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History

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James Joseph Walsh - Old-Time Makers of Medicine

Dr. Walsh's Old-Time Makers of Medicine chronicles the history and development of modern medicine from ancient times up to the discovery of America. Throughout this historical guide, Dr. Walsh shows numerous...

LivelyHive 15 hours 41 minutes

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Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee: A Bee Keeper's Manual

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L. L. Langstroth - Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee: A Bee Keeper's Manual

Langstroth revolutionized the beekeeping industry by using bee space in his top opened hive. In the summer of 1851 he found that, by leaving an even, approximately bee-sized space between the top of the frames...

LivelyHive 15 hours 14 minutes

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John S. Jenkins - Heroines of History

A look at some of the famous women in European history. Includes biographies on Cleopatra; Isabella of Castile; Joan of Arc; Maria Theresa; Josephine; Elizabeth of England; Mary of Scotland; Catherine of Russia;...

David Lawrence and 9 more 14 hours 59 minutes

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Earth Sciences

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William Harmon Norton - Elements of Geology

Geology is a science of such rapid growth that no apology is expected when from time to time a new text-book is added to those already in the field. The present work, however, is the outcome of the need of a...

Esther and 10 more 13 hours 39 minutes

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Memoirs

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Theodore Roosevelt - Through the Brazilian Wilderness

CM Slosson and 14 more 12 hours 33 minutes

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Memoirs

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Henry Ford - My Life and Work

Henry Ford profiles the events that shaped his personal philosophy, and the challenges he overcame on the road to founding the Ford Motor Company. Throughout his memoir, he stresses the importance of tangible service...

LivelyHive 11 hours 35 minutes

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Edwin E. Slosson - Creative Chemistry

Slosson reviews the transformation of alchemistry from an obscure and imprecise practice to the science of chemistry. Along the way, he explains how the modern industrial world now relies on fertilizers, explosives,...

LivelyHive 11 hours 6 minutes

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Cleveland Moffett - Careers of Danger and Daring

In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain humble modern heroes whose unconscious courage ordinarily goes unnoticed. Mr. Moffett has chosen unusual and picturesque careers, and has offered...

klbonds and 9 more 10 hours 25 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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John Muir - Travels in Alaska

In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this...

Esther and 9 more 9 hours 6 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - World Set Free

The World Set Free is a novel published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is considered a prophetical novel foretelling the advent of nuclear weapons. A constant theme in Wells's work, such as his 1901 nonfiction...

LivelyHive 8 hours 10 minutes

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Law

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Walter Wood - Survivors' Tales of Famous Crimes

In this anthology of true crime tales, editor Walter Wood interviews those who were touched by the crimes recounted, sometimes as an acquaintance of the deceased or criminal or in the course of their professional...

Nullifidian and 12 more 8 hours 9 minutes

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Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

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Joseph Priestley - Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

Joseph Priestley, FRS (13 March 1733 (O.S.) – 6 February 1804) was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works....

LivelyHive 8 hours 5 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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