Essays & Short Works

Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War

by United States Arms Control And Disarmament Agency Read by Allyson Hester 4.5
Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War offers a critical examination of the potential consequences of nuclear conflict on a global scale. This ins…

How to Do Chemical Tricks

by A. T. Anderson Read by Kyle Van DeGlast 4.4
While a bit outdated in many of the more complex descriptions of several of the phenomena described, this book is nonetheless still fun and …

Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

by John Stuart Mill Read by Gary Gilberd 4.8
This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the…

The Gettysburg Address

by Abraham Lincoln Read by John Greenman 4.7
Delivered during a pivotal moment in American history, The Gettysburg Address is President Abraham Lincoln's profound reflection on the prin…

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 2 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Africa, its Past and FutureReports on:Geography of …

Cocoa and Chocolate

by Arthur William Knapp Read by Allyson Hester 4.3
As that heavenly bit of chocolate melts in our mouths, we give little thought as to where it came from, the arduous work that went in to its…

Have We Been Played?

by John Berling Hardy Read by John Berling Hardy 4
THIS BOOK IS MOST LIKELY NOT FOR YOU! It will NOT guarantee success – Life holds no promises! It will NOT guarantee happiness – I…

Lectures on Landscape

by John Ruskin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Lectures on Landscape presents a thought-provoking exploration of landscape painting through the eyes of John Ruskin, a prominent artist and…

Obesity and Diabetes

by Various 4.5
Obesity and diabetes are increasingly a burden in modern populations, and whilst the contributions of our lifestyles are well-known, other a…

The Mason-Bees

by Jean-Henri Fabre Read by Bellona Times 4.1
This is more than a book about bees and their lives; the author talks about his cats, red ants, and insect psychology in general. Jean Hen…

Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot

by Soyen Shaku Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Look! it's the science of sitting, No! it's the science of meditating, No! it's Zen. If you wanted to know anything regarding Zen Buddhism a…

The Morals

by Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Moralia (loosely translatable as "Matters relating to customs") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an e…

Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy

by George Santayana Read by Gary Gilberd 4.7
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…

Principles of Economics

by Alfred Marshall Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

The Complete Book of Cheese

by Bob Brown Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Bob Brown, after living thirty years in as many foreign lands and enjoying countless national cheeses at the source, returned to New York an…

Familiar Letters on Chemistry

by Justus Von Liebig Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
In Familiar Letters on Chemistry, Justus von Liebig, a pioneering German chemist, shares his insights on the vital role of chemistry in soci…

American Psychology

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This is the second of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an acade…

Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling

by William Healy Read by Mary Schneider 3.8
This work describes and analyzes several cases of pathological behavior. The interest comes not only from the cases themselves, but also fro…

Mathematical Problems

by David Hilbert Read by Prachi Pendse 4.3
Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900 and subsequently published in the Bulletin of the Ame…

From Dictatorship to Democracy

by Gene Sharp Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 3.6
From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dict…

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