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By: W. Stanley | |
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Instruction for Using a Slide Rule |
By: W. Watson | |
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Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation |
By: W.G. Aitchison Robertson (d. 1946) | |
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Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
A 1922 source-book for British criminal pathologists, this will be of particular interest to fans of popular police forensics television shows, films, and murder mysteries. | |
By: Wallace West (1900-1980) | |
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The End of Time |
By: Walter A. Wyckoff (1865-1908) | |
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Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The East
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 covers the Eastern part of the United States. - Summary by Phyllis Vincelli The second volume The Workers - An Experiment in Reality - the West covers the Western part of the United States. | |
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) | |
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Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society |
By: Walter J. Sheldon (1917-) | |
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Houlihan's Equation | |
Two Plus Two Makes Crazy | |
This is Klon Calling |
By: Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle (1871-1921) | |
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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine |
By: Walter Libby (1867-1955?) | |
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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) | |
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Death of a Spaceman | |
The Hoofer |
By: Walter P. (Walter Penn) Taylor (1888-1972) | |
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Life History of the Kangaroo Rat |
By: Walter S. Tevis (1928-1984) | |
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The Big Bounce |
By: Walter Stitt Robinson | |
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Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699 |
By: Walter W. Bryant (1865-1923) | |
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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. |
By: Walter Woelber Dalquest (1917-2000) | |
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A New Doglike Carnivore, Genus Cynarctus, From the Clarendonian, Pliocene, of Texas |
By: Ward McAllister (1827-1895) | |
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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) | |
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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 | |
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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) | |
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The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology |
By: Washington Irving (1783-1859) | |
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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: Wesley Barefoot | |
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The Cuckoo Clock |
By: Will Mohler | |
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In the Control Tower |
By: Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben (1858-1919) | |
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The Land of the Changing Sun |
By: William A Alcott (1798-1859) | |
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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) | |
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The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health |
By: William Alexander Hammond (1828-1900) | |
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Fasting Girls Their Physiology and Pathology |
By: William Alvin Clemens | |
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Records of the Fossil Mammal Sinclairella, Family Apatemyidae, From the Chadronian and Orellan |
By: William Andrews (1848-1908) | |
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Bygone Punishments |
By: William B. Jackson | |
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Seventeen Species of Bats Recorded from Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone |
By: William Beebe (1877-1962) | |
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Edge of the Jungle | |
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year |
By: William Booth (1829-1912) | |
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In Darkest England and the Way Out |
By: William Carpenter (1830-1896) | |
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One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe
A bit of pseudo-science that will baffle, confuse, and amaze! Until the Space Age, there was little every-day, self-evident proof that the earth was a globe, and plenty of people believed in a flat Earth. Here are 100 short arguments for a flat Earth. Some of them can be proven wrong fairly easily; others confound; and others are stated so confusingly that they MUST be true! - Summary by TriciaG “‘One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is Not a Globe,’ by William Carpenter, is published by the... |
By: William Carroll | |
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Solomon's Orbit |
By: William Clark Russell (1844-1911) | |
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The Frozen Pirate
Sailing adventure with storms, icebergs, shipwrecks, treasure, and the reawakening of a pirate frozen in suspended animation for nearly fifty years |
By: William Colby Rucker (1875-) | |
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Measles |
By: William Davenport Hulbert (1868-1913) | |
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Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals |
By: William Dean Howells (1837-1920) | |
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Boy Life Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells |
By: William Denton (1823-1883) | |
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The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science A Discourse |
By: William Douglas Morrison (1853-1943) | |
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Crime and Its Causes |
By: William Drake Westervelt (1849-1939) | |
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Legends of Old Honolulu
Hawai'i: land of wonder and beauty and a culture rich in history and mythology. Dr. Westervelt settled in Hawai'i as a young man and collected stories and myths from his adopted home. Here we have a collection dedicated to the largest city, Honolulu. - Summary by Lynne Thompson |
By: William E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) | |
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The Negro |
By: William E. Gladstone (1809-1898) | |
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On Books and the Housing of Them |
By: William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838-1903) | |
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Historical and Political Essays |
By: William Edwards Henderson (1870-) | |
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An Elementary Study of Chemistry |
By: William F. Nolan (1928-) | |
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Of Time and Texas | |
Small World |
By: William Fergusson (1773-1846) | |
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Letters on the Cholera Morbus |
By: William Gaertner and Company | |
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Astronomical Instruments and Accessories |
By: William George Hooper | |
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Aether and Gravitation |
By: William Guthrie (1835-1908) | |
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Second Shetland Truck System Report |
By: William H. (WIlliam Harvey) Allen (1874-1963) | |
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Civics and Health |
By: William H. Councill (1848-1909) | |
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Negro Laborer: A Word to Him
William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University in Normal, Alabama. This short volume consists of short pieces of advice to the Negro workers of his time with some statistical information at the end. Councill reflects many of the attitudes and opinions of his time. |
By: William Harmon Norton (1856-1944) | |
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The Elements of Geology
