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Paralyzed Streets

The Forgotten Horse Flu That Brought America to a Standstill and Burned Boston

by Samuel Harris ...

In the autumn of 1872, the United States economy ground to a sudden, terrifying halt. The cause was not a stock market crash or a human pandemic, but a highly contagious strain of equine influenza. Within weeks, millions of horses were paralyzed by sickness, silencing the bustling streets of major American cities. Before the combustion engine, horses were the vital gears of urban infrastructure. ... Read more

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In the autumn of 1872, the United States economy ground to a sudden, terrifying halt. The cause was not a stock market crash or a human pandemic, but a highly contagious strain of equine influenza. Within weeks, millions of horses were paralyzed by sickness, silencing the bustling streets of major American cities. Before the combustion engine, horses were the vital gears of urban infrastructure.
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Every Man Dies Alone (Summarized Edition)

Enriched edition. Anonymous postcards in wartime Berlin spark a Gestapo manhunt: an urban procedural of tenement life and quiet courage, based on true events.

by Hans Fallada, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...

Every Man Dies Alone follows Otto and Anna Quangel, modest Berliners who leave anonymous postcards denouncing the regime after their son is killed at the front. The campaign threads through stairwells, offices, and police files, attracting a relentless investigator. In plain, documentary prose and multiple viewpoints, Fallada crafts a tense hybrid of urban chronicle and police procedural rooted in ... Read more

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Every Man Dies Alone follows Otto and Anna Quangel, modest Berliners who leave anonymous postcards denouncing the regime after their son is killed at the front. The campaign threads through stairwells, offices, and police files, attracting a relentless investigator. In plain, documentary prose and multiple viewpoints, Fallada crafts a tense hybrid of urban chronicle and police procedural rooted in
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Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency (Summarized Edition)

Enriched edition. High-Frequency AC, Resonant Coils, and Wireless Power Experiments, 1891–1892

by Nikola Tesla, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...

This classic compendium of Tesla's 1891-1892 demonstrations maps the physics and craft of high-frequency alternating currents. Through precise lecture prose interleaved with stage-ready experiments, Tesla details resonant transformers (the Tesla coil), capacitor discharges, brush and corona phenomena, and luminous effects in evacuated tubes, even single-wire lighting that foreshadows wireless ... Read more

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This classic compendium of Tesla's 1891-1892 demonstrations maps the physics and craft of high-frequency alternating currents. Through precise lecture prose interleaved with stage-ready experiments, Tesla details resonant transformers (the Tesla coil), capacitor discharges, brush and corona phenomena, and luminous effects in evacuated tubes, even single-wire lighting that foreshadows wireless
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Diary of Samuel Pepys (Summarized Edition)

Enriched edition. Restoration London in Plague, Fire, and the Anglo-Dutch War: Navy Board toil, Charles II's court, theatre revived, prices, music, and candor

by Samuel Pepys, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...

The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660-1669) offers the most immediate portrait of Restoration London, interlacing Navy Board labors with a city reborn under Charles II. In brisk shorthand entries, Pepys chronicles the Plague, the Fire, the Anglo-Dutch War, the theatre's revival, music, prices, and domestic economies. Its style fuses ledger precision, gossip, and self-scrutiny, positioning the work ... Read more

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The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660-1669) offers the most immediate portrait of Restoration London, interlacing Navy Board labors with a city reborn under Charles II. In brisk shorthand entries, Pepys chronicles the Plague, the Fire, the Anglo-Dutch War, the theatre's revival, music, prices, and domestic economies. Its style fuses ledger precision, gossip, and self-scrutiny, positioning the work
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History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne (Summarized Edition)

Enriched edition. From Late Roman Stoicism to Early Medieval Charity: Ethics and the Christianization of the West

by William Edward Hartpole Lecky, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...

History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 & 2) charts the shift in Western ethics from late Roman Stoicism to the Christian moral order of the early Middle Ages. Blending moral philosophy with social history, Lecky examines slavery, charity and hospitals, marriage and celibacy, suicide, persecution, and public amusements. In poised Victorian prose, with copious classical and ... Read more

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History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 & 2) charts the shift in Western ethics from late Roman Stoicism to the Christian moral order of the early Middle Ages. Blending moral philosophy with social history, Lecky examines slavery, charity and hospitals, marriage and celibacy, suicide, persecution, and public amusements. In poised Victorian prose, with copious classical and
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History of the British Army (Summarized Edition)

Enriched edition. How Britain Forged a Standing Army: Restoration Origins, Marlborough's Campaigns, and the War of the Spanish Succession

by J. W. Fortescue, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...

Volumes I and II of J. W. Fortescue's History of the British Army trace the rise of a permanent army from the Restoration to Marlborough. In lucid, authoritative prose, Fortescue narrates campaigns in Ireland and the Low Countries during the War of the Spanish Succession, while probing the institutional underpinnings—recruitment, finance, drill, logistics, command. Using orders of battle, official ... Read more

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Volumes I and II of J. W. Fortescue's History of the British Army trace the rise of a permanent army from the Restoration to Marlborough. In lucid, authoritative prose, Fortescue narrates campaigns in Ireland and the Low Countries during the War of the Spanish Succession, while probing the institutional underpinnings—recruitment, finance, drill, logistics, command. Using orders of battle, official
... Read more
The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Summarized Edition)

Enriched edition. A Restoration England journal of 17th-century life: Plague and Great Fire accounts, candid politics, and everyday social dynamics

by Samuel Pepys, Selene Dorswell, Samuel Harris ...

Translated by Mynors Bright ...

