Non-fiction Books

The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath

William Walker Atkinson

The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath is a manual on the science of controlling your breathing by Yogi Ramacharaka.The Western student is apt to be somewhat confused in his ideas regarding the Yogis and th..

The Positive School of Criminology

Enrico Ferri

The Positive School of CriminologyThree Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901..

Surgical Anatomy

Joseph Maclise

The object of this work is to present to the student of medicine and the practitioner removed from the schools, a series of dissections demonstrative of the relative anatomy of the principal regions o..

A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts

Benjamin Waterhouse

A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts is a real account of captivation written by Benjamin Waterhouse.Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May,..

Die Italienische Plastik

Wilhelm Bode

Die Italienische Plastik is a book on sculpture written by Wilhelm Bode, German art historian and curator. Born Arnold Wilhelm Bode in Calvörde, he was ennobled in 1913. He was the creator and fi..

American Notes

Rudyard Kipling

An interesting account of Kipling's travels in the USA and his reflections on what he found in 19th century America. Kipling's shares generally unflattering observations of Americans during his visits..

Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus

Francis Pharcellus Church

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus is a phrase from an editorial called Is There a Santa Claus?. The editorial appeared in the September 21, 1897, edition of The (New York) Sun and has since become..

Less Than Words Can Say

Richard Mitchell

It is possible, Sagan says, to damage the brain in precisely such a way that the victim will lose the ability to understand the passive or to devise prepositional phrases or something like that.....