title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
How it Works
Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use | Williams, Archibald | en | | | | Technology -- Juvenile literature; Science -- Juvenile literature | 2009-04-10 |
Gulliver of Mars | Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden, 1857-1935 | en | Original title: Lieut. Gulliver Jones | | | Mars (Planet) -- Fiction; Science fiction | 1996-07-01 |
At the Earth's Core | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | en | | | | Science fiction; Earth -- Core -- Fiction; Adventure stories | 1996-06-01 |
At the Earth's Core | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | en | Pellucidar | | | Science fiction; Adventure stories; Earth -- Core -- Fiction; Fantasy fiction | 1994-04-01 |
Second Treatise of Government | Locke, John, 1632-1704 | en | | | | Political science -- Early works to 1800; Toleration -- Early works to 1800; Liberty -- Early works to 1800 | 2005-01-01 |
A journey in other worlds
A romance of the future | Astor, John Jacob, 1864-1912 | en | | | | Manned space flight -- Fiction; Space ships -- Fiction; Jupiter (Planet) -- Fiction; Saturn (Planet) -- Fiction; Science fiction; Utopias -- Fiction | 1999-01-01 |
The Unseen World and Other Essays | Fiske, John, 1842-1901 | en | | The unseen world -- "The tomorrow of death" -- The Jesus of history -- The Christ of dogma -- A word about miracles -- Draper on science and religion -- Nathan the Wise -- Historical difficulties -- The famine of 1770 in Bengal -- Spain and the Netherlands -- Longfellow's Dante -- Paine's "St. Peter" -- A philosophy of art -- Athenian and American life | | | 1998-10-01 |
A Princess of Mars | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | en | Barsoom series, volume 1 | | | Mars (Planet) -- Fiction; Science fiction; Princesses -- Fiction; Carter, John (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Dejah Thoris (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | 1993-04-01 |
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects
Everyman's Library | Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 | en | | Education: intellectual, moral, and physical: What knowledge is of most worth? Intellectual education. Moral education. Physical education -- Essays on kindred subjects: Progress: its law and cause. On manners and fashion. On the genesis of science. On the physiology of laughter. On the origin and function of music. | Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 [Commentator] | | 2005-08-11 |
Little Masterpieces of Science:
The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer | | en | | The origin of species in summary / C. Darwin -- How "The origin of species" came to be written / C. Darwin -- The descent of man : the argument in brief / C. Darwin -- Mimicry and other protective resemblances among animals / A. R. Wallace -- Evolution of the horse / T. H. Huxley -- Fighting pests with insects allies / L. O. Howard -- The strange story of the flowers : a chapter in modern botany / G. Iles. | Iles, George, 1852-1942 [Editor] | Natural history; Evolution (Biology) | 2009-08-20 |
Machiavelli, Volume I | Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 | en | The Prince was written in Italian in 1513, and published in 1532 by order of Clement VII.
The Art of War was probably first published in Italian in 1520.
The 1560 English translation here is "The Arte of Warre" by Peter Whitehorne, "Studi | The Art of War
The Prince. | | Political ethics; Political science -- Early works to 1800; War; Florence (Italy) -- History | 2005-05-06 |
Little Masterpieces of Science:
Invention and Discovery | | en | | Franklin, B. Lightning identified with electricity -- Faraday, M. Preparing the way for the electric dynamo and motor -- Henry, J. Invention of the electric telegraph -- Iles, G. The first Atlantic cables -- Bell, A. G. The invention of the telephone -- Dam, H. J. W. Photographing the unseen -- Iles, G. The wireless telegraph -- Iles, G. Electricity, what its mastery means: with a review and a prospect -- Rumford, Count (B. Thompson) Heat and motion identified -- Stephenson, G. The "Rocket" locomotive and its victory. | Iles, George, 1852-1942 [Editor] | | 2009-06-25 |
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature | Various | en | | Selections from the Experiences of the A.C. -- Dobbs His Ferry -- Father Higgins's Preferment -- Fred Trover's Little Iron-Clad -- Mr. Bluff Discourses on the Country and Kindred Themes -- Garden Ethics -- Captain Ben's Choice -- Street Scenes in Washington -- Selections from Transcendental Wild Oats -- Conversational Depravity -- The Tower of London -- Science and Natural History -- From the "Lecture" -- Our Tavern -- A Piece of Red Calico -- Aunt Pen's Funeral -- The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County -- Ben Thirlwall's School-days -- Selections from a Brace of Boys -- A Rivermouth Romance. | | | 2005-04-08 |
