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Education

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George Herbert Betts - Mind And Its Education

«We are to study the mind and its education; but how? It is easy to understand how we may investigate the great world of material things about us; for we can see it, touch it, weigh it, or measure it. But how are we...

Mike Justice and 11 more 10 hours 23 minutes

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Exploration

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G. Firth Scott - Romance of Polar Exploration

While stories of the Polar explorers and their efforts to reach the Poles have been told again and again, the constant renewal of expeditions adds, every year, fresh incidents to the record, until it may almost be...

Jael Baldwin and 8 more 8 hours 37 minutes

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Christianity - Biographies

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Amy Wilson Carmichael - Lotus Buds

Amy Carmichael tells the story of work among the girls of India, who she calls «Lotus Buds». — Summary by Adele de Pignerolles

MaryAnn and 9 more 8 hours 20 minutes

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Reference

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Asa Gray - Elements of Botany

The book is intended to ground beginners in Structural Botany and the principles of vegetable life, mainly as concerns Flowering or Phanerogamous plants, with which botanical instruction should always begin; also to...

J. M. Smallheer and 7 more 7 hours 45 minutes

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Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor

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Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard - Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor

John Jacob Astor was pre-eminently the opener of new paths, a breaker of trails. From his first tramp alone through the Black Forest of Baden, at sixteen, his life never lost this typical touch. In America, both...

Pamela Krantz and 12 more 7 hours 30 minutes

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Family Life

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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Science

Jean-Henri Fabre - Insect Adventures

This book is composed of selections from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ Translation of Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques,” retold for children. It's made up of first-person narratives, and using his exceptional...

AnnaLisa Bodtker and 12 more 5 hours 52 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Nikola Tesla - My Inventions and Other Works

Between February and October 1919, Nikola Tesla submitted many articles to the magazine Electrical Experimenter. The most famous of these works is a six part series titled My Inventions , which is an autobiographical...

Kane Mercer and 6 more 5 hours 44 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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William J. Long - Wood Folk at School

The unique merit of this nature student rests in his fascinating style of writing, which invariably interests young and old; for without this element his pioneer work in the realm of nature would now be familiar only...

Kangaroo and 6 more 4 hours 37 minutes Wood Folk Series

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Animals & Nature

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Howard R. Garis - Uncle Wiggily's Fortune (version 2)

Howard Garis, one of the most prolific children's writers of the 20th century, is credited with writing over 1500 Uncle Wiggily stories, originally appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. In this collection, we have...

Lynne T and 8 more 4 hours 22 minutes Uncle Wiggily Stories

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Charles Alexander Eastman - Indian To-day

Based in part upon the author's own observations and personal knowledge, it was the aim of the book to set forth the status and outlook of the North American Indian. He addressed issues such as Indian schools, health,...

April Gonzales and 6 more 3 hours 58 minutes

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Animals

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William J. Long - Wilderness Ways

Late nineteenth-century naturalist William J. Long invites us into the secret worlds of woodland animals in this, his second, fascinating book. Long's stories of the secret lives of woodland animals come from time he...

Kangaroo and 4 more 3 hours 43 minutes Wood Folk Series

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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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