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Eliza Burt Gamble - Sexes in Science and History

In this revised second edition of her first book «The evolution of woman» (1894), subtitled «An inquiry into the dogma of woman's inferiority to man», Eliza Burt Gamble uses Darwin's theory of evolution and other...

Rapunzelina 9 hours 28 minutes

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Family Life

509

William Ruschenberger - Elements of Mammalogy

The Elements of Mammalogy is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1845 presents an introduction to mammalogy. The...

laurencetrask and 9 more 5 hours 53 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 05

National Geographic Magazine Volume 5, articles published in 1893. Contents: Discoverers of America: Annual Address by the President, Gardiner G. Hubbard The Movements of our Population Rainfall Types of the...

MaryAnn and 12 more 12 hours National Geographic Magazines

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Gertrude Atherton - Rezanov

This novel by the prolific Californian author Gertrude Horn Atherton is based on the real life story of Nikolai Rezanov, a man who, in 1806, pushed for the Russian colonization of Alaska and California. «Not twenty...

Lynne T and 6 more 7 hours 12 minutes

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Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 04

The National Geographic Magazine Volume 4, articles published in 1892 and 1893. The Evolution of Commerce: Annual Address by the President, Gardiner G. Hubbard Studies of Muir Glacier, Alaska Geography of the...

MaryAnn and 5 more 8 hours 42 minutes National Geographic Magazines

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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William Scott-Elliot - Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria

This volume contains two publications by W. Scott-Elliot, namely The Story of Atlantis (1896) and The Lost Lemuria (1904). A theosophist and believer of the Occult, W. Scott-Elliot gives us a description of the...

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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George Pope Morris - Miniature

George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a poet and songwriter; especially well-known was his poem-turned-song «Woodman,...

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Detective Fiction

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Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Clara Vaughan, Vol. II

CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of her father’s murder—a crime that occurred when she was only 10 years of age....

Ellen Preckel and 5 more 7 hours 19 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

449

Théophile Gautier - Romance of a Mummy and Egypt

The account he gives, in his novel, of the ancient city of Thebes, of the great necropolis in the valley of Biban el Molûk, of the subterranean tombs, of the precautions taken by the designers to baffle curiosity, of...

Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 6 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 3-5

Travel & Geography

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National Geographic Society - National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 3-5

National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 3: The Arctic Cruise of the U.S.S. Thetis in the Summer and Autumn of 1889. The Law of Storms, considered with special reference to the North Atlantic. The...

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What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know

Family & Relationships

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John Dutton Wright - What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know

Wright, a pioneer in the education of the deaf, was a strong advocate for acoustic and auricular training. In this little book, he tries to advise the parents of deaf children and reassure them that there can be a...

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Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I

Philosophy

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John Locke - Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I

John Locke's essays on human understanding answers the question “What gives rise to ideas in our minds?”. In the first book Locke refutes the notion of innate ideas and argues against a number of propositions that...

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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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