Science
Prime Numbers
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Unknown
A recording of the first 2000 prime numbers (2-17389). Recommended listening for all math geeks and insomniacs!
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volumes 1-3
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Isaac Asimov
This is a short booklet on science fact commissioned by the U. S. Energy Research and Development Administration (Office of Public Affairs).…
The Conquest of Bread
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Peter Kropotkin
In this work, Kropotkin points out what he considers to be the fallacies of the economic systems of feudalism and capitalism, and how he bel…
Stories of Inventors
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Russell Doubleday
Doubleday chronicles the history of everyday inventions that form the foundation of technology now common through the world. While some of t…
Familiar Letters on Chemistry
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Justus Von Liebig
Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry and is known for hi…
Radioactive Substances
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Marie Curie
Marie Curie, born in Warsaw in 1867, was a Polish-French physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity. She was a pioneer in th…
Old-Time Makers of Medicine
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James Joseph Walsh
Dr. Walsh's Old-Time Makers of Medicine chronicles the history and development of modern medicine from ancient times up to the discovery of …
Chemical Phenomena in Life
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Frederick Czapek
Published in 1911 as part of the "Harper's Library of Living Thought," this volume presents an introduction to the chemistry of ce…
Handbook of Nature-Study, Part 1
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Anna Botsford Comstock
Handbook of Nature-Study was written by Anna Botsford Comstock during an era of growing societal concern for man's treatment of the natural …
A Problem in Modern Ethics
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John Addington Symonds
“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.”…
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 1
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National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Announcement by the National Geographic SocietyIntr…
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
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Peter Kropotkin
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England…
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 2
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Charles Darwin
Part 2 of 3 of a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great boo…
The Concept of Nature
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Alfred North Whitehead
In The Concept of Nature, Alfred North Whitehead discusses the interrelatedness of time, space, and human perception.The idea of objects as …
Die Helden des Dampfes
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Karl May
Der dreiteilige Aufsatz über Die Helden des Dampfes wurde mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit von Karl May verfaßt und veröffentlic…
Opticks
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Isaac Newton
The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 - 1672. He worked on refraction of light into colored beams using prisms …
Science and Hypothesis
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Henri Poincaré
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of scien…
Topics
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Aristotle
The Topics is is the fifth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). The Topic…
The Romance of Modern Chemistry
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James C. Philip
A fascinating look back at the state of the art of chemistry 100 years ago, this book by James C. Philip, PhD, an assistant professor of che…
Canyons of the Colorado
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John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colora…