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Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

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Andrew Carnegie


This autobiography of Andrew Carnegie is a very well written and interesting history of one of the most wealthy men in the United states. He…

Bill of Rights

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United States Government and Unit


The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.

The Heavenly Life

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James Allen


James Allen’s most famous work, As A Man Thinketh, has gained almost cult status among those studying spiritual mysticism. He wrote all of h…

The Twilight of the Idols

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Friedrich Nietzsche


Of The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo: “If anyone should desire to obtain a rapid sketch of how everything before my tim…

What's Wrong With the World

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G. K. Chesterton


Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possibl…

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865

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Leander Stillwell


Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell …

Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

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William R. Lighton


In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, two men commanded an expedition which explored the wilderness that stretched from the mouth of the Missou…

Wage-Labour and Capital

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Karl Marx


Originally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give an overview of Marx’s central the…

The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath

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William Walker Atkinson


Increase your awareness about the forgotten art of breathing as researched, practiced and written by our Eastern brothers. Inside you will f…

Reflections on War and Death

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Sigmund Freud


Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether…

Democracy in America Vol. I

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Alexis De Tocqueville


When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful …

The Wind in the Willows (version 2)

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Kenneth Grahame


This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure ... and as adventure pursues the…

Bible (Reina Valera) NT 04: Evangelio según San Juan

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Reina-Valera


El Evangelio según Juan es un libro de la Biblia en el Nuevo Testamento que contiene la historia de la vida de Jesucristo. El ap&oacu…

My First Summer in the Sierra

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John Muir


The journal of nature-lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. From French Bar to Mono Lake an…

Of the Shortness of Life

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Seneca the Younger wrote the moral essay "De Brevitate Vitae" — "On the Shortness of Life" — to his friend Paulinus. The…

The Story of Electricity

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John Munro


In the book's preface, the author writes: "Let anyone stop to consider how he individually would be affected if all electrical service …

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

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Friedrich Engels


The main idea of "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" (1880) was distinguishing scientific socialism and utopian socialism. Engels …

Meditations on First Philosophy

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René Descartes


After several years working on a treatise putting forth his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes shelved the project when his conte…

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

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M. M. Pattison Muir


A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cuttin…

The Apology of Socrates (version 3)

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Plato


Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his trial for "corrupting the youth" is a classic summation of his teacher's life and miss…

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