John Barleycorn
Subject
Literature
Public-domain writing that did not settle cleanly into a narrower shelf: miscellanies, classics, and books the old catalogs simply called literature. The text is not stored here.
The Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams
by Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams is also a sharp critique of 19th-century educational theory and practice. In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense.
The Principles of Scientific Management
The Principles of Scientific Management
The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) is a monograph published by Frederick Winslow Taylor where he laid out his views on principles of scientific management, or industrial era organization and decision theory. Taylor was an American manufacturing manager, mechanical engineer, and then a management consultant in his later years.
A Small Boy and Others
A Small Boy and Others
by Henry James
A Small Boy and Others covers James' earliest years and discusses his intellectually active family, his intermittent schooling, and his first trips to Europe.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature arranges its entries by author, rather than by subject, unlike many other quotation collections, and enters the authors chronologically by date of birth rather than alphabetically. Within years, authors are arranged alphabetically and quotations are arranged chronologically within each author's entry, followed by attributed remarks whose source in the author's writings has not been confirmed.
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi was edited by Charles Dickens, who first saw Grimaldi perform when he was just seven years old.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Nathaniel Parker Willis, also known as N. Willis, was an American writer, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell
by J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert) Hadden
Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet at the intersection of the neoclassical with the Romantic style of British poetry. He also composed patriotic war songs including "Ye Mariners of England", "The Soldier's Dream", "Hohenlinden", and The Battle of the Baltic, in addition to simple lyrics such as "At Love's Beginning".
Disenchantment
Disenchantment
by C. E. (Charles Edward) Montague
Disenchantment is the cultural rationalization and devaluation of religion in society, or more broadly a general loss of enthusiasm for something.
The Boston cooking-school cook book
The Boston cooking-school cook book
The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by American culinary expert Fannie Farmer is a 19th-century general reference cookbook which is still available both in reprint and in updated form. The Boston cooking-school cook book was particularly notable for a more rigorous approach to recipe writing than had been common up to that point.
Money and trade considered
Money and trade considered
by John Law
Money and Trade Considered: With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money is an early economics text written by John Law of Lauriston, published in 1705. In it, he attempts to compare the prosperity of other countries with that of Scotland, and advocates a "land bank" system of paper money backed by real estate as a commodity, instead of gold or silver.
Domestic medicine
Domestic medicine
Domestic medicine or domestic health care is the behavioral, nutritional and health care practices, hygiene included, performed in the household and transmitted from one generation to the other. Such knowledge is complementary to the specialized skills of doctors and nurses.