Availle

313 books

New Discussed TOP By time

Short Long

*Non-fiction

904

Isabella L. Bird - Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was travelling she was almost always healthy. Her first trip, in 1854, took her to...

Availle 12 hours 56 minutes

No comments

Performing Arts

970

P. T. Barnum - Humbugs of the World

P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witchcraft, religious humbugs, money manias, adventurers, personal...

Barry Eads and 20 more 12 hours 48 minutes

No comments

*Non-fiction

862

Ned Wayburn - Art of Stage Dancing

Ned Wayburn, a popular and outstanding choreographer of the early 1900's, writes about the different styles and requirements of dancing and his way of teaching it.

Jill Janovetz and 15 more 12 hours 43 minutes

No comments

Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 3

Psychology

924

Hans Gross - Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 3

Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on criminal investigation. This treatise covers everything from the qualities of...

Availle and 12 more 12 hours 33 minutes

No comments

Religion

1.5K

George Frederick Kunz - Curious Lore of Precious Stones

Full title is «The Curious Lore of Precious Stones, being a description of their sentiments and folklore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination, crystal...

BettyB and 11 more 12 hours 31 minutes

No comments

book of camping and woodcraft : a guidebook for those who travel in the wilderness

Nature

933

Horace Kephart - book of camping and woodcraft : a guidebook for those who travel in the wilderness

In the Introduction to Camping and Woodcraft, Horace Kephart wrote: “My one aim in writing this little book is to make it of practical service to those who seek rest or sport in the wilderness, or whose business calls...

James K. White and 12 more 12 hours 31 minutes

No comments

Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

Travel & Geography

836

W. H. Davenport Adams - Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

The nineteenth century saw the expansion in popularity of travel among the wealthy. Add to this the independence more women were enjoying as they were released from work in the home, and we have the recipe for some...

Ellies and 10 more 12 hours 30 minutes

No comments

*Non-fiction

1.7K 1

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

1 comment

*Non-fiction

948

Hugo Münsterberg - Psychotherapy

Talking about viewing the Ocean «If I take the attitude of appreciation, it would be absurd to say that this wave is composed of chemical elements which I do not see; and if I take the attitude of physical...

Availle and 10 more 12 hours 12 minutes

No comments

Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1

Culture & Heritage Fiction

1.1K

Songling Pu - Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1

«Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio» (or «Strange Tales of Liaozhai») is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical...

Availle and 19 more 12 hours 6 minutes

No comments

Travel & Geography

1.1K

National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 06

National Geographic Magazine Volume 6, articles published from January, 1894, to May, 1895. Geographic Progress of Civilization — Annual Address by the President Honorable Gardiner G. Hubbard Shawangunk Mountain,...

MaryAnn and 8 more 12 hours 1 minute National Geographic Magazines

No comments

Travel & Geography

994

National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 05

National Geographic Magazine Volume 5, articles published in 1893. Contents: Discoverers of America: Annual Address by the President, Gardiner G. Hubbard The Movements of our Population Rainfall Types of the...

MaryAnn and 12 more 12 hours National Geographic Magazines

No comments

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

Show all