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Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amate…
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Gertrude Jekyll
Wood and Garden reads like a walk through the garden with renowned garden designer Gertrude Jekyll as she discusses her plant choices and pl…
The Colored Cadet at West Point
Read by James K. White
Henry Ossian Flipper
Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end…
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
Read by James K. White
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim …
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
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Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, a classic text in modern philosophy and jurisprudence, first publ…
La Comédie Humaine: 06 - Scènes de la vie de province tome 2 (25-6-42)
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Honoré de Balzac
Ce n'était pas une petite tâche que de peindre les deux ou trois mille figures saillantes d'une époque, car telle est, e…
The Art of the Moving Picture
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Vachel Lindsay
"This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pi…
The Psychology of Peoples: Its Influence on Their Evolution
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Gustave Le Bon
"It is barely a century and a half ago that certain philosophers, who, it should be remarked, were very ignorant of the primitive histo…
J.S. Bach, Volume 1
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Albert Schweitzer
An analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach's life and musical compositions, and of the artistic, philosophical, and religious world in which he ac…
Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday was a busy man. He rose to be a major general during the American Civil War, started the first cable car company in San Fran…
Vom glückseligen Leben
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Veröffentlicht 1867. Eine stoische Anleitung zum Leben. Knapp und gut geschrieben.(Summary by redaer)
American Psychology, 1900-1922
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Various
This is the first of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an academ…
Has a Frog a Soul?
Read by Carl Manchester
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biolog…
The Tiger
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William Blake
LibriVox volunteers bring you twelve different recordings of The Tiger, by William Blake. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of…
Boyhood
Read by Bill Boerst
Leo Tolstoy
Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal …
Sadhana, the Realisation of Life
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, philosopher, visual artist, playwright, composer, and novelist whose work reshaped Bengali literatur…
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688…
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David Hume
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy
Read by Gary Gilberd
George Santayana
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…
Selected Essays
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Voltairine De Cleyre
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.&…
War
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Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a s…
The American Crisis aka "The Crisis"
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Thomas Paine
A 13 pamphlet series by 18th century Enlightenment philosopher/author Thomas Paine, published between 1776 to 1783 during and immediately fo…