Non-fiction Books

Discourse on the Method of Reasoning

René Descartes

Most philosophers don't get in an immortal tagline like Descartes' "I think therefore I am," but don't go thinking he was all about succinct one-liners, as the title of his most famous work reveals. I..

An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds

John Higginbottom

The following pages are presented to the medical public with very humble pretensions. It is chiefly with the minor accidents or diseases that they have to do; but I shall not consider that I have labo..

Adenoids - What They Are, How to Recognize Them, What to Do for Them

US Department Of Health

Nature intends that we should breathe through the nose and has so arranged matters that the air is strained, warmed, and moistened as it passes through the nose. This is very important.Unfortunately a..

A Short Method Of Prayer

Jeanne Marie Bouvier

Originally published in 1685, Madame Guyon’s A Short and Easy Method of Prayer is considered a classic of Christian mysticism, influencing great writers and speakers such as John Wesley and Charles Sp..

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic

Benedetto Croce

One of the earliest works of this Italian philosopher and literary critic, Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic marks the beginning of Croce's elaboration of his highly influentia..

An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses

William Withering

After being frequently urged to write upon this subject, and as often declining to do it, from apprehension of my own inability, I am at length compelled to take up the pen, however unqualified I may ..

The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefwazi

Sir Richard Francis Burton

A fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of literature. The book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be attractive, gives advice on sexual technique, warnings about ..

Alcohol - A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why

Martha Meir Allen

 This book is the outcome of many years of study. With the exception of a few quotations, none of the material has ever before appeared in any book. The writer has been indebted for years past to..