Amy Gramour

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Sir Isaac Newton - Opticks

The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 — 1672. He worked on refraction of light into colored beams using prisms and discovered chromatic aberration. He also postulated the corpuscular form...

Availle and 10 more 12 hours 13 minutes

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Animals

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Robert N Bader - Amphibians and Reptiles in Captivity

In recent years the number of people interested in keeping amphibians and reptiles in captivity has grown rapidly. All too often, these same people have little knowledge of the proper care needed for their captives,...

Amy Gramour 54 minutes

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Single author

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Edna St. Vincent Millay - Poems

This volume of poems was published in 1923, the year Edna St. Vincent Millay became the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. It was perhaps the lead poem in this volume, Renascence, published in 1918 in a...

Larry Wilson and 11 more 1 hour 55 minutes

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Writing & Linguistics

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Mary Elizabeth Brown - Dedications

Dedications is an anthology of the forms used from the earliest days of book-making to the present time. My purpose in the following anthology of dedications has been to make a representative, rather than an...

Larry Wilson and 11 more 13 hours 17 minutes

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D. H. Lawrence - Tortoises

Tortoises is a collection of six poems by D.H. Lawrence inspired by his observation of tortoises going about their business, wild in the landscape of his home. They reveal something about tortoises, about the man...

Amy Gramour and 2 more 27 minutes

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Psalm Of Life

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of A Psalm Of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 3, 2019. — This poem was first published in the October 1838...

Amy Gramour and 21 more 46 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Madison Cawein - Knight - Errant

LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Knight — Errant by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 3, 2019. — Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier...

Amy Gramour and 20 more 25 minutes

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Coloured Stars: versions of fifty Asiatic love poems

Anthologies

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Edward Powys Mathers - Coloured Stars: versions of fifty Asiatic love poems

«There is an opportunity of knowing in brilliant English translations much of the poetry of China and Japan, of India and Persia; and Arabic poetry is accessible; but I believe this book to be the first general...

Nemo and 1 more 1 hour 19 minutes

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Animals

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William Ruschenberger - Elements of Herpetology and Ichthyology

This succinct little textbook from 1844 presents an introduction to herpetology and ichthyology. The information, albeit not current, is still interesting and of use as a general overview of reptiles, amphibians, and...

Nichalia Schwartz and 5 more 5 hours 14 minutes

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Science

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Bernhard Eduard Fernow - Brief History of Forestry

An accessible, comprehensive summary of the science and art of forestry, from its ancient roots to its 20th century techniques (many of which are still used today). This book synthesizes forestry efforts and practices...

John Van Stan and 10 more 15 hours 29 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Mabel E. Wotton - Word Portraits of Famous Writers

Mabel Elizabeth Wotton, an author herself, moved in the literary circles of the late nineteenth century establishing many close friendships, She presents for us here, not literary criticism nor biographical sketches,...

Larry Wilson and 22 more 7 hours 26 minutes

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Nature

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Robert Hooke - Micrographia

Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to the Latin of other publications of the time like Newton's 'Principia...

DrPGould and 22 more 17 hours 11 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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