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Home Geography for Primary Grades
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C. C. Long
Lessons and exercises for young children, exploring map and compass, mountains and rivers, trees and flowers, wind and rain, and more. (Summ…
The Strangest Things in the World: A Book About Extraordinary Manifestations of…
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Thomas R. Henry
"THE STRANGEST THINGS IN THE WORLD - A Book About Extraordinary Manifestations of Nature" This title sums up the wonderful line up…
Insect Stories
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Vernon Kellogg
These 13 essays explore the fascinating world of insects all around us. Vernon Kellogg, an eminent entomologist and natural story teller, an…
Light Science for Leisure Hours
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Richard A. Proctor
In preparing these Essays, my chief object has been to present scientific truths in a light and readable form—clearly and simply, but with a…
The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship
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Margaret Burnham
Teenagers Peggy Prescott and her brother Roy share a love of aviation that they inherited from their late father. Mr. Prescott had always dr…
Pierre Curie
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Marie Curie
This biography of the noted French physicist Pierre Curie was written by his wife, the renowned physicist Marie Curie. In it, she not only c…
Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contribu…
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Various
Part of the scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National Museum series: United States National Museum Bulletin.In the…
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 4
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Pliny the Elder and John S. White
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 …
Lasers
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Hal Hellman
Among great technologic developments of the twentieth century has to be that of laser light with its myriad of applications in industry, com…
The Peaceful Atom
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Bernice Kohn Hunt
In this children's science book from the early 1960s, the concept of atoms and the science behind them is introduced. The book recounts the …
The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century
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Edward Wright Byrn
The 1800s saw a meteoric rise in modern technology in many areas. The century set the stage for modern life with developments such as the el…
Medieval Contributions to Modern Civilisation
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Various
The mediaeval contributions to modern civilisation, which are the theme of this book, are twofold.There is the contribution of the idealised…
The Romance of Modern Photography
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Charles R. Gibson
It is not the author's purpose in the present volume to give any instruction in the practice of photography. There are many works dealing w…
The Birds of the Air
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John Frost
In this book, aimed at children, the author provides a brief profile of 35 different bird species. Strangely for a book titled The Birds of …
Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891
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Various
The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, having launched its first publication in 1…
Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pix…
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Henry Christopher Mccook
The Brownies of the Mansion at Hillside are under siege from Pixie forces. The Pixies, whose treacherous weavings mimic those of our own use…
The Children's Book of Birds
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Olive Thorne Miller
The Children's Book of Birds combines under a single cover the First and Second Books of Birds, originally published in 1899 and 1901 respec…
Lecture on Artificial Flight
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William G. Krueger
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 Science of Sin and Salvation (Part 9) - "The Plan of Salvation Part 2: Chri…
The Science of Sin and Salvation (Part 9) - " The Plan of Salvation Part 2: Christ's Death " Ideas from Robert Melashenko regardin…
The Science of Sin and Salvation (Part 7) - "The Ten Commandments"
Ideas from Robert Melashenko regarding how scientific observations might reflect how sin destroys and how God restores. Part 7 discusses the…