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By: Laurence M. Janifer (1933-2002)

Book cover The Man Who Played to Lose
Book cover Sight Gag
Book cover Hex
Book cover Charley de Milo

By: Leander S. Keyser (1856-1937)

Book cover Birds of the Rockies
Book cover Our Bird Comrades

By: Lee Archer

Book cover Lease to Doomsday

By: Lee Tarbell

Book cover Valley of the Croen

By: Leigh Brackett (1915-1978)

Black Amazon of Mars by Leigh Brackett Black Amazon of Mars

Carrying out the last wishes of a comrade, mercenary Eric John Stark takes on the task of returning a stolen talisman to a walled city near the Martian pole; a city that guards the mysterious Gates of Death. Now all he has to do is get past the brutal clans of Mekh and the shadowy Lord Ciaran to get to Kushat where they’ll probably attempt to kill him. All while he tries to hold on to a talisman that imprints ancient memories of the Gates in his mind. That’s not easy for a human raised by Mercurian aborigines...

By: Leigh Douglass Brackett (1915-1978)

Book cover A World is Born

By: Leigh Richmond (1911-1996)

Book cover Prologue to an Analogue

By: Lena K. (Lena Kellogg) Sadler (1875-)

Book cover The Mother and Her Child

By: Lenore Elizabeth Mulets (1873-?)

Book cover Stories of Birds

This volume contains stories, poems, myths, and facts about lots of different birds, intended for teaching children. It is divided into nine parts, each covering a different type of bird.

By: Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Book cover On the Significance of Science and Art

By: Leon Luther Pray (1882-)

Book cover Taxidermy

By: Leonardo da Vinci

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci by Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da VinciPREFACEA singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the most famous of Leonardo da Vinci's works. Two of the three most important were never completed, obstacles having arisen during his life-time, which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the Sforza Monument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while the third--the picture of the Last Supper at Milan--has suffered irremediable injury from decay and the repeated restorations to which it was recklessly subjected during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries...

By: Les Collins

Book cover Question of Comfort

By: Leslie J. Newville

Development of the Phonograph at Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory by Leslie J. Newville Development of the Phonograph at Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory

By: Leslie Stephen (1832-1904)

Book cover Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies

By: Lester Del Rey (1915-1993)

Badge of Infamy by Lester Del Rey Badge of Infamy

Shifting between Earth and Mars, Badge of Infamy focuses on the gripping tale of a former doctor who becomes a pariah due to being temporarily governed by emotion and compassion, rather than complying with the highly regarded rules established by the Medical Lobby. Furthermore, the novel covers numerous topics including justice, brutality, betrayal, ethics, political control, and lobbying. Set in the year 2100, the novel begins with the introduction of its protagonist, Daniel Feldman, an ethical man, who makes the terrible mistake of going against the fixed medical protocol and performing surgery to save the life of a friend...

By: Lester del Rey

Victory by Lester del Rey Victory

Lester del Rey (1915 – 1993) was a Golden Age science fiction author and editor closely connected to John W. Campbell Jr. and Astounding Science Fiction magazine. He also founded Del Rey Books, a popular publishing label he edited with his wife Judy-Lynn. Victory is the story of an undefended Earth in a warring galaxy. It appeared in the August 1955 issue of Astounding Science Fiction.

By: Lester Del Rey (1915-1993)

Book cover Dead Ringer

By: Lester del Rey (1915-1993)

Book cover Police Your Planet

Bruce Gordon looked at his ticket, grimaced at the ONE WAY stamped on it, then tore it into bits and let the pieces scatter over the floor. He counted them as they fell; thirty pieces in all, one for each year of his life. Little ones for the two years he'd wasted as a cop. Shreds for the four years as a kid in the ring before that--he'd never made the top. Bigger bits for two years also wasted in trying his hand at professional gambling; and the six final pieces that spelled his rise from special reporter helping out with a police shake-up coverage, through a regular leg-man turning up rackets, and on up like a meteor until...

