Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Nature

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Henry David Thoreau - Walden, Version 2

Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal...

Nick Bulka 11 hours 58 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

441

Frank Berkeley Smith - Real Latin Quarter

«Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière»--this in my best restaurant French. The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulders, and raised his eyebrows in doubt. He evidently had never heard of the rue Falguière....

Bill Boerst 2 hours 37 minutes

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Family & Relationships

614

Nellie McClung - In Times Like These

" Believing that the woman's claim to a common humanity is not an unreasonable one, and that the successful issue of such claim rests primarily upon the sense of fair play which people have or have not according...

DPranitis 5 hours 20 minutes

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Lyric

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Dante Alighieri - Convivio

Convivio (The Banquet) is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. This unfinished work of Dante consists of four trattati, or «books»: a prefatory one, plus three books that each include a...

Martin Geeson and 6 more 9 hours 15 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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William T. Brigham - Baltimore Hats

It is not impossible that some useful information may be conveyed by this book. Should these pages prove of such service, their cost in labor is most cheerfully donated. This volume is composed of a series of...

Jennifer Dorr and 6 more 3 hours 9 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Gabriel Tarde - Underground Man

This post-apocalyptic novella tells the story of the downfall of civilisation and mankind following a solar cataclysm in the late 20th century. To survive, the remnants of humanity had to build a new civilization...

Ruth Golding 2 hours 55 minutes

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Deportation: Its Meaning and Menace. Last Message to the People of America

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Alexander Berkman - Deportation: Its Meaning and Menace. Last Message to the People of America

A pamphlet written by Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman shortly before their deportation from the US in 1919. — Summary by Krzysztof Rowiński

krzys and 1 more 1 hour 15 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Charles George Harper - Revolted Woman

One man's opinion of woman in 1894. Charles Harper believes in the superiority of the male sex and the subordination of the female. He paints an entire gender with the same brush. He believes all women to be identical...

Bev J Stevens 3 hours 53 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Alice Morse Earle - Home Life in Colonial Days

CHAPTER I HOMES OF THE COLONISTS When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable. The colonists found a...

Susan Morin 13 hours 2 minutes

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Poetry

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Edward Carpenter - Towards Democracy

“Civilization sinks and swims, but the old facts remain—the sun smiles, knowing well its strength.” Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) wrote his prose poem, Towards Democracy, styled after Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, in...

Sue Anderson 3 hours 55 minutes

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What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know

Family & Relationships

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John Dutton Wright - What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know

Wright, a pioneer in the education of the deaf, was a strong advocate for acoustic and auricular training. In this little book, he tries to advise the parents of deaf children and reassure them that there can be a...

Rapunzelina 1 hour 44 minutes

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Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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United States House of Representatives - Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina

In September 2005, the House of Representatives created the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina. The Committee was charged with conducting «a full and...

Larry Wilson and 13 more 20 hours 59 minutes United States Government Reports

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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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