Non-fiction Books

Observations on the Causes, Symptoms, and Nature of Scrofula or King's Evil

John Kent

Observations on the Causes, Symptoms, and Nature of Scrofula or King's Evil, Scurvy, and Cancer With Cases Illustrative of a Peculiar Mode of Treatment.Preface by the author:In consequence of the extr..

The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996

Eric S. Raymond

Eric Steven Raymond, often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. He wrote a gui..

The Thames Valley Catastrophe

Grant Allen

It can scarcely be necessary for me to mention, I suppose, at this time of day, that I was one of the earliest and fullest observers of the sad series of events which finally brought about the transfe..

The Harbours of England

John Ruskin

"Turner's Harbors of England," as it is generally called, is a book which, for various reasons, has never received from readers of Mr. Ruskin's writings the attention it deserves. True, it has always ..

Andersonville, Volume 3

John McElroy

Andersonville A Story Of Rebel Military Prisons Fifteen Months A Guest Of The So-Called Southern Confederacy. A Private Soldiers Experience In Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen Blackshear..

How to Speak and Write Correctly

This book has no pretension about it whatever,—it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas of style, nor a Grammar full of arbitrary rules and exceptions. It is merely an effort to h..

Principles of Political Economy, Vol. 2

Wilhelm Roscher

The Principles of Political Economy, first published in 1848, was one of the most important texts on the subject of economy at that time. It is broken up into five books; Production, Distribution, Exc..

The United States Bill of Rights

United States

The United States Bill of Rights. The Ten Original Amendments to the Constitution of the United States Passed by Congress September 25, 1789 Ratified December 15, 1791...