Science
A Florida Sketch-Book
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Bradford Torrey
This is a series of late-19th Century essays about Florida's flora & fauna written by a Massachusetts-based naturalist. (Summary by Bell…
An Elementary Study of Insects
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Leonard Haseman
An overview of notable insect groups intended for the young reader. Focus is on economically important insects. (Summary by Jeffery Smith)
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume II)
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Roald Amundsen
Volume II of Roald Amundsen's The Northwest Passage. Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers in the tiny sloop Gjöa are the first to ma…
Little Wanderers
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Margaret Warner Morley
This book discusses a great variety of plants and their seeds in a simple, yet interesting way that children will enjoy. As the books says, …
Hereditary Genius
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Sir Francis Galton
A biographical summary of the pre-eminent men of Britain grouped by profession. The extensive survey draws from information including colleg…
Stories of Starland
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Mary Proctor
Henry asks his sister Mary about the sky. She tells him all about the Sun, the Planets, the Moon, Comets and Meteors, and Stars. Mary tells …
“The Flu”: A Brief History of Influenza in U. S. America, Europe, Hawaii
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A. Mouritz
PREFACEThis Booklet has been written and compiled for the use of any student or layman who seeks concise and clear information on the histor…
Mushrooms and Toadstools (Third Edition)
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Worthington George Smith
This is a useful, but not comprehensive description of both edible and poisonous fungi found in Great Britain. Although the book is well ill…
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 2
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Pliny the Elder and John S. White
The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 3
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Pliny the Elder
The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …
Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, and Others
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Jeannette Augustus Marks and Julia Moody
These short stories about crickets, ants, bees, beetles and other little busybodies are intended by the two authors to show their children t…
Stories of the Cave People
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Mary Marcy
"In this little book I have sought, in a series of stories or sketches, to present only the first steps in human progress. Man has rise…
Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development
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Sir Francis Galton
Francis Galton, credited with the discovery of identification by fingerprinting, also took a long term interest in the study of biometrics. …
A Theory of Monads: Outlines of the Philosophy of the Principle of Relativity
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Herbert Wildon Carr
Since the publication of this book, a little more than a year ago, the interest in Einstein and the principle of relativity has very greatly…
Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island
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President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Is and President'S Commission On The Accident At Three Mile Is
At 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, a serious accident occurred at the Three Mile Island 2 nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. Th…
Dead Men Tell Tales
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Harry Rimmer
"Dead men tell no tales" was a common adage before the days of forensic science. In this book, the well-known evangelist and scien…