Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041

by Various

18 chapters4h 37mEnglish0

About this book

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a woman in Alaska, Cuban folklore, and hunting peccaries on the Nueces; Max Planck's Quantum Theory and Newton's world view; church bells and chocolate cake; naval flag signals, rocket life-saving apparatus, and seashore plants and pebbles; also many literary and philosophical figures including Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Edwards, Johann Fichte, Joseph Butler, George Sand, Marie Corelli, G. K. Chesterton, and Hilaire Belloc. (summary by Sue Anderson)

Chapters (18)

1An Account of the System of the World (described in Mr Newton's Mathematical Principles of Philosophy)

524

2Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes

223

3Concerning The Notion of Liberty and of Moral Agency

693

4Cuban Folklore

2230

5George Sand, a Biography

657

6Gravel

545

7Henry Trengrouse and His Rocket Life-Saving Apparatus

387

8How To Ring A Church Bell Properly

173

9A Modest Proposal

1126

10Mr. G.K. Chesterton and Mr. Hilaire Belloc

2036

11Of Academical Freedom

1579

12Of Personal Identity

1055

13Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory

2089

14A Peccary Hunt on the Nueces

1420

15Plants of the Shore

551

16Signals in Use in the Port of Sydney, New South Wales

185

17The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli, A Review

216

18A Woman Who Went to Alaska

960

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041

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Chapters (18)

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