By: Lester S. (Lester Snow) King (1908)

Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Lester S. (Lester Snow) King Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967

By: Levi L. (Levi Leonard) Conant (1857-1916)

Book cover The Number Concept Its Origin and Development

By: Lewis Carroll

A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll A Tangled Tale

Lewis Carroll (1832-1896) is famous for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It is less widely known that he worked as a lecturer for mathematics at Christ Church college, Oxford for 27 years. A tangled tale merges his two talents as storyteller and mathematician. It consists of ten short humorous stories which present one or more mathematical problems. The ten knots as they are called, were first published in The Monthly Packet magazine between April 1880 and March 1885, where readers were invited to solve the problems, and the solution was discussed in a later issue.

By: Lewis Terman (1877-1956)

Book cover Measurement of Intelligence

An explanation of and a completed guide for the use of the Stanford revision and the Simon Binford intelligence test - Summary by the soloist

Book cover Genetic Studies of Genius, Volume 1: Mental and Physical Traits of a Thousand Gifted Children

It should go without saying that a nation's resources of intellectual talent are among the most precious it will ever have. The study of the lives of gifted children initiated by Professor Lewis M. Terman, began in 1921, and has become the longest running longitudinal study in the field of psychology. Published over 5 volumes, the study is of historical significance to the field of educational science as well as psychology, for providing an insight into the nature of intelligence and achievement, but also challenging stereotypes of the personality of the gifted...

By: Lewis Webb Hill (1889-1968)

Book cover The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes

By: Library of Congress

Book cover Library of Congress Workshop on Etexts

By: Lilian Bell (1867-1929)

Book cover From a Girl's Point of View

By: Linnean Society of London

Book cover Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology

By: Lorin Low Dame (1838-1903)

Book cover Handbook of the Trees of New England

By: Lorne W. (Lorne Webster) Barclay (1885-)

Book cover Educational Work of the Boy Scouts

By: Lou Tabakow (1915?-1981)

Book cover Faithfully Yours

By: Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)

Book cover Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence

By: Louis Albert Banks (1855-1933)

Book cover White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor

By: Louis Compton Miall (1842-1921)

Book cover History of Biology

A history of biology from ancient times to Darwin and Pasteur by Louis Compton Miall, Professor of Biology, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fullerian Professor of Physiology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Leeds. This book covers all the major advances in botany and zoology through the mid-1800's and concludes with the impact that Darwin's "Origin of Species" and Pasteur's research into microorganisms will have on future generations of biologists. “Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.” – Louis Pasteur

By: Louis Dechmann

Book cover Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration

By: Louise DeKoven Bowen (1859-1953)

Book cover Colored People of Chicago

This book presents a summary of the findings conducted by the the Juvenile Protective Association in Chicago before the changes brought on by the war-time economy. The study's researchers were A. P. Drucker, Sophia Boaz, A. L. Harris, and Miriam Schaffner. Its author, Louise DeKoven Bowen was a well-known philanthropist and suffragist in Chicago. The summary makes no strong argument on its own, but presents simple facts and observations that would alert the reader to the need for social and economic reform in the city. - Summary by KevinS

By: Louise Stevens Bryant (1885-1959)

Book cover Educational Work of the Girl Scouts

By: Lowell Howard Morrow

Book cover Omega, the Man

By: Lucien Biart (1829-1897)

Book cover Adventures of a Young Naturalist

By: Lucius Daniel

Book cover Martians Never Die

By: Luigi Cornaro (1475-1566)

Book cover Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life Wherein is demonstrated, by his own Example, the Method of Preserving Health to Extreme Old Age

By: Luther Newton Hayes (1883-1978)

Book cover Chinese Dragon

The subject of this little book [1923] is of general interest to people who are acquainted with things Chinese. The dragon has played a large part in Chinese thought through four thousand and more years…. The author is peculiarly fitted to undertake this piece of work. He was born in China and speaks the Chinese language as a native. Thus, he has had the first-hand knowledge and the language to help him in his study. He has been studying on the subject of the dragon for fourteen years. In this time, he has traveled over more than one half the number of provinces of China…...