Geology is a science of such rapid growth that no apology is expected when from time to time a new text-book is added to those already in the field. The present work, however, is the outcome of the need of a text-book of very simple outline, in which causes and their consequences should be knit together as closely as possible,—a need long felt by the author in his teaching, and perhaps by other teachers also. The author has ventured, therefore, to depart from the common usage which subdivides... |
By: William Henry Giles Kingston (1814-1880) | |
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The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America |
By: William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) | |
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The House on the Borderland
In 1877, two gentlemen, Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten. While there, they discover in the ruins of a very curious house a diary of the man who had once owned it. Its torn pages seem to hint at an evil beyond anything that existed on this side of the curtains of impossibility. This is a classic novel that worked to slowly bridge the gap between the British fantastic and supernatural authors of the later 19th century and modern horror fiction. Classic American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft lists this and other works by Hodgson among his greatest influences. |
By: William Hunter (1718-1783) | |
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On the uncertainty of the signs of murder in the case of bastard children |
By: William J. (William Josephus) Robinson (1867-1936) | |
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Woman Her Sex and Love Life |
By: William J. Beal (1833-1924) | |
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Seed Dispersal |
By: William Joseph Long (1867-1952) | |
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Ways of Wood Folk
Late nineteenth-century naturalist William J. Long invites us in to the secret worlds of the woodland animals. Containing Long's own animal observations along with stories related to him by other humans who inhabit the woods, these stories give us an insight into the behavior of wild animals as they go about their lives in their own secret places deep in the forests of eastern North America. Although Long was accused in his day of anthropomorphizing the animals he wrote about, readers who are familiar with any of the animals he writes of will have glimpses of recognition at behaviors they have seen for themselves and explore the deeper meanings these actions have in that animal's life... | |
Secrets of the Woods
The unique merit of this nature student rests in his fascinating style of writing, which invariably interests young and old; for without this element his pioneer work in the realm of nature would now be familiar only to scientists, introducing people everywhere into the wonderland of nature hitherto entirely closed to all. This is another chapter in the shy, wild life of the fields and woods. Little Toohkees, the wood mouse that dies of fright in the author’s hand; the mother otter, Keeonekh,... |
By: William Larrabee (1832-1912) | |
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The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses |
By: William Le Queux (1864-1927) | |
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The Great White Queen
How to describe this book? In a word – savage. For those regular Le Queux mystery listeners, this book is a step in a different direction by the author. The book starts out like most Le Queux. Our hero, Richard Scarsmere, befriends an individual (Omar) at an English boarding school who turns out to be an African prince from a kingdom called Mo. Omar receives a visit from one of his mother’s trusted advisers. His mother, the Great White Queen, seeks him to return home immediately. Omar convinces Scarsmere to return to Africa with him since there is little opportunity awaiting him in London. What follows is a tale of deceit, treachery, barbarity, and mystery. | |
The Mystery of the Green Ray |
By: William M. Lee | |
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Junior Achievement |
By: William Morgan (1774-1826?) | |
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The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge |
By: William P. Salton | |
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Operation Lorelie |
By: William Radcliff Birt (1804-1881) | |
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The Hurricane Guide Being An Attempt To Connect The Rotary Gale Or Revolving Storm With Atmospheric Waves. |
By: William Rounseville Alger (1822-1905) | |
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The Friendships of Women |
By: William Saunders (1822-1900) | |
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Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture |
By: William T. Hornaday (1854-1937) | |
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Extermination of the American Bison
The American bison (Bison bison), also commonly known as the American buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once roamed the grasslands of North America in massive herds, became nearly extinct by a combination of commercial hunting and slaughter in the 19th century and introduction of bovine diseases from domestic cattle. William T. Hornaday’s advocacy is credited with preserving the American bison from extinction. This book, originally published in 1887, gives Mr. Hornaday's evidence of the Bison's impending extinction. (Adapted from Wikipedia by Ann Boulais) |
By: William Taylor Marrs | |
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Confessions of a Neurasthenic |
By: William Temple Hornaday (1854-1937) | |
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The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations |
By: William Thomas Fernie (1830-) | |
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Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure |
By: William Trufant Foster (1879-1950) | |
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The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals |
By: William Tyler Olcott (1873-1936) | |
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A Field Book of the Stars |
By: William W. Stuart | |
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Inside John Barth |
By: William Withering (1741-1799) | |
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An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases |
By: Willis O. (Willis Orville) Nance (1871-) | |
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Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 |
By: Winfield Hazlitt Collins (1868-1927) | |
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Domestic Slave Trade Of The Southern States
This 1904 history of slavery in the southeastern United States reflects the state of knowledge at that time, of course. The text contains so many extensive quotations that it was unfeasible to indicate them as quotes in reading the text. The author was a professor of history and English at Claremont College, a North Carolina school that closed in 1917. A resource of more current thinking may be had at the well-regarded 1988 Dictionary Of Afro-American Slavery. - Summary by David Wales |
By: Winfield Scott Hall (1861-) | |
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The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male |
By: Winston Churchill (1871-1947) | |
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The Inside of the Cup |
By: Winston K. Marks (1915-1979) | |
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The Deadly Daughters |
By: Winthrop Packard (1862-1943) | |
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Wildwood Ways
American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, takes us on a journey among the wild woods and ponds alerting us to their many inhabitants. He points out the birds, hornets, muskrat and mink and their habitat, particularly during the New England winter, with free-flowing narrative that is both informative and entertaining, sometimes dramatic and sometimes poetic. - Summary by Larry Wilson | |
Wood Wanderings
American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, takes us on a wandering journey into the woods alerting us to the many inhabitants and their habitat. He points out the birds, squirrels, woodchucks, and the variety of trees to be found particularly during the New England autumn, with free flowing narrative that is both informative and entertaining, sometimes dramatic and sometimes poetic - Summary by Larry Wilson |
By: Woods Hutchinson (1862-1930) | |
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Preventable Diseases |