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Madam How and Lady Why

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Charles Kingsley


Did you ever wish you knew how to explain natural phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanoes to your children? Search no more, this book ha…

Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 2

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John Calvin


Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western worl…

A Letter Concerning Toleration

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John Locke


Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke was originally published in 1689. Its initial publication was in Latin, though it was immediately…

The Consolation of Philosophy

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius


Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

Alexander Hamilton

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Charles A. Conant


Alexander Hamilton was a significant figure in the political and economic development of the early United States. He served in the American …

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

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U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers and United States Army Corps Of Engineers


This is the official report, published nearly 11 months after the first and only atomic bombings in history (to date), of a group of militar…

The Book of Tea

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Kakuzō Okakura


The Book of Tea was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century. It was first published in 1906, and has since been republished many…

History of the United States, Vol. III

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Charles Austin Beard


Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and inte…

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

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Hugh Lofting


In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up…

Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin


In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with …

Richard III (Makers of History series)

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Jacob Abbott


Jacob Abbott chronicles the unspeakably treacherous rise of Richard III to the throne of England in the midst of the war between the Yorks a…

Commentary on Galatians

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St. John Chrysostom


St. Chrysostom’s Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians is continuous, according to chapter and verse, instead of being arranged in Homi…

John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs

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Jack London


Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (…

De Anima

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Aristotle


On the Soul (Greek Περὶ Ψυχῆς (Perì Psūchês), Latin De Anima) is a major treatise by Aristotle on the nature of living things. …

The Life of Kit Carson

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Edward S. Ellis


Christopher Carson, or as he was familiarly called, Kit Carson, was a man whose real worth was understood only by those with whom he was ass…

Creative Chemistry

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Edwin E. Slosson


Slosson reviews the transformation of alchemistry from an obscure and imprecise practice to the science of chemistry. Along the way, he expl…

The First Apology of Justin Martyr

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Saint Justin Martyr


The purpose of the Apology is to prove to the emperors, renowned as upright and philosophical men, the injustice of the persecution of the C…

A Dictionary of English Synonymes, Vol. 01

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Richard Soule


A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions, Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseolog…

Posterior Analytics

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Aristotle


Posterior Analytics is the fourth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). Po…

How to Appreciate Music

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Gustav Kobbé


Originally published in 1906, this book is essentially a how to guide on music appreciation. Includes sections on the pianoforte, orchestral…

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