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The Outline of Science, Vol 2 - J. Arthur Thomson
The Outline of Science, Vol 2 - J. Arthur Thomson
- Author: J. Arthur Thomson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Psychology
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects ranging from astronomy to biology to elementary physics in clear, concise and easily understood prose, this...
Philosophy and Fun of Algebra - Mary Everest BOOLE
Philosophy and Fun of Algebra - Mary Everest BOOLE
- Author: Mary Everest BOOLE
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916) was born Mary Everest in England and spent her early years in France. She married mathematician George Boole. She was the author of several works on teaching and teaching mathematics in particular.This short book,...
Geronimo’s Story of His Life - GERONIMO
Geronimo’s Story of His Life - GERONIMO
- Author: GERONIMO
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.S. prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Geronimo’s story found audience and publication through the...
The Wonder-Worker of Padua - Charles Warren STODDARD
The Wonder-Worker of Padua - Charles Warren STODDARD
- Author: Charles Warren STODDARD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This is the inspiring story of Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231). The son of a wealthy Portuguese family, he was initially ordained a priest of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine. In 1221, he took up the habit of a poor Franciscan friar and...
The Chemical History of A Candle - Michael FARADAY
The Chemical History of A Candle - Michael FARADAY
- Author: Michael FARADAY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Science
The Chemical History of a Candle is a series of 6 lectures on chemistry presented to a juvenile audience in 1848. Taught by Michael Faraday - a chemist and physist, and regarded as the best experimentalist in the history of science - it is probably...
Bible (TCNT) NT 01-27: The New Testament - TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT
Bible (TCNT) NT 01-27: The New Testament - TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT
- Author: TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Bibles / Religion
Published in 1904, The Twentieth Century New Testament is considered the first translation of the Bible into modern English. It was produced in Britain over a period of 15 years by approximately 20 people -- ministers, housewives, school teachers...
The Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 1 - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 1 - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Charlotte Brontë was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Brontë sisters who have become standards of English literature. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, one of the greatest classics of all time. Just two years after...
The World I Live In - Helen KELLER
The World I Live In - Helen KELLER
- Author: Helen KELLER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
The World I Live In by Helen Keller is a collection of essays that poignantly tells of her impressions of the world, through her sense of touch, smell, her imagination and dreams. My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to you. In...
Our Cats and All About Them - Harrison WEIR
Our Cats and All About Them - Harrison WEIR
- Author: Harrison WEIR
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Nature
The Englishman Harrison Weir organized the first cat show in England in 1871. In 1887 he founded the National Cat Club and was its first President and Show Manager until his resignation in 1890. Our Cats and all about them is concerned with cats and...
The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Problems of Philosophy is one of Bertrand Russell's attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Focusing on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on...
Highways and Byways in Sussex - E. V. LUCAS
Highways and Byways in Sussex - E. V. LUCAS
- Author: E. V. LUCAS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, gravestone epitaphs and a gentle sense of humour. The author colours the countryside with his nostalgia for times...
The Fairy Tales of Science - John Cargill BROUGH
The Fairy Tales of Science - John Cargill BROUGH
- Author: John Cargill BROUGH
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction
This book, written in the mid 19th century and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, provides an entertaining introduction to topics in science for children. In each chapter, the author uses a popular myth or fairy tale to lay the groundwork for an...
Initiative Psychic Energy - Warren HILTON
Initiative Psychic Energy - Warren HILTON
- Author: Warren HILTON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology / Self-Help
Learn how to accomplish your goals through increasing your mental power, avoiding energy drains, and becoming more mentally efficient. (Summary by Andrea Fiore.)...
A Book of American Explorers - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
A Book of American Explorers - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Exploration
This book tells the story of exploration in America in the words of the explorers themselves. It consists of extracts from narratives of the early discoverers and explorers of the American continent from the Northmen in 10th century to 17th century...
The Story of Ancient Irish Civilisation - Patrick Weston JOYCE
The Story of Ancient Irish Civilisation - Patrick Weston JOYCE
- Author: Patrick Weston JOYCE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This little book has been written and published with the main object of spreading as widely as possible among our people, young and old, a knowledge of the civilisation and general social condition of Ireland from the fifth or sixth to the twelfth...
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 10 - Legal - Robert G. Ingersoll
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 10 - Legal - Robert G. Ingersoll
- Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Law
For those who like courtroom drama, here are Ingersoll’s Opening and Closing arguments on the most famous trials of his career--the Star Route Trials which stretched over 2 years, revealing high government corruption in the U.S. Post Office system's...
Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839 - Frances Anne KEMBLE
Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839 - Frances Anne KEMBLE
- Author: Frances Anne KEMBLE
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Fanny Kemble was a British actress who married mega-plantation owner, Pierce Butler of Georgia. During her marriage she kept journals of everyday life, and after some years grew to detest the institution of slavery and the things Butler stood for....
The Mystic Will - Charles Godfrey Leland
The Mystic Will - Charles Godfrey Leland
- Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology / Self-Help
This book presents a method of developing and strengthening the faculties of the mind, through the awakened will, by a simple, scientific process possible to any person of ordinary intelligence (Summary by Charles Godfrey Leland) Note: This book was...
Topics - Aristotle
Topics - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
The Topics is is the fifth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). The Topics constitutes Aristotle's treatise on the art of dialectic—the invention and discovery of arguments in which the...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass humor, history, politics, science medicine,...
