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A Guide to Mythology - Helen Clarke
A Guide to Mythology - Helen Clarke
- Author: Helen Clarke
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Reference
My aim in this book on Mythology for young readers has been to give them solid knowledge on the subject, as far as it is advisable to go with immature minds, based upon the most recent investigations of scholars, and to select the myths used in...
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 4 - Pliny the Elder
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 4 - Pliny the Elder
- Author: Pliny the Elder
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Reference / Science
The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of 37 books, covering more than 20.000 topics ranging from astronomy and mathematics to botany and precious...
The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 1 - James FRAZER
The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 1 - James FRAZER
- Author: James FRAZER
- Genre: Reference / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Other religions
The first volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. Topics covered include extensive discussion on the belief in sympathetic and contagious magic, magical influence on the environment, magicians and...
Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Australia and the Islands - Frank G. Carpenter
Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Australia and the Islands - Frank G. Carpenter
- Author: Frank G. Carpenter
- Genre: Reference / Travel & Geography
The purpose of this book is to give the children who read it a living knowledge of Australia and the chief islands of the world, and especially those which have become colonies or dependencies of the United States. In a personally conducted tour...
Stories That Words Tell Us - Elizabeth O'Neill
Stories That Words Tell Us - Elizabeth O'Neill
- Author: Elizabeth O'Neill
- Genre: Reference / Writing & Linguistics
A history of English words, written for younger readers. Parental advisory: the text was published in 1918 and includes some ethnicity terms which may cause offense to the modern reader. - Summary by Kazbek...
London Labour and the London Poor Volume III - Henry MAYHEW
London Labour and the London Poor Volume III - Henry MAYHEW
- Author: Henry MAYHEW
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Reference
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work." "The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves .. their labour, earnings, trials and sufferings,...
1001 Questions and Answers on English Grammar - Benjamin Hathaway
1001 Questions and Answers on English Grammar - Benjamin Hathaway
- Author: Benjamin Hathaway
- Genre: Education / Reference
A book for students interested in finding out how many things about the English language have changed, and how many have weathered the test of time. - Summary by jasonb...
The Complete Confectioner - Hannah GLASSE
The Complete Confectioner - Hannah GLASSE
- Author: Hannah GLASSE
- Genre: Reference / Cooking
The original version of Hannah Glasse’s ‘The Complete Confectioner’ was first produced about 1760 but the publication referenced here is from the year 1800 (some thirty years after her death) with considerable additions and corrections made by Maria...
Oration by Frederick Douglass Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument, April 14, 1876 - Frederick DOUGLASS
Oration by Frederick Douglass Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument, April 14, 1876 - Frederick DOUGLASS
- Author: Frederick DOUGLASS
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Reference / Modern (19th C)
This is the speech given by Fredrick Douglass at the unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument in Lincoln Park, Washington DC, April 14, 1876 along with the appendix which includes additional information about the order of the events and the story of the...