By: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company

Book cover Food and Health

By: Lydia Estes Pinkham (1819-1883)

Book cover Treatise on the Diseases of Women

By: Lyman Abbott (1835-1922)

Book cover Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life

A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis, with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, sketches of life and character, humorous stories, touching home scenes, and tales of tender pathos, drawn from the bright and shady sides of the great under world of New York. By Mrs. Helen Campbell, City Missionary and Philanthropist; Col. Thomas W. Knox, Author and Journalist; and Supt. Thomas Byrnes, Chief of NY Police and Detectives. With highly interesting descriptions of little known phases of New York life; and an account of Detective Byrnes' thirty years' experiences and reminiscences written by himself from his private diary...

By: Lyn Venable

Book cover Homesick
Book cover Grove of the Unborn

By: M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke (1825-1914)

Book cover Fungi: Their Nature and Uses

By: M. C. Pease

Book cover This One Problem

By: M. I. Mayfield

Book cover On Handling the Data

By: M. M. Pattison Muir (d1931)

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cutting edge of the development of modern atomic theory … and whose developing blind ends we can now see with the advantage of hind sight.

By: Mack Reynolds (1917-1983)

Mercenary by Mack Reynolds Mercenary

Every status-quo-caste society in history has left open two roads to rise above your caste: The Priest and The Warrior. But in a society of TV and tranquilizers--the Warrior acquires a strange new meaning... (Introduction from the Gutenberg text)

Ultima Thule by Mack Reynolds Ultima Thule

Ronny Bronston has dreamed all his life of getting a United Planets job that would take him off-world. He finally gets the opportunity when he is given a provisional assignment with Bureau of Investigation, Section G. But will he be able to complete his assignment and find the elusive Tommy Paine?

Book cover Happy Ending
Book cover I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Book cover Gun for Hire
Book cover Dogfight—1973
Book cover Combat
Book cover The Common Man
Book cover Freedom
Book cover Border, Breed Nor Birth
Book cover Medal of Honor
Book cover Unborn Tomorrow
Book cover Subversive
Book cover Off Course
Book cover Summit

By: Mae Franking

Book cover My Chinese Marriage

Mae Watkins, a University of Michigan student, unexpectedly falls in love with a Chinese international law student in the midst of World War I. Despite the socially unacceptable pairing the couple decide to tie the knot and forge ahead with an unsure future. Mae demonstrates her unique ability to observe and describe a foreign culture after their move to Shanghai. She documents in detail her perceptions of Chinese fashion and food in addition to her knowledge of such controversial customs as foot binding and widow suicide...

By: Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986)

Book cover The Devil's Asteroid

By: Mann Rubin

Book cover The Second Voice

By: Margaret Burnham

The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship by Margaret Burnham The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship

Teenagers Peggy Prescott and her brother Roy share a love of aviation that they inherited from their late father. Mr. Prescott had always dreamed of building an aeroplane that would be free of the defects of planes already invented. Peggy and Roy manage to build a plane starting with the framework their father had begun. Peggy christens it ‘The Golden Buttefly’ and she and Roy are determined to enter it in a young aviator’s contest for a prize of $5000. The Prescotts need the money desperately to save the home they share with their aunt which is about to be taken from them by the rather nasty banker, Mr...

By: Margaret Herschel (1810-1884)

Book cover Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel

For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she was one of the most significant women on the English scientific scene during the late 18th and early 19th century. Sister of the well known William Herschel , she first worked as his assistant in his astronomical works, and then went on to become a noted astronomer in her own right. She discovered eight new comets in her lifetime, and was the first woman to be paid for her contribution to science, and was awarded a Gold Medal...

