Browsing

The Complete Little Women Series (Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys)

by Louisa May Alcott – e-artnow

Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women, Good Wives and the sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. The first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth...

Sense and Sensibility (with the original watercolor illustrations by C.E. Brock)

by Jane Austen – e-artnow

This edition of "Sense and Sensibility" has been carefully formatted for your ebook reader with a functional table of contents and contains all the original watercolor illustrations by C.E. Brock.

Sense and Sensibility...

The Complete Works of Jane Austen

by Jane Austen – e-artnow

Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism...

Worry and Mental Overwork

by Charles R. Richet, Joseph M. Granville & Robert F. Sharp – Lm Publishers (October 14, 2019)

To hit off the happy medium between over- and under-work is no easy task even to those who have the necessary knowledge, on the one hand, and the liberty to arrange their own scheme of occupation, on the other....

Woman's Struggle for Liberty in Germany

by Hugo Munsterberg & Mary Mills Patrick – Lm Publishers (October 14, 2019)

This book treats of woman's Struggle for Liberty in Germany, and the development of instruction for the two sexes.

“The girls' schools established by the Government provide well for the study of the modern...

Was Middle America Peopled from Asia?

by Martin I. Townsend & Edward S. Morse – Lm Publishers (October 14, 2019)

This book treats of the origin of American inhabitants.

Was Middle America Peopled from Asia?...

There are two propositions involved in the controversy as to the Asiatic origin of the American race: the one...

Victor Hugo: His Life and Works

by G. Barnett Smith – Lm Publishers (October 14, 2019)

This book treats of the life and works of Victor Hugo, the great poet and writer.

The writings of Victor Hugo are so varied and multifarious, and many of them are so well known to English readers, that I have...

Traces of Early Men in Japan

by Edward Sylvester Morse – Lm Publishers (October 14, 2019)

There is no race of people in whose origin we are more interested than in that of the Japanese. Their history going so completely back for nearly two thousand years, their civilization, which in so many respects...

The Witnesses to the Historicity of Jesus

by Arthur Drews – Literature and Knowledge Publishing (October 14, 2019)

In view of the vagueness, effectiveness, and vulnerability of the evangelical accounts of Jesus, as far as his historical reality is concerned, the witnesses in non-Christian literature have always occupied...

The Mechanism and Psychology of Voice

by Frank E. Miller & Charles E. Blanchard – Literature and Knowledge Publishing (October 14, 2019)

Man possesses language, and makes large use of it, while, on the other hand, not even the most intelligent animals have the power of designating objects, or of translating sensations into articulate speech....

The Relation of Music to Mental Progress

by Stephen A. Pearce – Literature and Knowledge Publishing (October 12, 2019)

This book treats of the relation of music to the mental progress.The music of a people may be considered in direct relation to their supersensuous natures. From this point of view alone, strongly marked differences...

Snowflakes at the Little Christmas Tree Farm

by Jaimie Admans – HQ Digital (October 09, 2019)

All she wants for Christmas…

Leah Griffiths has woken up after a few too many glasses of Prosecco with a hangover – and discovers she’s accidentally bought a little Christmas tree farm in Scotland!

At...

Buddhism, or the Protestantism of the East

by Thomas W.R. Davids & James Clarke – Lm Publishers (October 11, 2019)

This book deals with the History and Philosophy of the Buddhism.

"On first becoming acquainted with the mighty and ancient religion of Buddhism, one may be tempted to deny the correctness of this title "The Protestantism...

The Psychological Origin and Nature of Religion

by James Henry Leuba – Lm Publishers (October 11, 2019)

This book deals with:

- The psychological origin and the fundamental Nature of Religion

-The Original Emotion of Primitive Religious Life.

- and the Function of Religion.

The Psychology of Relaxation

by Hamilton W. Mabie & George T.W. Patrick – Lm Publishers (October 11, 2019)

This book treats of the psychology of relaxation and the methods to escape from Stress of the modern life.

“Some of us manage to escape neurasthenia, but few of us are free from fatigue, chronic or acute....

The Origin of Fruits and Cultivated Plants

by Alphonse P. de Candolle & C. Grant Allen – Lm Publishers (October 11, 2019)

The Origin of Fruits and Cultivated Plants.

"To the attractive hues of fruit, I believe, we must ultimately trace back our whole artistic pleasure in the pure physical stimulation of beautiful colors, displayed...

