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Woods Hutchinson 3w2u6i
A Handbook of Health is written by Woods Hutchinson, an English physician and a professor of clinical medicine, has written many books on medicine and health sphere including The Gospel According to Darwin, Studies in Human and Comparative Pathology, Instinct and Health, Preventable Diseases, and Exercise and Health to name a few of them. This l..
Jean Jacques Rousseau 2c4k5i
The Confessions is an autobiography written by Jean Jacques Rousseau, a Genevan philosopher whose political philosophy has greatly influenced French revolution. The confessions is considered to be the first major work as an autobiography to be ever written, though previously written autobiographies were focused on religious experience rath..
Henry Bursill 5i7325
Hand Shadows to Be Thrown upon the Wall is a book on Shadowgraphy by Henry Bursill. Shadowgraphy often called as ombromanie is a performance art in which a story or images are narrated using hands to produce shadows. This art once popular had started to decline with the invention of cinema and television to become a major entertainment for..
Frederick Douglass 5n2t2r
My Bondage and My Freedom is the expansion of Frederick Douglass’s early autobiographic work Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. It is difficult to believe such orator was once slave during his early life. A statesman, writer and orator and an important figure of abolitionist movement, he was the first African-American to be nomin..
Frank Crosby f4n71
Life of Abraham Lincoln is an attempt to portray the sixteenth US President, which is focused more on his relations with the country rather than his early life, though the beginning chapters narrated his boyhood life. The author of this book, Frank Crosby mentioned in the preface, that he has taken great effort in compiling this book and a..
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Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome is a valiant effort to translate the works of Marcus Gavius Apicius, who wrote the roman cook book in Latin. The translator of this book claim to be the first English translation of the Latin version, though there are Italian and German translations were made earlier. Apicius is known for his luxury loving, ha..
Harriet A. Jacobs 5u2mc
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl narrates the real life of Harriet Ann Jacobs, who has written this book when she was a slave. This horrific autobiography narrates the ruthless treatment undergone by female slaves. Being a female slave is more pathetic than being a male slave, as they had to undergo the sexual harassment and rape atte..