerning the actions of the bee when gathering and manipulating the pollen. The...

Roger Melin 1 hour 25 minutes

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Albert Einstein - Sidelights on Relativity

Sidelights on Relativity contains ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, an address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden; and GEOMETRY AND EXPERIENCE, an expanded form of an address to the Prussian...

Paul Adams 1 hour 3 minutes

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Monadology

The Monadology ( La Monadologie , 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text which sketches in some 90 paragraphs a metaphysics of simple substances,...

Gary Geck 52 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Arabella B. Buckley - By Pond and River

In By Pond and River , another of Arabella Buckley's wonderful science books for children, she explains the habitats of ponds and rivers, exposing children to the animals and plant life that are found there. (Summary...

Laura Caldwell 48 minutes

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Children's Fiction

Arabella B. Buckley - Birds of the Air

Arabella Buckley had a great love of nature and wished to impart that love to children. Birds of the Air will encourage children to observe birds in their natural environment and notice the habits of each particular...

Laura Caldwell 1 hour 25 minutes

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Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives

Political Science

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United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency - Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives

This is a concise yet thorough explanation of what might happen to our world in the aftermath of a nuclear war. The myriad of potential effects will be global and wide-spread. (Summary by Allyson Hester)

Allyson Hester 55 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Scott Hemphill - First Fifty Digits of Pi

56 flavors of Pi proudly produced by LibriVox volunteers to celebrate Pi Day, 2008. (3/14) Don't worry, you don't have to listen to an infinite string of numbers: each reader presents just the first 50 digits in...

Jonathan Horniblow and 18 more 52 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Arabella B. Buckley - Wild Life in Woods and Fields

Wild Life in Woods and Fields by Arabella B. Buckley is a collection of stories that will encourage children to become little naturalists and explore the majesty of the great outdoors. This is science taught in such a...

Laura Caldwell 45 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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