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By: R. C. FitzPatrick | |
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The Circuit Riders |
By: R. Cadwallader Smith | |
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Within the Deep
Presented in the form of lessons, R. Cadwallader Smith vividly portrays life in the ocean. Learn about the common and not so common that swim about in the deep, how they hunt for food and hide from enemies, visit a nursery and find out about the babies that live there, or take a stroll in an underwater garden. |
By: R. D. (Reuben Dimond) Mussey (1780-1866) | |
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An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health | |
By: R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth (1858-1934) | |
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Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police |
By: R. M. (Ronald Macmillan) Algie (1888-1978) | |
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Report of the Juvenile Delinquency Committee |
By: R. R. Merliss | |
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The Stutterer |
By: Rai Bahadur A. Mitra | |
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Bubonic Plague
Dr. Rai Bahadur A. Mitra who was the Chief Medical Officer in Kashmir presents a short treatise on the bubonic plague. The book ranges from a short history of the bubonic plague, including an account of the great 1665 plague in London, through description of the disease, treatment and prevention. - Summary by Larry Wilson |
By: Ralph Delahaye Paine (1871-1925) | |
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The Old Merchant Marine; A chronicle of American ships and sailors |
By: Ralph Sholto | |
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The Clean and Wholesome Land |
By: Ralph Williams (-1959) | |
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Cat and Mouse |
By: Randall Garrett (1927-1987) | |
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The Highest Treason
Set in a future in which humanity’s dream of total equality is fully realized and poverty in terms of material wealth has been eliminated, humanity has straight-jacketed itself into the only social system which could make this possible. Class differentiation is entirely horizontal rather than vertical and no matter what one’s chosen field, all advancement is based solely on seniority rather than ability. What is an intelligent and ambitious man to do when enslaved by a culture that forbids him from utilizing his God-given talents? If he’s a military officer in time of war, he might just decide to switch sides... | |
A Spaceship Named McGuire
Can a spaceship go crazy? Well, yes it can if it has a brain. And the new MG (magnetogravitic drive) experimental robot space ship does indeed have a 'brain'. Completely bewildered as to why the first six models of their supposedly perfect new ship model, the MG-YR, nicknamed the McGuire, have gone totally bonkers after activation and before they could ever be used, the company has called in the services of Daniel Oak. They suspect sabotage of course. Daniel Oak is the hard boiled private investigator with nerves of steel and a mind of the same substance... | |
The Destroyers | |
The Impossibles | |
Unwise Child
When a super-robot named Snookums discovers how to build his own superbombs, it becomes obvious that Earth is by no means the safest place for him to be. And so Dr. Fitzhugh, his designer, and Leda Crannon, a child psychologist acting as Snookums’ nursemaid, agree to set up Operation Brainchild, a plan to transport the robot to a far distant planet. But the space ship becomes the scene of some frightening events--the medical officer is murdered, and Snookums appears to be the culprit… | |
...After a Few Words... | |
Psichopath | |
Belly Laugh | |
Fifty Per Cent Prophet | |
That Sweet Little Old Lady
Randall Garrett had this story first published in Astounding Science Fiction September and October of 1959. His twisted sense of humor and gift for the bizarre situation with believable characters shines here. In the not too distant future, Ken Malone, young but promising FBI agent , is given the most important and difficult assignment of his career: find a spy who is stealing information from the Ultra Top Absolute Secret project to develop a non-rocket space ship at Yucca Flats Labs in Nevada. But this is not a normal spy, this spy laughs at the FBI and all attempts to find him or her because they use an unknown new method to steal the information directly from the minds of the scientists. | |
The Bramble Bush | |
Cum Grano Salis | |
Hail to the Chief | |
Occasion for Disaster | |
...Or Your Money Back | |
What The Left Hand Was Doing | |
By Proxy | |
Suite Mentale | |
The Measure of a Man | |
Dead Giveaway | |
Hanging by a Thread | |
In Case of Fire | |
The Unnecessary Man | |
Heist Job on Thizar | |
The Asses of Balaam | |
Anything You Can Do!
