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By: Henry Drummond | |
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The Greatest Thing in the World and Other Addresses
The spiritual classic The Greatest Thing In the World is a trenchant and tender analysis of Christian love as set forth in the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians. The other addresses speak to other aspects of Christian life and thought. |
By: Derek J. de Solla (Derek John de Solla) Price (1922-1983) | |
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On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass |
By: Marguerite Stockman Dickson | |
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Vocational Guidance for Girls
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE FOR GIRLSBy MARGUERITE STOCKMAN DICKSONA FOREWORDFortunate are we to have from the pen of Mrs. Dickson a book on the vocational guidance of girls. Mrs. Dickson has the all-round life experiences which give her the kind of training needed for a broad and sympathetic approach to the delicate, intricate, and complex problems of woman's life in the swiftly changing social and industrial world. Mrs. Dickson was a teacher for seven years in the grades in the city of New York. She then became the partner of a superintendent of schools in the business of making a home... | |
By: George Herbert Betts (1868-1934) | |
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New Ideals in Rural Schools | |
The Recitation |
By: David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) | |
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Life's Enthusiasms
The words in this essay on positive thought sing like those in Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." The author praises joyous living and recommends certain routes to its attainment. He explores schooling (public secondary and the university), travel, and the study of nature as ways to stay buoyant during life's trials. He also praises the power of the arts (literature, music, painting, sculpture) to keep spirits soaring. |
By: Mabel Osgood Wright (1859-1934) | |
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The Garden, You, and I |
By: Henry H. Saylor (1880-) | |
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Making a Fireplace |
By: Interborough Rapid Transit Company | |
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The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment |
By: Izaak Walton (1593-1683) | |
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The Compleat Angler
The Compleat Angler is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Walton did not profess to be an expert with the fly, but in the use of the live worm, the grasshopper and the frog "Piscator" could speak as a master. There were originally only two interlocutors in the opening scene, "Piscator" and "Viator"; but in the second edition, as if in answer to an objection that "Piscator" had it too much in his own way in praise of angling, he introduced the falconer, "Auceps," changed "Viator" into "Venator" and made the new companions each dilate on the joys of his favourite sport. | |
The Complete Angler 1653 |
By: Hattie E. Macomber | |
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Stories of Great Inventors Fulton, Whitney, Morse, Cooper, Edison |
By: James Cardinal Gibbons (1834-1921) | |
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The Faith of Our Fathers
The Faith of Our Fathers: A Plain Exposition and Vindication of the Church Founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ is a book published in 1876 by archbishop James Gibbons, which became a best-selling conversion manual in the United States, and by 1980 was in its 111th printing.(From the preface) “The object of this little volume is to present in a plain and practical form an exposition and vindication of the principal tenets of the Catholic Church. It was thought sufficient to devote but a brief space to such Catholic doctrines and practices as are happily admitted by Protestants, while those that are controverted by them are more elaborately elucidated... |
By: H. Ling (Henry Ling) Roth (1855-1925) | |
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Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms |
By: Brandon Head | |
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The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa |
By: Francis Rolt-Wheeler | |
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The Boy With the U.S. Census
THE BOY WITH THE U.S. CENSUSBY FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELERPREFACELife in America to-day is adventurous and thrilling to the core. Border warfare of the most primitive type still is waged in mountain fastnesses, the darkest pages in the annals of crime now are being written, piracy has but changed its scene of operations from the sea to the land, smugglers ply a busy trade, and from their factory prisons a hundred thousand children cry aloud for rescue. The flame of Crusade sweeps over the land and the call for volunteers is abroad... |
By: Claude H. Miller | |
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Outdoor Sports and Games
The Library of Work and Play, OUTDOOR SPORTS AND GAMESBy CLAUDE H. MILLER, PH.B.INTRODUCTORY The human body a perfect machine--How to keep well--Outdoor sleeping--Exercise and play--Smoking--Walking Suppose you should wake up Christmas morning and find yourself to be the owner of a bicycle. It is a brand-new wheel and everything is in perfect working order. The bearings are well oiled, the nickel is bright and shiny and it is all tuned up and ready for use. If you are a careful, sensible boy you can have fun with it for a long time until finally, like the One Hoss Shay in the poem, it wears out and goes to pieces all at once... |
