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London Labour and the London Poor Volume II

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Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor Volume II

Subtitled, «A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.» «The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves… their...

Gillian Hendrie 62 hours 12 minutes

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Dan McKenzie - City of Din

A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us physically, mentally, and socially in cities, on railways, at home, in...

Amelia Chesley 2 hours 32 minutes

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Samuel Phillips Day - Tea: Its Mystery and History

Samuel Phillips Day traces the history of tea from Asia to England, exploring some of the romance of this treasured drink and its place in British culture. — Summary by Larry Wilson

BettyB and 3 more 1 hour 35 minutes

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Law

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United States Supreme Court - Supreme Cases from 1803-2018

These cases involved questions that came before the Supreme Court that needed answers. The questions in order of appearance in this project are as follows. Does Congress have the power to pass laws that override the...

Michael Fassio and 10 more 13 hours 11 minutes

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Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 1

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James Frazer - Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 1

The first volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. Topics covered include extensive discussion on the belief in sympathetic and contagious magic, magical influence on...

Leon Harvey 1 hour 8 minutes

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Man and His Ancestor: A Study in Evolution

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Charles Morris - Man and His Ancestor: A Study in Evolution

An examination of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and subsequent texts, written for the general public at the turn of the twentieth century, "[...] to dwell on the various significant facts that have been...

Kathleen Nelson and 3 more 6 hours 36 minutes

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Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 2

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Arthur L. Hayward - Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 2

This is the second volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled by prison inspector Arthur Hayward from original sources originally published...

KirksVoice and 13 more 10 hours 24 minutes Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals

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Carpenter's World Travels: Alaska Our Northern Wonderland

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Frank G. Carpenter - Carpenter's World Travels: Alaska Our Northern Wonderland

Early twentieth century travel book about Alaska with stories of major cities, Indian tribes, customs and geography of what would become our 49th state. — Summary by BettyB.

BettyB 8 hours 46 minutes

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Frederick Adam Wright - Feminism in Greek Literature

This study, published in 1923, examines the views regarding women's place in Ancient Greek society based especially on the writings of Homer, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Socrates and Aristotle. As the author...

Beth Thomas and 5 more 5 hours 29 minutes

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Meriel Buchanan - Recollections of Imperial Russia

In this memoir, Meriel Buchanan (9-5-1886 to 2-6-1959) links the history of Russia to powerful, lingering memories of her years living there. She was the daughter of the man who turned out to be the last British...

Jan Moorehouse 8 hours 18 minutes

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Health & Fitness

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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...

David Wales 2 hours 2 minutes

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Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III

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John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III

This is the third book of John Locke's Essay on Human Understanding. Book I was Neither Principles Nor Ideas Are Innate. Book II was Of Ideas and Book III is Of Words. Locke is writing about the ideas we have in our...

Craig Campbell and 7 more 6 hours 20 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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