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 2 - Charles Darwin
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 2 - Charles Darwin
- Author: Charles Darwin
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
Part 2 of 3 of a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, On The Origin of Species. In The Descent of Man, Darwin...
A School History of the Great War - Albert E. MCKINLEY
A School History of the Great War - Albert E. MCKINLEY
- Author: Albert E. MCKINLEY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
A brief history of The Great War (World War I) designed for students in grades seven and eight. Special emphasis on European history leading up to the war, reasons and events leading to America's eventual entering the war, and possible ramifications...
Youth - Leo Tolstoy
Youth - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Youth is the third in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Boyhood, published in a literary journal during the 1850s. (Introduction by Bill Boerst)...
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 1 - Various
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
This collection comprises recordings of 17 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1628 and 1956. Readings are of speeches origninally given by parliamentarians including Oliver Cromwell, Edmund Burke, William Wilberforce, William...
Selected House of Commons Speeches - Winston S. CHURCHILL
Selected House of Commons Speeches - Winston S. CHURCHILL
- Author: Winston S. CHURCHILL
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955....
The Dawn and the Day - Henry Thayer NILES
The Dawn and the Day - Henry Thayer NILES
- Author: Henry Thayer NILES
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Religion
The Dawn and the Day, or, The Buddha and the Christ, Part 1 is a text similar to the epic poetry of Homer or, more accurately, classic Hindu texts, such as the Baghavad-Gita. - Summary written by not.a.moose...
The Bird Study Book - Thomas Gilbert PEARSON
The Bird Study Book - Thomas Gilbert PEARSON
- Author: Thomas Gilbert PEARSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Nature
Do you enjoy birdwatching? Would you like to learn a little more about the early conservations efforts to protect wild birds? In the Preface to The Bird Study Book, Pearson tells us “This book was written for the consideration of that...
John James Audubon - John Burroughs
John James Audubon - John Burroughs
- Author: John Burroughs
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Audubon's life naturally divides itself into three periods: his youth, which was on the whole a gay and happy one, and which lasted till the time of his marriage at the age of twenty-eight; his business career which followed, lasting ten or more...
On Interpretation - Aristotle
On Interpretation - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Education
Aristotle's On Interpretation (Greek Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας or Peri Hermeneias) or De Interpretatione (the Latin title) is the second of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon. On Interpretation is one of the earliest...
The Coming of the Fairies - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Coming of the Fairies - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being open in this way, he wanted to believe that spirits and other supernatural being including fairies were...
The Gamekeeper at Home - Richard JEFFERIES
The Gamekeeper at Home - Richard JEFFERIES
- Author: Richard JEFFERIES
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Biography & Autobiography
Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887) was born and spent his childhood on a farm at Coate,Wiltshire. He joined the ‘Wiltshire and Gloucestershire Standard’ in 1868 and also started to write articles and pamphlets on various agricultural issues and local...
Jesus of Nazareth: The Story of His Life Simply Told - Mother Mary LOYOLA
Jesus of Nazareth: The Story of His Life Simply Told - Mother Mary LOYOLA
- Author: Mother Mary LOYOLA
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Christianity - Other
The study of Our Lord’s life is something very precious to all souls devoted to living a Christian life, according to the Gospels. By learning about Our Lord, Jesus Christ, and His life on earth, we learn how to love Him and to serve Him, as He...
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (version 2) - PATANJALI
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (version 2) - PATANJALI
- Author: PATANJALI
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Ancient
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the essence of practical wisdom, set forth in admirable order and detail. The theme, if the present interpreter be...
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1 - Giorgio VASARI
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1 - Giorgio VASARI
- Author: Giorgio VASARI
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies...
All of Grace - Charles H. Spurgeon
All of Grace - Charles H. Spurgeon
- Author: Charles H. Spurgeon
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
HE WHO SPOKE and wrote this message will be greatly disappointed if it does not lead many to the Lord Jesus. It is sent forth in childlike dependence upon the power of God the Holy Ghost, to use it in the conversion of millions, if so He pleases. No...
The Mind and the Brain - Alfred BINET
The Mind and the Brain - Alfred BINET
- Author: Alfred BINET
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
The authorized translation of L’âme et le corps, F. Legge, editor “This book is a prolonged effort to establish a distinction between what is called mind and what is called matter. Nothing is more simple than to realise this distinction when you do...
The Wonders of the Jungle - Sarath Kumar GHOSH
The Wonders of the Jungle - Sarath Kumar GHOSH
- Author: Sarath Kumar GHOSH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals
How do elephants drink? What is the Law of the Jungle at the water hole? How does an elephant baby learn to feed and learn to swim? How do they walk under water? In what order do buffaloes drink? How do buffaloes fight the tiger? These and other...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 01) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 01) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This is chapter 1 of volume 1 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to delve into a little more detail. Macaulay is...
Saint Athanasius: The Father of Orthodoxy - Frances Alice Forbes
Saint Athanasius: The Father of Orthodoxy - Frances Alice Forbes
- Author: Frances Alice Forbes
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Christianity - Biographies
A short and rather old fashioned biography a great saint. Don't expect subtlety; it's unapologetic hagiography. The saint is presented as a figure of pristine brilliance, courage and integrity and his persecutors as conniving villains. But to those...
Our Island Story, Part 2 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Our Island Story, Part 2 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles of the good, not so good and the downright despicable figures of history; we are treated to a dazzling...