An alien crash lands on Earth, and for ten years terrorizes the planet, hiding, periodically killing and eating people and stealing materials for some unknown purpose. The only hope is Bart Stanton, a medically-engineered superman, designed for the sole purpose of confronting the “Nipe”. | |
Out Like a Light | |
The Foreign Hand Tie | |
A World by the Tale | |
Viewpoint |
By: Ray C. Noll | |
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A Fine Fix |
By: Ray Cummings (1887-1957) | |
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Brigands of the Moon
Gregg Haljan was aware that there was a certain danger in having the giant spaceship Planetara stop off at the moon to pick up Grantline’s special cargo of moon ore. For that rare metal — invaluable in keeping Earth’s technology running — was the target of many greedy eyes. But nevertheless he hadn’t figured on the special twist the clever Martian brigands would use. So when he found both the ship and himself suddenly in their hands, he knew that there was only one way in which he could hope to save that cargo and his own secret — that would be by turning space-pirate himself and paying the Brigands of the Moon back in their own interplanetary coin. (From the Gutenberg e-text) | |
The Girl in the Golden Atom
While examining a golden ring under a microscope, a chemist discovers a sub-atomic world. During his examination of this world he sees a beautiful young girl. After developing chemicals that will allow him to either shrink or grow larger in size, he and three friends journey to this small world. | |
The World Beyond
Lee Anthony finds himself and two of his friends kidnapped and taken on a strange voyage. | |
Fire People
In effect Professor Newland declared that the curious astronomical phenomena of the previous November--the new "stars" observed, the two meteors that had fallen with their red and green light-fire--were all evidence of the existence of intelligent life on the planet Mercury. (An excerpt from chapter 1. ) | |
Wandl the Invader
There were nine major planets in the Solar System and it was within their boundaries that man first set up interplanetary commerce and began trading with the ancient Martian civilization. And then they discovered a tenth planet--a maverick! This tenth world, if it had an orbit, had a strange one, for it was heading inwards from interstellar space, heading close to the Earth-Mars spaceways, upsetting astronautic calculations and raising turmoil on the two inhabited worlds. But even so none suspected then just how much trouble this new world would make... | |
The White Invaders | |
Tarrano the Conqueror
In "Tarrano the Conqueror" is presented a tale of the year 2430 A.D.--a time somewhat farther beyond our present-day era than we are beyond Columbus' discovery of America. My desire has been to create for you the impression that you have suddenly been plunged forward into that time--to give you the feeling Columbus might have had could he have read a novel of our present-day life. To this end I have conceived myself a writer of that future time, addressing his contemporary public. You are to imagine... |
By: Ray Vaughn Pierce | |
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The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser In Plain English, Or, Medicine Simplified. By R.V. Pierce, M.D. INTRODUCTORY WORDS. Health and disease are physical conditions upon which pleasure and pain, success and failure, depend. Every individual gain increases public gain. Upon the health of its people is based the prosperity of a nation; by it every value is increased, every joy enhanced. Life is incomplete without the enjoyment of healthy organs and faculties, for these give rise to the delightful sensations of existence... |
By: Raymond F. Jones (1915-1994) | |
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The Colonists | |
The Memory of Mars | |
The Great Gray Plague | |
Human Error | |
The Unlearned |
By: Raymond Z. Gallun (1911-1994) | |
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The Planet Strappers
The Planet Strappers started out as The Bunch, a group of student-astronauts in the back room of a store in Jarviston, Minnesota. They wanted off Earth, and they begged, borrowed and built what they needed to make it. They got what they wanted--a start on the road to the stars--but no one brought up on Earth could have imagined what was waiting for them Out There! | |
The Eternal Wall |
By: Reginald Crundall Punnett (1875-) | |
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Mendelism Third Edition |
By: Renato Baserga | |
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Radioisotopes and Life Processes
This is a book in the "Understanding the Atom Series".from the Division of Technical Information, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. The authors explore general cell theory, radioisotopes as "biologic detectives," the basics of DNA and RNA in cell structure, protein synthesis and the role of radioisotopes in research. - Summary by Larry Wilson |
By: René Descartes (1596-1650) | |
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Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences
The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method which gives a solid platform from which all modern natural sciences could evolve. With this work, the idea of skepticism was revived from the ancients such as Sextus Empiricus and modified to account for a truth that Descartes found to be incontrovertible. Descartes started his line of reasoning by doubting everything, so as to assess the world from a fresh perspective, clear of any preconceived notions. | |
A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences |
By: Rennie Wilbur Doane (1871-) | |
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Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases |
By: Richard A. Proctor (1837-1888) | |
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Chance and Luck | |
Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. | |
Half-Hours with the Stars A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations | |
Myths and Marvels of Astronomy | |
Light Science for Leisure Hours
In preparing these Essays, my chief object has been to present scientific truths in a light and readable form—clearly and simply, but with an exact adherence to the facts as I see them. I have followed—here and always—the rule of trying to explain my meaning precisely as I should wish others to explain, to myself, matters with which I was unfamiliar. Hence I have avoided that excessive simplicity which some seem to consider absolutely essential in scientific essays intended for general perusal, but which is often even more perplexing than a too technical style... |
By: Richard Alfred Davenport (1777-1852) | |
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Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity
