Science

Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway

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Steve Solomon


Gardening expert Steve Solomon has written extensively on gardening techniques for the home gardener. Water conservation is the focus of thi…

Book of the Damned

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Charles Hoy Fort


The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Dealing with various types o…

The Secret of Everyday Things

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Jean-Henri Fabre


The clearness, simplicity, and charm of the great French naturalist's style are nowhere better illustrated than in this work, which in its v…

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!

In Time Of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook On Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters

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Us Office Of Civil Defense


A major emergency affecting a large number of people may occur anytime and anywhere. It may be a peacetime disaster such as a flood, tornado…

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…

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…

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…

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).…

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 …

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…

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…

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.”…

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 …

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…

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 …

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…

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 …

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