Non-fiction, including History, Natural Science, Social Science, and Philosophy

Copyright © 2001 Richard Seltzer

This 5-CD set, containing 5635 books, was compiled by Richard Seltzer. Internal links will take you to the various sections, but you cannot get to the books themselves here on the Web. For that you need the CD. This Non-Fiction 5-CD set, with the complete text of these books, in plain text, is available for just $99 at our online store.

Intended for use on Windows PCs and recent Macs (OS X), this CD was compiled by Richard Seltzer. The books themselves are in the public domain and in plain text format. You can copy them onto your hard drive for convenience, or make an archival copy of the CD, as backup in case of damage to the original. But the collection and its indexes, created for your convenience, are under copyright. Please contact us first if you are interested in making copies of this CD for commercial purposes. seltzer@samizdat.com

You can open these books by clicking on the titles in this index page with your Web browser or a recent Windows-based word processor.

Click on a category to go to one of the major sections of this index page:

Table of Contents of CD #1 -- US History, 1163 books

US History


Table of Contents of CD #2 -- World History, Afghanistan to Israel, 1204 books


Table of Contents of CD #3 -- World History, Italian to Turkey plus World and Travel, 796 books


Table of Contents of CD #4 -- Natural Science and Technology, 1519 books


Table of Contents of CD #5 -- Natural Science, 953 books

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Table of Contents of CD #1

This Non-Fiction 5-CD set with 5635 books,  is available for $99 at our online store.

Table of Contents of CD #1 -- US History

US History

Colonial period

Revolution

Mercy Otis Warren, conscience of the American Revolution

I entered these works by Mercy Otis Warren by hand. (The old type, with "s" that looks like "f" and other peculiarities characteristic of the time, makes this text impossible to scan). I have modernized the spelling and punctuation and made other edits for readability. Please let me know of typos, so I can fix them promptly. Richard Seltzer seltzer@samizdat.com

 Mercy Warren's entry in the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, 1911:

"Warren, Mercy (1728-1814), American writer, sister of James Otis, was born at Barnstable, Mass., and in 1754 married James Warren (1726-1808) of Plymouth, Mass., a college friend of her brother. Her literary inclinations were fostered by both these men, and she began early to write poems and prose essays. As member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1766-1774) and its speaker (1776-1777 and 1787-1788), member (1774 and 1775) and president (1775) of the Provincial Congress, and paymaster-general in 1775, James Warren took a leading part in the events of the American revolutionary period, and his wife followed its progress with keen interest. Her gifts of satire were utilized in her political dramas, The Adulator (1773) and The Group (1775); and John Adams, whose wife Abigail was Mercy Warren's close friend, encouraged her to further efforts. Her tragedies "The Sack of Rome" and "The Ladies of Castile," were included in her Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous (1790), dedicated to General Washington. Apart from their historical interest among the beginnings of American literature, Mercy Warren's poems have no permanent value. In 1805 she published a History of the American Revolution, which was colored by somewhat outspoken personal criticism and was bitterly resented by John Adams (see his correspondence, published by the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1878). James Warren died in 1808, and his wife followed him on the 19th of October 1814."

Plays

Observations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions, 1788. Pamphlet against the Constitution, formerly attributed to Elbridge Gerry, now acknowledged as written by Mercy Otis Warren

Chronology of Mercy Otis Warren 1728 - 1814 by King Dykeman, Philosophy Department, Fairfield University

Introduction to the work of Mercy Otis Warren 1728 - 1814 by King Dykeman, Philosophy Department, Fairfield University

Introduction to Observations on the New Constitution by Mercy Otis Warrenby King Dykeman, Philosophy Department, Fairfield University

The Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution

"Mercy Warren: Conscience of the American Revolution" a detailed review of this book by Richard Seltzer

The original 3-volume work is 1317 pages long. Mercy wrote early drafts of this work near the time of the events described, and completed the work about four years before its appeared in 1805. She explains the delay as due to health problems, temporary bouts of blindness, and grief at the death of her only son.

Mercy writes in the third person even when dealing with events involving her immediate family. Keep in mind that James Otis (early advocate of the rights of the colonies) was her brother, James Warren (speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives) was her husband, and Winslow Warren (would-be diplomat) was her son.


