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492
Frank Mundell - Stories of the Royal Humane Society
Established in 1774, the ‘Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned’ published information on how to save people from drowning, promoted the concept of using methods of artificial resuscitation to attempt...
3 hours 28 minutes
Animals & Nature
536
Arthur Scott Bailey - Tale of Nimble Deer
Another Sleepy Time Tale from Arthur Scott Bailey, this time Nimble Deer is the focus of the story and how he was such a tiny, frail, spotted baby when he was born that his mother was worried that he might not survive...
1 hour 41 minutes
General Fiction
590
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Frances Milton Trollope - Widow Married: A Sequel to The Widow Barnaby
EXCERPT: The existence of Mrs. Barnaby (this name is once more used as the one by which our heroine has hitherto been best known), the existence of Mrs. Barnaby, up to the hour in which she pledged her vows to Major...
16 hours 33 minutes
War & Military
638
Dudley Leigh Aman Marley - Brown Book of the Hitler Terror
The Brown Book was the first English publication to detail events which were currently happening in occupied Germany in 1933; book-burning and the destruction of universities, the development of concentration camps...
11 hours 53 minutes
Philosophy
617
René Descartes - Selections from the Principles of Philosophy
The Principles of Philosophy, originally published in Latin in 1644, and translated to French in 1647, sets forth the principles of nature--the Laws of Physics--as Descartes viewed them. The book provides a systematic...
2 hours 43 minutes
Philosophy
594
Yoritomo Tashi - Common Sense, How to Exercise It
One of three seminal philosophical works by the twelfth century Japanese Shogun, Yoritomo-Tashi. (From the Preface) He knows how to clothe his teachings in fable and appealing legend, and his exotic soul, so near and...
3 hours 49 minutes
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