By: Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) | |
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The Art of Travel
The Art of Travel is a handbook of practical advice for the adventure seeking Victorian. We hear how to organize all steps of a voyage, from the very beginnings (qualifications of a traveller, how to organize an expedition, the perfect outfit), to the actual trip (how to choose a bivouac, huts and tents, what game to shoot - and how, dealing with (hostile) savages), until the final, hopefully successful, return of the traveller (arranging memoranda). |
By: Friedrich Christian Accum (1769-1838) | |
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A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons |
By: Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879) | |
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Meditations from the Pen
Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery and women's rights. Meditations From The Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart—published in 1879 shortly before her death—is a collection of those speeches as well as her memoir, some meditations and prayers. They are political, poetical and sermon all at the same time; but in the mileu in which she lectured, they were a critically important part of the abolitionist movement years before the contributions of others such as Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth... |
By: Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) | |
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition, and Duties of Women
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. Her life was short but full. She became the first editor of the transcendentalist journal The Dial in 1840, before joining the staff of the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley in 1844. By the time she was in her 30s, Fuller had earned a reputation as the best-read person in New England, male or female, and became the first woman allowed to use the library at Harvard College... |
By: John Augustine Zahm (1851-1921) | |
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Woman in Science
A history of woman's role in science through the ages and the many contributions she has made.Chapter Titles are:1. Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind2. Woman's Capacity for Scientific Pursuits3. Women in Mathematics4. Women in Astronomy5. Women in Physics6. Women in Chemistry7. Women in the Natural Sciences8. Women in Medicine and Surgery9. Women in Archæology10. Women as Inventors11. Women as Inspirers and Collaborators in Science12. The Future of Women in Science: Summary and Epilogue |
By: Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834-1919) | |
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Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel |
By: Charles Hemstreet (1866-?) | |
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The Story of Manhattan
The history of New York City is told as a story, in few words. It begins with Henry Hudson's discovery of Manhattan in 1609. And it finishes in 1898 when the island of Manhattan becomes the Borough of Manhattan of Greater New York. |
By: Raymond F. (Raymond Francis) Yates (1895-) | |
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Boys' Book of Model Boats |
By: Helen Campbell (1839-1918) | |
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The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes |
By: J. B. (Joseph Bernard) Wagner (1870-) | |
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Seasoning of Wood |
By: Mary Stoyell Stimpson | |
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The Child's Book of American Biography
In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so often that every child should know a few facts about them. It is hoped the very short stories told here may make boys and girls eager to learn more about these famous people. (from the Forward of the text) |
By: Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer | |
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School and Home Cooking |
By: William N. Brown | |
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Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing |
By: Adelaide Hoodless (1858-1910) | |
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Public School Domestic Science |
By: Florence Daniel | |
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The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed. |
By: Julia M. Grundy (b. 1874) | |
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Ten Days in the Light of Acca
This work is the story of a pilgrimage made over a hundred years ago by a group of American pilgrims. They were not headed for Canterbury, Rome or Jerusalem. Rather, they were headed for an historical but remote prison-city in a far corner of the Ottoman Empire. ‘Akká (Akko), now a city in Israel which attracts thousands of Bahá’í pilgrims each year, was but little thought of in that early period. It was originally the final place of exile and imprisonment for Bahá’u’lláh, a Persian nobleman who proclaimed that He was the Promised One of all religions and Messenger of God for this day and age... |
By: Charles B. Towns (1862-1947) | |
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Habits that Handicap
Habits that Handicap is one of three novels about alcholoism and drug addiction written by Charles B. Towns. Towns was an expert on alcoholism and drug addiction who helped draft drug control legislation in the United States during the early 20th century. He also founded the Towns Hospital in New York City, which aimed at drying out the well-to-do patient. |
