Non-fiction Books

Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey

Washington Irving

I sit down to perform my promise of giving you an account of a visit made many years since to Abbotsford. I hope, however, that you do not expect much from me, for the travelling notes taken at the ti..

Wild Apples

Henry David Thoreau

Wild Apples is a book by Henry David Thoreau. Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development..

The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4

Marcus Tullius Cicero

When Julius, or, as he is usually called by Cicero Caius Caesar was slain on the 15th of March, A.U.C. 710, B.C. 44 Marcus Antonius was his colleague in the consulship, and he, being afraid that the c..

The Romance of Names

Ernest Weekley

The study of the origin of family names is at the same time quite simple and very difficult. Its simplicity consists in the fact that surnames can only come into existence in certain well-understood w..

A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580

Mayhew

The present work is intended to meet, in some measure, the requirements of those who wish to make some study of Middle-English, and who find a difficulty in obtaining such assistance as will enable th..

The University of Hard Knocks

Ralph Albert Parlette

LADIES and Gentlemen:I do not want to be seen in this lecture. I want to be heard. I am only the delivery wagon. When the delivery wagon comes to your house, you are not much interested in how it look..

An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry

Derrick Norman Lehmer

The following course is intended to give, in as simple a way as possible, the essentials of synthetic projective geometry. While, in the main, the theory is developed along the well-beaten track laid ..

The Principles of Scientific Management

F. W. Taylor

President Roosevelt in his address to the Governors at the White House, prophetically remarked that "The conservation of our national resources is only preliminary to the larger question of national e..