J. M. Smallheer

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J. Arthur Thomson - Outline of Science, Vol 2

The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects ranging from astronomy to biology to elementary physics in clear, concise and...

Availle and 7 more 8 hours 58 minutes The Outline of Science

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Published 1900 onward

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F. Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise

This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War...

Kristin Hughes and 8 more 8 hours 56 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

460

William Henry Hudson - Far Away and Long Ago

William Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, where he spent his youth studying the local flora...

hefyd and 9 more 8 hours 54 minutes

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Detective Fiction

499

Anne Austin - Murder at Bridge

Inhabitants of the small town of Hamilton joke that they are afraid of being the dummy when playing Bridge, for fear of being murdered. Meanwhile, Special Investigator Bonnie Dundee demands a re-enactment of the...

Gesine and 7 more 8 hours 54 minutes

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Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

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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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Detective Fiction

440

R. Austin Freeman - Eye of Osiris

The Eye of Osiris is an early example from the Dr. Thorndyke series of detective stories written by R. Austin Freeman. In these stories, the author drew on his extensive medical and scientific knowledge for his main...

J. M. Smallheer 8 hours 51 minutes

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491

James C. Philip - Romance of Modern Chemistry

A fascinating look back at the state of the art of chemistry 100 years ago, this book by James C. Philip, PhD, an assistant professor of chemistry at The Imperial College of Science and Technology, Kensington,...

J. M. Smallheer 8 hours 42 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

446

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor - Dead Letter

Published in 1866, «The Dead Letter: An American Romance» written by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor under the pseudonym, Seeley Regester, is credited by historians of popular literature to be the first full-length...

J. M. Smallheer 8 hours 39 minutes

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Théodule-Armand Ribot - Essay on the Creative Imagination

«It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attempts at scientific formulization. For a long time it has been the „spook science“...

J. M. Smallheer 8 hours 33 minutes

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Detective Fiction

580

Arthur B. Reeve - Film Mystery

The Film Mystery is one of eighteen detective novels by Arthur B. Reeve starring his best known character Professor Craig Kennedy and his trusty sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter. The pair bears an...

Sibella Denton and 12 more 8 hours 28 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays, First Series

“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE....

Linda Leu and 6 more 8 hours 28 minutes

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Detective Fiction

574

Gaston Leroux - Mystery of the Yellow Room

This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious way for the perpetrator to have escaped. The author, Gaston Leroux, is better...

Jc Guan and 10 more 8 hours 22 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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