By: Charles Elmé Francatelli (1805-1876) | |
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A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes |
By: Watson Smith (1845-1920) | |
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The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association |
By: Virginia McGaw | |
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Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools |
By: Florence Kreisler Greenbaum | |
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The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws |
By: Edith Thomas (1882-) | |
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Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" |
By: James Huneker (1860-1921) | |
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Chopin: The Man and His Music
A biography of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin and a critical analysis of his work by American music writer and critic James Huneker. |
By: John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon (1870-1949) | |
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In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country |
By: Robert May (1588-) | |
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The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery |
By: Francis Archibald Bruton | |
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The Story of Peterloo
On 16th August 1819 around 60,000 people gathered at St. Peter’s Fields, Manchester, to rally for parliamentary reform. Shortly after the meeting began, a troop of Hussars and local yeomanry rode into the crowd, wielding clubs, swords and sabres, leaving 18 dead and more than 700 severely injured. In the following years, the Peterloo Massacre was the subject of several trials and inquiries. It now counts as one of the most significant events in the history of the British labour movement. Francis Archibald Bruton’s account of the day’s events, published for its centenary and based on a detailed examination of contemporary accounts, is both dispassionate and moving... |
By: St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1553) | |
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The Autobiography of St. Ignatius
This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself to Father Gonzalez, is a most valuable record of the great Founder of the Society of Jesus. It, more than any other work, gives an insight into the spiritual life of St. Ignatius. Few works in ascetical literature, except the writings of St. Teresa and St. Augustine, impart such a knowledge of the soul.The saint in his narrative always refers to himself in the third person, and this mode of speech has here been retained. Many persons who have neither the time, nor, perhaps, the inclination, to read larger works, will read, we trust, with pleasure and profit this autobiography... |
By: Jennie Irene Mix | |
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Mighty Animals
A book about dinosaurs written for children. In short, easy to read chapters designed to keep the interest of juvenile readers. |
By: W. G. Waters | |
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The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes |
By: Sam R. Watkins (1839-1901) | |
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'Co. Aytch,' Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
Samuel “Sam” Rush Watkins (June 26, 1839 – July 20, 1901) was a noted Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. He is known today for his memoir Company Aytch: Or, a Side Show of the Big Show, often heralded as one of the best primary sources about the common soldier's Civil War experience....Sam’s writing style is quite engaging and skillfully captures the pride, misery, glory, and horror experienced by the common foot soldier. Watkins is often featured and quoted in Ken Burns’ 1990 documentary titled The Civil War. (Introduction from Wikipedia) |
By: P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford | |
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Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise |
By: G. Campbell Morgan (1863-1945) | |
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Wherein?
These studies in the book of Malachi were delivered as addresses to the students at Mr. Moody’s Bible School in Chicago, and then to my own congregation. They have also appeared in “The Record of Christian Work” in the United States, and in “Out and Out” in England. They are now sent out in a more permanent form, after careful revision, with the prayer that they may be used of God in calling His own children into the place of power without which form is nothing. (Introduction by G. Campbell Morgan) |
By: Matthew Luckiesh (1883-1967) | |
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Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization |
By: David Marshall Brooks (1902-1994) | |
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The Necessity of Atheism
Plain speaking is necessary in any discussion of religion, for if the freethinker attacks the religious dogmas with hesitation, the orthodox believer assumes that it is with regret that the freethinker would remove the crutch that supports the orthodox. And all religious beliefs are "crutches" hindering the free locomotive efforts of an advancing humanity. There are no problems related to human progress and happiness in this age which any theology can solve, and which the teachings of freethought cannot do better and without the aid of encumbrances. |
By: Mrs. E. E. Kellogg | |
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Science in the Kitchen. |