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Biological Methods to Control Japanese Beetles

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 077

Read by Sue Anderson


US Dept of Agriculture & US Food Administration and United States Department of Agriculture


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. President Theodore Roosevelt, in a 1903 speech, declared that "The future welfare …

John Burroughs' Memories of His Boyhood

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 085

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John Burroughs


"A regard for decency, even at the cost of success, is but the regard for one's own dignity" was novelist Joseph Conrad's take on …

Cochineal

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 058

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Charles Aubrey Ealand


Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. The human condition is variously explored in Chest…

Elijah Lovejoy, Abolitionist Journalist, Killed at Alton, Illinois, 1837

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 061

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Henry Tanner


Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain independently chosen by the readers. Volume 61 features articles and essays on both cu…

Black Code of Illinois

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 068

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Zebina Edwards


Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain. "The Regulation of Time" and "Uniform Standard Time" are two of seve…

April 14

In LibriVox 14th Anniversary Collection

Read by Sue Anderson


Anonymous


Works in the Public Domain that have in their titles (or subtitles) the numeral 14 or the words fourteen or fourteenth. This collection is b…

Prison Journal of Stephen Austin, 1833-1835, Part 1

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 069

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Stephen Fuller Austin


"It seemed as if a total dissolution of nature was taking place" is the way 15-year old Alexander Hamilton described living throug…

The Salines of Southern Illinois

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 059

Read by Sue Anderson


George W. Smith


Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 59 contains an eclectic mix of readings, ra…

Thomas Cole's Journal 1834-1835 (excerpt)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 086

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Thomas Cole


"The democracy of the future will sicken of a chronic and mortal boredom," was Aldous Huxley's prophecy for the United States in 1…

After Icebergs with the Painter Frederic Edwin Church (1861)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 087

Read by Sue Anderson


Louis Legrand Noble


"Certitude is not the test of certainty." This pithy phrase is from Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr's essay on Natural Law, one of…

Gulls, Human Wildlife Conflicts & Overview of the Species

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 081

Read by Sue Anderson


US Dept of Agriculture & US Food Administration and United States Department of Agriculture


"There has always been a tendency on the part of men of brains to look with contempt on women's work in the arts." Screenwriter an…

The Red Fox

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 082

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Julie L. Tesky


"Is sin a necessary stage in the development of humanity, or a yawning chasm in the very structure of the universe?” Theologian J. Gres…

A Tame Rook

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 080

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Geroge Menzies Lambrick


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Not one of us actually thinks for himself, or in any orderly and scientific manne…

A Racoon Family's Night of Nights

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 060

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Nellie M. Pairpoint


Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain independently chosen by the readers. Volume 60 features excerpts from two German philoso…

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