Elsie Selwyn

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Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

Medical

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Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments - Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and radioactive contamination on the human body. Most of these tests were...

realisticspeakers and 12 more 37 hours 51 minutes United States Government Reports

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Family Life

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Sarah Grand - Heavenly Twins

First published in 1893, this novel came to question many subjects which were considered taboo. Through a few interconnected plots and sub plots, the story examines the role of women and the different opportunities...

Jim Locke and 14 more 29 hours 53 minutes

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Romance

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Mary Anerley

It is 1801, in the wild and rugged country that is northern England. A local Squire has died but his manor, Scargate Hall, is left to two sisters, Philippa and Eliza, while the squire's son is disinherited. The family...

Lynne T and 10 more 20 hours 24 minutes

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Fair Maid of Perth, Or, St. Valentine's Day

Historical Fiction

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Sir Walter Scott - Fair Maid of Perth, Or, St. Valentine's Day

Henry Gow has fallen in love with the Fair Maid of Perth, Catherine, the glovemaker's daughter. To make sure that he would be the first person she sees on Valentine's day, he walks to her house at the break of dawn,...

Rita Boutros and 3 more 20 hours 3 minutes

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Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 2

History

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Charles F. Horne - Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 2

A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narratives in the master-words of the most eminent historians. This is volume 2 of...

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Essays & Short Works

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Insomnia Collection Vol. 004

Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. However, it is hoped that at least one from the range of topics here presented...

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General Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady's Mile

If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to be known in that circle. A novelist, a painter, and some aristocrats, willing...

Elsie Selwyn and 4 more 16 hours 54 minutes

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Business & Economics

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Alfred Owen Crozier - U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency, "Aldrich plan."

In 1908, the National Monetary Commission was established by Congress to study financial boom-and-bust cycles. Senator Nelson Aldrich (Republican-RI) was chair of the commission. He, in secret enclave with a group of...

MacKenzie Nikol Greenwood and 10 more 16 hours 24 minutes

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Romance

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Catherine Carswell - Open The Door

This award-winning book tells the coming of age story of Joanna Bannerman. Considered largely autobiographical, it shows Joanna with all her complexities and contradictions, some of which are faced by women almost 100...

Mark Nelson and 10 more 16 hours 19 minutes

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General Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Fallen Leaves

Amelius Goldenheart, the hero of this story, is expelled from a Utopian community in New England and finds himself in London. His story is dominated by a number of women, all of them in some way a «fallen leaf», whom...

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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...

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Law

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United States Supreme Court - Supreme Cases from 1803-2018

These cases involved questions that came before the Supreme Court that needed answers. The questions in order of appearance in this project are as follows. Does Congress have the power to pass laws that override the...

Michael Fassio and 10 more 13 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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