Early Republic

Civil War

After Civil War

Native American

Black History, Slavery, and Abolition

Historical Documents (all short, except Inaugural Addresses, State of the Union Speeches, and Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, which are book-length)

Special Topics

General


Table of Contents of CD #2 -- World History, Afghanistan to Israel


Afghan History

African History (see also South Africa)

Ancient History

Arab

Armenia

History of Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea

Balkan States

Belgium

British History

Canadian History

Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Chinese History

Cuba

Czechoslovakia, Czech, Slovakia, and Bohemia

Danish History

Egyptian History (modern)

  • Quinze Jours en Egypte by Fernand Neuray
  • Exploration in Africa, Asia, Antarctica, the Arctic, and the South Pacific


    French History

    German and Austrian History

    Hungarian History

    Icelandic History

    Indian History

    History of Indonesia

    History of Iraq (Mesopotamia)

    History of Ireland

    History of Israel


    Table of Contents of CD #3 -- World History, Italian to Turkey plus World and Travel



     

    Italian History

    Japanese

    Korea

    Latin American History

    Malay

    History of Nepal

    History of the Netherlands

    New Zealand

    Norwegian and Swedish History

    Persia

    Philippine History

    Portugal

    Russian History

    Samoa

    Scandinavian

    South African History (see also Exploration)

    Spanish History

    Sweden

    Turkey

    World History, including the First World War


    Travel and Tourism


    Table of Contents of CD #4 -- Social Science, Philosophy, etc.


    About Fine Art and Architecture

    About Music and Dance

    About Drama

    About Books (Literary Criticism, Library Science, Typograhy, Appreciation of Books)

    Linguistics and Languages

    Oratory

    Crafts

    Genealogy


    Games, Sports, and Physical Fitness


    Philosophy

    General

    American

    British

    Chinese

    Dutch

    French

    German

    Greek

    Indian

    Italian

    Roman


    Reference


    Social Science

    Anthropology, Archaeology, Myth and Legend

    Economics and Business

    Law and Crime

    Political Science

    Psychology and Self-Improvement

    Sociology

    War

    Women's Studies

    Education

    Child Development, Rearing, and Education


    Table of Contents of CD #5 -- Natural Science


    Agriculture and Gardening

    Astronomy

    Conservation, Ecology, Forestry, Wild Life, Hunting, and Environment

    Farm Animals and Pets

    Fish and Fishing

    Biology, Botany, and Evolution

    General Science

    Geology Geography

    Weather

    Mathematics

    Medicine, Therapy, Nutrition, and Health

    Physics and Electricity

    Technology



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    Text-to-voice conversion software can allow you to hear as well as read these books. So you can test this capability and decide if it might be valuable to you, we include the include the installation file for ReadPlease 2003 on this CD. (NB -- This version of  the ReadPlease software does not run on Macs). You can use that file to install a trial copy of ReadPlease Plus, which is a commercial-quality product and can read files of any size. This trial copy is good for 30 days, after which, if you wish, you could buy a license from ReadPlease for $49.95. As an alternative, you can use that same file to install their free version, which doesn't expire, but which can only handle 16K of text at a time; which means that to read a book, you would have to copy and paste one peice of text after another.

    Click here if you would like to install this software. When you click on that link, you will be asked wheter you want to save it on your computer or just run it. Choose Save -- it will only take about 10 Mbytes; so choose Save. Then select which version you want to install and the directory that you'd like to put it in. When the rapid, automatic installation is done, you will be able to open ReadPlease by clicking on an icon on your desktop.

    When running ReadPlease, click on File, then Open, and browse to the texts you are interested on the CD (or any other text file you have). Click on Play and it will start "reading" the book aloud to you. Highlight a chunk of text (of any size) with your browser and then click on Selection, and it will read the text you selected. Controls in the right column allow you to change the speed of the voice (with a sliding bar), change the font size (with a sliding bar), and switch among four different voices (with the right and left arrows).

    When you run ReadPlease, you see the text, with yellow highlighting moving from one word to the next, while you hear that same text. And you can at any time edit the text in the video window. Just position your cursor, click you mouse, and type whatever you like -- for instance, annotation or marks to show where you last stopped reading. Then save the edited file on your hard drive.

    Please keep in mind that ReadPlease is their software not ours. They are the experts on it. They have even better versions with even clearer, more natural voices, which they sell. You can listen to samples at their Web site http://www.readplease.com/, where you can also see detailed help files.  And you can contact them at: ReadPlease Corporation, 121 Cherry Ridge Road, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada P7G 1A7. Phone: 807-474-7702



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