realisticspeakers
119 books
Education
640
John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II
John Locke wrote four essays on human (or humane) understanding. Here are a few quotes from the book: «I see no reason to believe, that the soul thinks before the senses have furnished it with ideas to think on....
14 hours 39 minutes
Poetry
463
Harriet Beecher Stowe - May Flower and Miscellaneous Writings
Included herein are 35 charming short stories or humorous sketches, some written as exercises for the literary Semi-Colon Club of Cincinnati which Stowe belonged to for years, others published in magazines of the...
14 hours 33 minutes
War & Military
697
George Barton - Angels of the Battlefield
«Angels of the Battlefield: A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War» chronicles the compassionate services of these dedicated women during the bitter and bloody U.S. Civil War. These...
12 hours 55 minutes
Religion
613
George Frederick Kunz - Curious Lore of Precious Stones
Full title is «The Curious Lore of Precious Stones, being a description of their sentiments and folklore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination, crystal...
12 hours 31 minutes
War & Military
650
Dudley Leigh Aman Marley - Brown Book of the Hitler Terror
The Brown Book was the first English publication to detail events which were currently happening in occupied Germany in 1933; book-burning and the destruction of universities, the development of concentration camps...
11 hours 53 minutes
Education
574
Maria Montessori - Spontaneous Activity in Education
Maria Montessori saw that children gained a sense of satisfaction through doing work of their own choosing, and that the role of the adult was to allow this natural ability of the child to flourish through careful...
11 hours 47 minutes
Animals
494
Charles Darwin - Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is a book by Charles Darwin, published in 1872, concerning genetically determined aspects of behaviour. It was published thirteen years after On the Origin of Species...
11 hours 13 minutes
