Science
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition
Read by Steven Seitel
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…
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)
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…
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, …
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 …
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…
Mushrooms and Toadstools
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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…
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…
A Theory of Monads
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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…
Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development
Read by Leon Harvey
Sir Francis Galton
Francis Galton, credited with the discovery of identification by fingerprinting, also took a long term interest in the study of biometrics. …
Lasers
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Hal Hellman
Among great technologic developments of the twentieth century has to be that of laser light with its myriad of applications in industry, com…
The Peaceful Atom
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Bernice Kohn Hunt
In this children's science book from the early 1960s, the concept of atoms and the science behind them is introduced. The book recounts the …
The Romance of Modern Photography
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Charles R. Gibson
It is not the author's purpose in the present volume to give any instruction in the practice of photography. There are many works dealing w…
Medieval Contributions to Modern Civilisation
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Various
The mediaeval contributions to modern civilisation, which are the theme of this book, are twofold.There is the contribution of the idealised…
Old Farm Fairies
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Henry Christopher Mccook
The Brownies of the Mansion at Hillside are under siege from Pixie forces. The Pixies, whose treacherous weavings mimic those of our own use…
The Birds of the Air
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John Frost
In this book, aimed at children, the author provides a brief profile of 35 different bird species. Strangely for a book titled The Birds of …
Scientific American Supplement
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Various
The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, having launched its first publication in 1…
The Children's Book of Birds
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Olive Thorne Miller
The Children's Book of Birds combines under a single cover the First and Second Books of Birds, originally published in 1899 and 1901 respec…
Lecture on Artificial Flight
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William G. Krueger
Lecture on artificial flight given on request of the Academy of Natural Sciences on August 7, 1876 in San Francisco, California by William G…
Present Day Gardening
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James O'Brien
A meticulously written treatise on the structure, care and cultivation of orchids. This book benefits both the orchid obsessed and the amate…