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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include meteor showers, smallpox inoculation, telegraphy, fear of death, church bell change-ringing, painting as a...

Garth Burton and 8 more 6 hours 47 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

*Non-fiction

509

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle - Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

This book is a popular science book written in the late 1600s. It is written as a series of conversations between a gallant philosopher and a countess, while walking in her garden and gazing at the stars. The...

michelekilpatrick and 2 more 3 hours 43 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 09. September 1896

Travel & Geography

525

National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 09. September 1896

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the September Number. It includes the following articles: The Recent Earthquake Wave on the Coast of Japan, by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore The Return of Dr...

Availle and 5 more 1 hour 43 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Biography & Autobiography

471

Emily Clemens Pearson - Gutenberg and the Art of Printing

This book is readable account of one of the greatest inventions of modern time: moveable type. Gutenberg's work lays the foundation for the printing press, without which the world would look very different… It reads...

Availle and 12 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Science - History of the Universe Vol. 5: Biology

Life Sciences

467

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - Science - History of the Universe Vol. 5: Biology

Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The fifth volume is on Biology written by Caroline E. Stackpole. It discusses biology being the science of life and life’s nature and origins. It furthers...

realisticspeakers and 6 more 10 hours 22 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

528

Eliza Fenwick - Secresy, or, the Ruin on the Rock

This is the story of Caroline and Sibella, two female friends. Strong and smart women who try to make it in a man's world while keeping their values and loyalties intact. The only way to do that is to hide a few...

April6090 and 8 more 11 hours 56 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

543

Leonardo da Vinci - Thoughts on Art and Life

This is a compilation of the thoughts on art, science and life of Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Maurice Baring and edited by Lewis Einstein. — Summary by A. Gramour

Kathrine Engan and 4 more 5 hours 17 minutes

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Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex

Psychology

506

Sigmund Freud - Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex

In this little book Freud discusses three areas of human sexuality: 1. Sexual pervisons or abberations. In this essay, Freud concludes that «a disposition to perversions is an original and universal disposition of...

Jim Locke and 2 more 3 hours 32 minutes

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Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

465

Lucien Poincaré - New Physics and Its Evolution

The end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century marked a new era in the study of physics. It seemed as though everything that was thought to be known was being called into question. This book attempts to...

MaryAnn and 8 more 8 hours 52 minutes

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Business & Economics

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J. Laurence Laughlin - Principles of Political Economy

The Principles of Political Economy , first published in 1848, was one of the most important texts on the subject of economy at that time. It is broken up into five books; Production, Distribution, Exchange,...

Aaron Rivera and 19 more 25 hours 2 minutes

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*Non-fiction

506

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 045

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include ancient Greek thinkers--Parmenides, Demosthenes, Euclid; William Lloyd Garrison and the National Anti-Slavery...

Landon D. C. Elkind and 7 more 5 hours 18 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Earth Sciences

490

Charles Lyell - Principles of Geology

Principles of Geology: being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation is a book by the Scottish geologist Charles Lyell, first published in 3 volumes...

Larry Wilson and 25 more 46 hours 1 minute

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New

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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