Esther
149 books
*Non-fiction
550
Elsie Lincoln Benedict - How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types
In this popular American book from the 1920s, accomplished public speaker and self-help charlatan Elsie Lincoln Benedict outlines her pseudo-scientific system of «Human Analysis». She proposes that, within the human...
6 hours 50 minutes
Gardening
425
Gertrude Jekyll - Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur
Wood and Garden reads like a walk through the garden with reknowned garden designer Gertrude Jekyll as she discusses her plant choices and placement, how she integrates nature into her design, and how she maintains...
7 hours 59 minutes
*Non-fiction
449
Ida Dandridge Bennett - Vegetable Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Vegetable Gardener
This book is a good reference on vegetable gardening. It covers the economic value of a vegetable garden, planning and locating the garden, maintaining soil fertility, hotbeds, garden tools, sowing seeds,...
5 hours 40 minutes
Early Modern
467
Agnes C. Laut - Chronicles of Canada Volume 18 - The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay
The fur hunters were explorers who had blazed a trail across a continent and penetrated to the uttermost reaches of a northern empire the size of Europe. But it was fur these explorers were seeking when they pushed...
3 hours 9 minutes
Science
464
Elisha Gray - Nature's Miracles Volume 2: Energy and Vibration
Elisha Gray was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois and is...
5 hours 41 minutes
*Non-fiction
420
Ida Dandridge Bennett - Flower Garden: A Handbook of Practical Garden Lore
This book is a good reference on the perennial flower gardening and landscaping. It contains information on growing the plants from seed and explains how to grow and care for the traditional garden flowering plants,...
6 hours 26 minutes
