Science
Insect Stories
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Vernon Kellogg
These 13 essays explore the fascinating world of insects all around us. Vernon Kellogg, an eminent entomologist and natural story teller, an…
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…
Light Science for Leisure Hours
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Richard A. Proctor
In preparing these Essays, my chief object has been to present scientific truths in a light and readable form—clearly and simply, but with a…
The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship
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Margaret Burnham
Teenagers Peggy Prescott and her brother Roy share a love of aviation that they inherited from their late father. Mr. Prescott had always dr…
Home Geography for Primary Grades
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C. C. Long
Lessons and exercises for young children, exploring map and compass, mountains and rivers, trees and flowers, wind and rain, and more. (Summ…
The Prospective Mother
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J. Morris Slemons
A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy. This book, written for women who have no special knowledge of medicine, aims to answer the questions …
Dinosaurs, With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections
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William Diller Matthew
America has had a fascination with dinosaurs, particularly since the wild enthusiasm of Jurassic Park and its sequels. The term "dinosa…
Science in Short Chapters
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W. Mattieu Williams
This is a collection of articles written by W. Mattieu Williams on different subjects, that in his opinion "are likely to be interestin…
A Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse
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In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for discoveries in branches of science such as botany, astronomy and medicine to be desc…
The Extermination of the American Bison
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William T. Hornaday
The American bison (Bison bison), also commonly known as the American buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once roamed the gra…
The Elements of Ornithology
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William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Ornithology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This…
The World of Sound
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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 North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume I)
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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…
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…
Within the Deep
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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…
A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Thei…
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William James Mcglothlin
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…
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…