By: Margaret Sanger (1883-1966)

Book cover The Pivot of Civilization

By: Margaret W. Lewis

Book cover Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City

By: Margaret Warner Morley (1858-1923)

The Insect Folk by Margaret Warner Morley The Insect Folk

Through delightful outings with her students, a teacher introduces her class to the fascinating world of insects. She encourages her students to observe and ask questions. This is a wonderful science text for young children.

Book cover The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young

By: Marie Curie (1867-1934)

Radioactive Substances by Marie Curie Radioactive Substances

Marie Curie, born in Warsaw in 1867, was a French physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes - in physics (1903) and chemistry (1911). The risks of working with strongly radioactive materials were not known at that time, and she eventually died in 1934 from an illness likely caused by radiation poisoning.Radioactive Substances is the thesis of Marie Curie, presented to the Faculté de Sciences de Paris in 1903, and subsequently published in "Chemical News" vol 88, 1903...

By: Marion Harland (1830-1922)

Book cover The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
Book cover Marion Harland's Complete Etiquette

Haven't you always wondered how to properly accept a formal dinner invitation? Perhaps you have a débutante under your wing, in which case you need to make sure her appearance in society goes perfectly, to increase her chances of a brilliant match. And what exactly would be your duties as her chaperon? These and many other questions are expertly answered by Marion Harland in this little volume. - Summary by Carolin

By: Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999)

Book cover Year of the Big Thaw

By: Marjory MacMurchy Willison (-1938)

Book cover The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance

By: Mark Clifton (1906-1963)

Book cover Sense from Thought Divide
A Woman's Place by Mark Clifton A Woman's Place
The Kenzie Report by Mark Clifton The Kenzie Report
Do Unto Others by Mark Clifton Do Unto Others

By: Mark Wicks

Book cover To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story

By: Martha Meir Allen (1854-1926)

Book cover Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say

By: Mary Proctor (1862-1957)

Book cover Stories of Starland

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 her brother about mythologies people believed about the earth and sky along with true scientific information.

By: Mary Earle Hardy (1846-1928)

Book cover Sea Stories for Wonder Eyes

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 children that a river can cut through rock to weave its way to the sea, how sand is made, and how fish can breathe underwater. Grown-ups may learn some new things, too! - Summary by Carolin

By: Mary Ellen Richmond (1861-1928)

Book cover Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers

By: Mary F. Porter

Book cover Applied Psychology for Nurses

By: Mary Huestis Pengilly

Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum by Mary Huestis Pengilly Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum

Mary Pengilly was taken to a Lunatic Asylum by her sons where she kept a diary, which this book is taken from. Mary records the harsh conditions and treatments received at the hands of the nurses during her stay. Once Mary is released she takes it upon herself to make the authorities aware of the situation at the Provincial Lunatic Asylum.

By: Mary L. Day (1836-)

Book cover The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl

By: Mary Marcy (1877-1922)

Book cover Stories of the Cave People

"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 risen from a stage of lowest savagery, little higher than the apes, buffeted by the hand of Nature, dependent upon the wild game he might kill or the food he found ready to hand, a fearing and a furtive creature of the forests and of the plains, preyed upon by a thousand stronger foes, to a being able to provide warmth and clothing and shelter against the rains and the cold and food against the seasons...

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958)

Book cover Why I Believe in Scouting for Girls

By: Mary Shauffler Labaree (1868-1954)

Book cover Child in the Midst: A Comparative Study of Child Welfare in Christian and Non-Christian Lands

Chapters follow the progression of a child from birth through working years.Thus, Chapter 1 traces the child from newborn to toddler stage in the home. It includes assumed rights of children and mothers, superstitions, diseases and treatments, and what missions are contributing. Continuing on, Chapter 2 compares homes in various countries, explains the need for teaching the mothers, and delves into roles of fathers and missions. Other chapters explore the importance of play, the clash between play and work, views on education, and the role of worship.

By: Mary Somerville (1780-1872)

Book cover Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville

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