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A History of Science — Volume 1

Williams and Williams

A History of Science - Volume 1 written by Edward Huntington Williams To speak of a prehistoric science may seem like a contradiction of terms. The word prehistoric seems to imply barbarism, while sci..

How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves

William Giles Kingston

How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves is a history on the Great Britain's Royal Navy written by William Henry Giles Kingston, often credited as W. H. G. Kingston, an English writer of boys' adventure n..

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

Edward Gibbon

The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volum..

Sex and Common-Sense

A. Maude Royden

Of all the problems which the alert and curious mind of modern man is considering, none occupies him more than that of the relations of the sexes. This is natural. It touches us all and we have made r..

The Mystic Will

Charles Godfrey Leland

The Mystic Will is a method of developing and strengthening the faculties of the mind, through the awakened will, by a simple, scientific process possible to any person of ordinary intelligence.Author..

Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand

David G. McMillan

Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand is a non-fiction work on abortions in New Zealand written by various authors including David G. Mc..

My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard

Elizabeth Cooper

My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard is a book on China's social life and customs written by Elizabeth Cooper.Author's Note:In these letters I have drawn quite freely and sometimes literally from the exce..

Hints for Lovers

Arnold Haultain

Hints for Lovers is a criticism work written by Arnold Haultain, a British writer born in India.Excerpts:A girl is a complicated thing. It is made up of clothes, smiles, a pompadour, things of which s..