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg -- My First Lie, and How I Got out of it -- The Esquimaux Maiden's Romance -- Christian Science and The Book of Mrs. Eddy -- Is He Living or Is He Dead? -- My Debut as a Literary Person -- At The Appetite-cure -- Concerning The Jews -- From The 'London Times' of 1904 -- About Play-acting -- Travelling with a Reformer -- Diplomatic Pay and Clothes -- Luck -- The Captain's Story -- Stirring Times in Austria -- Meisterschaft -- My Boyhood Dreams -- To The above Old People -- In Memoriam - Olivia Susan Clemens. | | Short stories; City and town life -- Fiction; Honesty -- Fiction; Humorous stories, American; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | 2004-09-20 |
The Booklover and His Books | Koopman, Harry Lyman, 1860-1937 | en | | Books and booklovers -- Fitness in book design -- Print as an interpreter of meaning -- Favorite book sizes -- The value of reading -- The book of to-day and the book of to-morrow -- A constructive critic of the book -- Books as a librarian would like them -- The book beautiful -- The reader's high privilege -- The background of the book -- The Chinese book -- Thick paper and thin -- The clothing of a book -- Parchment bindings -- Lest we forget the few great books -- Printing problems for science to solve -- Types and eyes: the problem -- Types and eyes: progress -- Exceptions to the rule of legibility -- The student and the library -- Orthographic reform -- The perversities of type -- A secret of personal power. | | | 2007-09-15 |
Heretics | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 | en | | Introductory remarks on the importance of orthodoxy -- On the negative spirit -- On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and making the world small -- Mr. Bernard Shaw -- Mr. H.G. Wells and the giants -- Christmas and the aesthetes -- Omar and the sacred vine -- The mildness of the yellow press -- The moods of Mr. George Moore -- On sandals and simplicity -- Science and the savages -- Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson -- Celts and celtophiles -- On certain modern writers and the institution of the family -- On smart novelists and the smart set -- On Mr. McCabe and a divine frivolity -- On the wit of Whistler -- The fallacy of the young nation -- Slum novelists and the slums -- Concluding remarks on the importance of orthodoxy. | | Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936; Apologetics | 1996-03-01 |
Military Instructors Manual | | en | | Chapter 1. Schedules
Chapter 2. Infantry Drill Regulations
Chapter 3. Physical Training
Voice Culture
Chapter 4. Use of Modern Arms
1. S.A.F.M.
2. Range Practice.
3. Pistol.
4. Bayonet.
5. Machine Guns.
6. Grenade Instruction.
Chapter 5. Map Sketching
Chapter 6. Articles Of War. (Courts-Martial.)
Chapter 7. Army Regulations
Chapter 8. Practice Marches
Field Work
Chapter 9. Feeding Men
Camping And Camp Sanitation.
Chapter 10. Personal Hygiene
Chapter 11. Signaling
Chapter 12. Guard Duty
Chapter 13. Company Administration
Chapter 14. Conferences
Study.
Small Problems in Infantry.
Examinations.
Chapter 15. Trench Warfare
1. General Principles.
2. Siting Trenches.
3. Construction.
4. Occupation. | | Military art and science; United States. Army -- Military life; United States. Army -- Officers' handbooks | 2005-01-09 |
Harvard Classics Volume 28
Essays English and American | | en | | Jonathan Swift by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
What is a University?; Site of a University; University Life at Athens by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
The Study of Poetry by MATTHEW ARNOLD
Sesame: of Kings' Treasuries; Lilies: of Queens' Gardens by JOHN RUSKIN
John Milton by WALTER BAGEHOT
Science and Culture by THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Race and Language by EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN
Truth of Intercourse; Samuel Pepys by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The Poetic Principle by EDGAR ALLAN POE
Walking by HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Abraham Lincoln; Democracy by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. | Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 [Editor] | English essays; American essays | 2007-06-29 |
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10
Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle | | en | | Bismarck as a National Type. By Kuno Francke. -- The Love Letters of Bismarck. -- Correspondence of William I. and Bismarck. -- From "Thoughts and Recollections." -- Bismarck as an Orator. By Edmund von Mach. -- Bismarck: Professorial Politics -- Speech from the Throne -- Alsace-Lorraine a Glacis Against France -- We Shall Never Go to Canossa! -- Bismarck as the "Honest Broker" -- Salus Publica--Bismarck's Only Lode-Star -- Practical Christianity -- We Germans Fear God, and Nought Else in the World -- Mount the Guards at the Warthe and the Vistula! -- Long Live the Emperor and the Empire! -- The Life of Moltke. By Karl Detlev Jessen. -- von Moltke: The Political and Military Conditions of the Ottoman Empire in 1836. -- A Trip to Brussa. -- A Journey to Mossul. -- A Bullfight in Spain. -- Description of Moscow. -- The Peace Movement. -- Fighting on the Frontier. -- Battle of Gravelotte--St. Privat. -- Consolatory Thoughts on the Earthly Life and a Future Existence. -- The Life and Work of Ferdinand Lassalle. By Arthur N. Holcombe. -- Lassalle: The Workingmen's Programme. -- Science and the Workingmen. -- Open Letter to the Central Committee. | Francke, Kuno, 1855-1930 [Editor] | | 2004-07-30 |