Science
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 …
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…
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 …
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. …
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…
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…
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…
The Nobel Prize in 1908
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Various
The Nobel Prizes are international awards bestowed once a year by Scandinavian committees for cultural and scientific advances. They were es…
Philosophy
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell was a well known mathematician, philosopher, and author. First published in England under the title "An Outline of Ph…
Beknopte uiteenzetting van de theorie van Darwin over het ontstaan der plant- e…
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Julius Dub
Populair-wetenschappelijke, verkorte weergave van Charles Darwins baanbrekende boek "Het ontstaan der soorten", ca. 10 jaar na de …
The Outline of Science, Vol 4
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J. Arthur Thomson
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects rang…
Sea Stories for Wonder Eyes
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Mary Earle Hardy
Water is fascinating! Which child is not delighted by the sea shore, by rivers, even by puddles in the street? This little book explains to …
Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects
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Hermann Von Helmholtz
This presents a summary of many of Hemholtz's areas of research. He investigated the workings of the brain in its appreciation of art and mu…
Little Masterpieces of Science - Mind
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George Iles
Another in the series "Little Masterpieces of Science" edited by George Iles, Mind is a collection of articles and book chapters t…
Little Masterpieces of Science - Invention and Discovery
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George Iles
A collection of essays on various inventions and scientific discoveries, this volume of Little Masterpieces of Science from 1902 includes to…
What is Darwinism?
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Charles Hodge
This is a question which needs an answer. Great confusion and diversity of opinion prevail as to the real views of the man whose writings ha…