Jeffery
8 books
War & Military
545
Samuel Greene - Monitor and the Merrimac: Both sides of the story
The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865. It included some iconic battles that have maintained enough interest to merit recounting the events in countless books. One such seminal battle was that of...
1 hour 10 minutes
Animals
502
Stephen Coleridge - Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty
Vivisection is a pejorative term used by opponents of the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of physiological or pathological research. While opposition to the use of living animals for...
1 hour 38 minutes
War & Military
195
John Levi Maile - Prison Life in Andersonville
A firsthand account of the deplorable conditions within the most infamous prisoner-of-war camp of the Confederacy. Though functioning only during the last year of the Civil War, nearly 13,000 of 45,000 incarcerated...
3 hours 6 minutes
Medical
525
William Ruschenberger - Elements of Anatomy and Physiology
The Elements of Anatomy and Physiology is one in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1852 presents an introduction to the...
4 hours 7 minutes
*Non-fiction
451
William Diller Matthew - Dinosaurs, With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
America has had a fascination with dinosaurs, particularly since the wild enthusiasm of Jurassic Park and its sequels. The term «dinosaur» was coined in 1841 by the Victorian scientist Sir Richard Owen. By the end of...
4 hours 22 minutes
Animals
465
Charles Holder - Half Hours With the Lower Animals
This book is devoted to the study of invertebrate animals. While most people associate the word «animal» with fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, 90% of the animal species on earth are invertebrates, i.e.,...
5 hours 8 minutes
