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The World of Sound

Read by Ruth Golding


Sir William Henry Bragg


The World of Sound consists of six lectures delivered before a juvenile audience at the Royal Institution, Christmas 1919. The Royal Institu…

The Elements of Geology

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William Ruschenberger


Elements of Geology is one in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little …

The Strangest Things in the World: A Book About Extraordinary Manifestations of…

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Thomas R. Henry


"THE STRANGEST THINGS IN THE WORLD - A Book About Extraordinary Manifestations of Nature" This title sums up the wonderful line up…

On the Elementary Electrical Charge

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Robert Andrews Millikan


The experiments herewith reported were undertaken with the view of introducing certain improvements into the oil-drop method of determining …

The American Egypt

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Channing Arnold


Arnold and Frost were English archaeologists who traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula and wrote "the first book ever written by Englishmen…

A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Thei…

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Anonymous


This book, a reprint of a successful English publication, has been so enlarged as to be to all intents and purposes new. It has been careful…

Within the Deep

Read by Laura Victoria


R. Cadwallader Smith


Presented in the form of lessons, R. Cadwallader Smith vividly portrays life in the ocean. Learn about the common and not so common that swi…

The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume I)

Read by Steven Seitel


Roald Amundsen


Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers tackle the North West Passage in search of the elusive wandering magnetic North Pole. (Summary by St…

Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers a…

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Hans Gross


Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …

Insect Adventures

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Jean-Henri Fabre


This book is composed of selections from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ Translation of Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques,” retold for childre…

The Woodpeckers

Read by Laura Victoria


Fannie Hardy Eckstorm


The Woodpeckers is a wonderful introduction to the world of bird study for the young naturalist, covering such topics as how he finds food, …

How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers

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Robert Williams Wood


How do you tell apart a parrot from a carrot? A plover from a clover? A bay from a jay? Although there are several ways of differentiating, …

LibriVox 7th Anniversary Collection

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


To celebrate the 7 years of LibriVox , readers from all around the world have recorded 77 works they have selected, all of which have 7 in …

The ABC of Relativity

Read by Ciufi Galeazzi


Bertrand Russell


The ABC of Relativity clearly and engagingly explains Einstein's Theory of Relativity to the layperson. It is considered to be a significant…

The Hurricane Hunters

Read by David Wales


Ivan Ray Tannehill


This 1955 book by an acknowledged authority is an absorbing account of meteorology before the advent of weather satellites. “This is the li…

Apis Mellifica

Read by Marie Daum


C. W. Wolf


Wolf's essay considers the homeopathic medicine Apis Mellifica, or the poison of the honey bee, as a therapeutic agent based on his experien…

The Bee People

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Margaret Warner Morley


"The Honey-bees are buzzy-fuzzy little pepper pots" Thus this wonderful nature writer begins to tell us about bees, their habits, …

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the…

Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan


Aimé Bonpland, Alexander von Humboldt and Alexander Von Humboldt


Volume 3, the final volume of the “Personal Narrative”, records the travels of Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland …

A Text-book of Assaying

Read by Peter Yearsley


Cornelius Beringer and Cornelius Beringerandjohn Jacob Beringer


This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: "At firs…

The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 8: Mathematics

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Francis Rolt-Wheeler


Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The eighth volume is on Pure Mathematics written by L. Leland Locke and on Math…

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