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The Andes and The Amazon

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James Orton


This book, with the subtitle "Across the Continent of South America" describes the scientific expedition of 1867 to the equatorial…

Short Science Fiction Collection 061

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Various


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921

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In 1918 the Society of Arts and Sciences established the O. Henry Memorial Awards to reward the very best short stories published during the…

Radioactive Substances

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Marie Curie


Marie Curie, born in Warsaw in 1867, was a Polish-French physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity. She was a pioneer in th…

A General View of Positivism

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Auguste Comte


Auguste Comte was from France and published this book in French in 1844. He made a very great impact on the sciences and claims to have “dis…

The Blue Star

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Fletcher Pratt


The novel is set in a parallel world in which the existence of psychic powers has permitted the development of witchcraft into a science; in…

Hero Tales from History

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Smith Burnham


This volume celebrates stories of great heroes from the pages of history from Moses and David through Clara Barton and Henry Longfellow. It…

The Ideas of Lister Sinclair



The Ideas Of Lister Sinclair   The noted broadcaster, playwright, performer,mathematician,   producer and host talks with producer…

Great Astronomers

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Robert Stawell Ball


Of all the natural sciences there is not one which offers such sublime objects to the attention of the inquirer as does the science of astro…

Eyes Like the Sea

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Mór Jókai


He was a painter, a poet, a novelist. He lived during the Hungarian revolution and his love of freedom meant his life was often in peril. Sh…

The Wonders of the Jungle

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Sarath Kumar Ghosh


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 t…

Biographical Memoir of John Wesley Powell, 1834-1902

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William Morris Davis


This is Volume VIII of the National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs series. It is read as 33 sections using the memoir headings. Jo…

The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism

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Harriet Beecher Stowe and Samuel Robert Wells


The object in reprinting this most interesting review is simply to show the progress made in moral, intellectual, and physical science. The …

The Basis Of Morality

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Arthur Schopenhauer


In 1837, the Danish Royal Society of Sciences offered a prize to any essayist who could satisfactorily answer the question, "Is the fou…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 062

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Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 62 features several introspective essays: b…

Academy Award - Single Episodes


Old Time Radio Researchers Group


ACADEMY AWARD  Academy Award Theater began its full 39 week season with a high note -- with Bette Davis in her Oscar winning role…

Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences at the Department for Continuing Educat…


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University of Oxford Podcasts

Sheikh Abu Adnan Lectures


Mujahid Azhar


Sheikh Abu Adnan is a descendent of the noble family of Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wassallam. He is originally from Lebanon and curr…

Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contribu…

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Part of the scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National Museum series: United States National Museum Bulletin.In the…

Èmile

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Emile, or On Education or Émile, or Treatise on Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) was published in 1762 in F…

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