Man with a serious problem

by Ursula Nafula – African Storybook Initiative (September 30, 2018)

A man is generous enough to offer accommodation to his aging grandparents, aunt and uncle. Find out how life changes as time goes by.

Palesa loves plants

by Ursula Nafula – African Storybook Initiative (September 30, 2018)

Palesa is a little girl who loves all plants.

Letter to mum

by Ursula Nafula – African Storybook Initiative (September 30, 2018)

A mother is going to hospital to give birth and her daughter writes her a letter.

The South American Republics : History of Chile

by Thomas C. Dawson – Lm Publishers (October 11, 2019)

This book deals with the general history of Chile from the discovery and the Spanish conquest.“About a century before Pizarro landed, Tupac Yupanqui, the greatest of the Inca conquerors, crossed the rough...

The South American Republics: History of Colombia

by Thomas C. Dawson – Lm Publishers (October 11, 2019)

History of Colombia from the conquest and settlement to the modern Colombia.

“When Alonso de Ojeda coasted along the Venezuelan shore in the spring of 1499 he stopped short just west of the Gulf of Maracaibo,...

The South American Republics : History of Ecuador

by Thomas C. Dawson – Lm Publishers (October 11, 2019)

This book treats of the History of Ecuador : from the discovery of the land, the Spanish Conquest, the war of independence, to the formation of Ecuador and the development of the modern country.

The South American Republics : History of Paraguay

by Thomas C. Dawson – Lm Publishers (October 11, 2019)

History of Paraguay: from the beginning of the settlements, the colonization of the country, the war for independence, and the modern republic of Paraguay.

"The beginnings of the settlements in Paraguay have...

The South American Republics : History of Peru

by Thomas C. Dawson – Lm Publishers (October 11, 2019)

This book deals withe the history of Peru: the discovery of the Inca empire, the Spanish conquest of the territory, the colonial period, the wars of the independence and the development after the independence....

The South American Republics : History of Uruguay

by Thomas C. Dawson – Lm Publishers (October 10, 2019)

History of Uruguay.

"Uruguay is the southeastern country of South America. It extends from latitude 30° to 35 degrees S. and from longitude 53° to 58° 30' W., lies south of the Province of Río Grande do...

The Origin and Evolution of the Dollar Mark

by A. E. Outerbridge Jr & Florian Cajori – Lm Publishers (October 10, 2019)

This book treats of the origin and evolution of the US dollar mark.

“There are few mathematical symbols the origin of which has given rise to more unrestrained speculation and less real scientific study than...

The Astronomical History of the World

by Daniel Vaughan – Lm Publishers (October 10, 2019)

The information which geologists derive from the evidences of organic remains does not wholly satisfy the keen appetite of educated minds for a knowledge of the mysteries of Nature and the revolutions of past...

The Last Wild Tribe of California and the Ancient Islanders of the State

by Charles Frederick Holder & Thomas T. Waterman – Lm Publishers (October 10, 2019)

This book deals with the history of the last wild Tribe of California and the Ancient Islanders of the State.

The Influence of Inventions Upon Civilization

by Chauncey Smith – Literature and Knowledge Publishing (October 10, 2019)

This book treats of the Influence of Inventions upon Civilization.

The Freedman's Story

by William Parker – Lm Publishers (October 10, 2019)

The manuscript of the following pages has been handed to me with the request that I would revise it for publication, or weave its facts into a story which should show the fitness of the Southern black for the...

The Evolution of the Human Form

by Charles Morris – Lm Publishers (October 10, 2019)

This book deals with the evolution of human and organic forms.

“That men, or thinking beings akin to man, exist only on that minute fragment of the universe we call the earth is a conception so highly improbable,...

The Aurora Borealis

by John Cox & Antoine de Saporta – Lm Publishers (October 10, 2019)

How can we describe, how can an artist paint, the aurora borealis? We of temperate climates are not strangers to the phenomena; we know something of the arcs and radiating streaks of various-colored light which...

The Art of Persuasion

by Blaise Pascal – Lm Publishers (October 10, 2019)

The art of persuasion has a necessary relation to the manner in which men are led to consent to that which is proposed to them, and to the conditions of things which it is sought to make them believe.

No one...

The Apostles

by Ernest Renan – Lm Publishers (October 10, 2019)

This book treats of the History of the Christianity and the Apostles.

The first book of our ‘History of the Origins of Christianity’ brought us down to the death and burial of Jesus; and we must now resume...

