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By: Walter A. Wyckoff (1865-1908)

Book cover Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The West

A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any job he could find, enduring hardships and struggling to make a living. He travelled mainly on foot, designing for himself a social experiment on experiencing different class and culture structures and the reality of working conditions at the end of the 19th century. This volume continues the story that began in the first volume , and spans the region from Illinois to California - Summary by Phyllis Vincelli

By: Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)

Book cover Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society

By: Walter J. Sheldon (1917-)

Book cover Houlihan's Equation
Book cover Two Plus Two Makes Crazy
Book cover This is Klon Calling

By: Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle (1871-1921)

Book cover Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

By: Walter Libby (1867-1955?)

Book cover Introduction to the History of Science

A highly accessible introductory history of the development of scientific thought, method, and application from the first practical concepts of time and space to the development of the first successful heavier-than-air flying machine and the discovery of radioactivity . - Summary by Steven Seitel

By: Walter M. Miller (1923-1996)

Book cover Death of a Spaceman
Book cover The Hoofer

By: Walter P. (Walter Penn) Taylor (1888-1972)

Book cover Life History of the Kangaroo Rat

By: Walter S. Tevis (1928-1984)

Book cover The Big Bounce

By: Walter Stitt Robinson

Book cover Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699

By: Walter W. Bryant (1865-1923)

Kepler by Walter W. Bryant Kepler

This biography of Johannes Kepler begins with an account of what the world of astronomy was like before his time, then proceeds to a look at his early years. Two chapters deal with his working relationship with Tycho Brahe. These are followed by a look at Kepler's laws and his last years.

Book cover History of Astronomy

In this book, Walter W. Bryant traces the history of astronomy through the ages. We start at the very beginning, where astronomy was an occupation of priests, move with the help of the Arabs through the middle ages to the discovery of the heliocentric system by Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo. A discussion of Newton and his laws follows as well as a description of the biographies and works of successors like Halley, Herschel, and Bessel. The second half of the book deals with recent discoveries with respect to our solar system and the comets, meteors, and stars beyond.

By: Walter Woelber Dalquest (1917-2000)

Book cover A New Doglike Carnivore, Genus Cynarctus, From the Clarendonian, Pliocene, of Texas

By: Ward McAllister (1827-1895)

Book cover Society as I Have Found It

Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McAllister’s book appeared, and when he sauntered into my studio one day, I said: ‘Mr. Clemens, have you read Ward McAllister’s book?’ ‘Yes; have you?’ he replied. ‘Indeed, I have. I have read it through several times, and intend to read it again. It is one of the most humorous books I ever read.’ ‘That’s so,’ said Mark, ‘that’s so...

By: Ward Moore (1903-1978)

Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore Greener Than You Think

Do remember reading a panic-mongering news story a while back about genetically engineered “Frankengrass” “escaping” from the golf course where it had been planted? That news story was foreshadowed decades previously in the form of prophetic fiction wherein a pushy salesman, a cash-strapped scientist, and a clump of crabgrass accidentally merge forces with apocalyptic consequences. A triple-genre combo of science fiction, horror, and satire, Greener Than You Think is a forgotten classic that resonates beautifully with modern times. This is a faithful reading of a 1947 first edition text.

By: Warner Van Lorne

Wanted – 7 Fearless Engineers! by Warner Van Lorne Wanted – 7 Fearless Engineers!

A great civilization’s fate lay in Dick Barrow’s hands as he led his courageous fellow engineers into a strange and unknown land. None of them knew what lay ahead–what dangers awaited them–or what rewards. But they did not hesitate because the first question asked them had been: “Are you a brave man?”

By: Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson (1867-1937)

Book cover The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology

By: Washington Irving (1783-1859)

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book famous - other tales include "Roscoe", "The Broken Heart", "The Art of Book-making", "A Royal Poet", "The Spectre Bridegroom", "Westminster Abbey", "Little Britain", and "John Bull". His stories were highly influenced by German folktales, with "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" being inspired by a folktale recorded by Karl Musaus. Stories range from the maudlin (such as "The Wife" and...

By: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company

Book cover Silent Sentinels: Protective Relays for A-C and D-C Systems

Possibly the first book concerning the protective relays and schemes used in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power. While the technology has changed over the last century, incredibly much of the fundamental theory remains the same. - Summary by Rick Jay

By: Will Mohler

Book cover In the Control Tower

By: Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben (1858-1919)

Book cover The Land of the Changing Sun

By: William A Alcott (1798-1859)

Book cover Young Woman's Guide to Excellence

Much of this guide for young women is still valuable today. Despite mentions of tight lacing and other out of date matters, it contains many timeless principles. (Bria Snow)

By: William A. Alcott (1798-1859)

Book cover The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health

By: William A. Sinclair (1858-1912)

Book cover Aftermath of Slavery

This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair puts it at the outset of his book, ". . . the chief efforts of Southern leadership have been to curtail the freedom of the colored people, to minimize their liberty and reduce them as nearly as possible to the condition of chattel slaves." - Summary by Jim Locke

By: William Alexander Hammond (1828-1900)

Book cover Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology

By: William Alvin Clemens

Book cover Records of the Fossil Mammal Sinclairella, Family Apatemyidae, From the Chadronian and Orellan

By: William Andrews (1848-1908)

Book cover Bygone Punishments

By: William B. Jackson

Book cover Seventeen Species of Bats Recorded from Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone

By: William Beebe (1877-1962)

Book cover Edge of the Jungle
Book cover The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year

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