This book contains many brief tales from history of commoners pretending to be kings and kings pretending to be commoners. Learn the fate of a Dutch merchant who wanted a kiss from the disguised Peter the Great's wife. Learn how a farmer's daughter born in 1750 in England gained attention and fame in many lands, and why her death was disbelieved. Learn about early vampires and ghosts. Find out the answers to these and other stories within this book. |
By: Richard C. Fox | |
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The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles | |
Two New Pelycosaurs from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma |
By: Richard E. Lowe | |
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When I Grow Up |
By: Richard F. Thieme | |
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Pleasant Journey |
By: Richard Jefferies (1848-1887) | |
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After London, or Wild England
First published in 1885, After London, or Wild England is considered to be one of the earliest instances of post-apocalyptic fiction, describing the effects of an unspecified catastrophe that dramatically changes the face of England and its population. Divided into two parts, the first depicts the fall of civilization, as society reverts to its more primitive roots, while the second part is set years after the apocalyptic event and examines the evident changes in both natural scenery and social structure... | |
The Open Air | |
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies | |
The Toilers of the Field | |
Nature Near London |
By: Richard Mead (1673-1754) | |
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Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used to Prevent It
This is a work written about the plague in France and how to prevent its spread. It is considered an important historical work for the understanding of transmittable diseases. - Summary by afutterer |
By: Richard O. Lewis | |
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A Bottle of Old Wine |
By: Richard Olin | |
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All Day Wednesday |
By: Richard R. Smith | |
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No Hiding Place | |
Compatible |
By: Richard Sabia | |
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I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon
Poor Dolliver Wims is a terribly misunderstood teen age boy from the backwoods. Is he mean or evil? Quite the opposite: He does nothing wrong, hurts no one and wants only to be liked and to help, yet he seems to be blamed for every accident that ever happens to anyone in the University research facility where he 'works' as a porter. Why does disaster seem to swirl around him like a tornado whips around it's eye. He never is hurt in the slightest way while others slash themselves with previously innocent knives, are smashed by falling bookcases that had no cause to fall, and are shot by guns that are safely tucked away... | |
The Premiere |
By: Richard W. Church (1815-1890) | |
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Bacon
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days ang progresses to his relationships with Queen Elizabeth and James I. It includes accounts of his positions as solicitor general, attorney-general, and chancellor. The book concludes with Bacon's failure, his overall philosophy, and summaries of his writings. |
By: Richard Wilson (1920-1987) | |
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Double Take |
By: Rick Raphael (1919-1994) | |
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Code Three | |
A Filbert Is a Nut | |
The Thirst Quenchers | |
Sonny |
By: Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) | |
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The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the Fram, 1910-12
In contrast to Scott’s South Pole expedition, Amundsen’s expedition benefited from good equipment, appropriate clothing, and a fundamentally different primary task (Amundsen did no surveying on his route south and is known to have taken only two photographs) Amundsen had a better understanding of dogs and their handling, and he used of skis more effectively. He pioneered an entirely new route to the Pole and they returned. In Amundsen’s own words: “Victory awaits him who has everything in order — luck, people call it... |
By: Robert J. Braidwood (1907-2003) | |
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Prehistoric Men
This little book, first published in 1948, is part of the Chicago Natural History Popular History series that explains difficult subjects in ways and terms we all can understand. It was published at a time in Anthropology when exciting things like carbon dating were first being used and refined. "Prehistory means the time before written history began. Actually, more than 99 per cent of man’s story is prehistory. Man is at least half a million years old, but he did not begin to write history until about 5,000 years ago... |
By: Robert Armitage Sterndale | |
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Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAMMALIA OF INDIA AND CEYLON.By Robert A. Sterndale, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., &C., PREFACE. This work is designed to meet an existing want, viz.: a popular manual of Indian Mammalia. At present the only work of the kind is one which treats exclusively of the Peninsula of India, and which consequently omits the more interesting types found in Assam, Burmah, and Ceylon, as well as the countries bordering the British Indian Empire on the North. The geographical limits of the present work have been extended to all territories likely to be reached by the sportsman from India, thus greatly enlarging the field of its usefulness... |
By: Robert Arthur (1909-1969) | |
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The Aggravation of Elmer | |
The Indulgence of Negu Mah |
By: Robert Baden-Powell (1857-1941) | |
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Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns |
By: Robert Bloch | |
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This Crowded Earth
Robert Bloch was a prolific writer in many genres. As a young man he was encouraged by his mentor H. P. Lovecraft, and was a close friend of Stanley G. Weinbaum. Besides hundreds of short stories and novels he wrote a number of television and film scripts including several for the original Star Trek. In 1959 Bloch wrote the novel Psycho which Alfred Hitchcock adapted to film a year later. He received the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and he is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America. Published in Amazing Stories in 1958, This Crowded Earth is a thriller set on an overpopulated Earth of the future. |
By: Robert Boyle (1627-1691) | |
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The Sceptical Chymistor Chymico-Physical Doubts |
By: Robert Carmichael-Smyth | |
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A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker' |
By: Robert Charles Hope (1855-1926) | |
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The Leper in England: with some account of English lazar-houses |