Science
By Pond and River
Read by Laura Caldwell
Arabella B. Buckley
In By Pond and River, another of Arabella Buckley's wonderful science books for children, she explains the habitats of ponds and rivers, exp…
The Outline of Science, Vol 1 (Solo)
Read by Mark F. Smith
J. Arthur Thomson
In The Outline of Science, Thomson gives us a window into scientific thinking as it stood in 1922 on the big, the little, and the biological…
Tom Swift and His Sky Racer
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Victor Appleton
A $10,000 prize lures Tom into competing at a local aviation meet at Eagle Park. Tom is determined to build the fastest plane around, but hi…
Wild Life in Woods and Fields
Read by Laura Caldwell
Arabella B. Buckley
Wild Life in Woods and Fields by Arabella B. Buckley is a collection of stories that will encourage children to become little naturalists an…
The Chemical History of A Candle
Read by Availle
Michael Faraday
The Chemical History of a Candle is a series of 6 lectures on chemistry presented to a juvenile audience in 1848. Taught by Michael Faraday …
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 3
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Charles Darwin
III. SEXUAL SELECTION IN RELATION TO MAN, AND CONCLUSION.Part 3 of 3 of a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, …
Sophistical Elenchi
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Aristotle
The Sophistical Elenchi is the sixth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument").…
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
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W. G. Aitchison Robertson
A 1922 source-book for British criminal pathologists, this will be of particular interest to fans of popular police forensics television sho…
Birds of the Air
Read by Laura Caldwell
Arabella B. Buckley
Arabella Buckley had a great love of nature and wished to impart that love to children. Birds of the Air will encourage children to observe …
The Autobiography of an Electron
Read by Laura Victoria
Charles R. Gibson
"While many scientific men now understand our place in the universe, we electrons are anxious that every person should know the very im…
The Elements of Botany
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William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Botany is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. It is a s…
Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Gaston Maspero
A handbook of Egyptian archaeology, issued by the British Museum, considered suitable for British tourists traveling to Egypt in the 19th Ce…
The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented w…
Farthest North, Volume I
Read by Sharon Riskedahl
Fridtjof Nansen
Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Fram", 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and …
The Outline of Science, Vol 3
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J. Arthur Thomson
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects rang…
Rocks and Their Origins
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Grenville A. J. Cole
Do you know the difference between sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks? Are you interested in their geologic origin, chemical compos…
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Thomas Malthus
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, incr…
Short Science Fiction Collection 037
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Various
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…
Golden mean to 5000 digits
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Jerry Bonnell and Jerry Bonnellandrobert Nemiroff
The golden section is a line segment sectioned into two according to the golden ratio. The total length a+b is to the longer segment a as a …