Education
Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers a…
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Hans Gross
Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …
Robert's Rules of Order
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Henry M. Robert
Originally written in 1876 by Major Henry M. Robert of the US Army Corps of Engineers, Robert's Rules of Order is the most widely used autho…
Home Education Series Vol. IV: Ourselves, Book I. Self-Knowledge
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Charlotte Mason
This is Book I of the forth volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled O…
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The scene of the Dialogus de Oratoribus, as this work is commonly known, is laid in the sixth year of Vespasian, 75 a.D. The commentators ar…
Institutio Oratoria (On the Education of an Orator), volume 1
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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was of Spanish origin, being born about 35 A.D. at Calagurris. At Rome he met with great success as a teacher and…
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II
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John Locke
John Locke wrote four essays on human (or humane) understanding. Here are a few quotes from the book: "I see no reason to believe, that…
How to Tell Stories to Children
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Sara Cone Bryant
Sarah Cone Bryant was an educator and storyteller who wrote several books on the importance of oral storytelling to children, and stories to…
Sabotage
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a leading American socialist and feminist. Her book "Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers' indu…
In the School Room
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John S. Hart
In the first place, teaching is not simply telling. A class may be told a thing twenty times over, and yet not know it. Talking to a class i…
Our Knowledge Box
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George Blackie
This practical guide to solving all sorts of problems includes secrets and discoveries covering the Liquor Trade, Druggists' Aids, Manufactu…
Spontaneous Activity in Education
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Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori saw that children gained a sense of satisfaction through doing work of their own choosing, and that the role of the adult w…
The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Volume 3
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Volume 3 of the complete works contains several short critical introductory essays, five lectures under the heading "On the Future of o…
The Reason Why
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Robert Kemp Philp
This collection of useful information on "Common Things" is put in the interesting form of "Why and Because," and compre…
Home Education Series Vol. VI: Towards A Philosophy of Education
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Charlotte Mason
The sixth volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled A Liberal Education …
Enquire Within Upon Everything
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Robert Kemp Philp
Enquire Within Upon Everything was a book of how to do things in domestic life It was first published in 1856 by Houlston and Sons of Patern…
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book IV
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John Locke
This is the fourth book of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. His book deals with knowledge and probability. He asks how far…
The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 1
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Charles E. Flandrau
"It has been a little over fifty years since the organization of the Territory of Minnesota, which at its birth was a very small and un…
1001 Questions and Answers on English Grammar
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Benjamin Hathaway
A book for students interested in finding out how many things about the English language have changed, and how many have weathered the test …
The Citizen's Almanac
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United States Of America
This is a recording of a booklet given to new naturalized American citizens, it contains an explanation of fundamental documents, symbols an…
Intelligence Tests and School Reorganisation
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Lewis Terman
A collection of essays relating to the efforts to reorganise American schools to provide a more efficient and effective education system. Al…