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Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 3
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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 …
Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies
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David Todd
The progress of astronomy from age to age has been far from uniform—rather by leaps and bounds: from the earliest epoch when man's planet ea…
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 8: Mathematics
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Francis Rolt-Wheeler
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The eighth volume is on Pure Mathematics written by L. Leland Locke and on Math…
A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Volume One
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Andrew Dickson White
The 21st Century, so far, has seen a dramatic and widespread questioning of "Science", much of it from "Evangelicals". B…
A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Volume Two
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Andrew Dickson White
"In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference m…
The History of Esculent Fish
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Roger North
Roger North, son of Dudley North, 4th Baron North, was a successful member of the bar and later member of parliament. But he had wide rangi…
Pierre Curie
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Marie Curie
This biography of the noted French physicist Pierre Curie was written by his wife, the renowned physicist Marie Curie. In it, she not only c…
Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology Papers 34-44 on Science and Technology
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Various
Part of the scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National Museum series: United States National Museum Bulletin.In the…
The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century
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Edward Wright Byrn
The 1800s saw a meteoric rise in modern technology in many areas. The century set the stage for modern life with developments such as the el…
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 4
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Pliny the Elder and John S. White
The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of …
Lasers
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Hal Hellman
Among great technologic developments of the twentieth century has to be that of laser light with its myriad of applications in industry, com…
The Peaceful Atom
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Bernice Kohn Hunt
In this children's science book from the early 1960s, the concept of atoms and the science behind them is introduced. The book recounts the …
Medieval Contributions to Modern Civilisation
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Various
The mediaeval contributions to modern civilisation, which are the theme of this book, are twofold.There is the contribution of the idealised…
The Romance of Modern Photography
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Charles R. Gibson
It is not the author's purpose in the present volume to give any instruction in the practice of photography. There are many works dealing w…
Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies
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Henry Christopher Mccook
The Brownies of the Mansion at Hillside are under siege from Pixie forces. The Pixies, whose treacherous weavings mimic those of our own use…
The Birds of the Air
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John Frost
In this book, aimed at children, the author provides a brief profile of 35 different bird species. Strangely for a book titled The Birds of …
Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891
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Various
The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, having launched its first publication in 1…
The Children's Book of Birds
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Olive Thorne Miller
The Children's Book of Birds combines under a single cover the First and Second Books of Birds, originally published in 1899 and 1901 respec…
Lecture on Artificial Flight
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William G. Krueger
Lecture on artificial flight given on request of the Academy of Natural Sciences on August 7, 1876 in San Francisco, California by William G…
Present Day Gardening: Orchids
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James O'Brien
A meticulously written treatise on the structure, care and cultivation of orchids. This book benefits both the orchid obsessed and the amate…