title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
The Pleasures of Ignorance | Lynd, Robert, 1879-1949 | en | | The pleasures of ignorance -- The herring fleet -- The betting man -- The hum of insects -- Cats -- May -- New Year prophecies -- On knowing the difference -- The intellectual side of horse-racing -- Why we hate insects -- Virtue -- June -- On feeling gay -- In the train -- The most curious animal -- The old indifference -- Eggs: an Easter homily -- Enter the spring -- The daredevil barber -- Weeds: an appreciation -- A juror in waiting -- The three-halfpenny bit -- The morals of beans -- On seeing a joke -- Going to the derby -- This blasted world. | | | 2004-09-12 |
Creatures of the Night
A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain | Rees, Alfred Wellesley, 1872-1917 | en | | The otter: I. The holt among the alders. II. The pool beneath the farmstead. III. The gorge of Alltycafn.
The water-vole: I. Our village hounds. II. The burrow in the river bank. III. Wild hunting. IV. Saved by an enemy. V. The courage of fear.
The field-vole: I. Hidden pathways in the grass. II. The valley of Olwen. III. A barren hillside.
The fox: I. The last hunt. II. A new home. III. The cub and the polecat. IV. A cry of the night.
The brown hare: I. The upland cornfield. II. March madness. III. The chase.
The badger: I. A woodland solitude. II. Home discipline. III. Fear of the trap. IV. The winter "oven." V. Hillside trails.
The hedgehog: I. A vagabond hunter. II. An experience in snake-killing.
Night in the woods: I. Haunts of the badger and the fox. II. The Crag of Vortigern. | | Animal behavior; Animals -- Anecdotes | 2009-07-08 |
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science | | en | | Hypnotism : Its history, practice and theory / Bramwell -- Natural history / Buffon -- Vestiges of creation / Chambers -- Surface of the globe / Cuvier -- Origin of species / Darwin -- Elements of chemical philosophy / Davy -- Experimental researches in electricity / Faraday -- Chemical history of a candle / Faraday -- Senses of insects / Forel -- Dialogues on the system of the world / Galileo -- Essays in eugenics / Galton -- Evolution of man / Haeckel -- On the motion of the heart and blood / Harvey -- Outlines of astronomy / Herschel -- Cosmos, a sketch of the universe / Humboldt -- Theory of the Earth / Hutton -- Zoological philosophy / Lamarck -- Physiogonomical fragments / Lavater -- Animal chemistry / Liebig -- Principles of geology / Lyell -- Treatise on electricity and magnetism / Maxwell -- Nature of man / Metchnikoff -- Prolongation of life / Metchnikoff -- Old red sandstone / Miller -- Principia / Newton -- Anatomy of vertebrates / Owen -- Cellular pathology / Virchow. | | | 2008-05-17 |