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The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.

The library

5,123 science & nature

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Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained
Mrs. Marcet · science
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Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
M. de Fontenelle · science
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Coral and Coral Reefs
Thomas Henry Huxley · science
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Coral Reefs
Charles Darwin · science
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Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete
Charles Darwin · science
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Cork: Being the story of the origin of cork, the processes employed in its manufacture & its various uses in the world to-day
Armstrong Cork Company · science
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Cork: Its Origin and Industrial Uses
Gilbert Erwin Stecher · science
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Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets
New York State College of Agriculture · science
The story in one page
Cornish Characters and Strange Events
A midshipman edits Nelson's grammar, a pewterer defends a farmhouse with gunfire, and a botanist flees a bad marriage for moss.
S. Baring-Gould · collection
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Cornwall
S. Baring-Gould · science
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Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
Alexander von Humboldt · science
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Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay: A Renaissance (2nd edition)
Clough Williams-Ellis · manual
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Cotton, Its Progress from the Field to the Needle
science
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Cottontail Rabbits in Relation to Trees and Farm Crops
David E. Lantz · manual
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Country Rambles, and Manchester Walks and Wild Flowers
Leo H. Grindon · travel
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Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
W. Houghton · science
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Coyotes in Their Economic Relations
David E. Lantz · science
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Crania Ægyptiaca
Samuel George Morton · science
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Cranial Osteology of the Hylid Frog, Smilisca baudini
Linda Trueb · science
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Crater Lake National Park, Oregon (1938)
United States. National Park Service · travel
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Crater Lake National Park, Oregon (1958)
United States. National Park Service · travel
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Craters of the Moon
United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications · travel
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Creation and Its Records
B. H. Baden-Powell · science
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Creation Myths of Primitive America
Jeremiah Curtin · myth
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Creation of the Teton Landscape: The Geologic Story of Grand Teton National Park
J. D. Love · science
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Creative Chemistry: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries
Edwin E. Slosson · science
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Creatures of the Night: A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain
Alfred Wellesley Rees · science
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Criminal Sociology
Enrico Ferri · novel
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Crimson Clover [1938]
E. A. Hollowell · manual
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Crimson Clover [1947]
E. A. Hollowell · manual
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Crimson Clover: Growing the Crop
J. M. Westgate · manual
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Criticisms on "The Origin of Species"
Thomas Henry Huxley · science
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Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
Alva Agee · manual
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Cruise of the "Alert"
R. W. Coppinger · travel
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Cruise of the Revenue-Steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N.W. Arctic Ocean in 1881: Botanical Notes
John Muir · travel
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Cruisings in the Cascades
G. O. Shields · travel
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Crystals
A. E. H. Tutton · science
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Cuba Past and Present
Richard Davey · science
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Cuban Folk-Lore
L. Roy Terwilliger · myth
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Cudjo's own story of the last African slaver
Zora Neale Hurston · biography
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Culinary Chemistry
Friedrich Christian Accum · manual
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Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
M. G. Kains · manual
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Culture & Ethnology
Robert Harry Lowie · science
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Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship
science
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Cumberland Island: Junior Ranger Program Activity Guide for Ages 5-7
United States. National Park Service · science
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Curiosities of Heat
Lyman Beecher Tefft · science
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Curiosities of Light and Sight
Shelford Bidwell · science
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Curiosities of Olden Times
S. Baring-Gould · science