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The Elements of Ornithology
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William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Ornithology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This…
The World of Sound
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Sir William Henry Bragg
The World of Sound consists of six lectures delivered before a juvenile audience at the Royal Institution, Christmas 1919. The Royal Institu…
The Elements of Geology
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William Ruschenberger
Elements of Geology is one in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little …
On the Elementary Electrical Charge
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Robert Andrews Millikan
The experiments herewith reported were undertaken with the view of introducing certain improvements into the oil-drop method of determining …
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume I)
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Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers tackle the North West Passage in search of the elusive wandering magnetic North Pole. (Summary by St…
The American Egypt
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Channing Arnold
Arnold and Frost were English archaeologists who traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula and wrote "the first book ever written by Englishmen…
Within the Deep
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R. Cadwallader Smith
Presented in the form of lessons, R. Cadwallader Smith vividly portrays life in the ocean. Learn about the common and not so common that swi…
Insect Adventures
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Jean-Henri Fabre
This book is composed of selections from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ Translation of Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques,” retold for childre…
A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Thei…
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William James Mcglothlin
This book, a reprint of a successful English publication, has been so enlarged as to be to all intents and purposes new. It has been careful…
The ABC of Relativity
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Bertrand Russell
The ABC of Relativity clearly and engagingly explains Einstein's Theory of Relativity to the layperson. It is considered to be a significant…
Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers a…
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Hans Gross
Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …
How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers
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Robert Williams Wood
How do you tell apart a parrot from a carrot? A plover from a clover? A bay from a jay? Although there are several ways of differentiating, …
The Woodpeckers
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Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
The Woodpeckers is a wonderful introduction to the world of bird study for the young naturalist, covering such topics as how he finds food, …
Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies
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David Todd
The progress of astronomy from age to age has been far from uniform—rather by leaps and bounds: from the earliest epoch when man's planet ea…
Apis Mellifica
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C. W. Wolf
Wolf's essay considers the homeopathic medicine Apis Mellifica, or the poison of the honey bee, as a therapeutic agent based on his experien…
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 8: Mathematics
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Francis Rolt-Wheeler
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The eighth volume is on Pure Mathematics written by L. Leland Locke and on Math…
The Bee People
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Margaret Warner Morley
"The Honey-bees are buzzy-fuzzy little pepper pots" Thus this wonderful nature writer begins to tell us about bees, their habits, …
The Hurricane Hunters
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Ivan Ray Tannehill
This 1955 book by an acknowledged authority is an absorbing account of meteorology before the advent of weather satellites. “This is the li…