Education
Spontaneous Activity in Education
Maria Montessori saw that children gained a sense of satisfaction through doing work of their own choosing, and that the role of the adult w…
A Guide to the Study of the Christian Religion
A Guide to the Study of the Christian Religion serves as a foundational resource for first-year divinity students, offering a comprehensive …
The Secrets of the Italian Language
Have YOU ever wanted to listen to real Italian, read it and understand it? How can YOU understand Italian even if YOU are an absolute beginn…
The Mother and the Child
In this insightful lecture from 1915, renowned educational reformer Maria Montessori explores the profound relationship between mothers and …
Stops, or How to Punctuate
Throughout the ages, languages continue to adapt and change. English, being a relatively new language, is a nice example of that. Though the…
History of England
A simple history of England written principally with words of one syllable. Books of these kind, I understand, are helpful for both beginnin…
How to Speak and Write Correctly
This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…
Clinical Medicine For Nurses
The basics of clinical medicine for nurses in WWI-era America from a series of lectures by the author, an Asheville, NC physician. - Summary…
The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent
In different ways the four essays set forth one theme—the moral use to which intelligence might be put, in rendering our admirations and our…
Enquire Within Upon Everything
Enquire Within Upon Everything was a book of how to do things in domestic life It was first published in 1856 by Houlston and Sons of Patern…
The Prospective Mother
A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy. This book, written for women who have no special knowledge of medicine, aims to answer the questions …
Music Notation and Terminology
Until relatively recently, music students at all levels of study—from the conservatories to public schools—had few resources available for t…
Genetic Studies of Genius
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…
On the Future of our Educational Institutions
Nietzsche gives a series of lectures in Bale, Germany on the subject of German educational institutions, and what the best way forward. Sum…
Persian Self-Taught
“This volume is primarily intended to supply a working and practical knowledge of the Persian language, for the benefit of those who have no…
The Citizen's Almanac
This is a recording of a booklet given to new naturalized American citizens, it contains an explanation of fundamental documents, symbols an…
On the Future of Our Educational Institutions
These are lectures on the education system of Nietzsche's day. He states that "This book is intended for calm readers, for those who ha…
The World of Sound
The World of Sound consists of six lectures delivered before a juvenile audience at the Royal Institution, Christmas 1919. The Royal Institu…
Institutio Oratoria
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was of Spanish origin, being born about 35 A.D. at Calagurris. At Rome he met with great success as a teacher and…
A Dictionary of English Synonymes
A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions, Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseolog…