Science
A Theory of Monads: Outlines of the Philosophy of the Principle of Relativity
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Herbert Wildon Carr
Since the publication of this book, a little more than a year ago, the interest in Einstein and the principle of relativity has very greatly…
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 3
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Pliny the Elder
The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …
Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development
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Sir Francis Galton
Francis Galton, credited with the discovery of identification by fingerprinting, also took a long term interest in the study of biometrics. …
Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, and Others
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Jeannette Augustus Marks and Julia Moody
These short stories about crickets, ants, bees, beetles and other little busybodies are intended by the two authors to show their children t…
Stories of the Cave People
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Mary Marcy
"In this little book I have sought, in a series of stories or sketches, to present only the first steps in human progress. Man has rise…
Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island
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President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Is and President'S Commission On The Accident At Three Mile Is
At 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, a serious accident occurred at the Three Mile Island 2 nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. Th…
Dead Men Tell Tales
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Harry Rimmer
"Dead men tell no tales" was a common adage before the days of forensic science. In this book, the well-known evangelist and scien…
Philosophy
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell was a well known mathematician, philosopher, and author. First published in England under the title "An Outline of Ph…
The Outline of Science, Vol 4
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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…
Sea Stories for Wonder Eyes
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Mary Earle Hardy
Water is fascinating! Which child is not delighted by the sea shore, by rivers, even by puddles in the street? This little book explains to …
Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects
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Hermann Von Helmholtz
This presents a summary of many of Hemholtz's areas of research. He investigated the workings of the brain in its appreciation of art and mu…
Little Masterpieces of Science - Mind
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George Iles
Another in the series "Little Masterpieces of Science" edited by George Iles, Mind is a collection of articles and book chapters t…
Little Masterpieces of Science - Invention and Discovery
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George Iles
A collection of essays on various inventions and scientific discoveries, this volume of Little Masterpieces of Science from 1902 includes to…
What is Darwinism?
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Charles Hodge
This is a question which needs an answer. Great confusion and diversity of opinion prevail as to the real views of the man whose writings ha…
Icarus; or, The Future of Science
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Bertrand Russell
In this short book, Russell speculates on the effect of the progress of science in the future in a vast array of subjects, ranging from phys…
Water Wonders Every Child Should Know
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Jean M. Thompson
Water: essential for life and in much of the world, we take it for granted. In this work, Jean Thompson explains various aspects of the wate…
Microbe Hunters
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Paul De Kruif
Microbe Hunters provides dramatized accounts of eleven early pioneers of microbiology and their important discoveries. Beginning in 1650 wit…
Science and the Modern World
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Alfred North Whitehead
It is fortunate that in the twentieth century, science and philosophy are beginning to be united in the same person as they were in the seve…
Wilderness Babies
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Julia Augusta Schwartz
This book tells the stories of some of the baby mammals of the wilderness,—how they grow and learn day by day to take care of themselves. In…
Trees, Shown to the Children
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C. E. Smith
A charming and informative volume about the trees one might find in one's backyard and farther environs. A touch of science and a love of be…