Studies in the Evolutionary Psychology of Feeling

by Hiram M. Stanley – Lm Publishers (October 10, 2019)

It is now something more than a century since the general division of psychic phenomena into intellect, feeling and will, first came into repute, but still some psychologists of note do not agree to this fundamental...

Society and Solitude, Love and Friendship

by Ralph Waldo Emerson – Lm Publishers (October 10, 2019)

Content :

- Society and Solitude

- Love

- Friendship

“We have known many fine geniuses with that imperfection that they cannot do anything useful, not so much as write one clean sentence: 'T is worse, and tragic,...

Reversions in Modern Industrial Life

by Franklin Smith – Literature and Knowledge Publishing (October 10, 2019)

Reversions in Modern Industrial Life.

If the law of reversion holds true of physical life, it holds equally true of industrial life. Under its operation is revived the career of institutions as indicative...

On the Distribution of Standard Time in the United States

by William F. Allen & Edward S. Holden – Lm Publishers (October 10, 2019)

This book treats of the problem of the Distribution of Standard Time in the United States.

“For the ordinary purposes of life in a state of society which is not yet complex, a very simple system of recording...

Nervous ills : their cause and cure

by Boris Sidis – Literature and Knowledge Publishing (October 10, 2019)

This book deals with the cause and cure of the nervous ills.

As I carry on my work on nervous ills I become more and more convinced that a knowledge of Social Psychology is essential to a clear comprehension...

Mythologic Philosophy

by John Wesley Powell – Literature and Knowledge Publishing (October 10, 2019)

"There are two grand stages of philosophy the mythologic—and the scientific. In the first, all phenomena are explained by analogies derived from subjective human experiences; in the latter, phenomena are explained...

The Conquest of Canada (Vol.2)

by George Warburton – Literature and Knowledge Publishing (October 09, 2019)

-The Conquest of Canada (Vol.2)-“One of the most momentous political questions that has ever yet moved the human race was decided in the Canadian war. When a few English and French emigrants first landed among...

The Conquest of Canada (Vol.1)

by George Warburton – Literature and Knowledge Publishing (October 09, 2019)

The Conquest and History of Canada. “England and France started in a fair race for the magnificent prize of supremacy in America. The advantages and difficulties of each were much alike, but the systems by...

Hypnotism: its History, Nature and Use

by Harold M. Hays – Lm Publishers (October 09, 2019)

History of Hypnotis, its Nature and Use.

It is perhaps unnecessary to state that the word hypnotism brings to the mind of the average person timid recollections of many criminal acts. That is because few people...

History of the Stethoscope

by Samuel Hart & Samuel Wilks – Lm Publishers (October 09, 2019)

This book treats of the origin and evolution of the Stethoscope.

Instead of placing on the table every imaginary form of stethoscope manufactured out of every possible material gathered from the shops of the...

History of the Mexican Empire and Mexico after the Empire

by History and Civilization Collection – Literature and Knowledge Publishing (October 09, 2019)

History of the Mexican Empire and Mexico after the Empire (with illustrations).

“South of the United States, stretching away towards Central America, lies the country of Mexico...

It is difficult to choose whether...

History of Social Changes in California

by Charles Howard Shinn – Lm Publishers (October 09, 2019)

This book presents a brief History of Social Changes in California.

“When the Central Pacific Railroad crossed the high Sierras, and the Crockers, Stanfords, and Huntingtons, till then obscure Sacramento...

Great Men, Great Thoughts, and the Environment

by William James – Literature and Knowledge Publishing (October 09, 2019)

“What are the causes that make communities change from generation to generation, - that make the England of Queen Anne so different from the England of Elizabeth, the Harvard College of today so different...

German Influence in Latin America

by Alfred F. Sears – Lm Publishers (October 09, 2019)

This book presents a brief story of German influence in Latin America.

“In 1901 the American citizen was startled by the information from Rio Janeiro, that "A German syndicate has just been formed with a...

Geographical Evolution

by Archibald Geikie – Literature and Knowledge Publishing (October 09, 2019)

It must be owned that man, in most of his struggles with the world around him, has fought blindly for his own ultimate interests. His contest, successful for the moment, has too often led to sure and sad disaster....

Genius and his Environment

by James Mark Baldwin – Literature and Knowledge Publishing (October 09, 2019)

“Psychological science has reached a sort of understanding in these recent years of the individual and of the social setting in which he customarily disports himself; and the duty now devolves upon it of...