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Campaigns of the Civil War
Published in 1926, "Campaigns of the Civil War" by Walter Geer is a classic military history that provides a comprehensive tactica…
Napoleon and Marie-Louise
FOREWORD: In a former volume, the legend of Joséphine was considered, and an attempt was made to substitute for it the truth of Histo…
Why Are So Few Men in the Churches?
The strength of the book is in its facts and suggestions considered in a matter of fact and suggestive way. It offers criticism in the spiri…
What America Owes to Women
As American women have been imperfectly represented in the world, it is our aim in this volume to give a pen protrait of the American Woman …
Short Nonfiction Collection
"Editors of some of the most sensational newspapers say they make a newspaper to suit the public... it must startle with incident and s…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol XII, February 1901.It includes the following articles:An Around-The-World Amer…
Short Nonfiction Collection
"Of all effects of weather, snow makes the greatest change in animal economy in the countryside, and weeks often pass before the old or…
Short Nonfiction Collection
"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
Short Nonfiction Collection
"When money gives out, sense ensues." This pithy saying is from Yugoslav Proverbs, one of the twenty reader-chosen selections in v…
The Thames to the Solent
An attempt to sail a small boat from the River Thames to the Solent in the English Channel, using a canal and river route. (Summary by Garth…
Lecture on Artificial Flight
Lecture on artificial flight given on request of the Academy of Natural Sciences on August 7, 1876 in San Francisco, California by William G…
The Return of the Exiles
A lecture delivered at the Breadfruit school house, Lagos, West Africa, January 2, 1891E.W. Blyden (1832 to 1912) was born in the Caribbean …
Present Day Gardening
A meticulously written treatise on the structure, care and cultivation of orchids. This book benefits both the orchid obsessed and the amate…
An Evenings OTR Entertainment
Enjoy a collection of eight old-time radio programs that originally aired in June of their respective years. Each program offers a unique gl…
Plum Pudding
Christopher Morley: A modern humorist with the tang of an Elizabethan. Plum Pudding: Thus Mr. Morley entitles his new volume, in which he ha…
Short Nonfiction Collection
"Grandmother and Stockhausen are of the opinion that Wagner will one day totally disappear. His music, they argue, is too unhealthy.&qu…
Short Nonfiction Collection
"Instead of letting ourselves, at the thought of mealtime, fall into a state of chronic mental flutter that incapacitates us for any se…
Short Nonfiction Collection
"It is a foolish thing to speak on every kind of work, for he that disputeth thy words shall put them unto proof." Proverbs of Fai…
The Penobscot Man
The Penobscot Man is a collection of true stories about the river drivers, guides, and woodsmen of Maine’s Penobscot River. Fannie Hardy Eck…
Short Nonfiction Collection
In May 1919, three U.S. Navy sea-planes made the first successful trans-Atlantic crossing to Europe. Lieutenant Walter Hinton was a pilot. H…