The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete collects the unexpurgated entries he kept from 1660 to 1669, a panorama of Restoration London from playhouse to Navy Office. Pepys chronicles the Great Plague, the Great Fire of 1666, and the Second Dutch War, interleaving public crises with domestic quarrels and pleasures. Written in Shelton shorthand, sprinkled with French and Spanish, its brisk, reportorial ... Read more

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The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete collects the unexpurgated entries he kept from 1660 to 1669, a panorama of Restoration London from playhouse to Navy Office. Pepys chronicles the Great Plague, the Great Fire of 1666, and the Second Dutch War, interleaving public crises with domestic quarrels and pleasures. Written in Shelton shorthand, sprinkled with French and Spanish, its brisk, reportorial
... Read more
History of France from the Earliest Times (Summarized Edition)

Enriched edition. From Roman Gaul to Capetian and early Valois rule: feudalism, the Church, communes, and the rise of the Third Estate

by François Guizot, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...

Translated by Robert Black ...

In History of France from the Earliest Times (Vol. 1–6), François Guizot offers a sweeping narrative from Roman Gaul and the Merovingian and Carolingian kingdoms to the consolidation of Capetian and early Valois monarchy. Weaving chronicles of Gregory of Tours, Einhard, Joinville, Villehardouin, and Froissart with institutional history, he anatomizes feudalism, the Church, communes, and the rising ... Read more

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In History of France from the Earliest Times (Vol. 1–6), François Guizot offers a sweeping narrative from Roman Gaul and the Merovingian and Carolingian kingdoms to the consolidation of Capetian and early Valois monarchy. Weaving chronicles of Gregory of Tours, Einhard, Joinville, Villehardouin, and Froissart with institutional history, he anatomizes feudalism, the Church, communes, and the rising
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High Adventure (Summarized Edition)

Enriched edition. An early World War I air-combat memoir from the Lafayette Escadrille to U.S. Air Service—mud, patrols, and biplane duels over the Western Front

by James Norman Hall, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...

High Adventure is James Norman Hall's lucid memoir of flying with the Lafayette Escadrille and the American Air Service in the First World War. From muddy forward fields to frigid patrols over the lines, Hall renders the improvisational tactics and fragile courage of early combat aviation—balloon attacks, escort work, sudden spirals of tracer and fabric—through clean prose that favors close ... Read more

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High Adventure is James Norman Hall's lucid memoir of flying with the Lafayette Escadrille and the American Air Service in the First World War. From muddy forward fields to frigid patrols over the lines, Hall renders the improvisational tactics and fragile courage of early combat aviation—balloon attacks, escort work, sudden spirals of tracer and fabric—through clean prose that favors close
... Read more
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Summarized Edition)

Enriched edition. Salons, censorship, and the Encyclopédie: a critical portrait of Enlightenment materialism and modern secular culture

by John Morley, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...

In Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (1878), John Morley offers a lucid intellectual biography of Denis Diderot and a history of the Encyclopédie, the Enlightenment's boldest machine for organizing knowledge. He reads Rameau's Nephew, Le Rêve de d'Alembert, Jacques le fataliste, the Salons, and technical entries alongside episodes of censorship and salon sociability. The style is Victorian but ... Read more

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In Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (1878), John Morley offers a lucid intellectual biography of Denis Diderot and a history of the Encyclopédie, the Enlightenment's boldest machine for organizing knowledge. He reads Rameau's Nephew, Le Rêve de d'Alembert, Jacques le fataliste, the Salons, and technical entries alongside episodes of censorship and salon sociability. The style is Victorian but
... Read more
A Voyage towards the South Pole and Round the World (Summarized Edition)

Enriched edition. An Enlightenment expedition: Antarctic Circle crossings, Pacific ethnography, and the fall of Terra Australis

by James Cook, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...

First published in 1777, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World (Vol. 1 and 2) distills Cook's 1772-1775 circumnavigation in HMS Resolution (with Furneaux's Adventure initially in company). In spare, data-rich prose he records multiple crossings of the Antarctic Circle, the collapse of Terra Australis, and visits to Tahiti, Tonga, Easter Island, New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, ... Read more

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First published in 1777, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World (Vol. 1 and 2) distills Cook's 1772-1775 circumnavigation in HMS Resolution (with Furneaux's Adventure initially in company). In spare, data-rich prose he records multiple crossings of the Antarctic Circle, the collapse of Terra Australis, and visits to Tahiti, Tonga, Easter Island, New Caledonia, the New Hebrides,
... Read more
Bartram's Travels (Summarized Edition)

Enriched edition. An Enlightenment-era naturalist travelogue of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida: taxonomy, field observation, and Creek & Cherokee encounters

by William Bartram, Samuel Harris, Samuel Harris ...

First published in 1791, Bartram's Travels surveys the Carolinas, Georgia, and East and West Florida, fusing precise natural history with soaring descriptive prose. Along the St. Johns River, the Alachua Savanna, and the Okefenokee, Bartram records flora and fauna in Linnaean terms, while rendering light, weather, and motion with proto-Romantic intensity. The narrative moves from measurements and ... Read more

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First published in 1791, Bartram's Travels surveys the Carolinas, Georgia, and East and West Florida, fusing precise natural history with soaring descriptive prose. Along the St. Johns River, the Alachua Savanna, and the Okefenokee, Bartram records flora and fauna in Linnaean terms, while rendering light, weather, and motion with proto-Romantic intensity. The narrative moves from measurements and
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Paralyzed Streets

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History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne (Summarized Edition)

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History of France from the Earliest Times (Summarized Edition)

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