Search Results

Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


John Dewey


An important, controversial, and often cited work on public education. Dewey discusses the role of public education in a democracy and the d…

A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


William Law


This is one of the greatest devotional books of the Christian faith, inspiring thousands to a closer walk with their Lord. John Wesley was a…

Poems: Series One

Read by Shurtagal


Emily Dickinson


Renowned poet Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) wrote many many poems. This collection, "Poems: Series One", presents the first instal…

Opticks

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Isaac Newton


The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 - 1672. He worked on refraction of light into colored beams using prisms …

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

Read by Mary Reagan


Nellie Bly


This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne…

A Thousand Miles up the Nile

Read by Sibella Denton


Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards


Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical, egyptological, and cultural study in in 1877, and it became an immediate best-seller, reprinted in …

The Gettysburg Address (version 3)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Abraham Lincoln


The Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, in November, 1863, followed a few short months after the roiling, acrid clouds of gun…

Science and Hypothesis

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Henri Poincaré


Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of scien…

Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave

Read by James K. White


Henry Bibb


Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother …

The Way of Peace (version 2)

Read by Algy Pug


James Allen


James Allen (1864 - 1912) was a philosopher and a pioneer of New Thought movement. His works have formed the basis of much of the curricu…

Bible Defence of Slavery

Read by JoeD


Josiah Priest


The full title of this book is Bible Defense of Slavery; and Origin, Fortunes, and History of the Negro Race, by Rev. Josiah Priest, A. M. 5…

Book of the Foundations

Read by Ann Boulais


St. Teresa of Avila


Essentially the sequel to The Life of St. Teresa, Teresa recounts the foundations of the Discalced Carmelite monasteries in Spain, both for …

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Giorgio Vasari


The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellen…

The Three Sisters

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Anton Chekhov


Three Sisters is a naturalistic play about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world. It de…

Essays in Radical Empiricism

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


William James


William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psych…

Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation

Read by Julia Niedermaier


Lafcadio Hearn


Greece-born Lafcadio Hearn (1850 - 1904) spent decades of his life in Japan, even marrying a Japanese woman, thus becoming a Japanese citize…

Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography

Read by James K. White


John Relly Beard


François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revol…

Topics

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Aristotle


The Topics is is the fifth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). The Topic…

طبائع الاستبداد ومصارع الاستعباد (Tabai al-Istibdad wa-Masari al-Isti’bad)

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Abd Al-Rahman Al-Kawakibi


طبائع الاستبداد ومصارع الاستعباد كتاب من تأليف عبد الرحمن الكواكبي، يشخص الكاتب ما يسميه داء الاستبداد السياسي، ويصف أقبح أنواعه: استبداد ال…

History of the Conquest of Mexico

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


William H. Prescott


Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;Round many western islands have I beenWhich bards in fe…

< 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 >