Monday, June 29, 2009

Our Hero, General U. S. Grant/Google Books


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Our Hero, General U. S. Grant: When, Where, and how He Fought. In Words of One Syllable
Authors Josephine Pollard, Edwin Forbes
Illustrated by Edwin Forbes
Publisher McLoughlin brothers, 1885
Length 167 pages

Saturday, June 27, 2009

History of Russia for Younger Children/Google Books

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History of Russia in words of one syllable
Author Helen Ainslie Smith
Illustrated by Joseph L. Blamire, Edgar Barclay, Alexander De Rar, J. K.
Publisher A.L. Burt Co., 1898
Length 228 pages

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Stories from Don Quixote/Google Books

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Stories from Don Quixote: Written Anew for Young People
Authors James Baldwin, John Lang, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Publisher American book company, 1910
Length 287 pages

Monday, June 22, 2009

The Arithmetic Reader for Second Grade Pupils

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The arithmetic reader for second grade pupils
Authors Frank H. Hall, Geo. Sherwood & Co
Publisher Sherwood & Co., 1898
Length 96 pages

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Changes at Google Books

Today I noticed a whole new screen when I clicked into specific Google Books. There is no longer a button on the sidebar for HTML. I did find it on the bottom of the main page for Google Books. So now if you want to print off a few pages or images, you need to go to the Google Main Menu page and click at the bottom to HTML mode. This is the only way to copy and save images of specific pages to your computer. Entire books can still be downloaded to a PDF, and plain text is still available at the book links.

Or copy and paste: http://books.google.com/books?output=html into your browser.

Clickable link to go directly to Google Books in HTML mode.

The Stone-Millis Arithmetics Primary/Google Books

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

A History of Mathematics/Google Books

A history of mathematics
By Florian Cajori
Published by Macmillan & Co., 1893
422 pages

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Main page.

This would be appropriate for advanced high school students

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Boys of Other Countries/Internet Archives

BOYS OF OTHER COUNTRIES
STORIES FOR AMERICAN BOYS
BY BAYARD TAYLOR
NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
182 FIFTH AVENUE
1876


STORY I.
THE LITTLE POST-BOY
STORY II.
THE PASHA'S SON
STORY III.
JON OF ICELAND
STORY IV.
THE Two HERD-BOYS
STORY V.
THE YOUNG SERF

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Saturday, June 6, 2009

Heroic Legends/Google Books


Heroic Legends: The Stories of St. George and the Dragon, Robin Hood, Richard and Blondel, and Other Legends
By Agnes Grozier Herbertson, Helen Stratton
Contributor Leon J. Whitsell
Published by Blackie and Son, 1908
253 pages

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Elementary - early middle school.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Everyday Classics: Seventh Reader : American Life and Literature /Google Books

Everyday Classics: Seventh Reader : American Life and Literature for Grammar Grades and Junior High School
By Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike
Published by Macmillan Co., 1918
424 pages

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Thursday, June 4, 2009

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Heroes of Progress: Stories of Successful Americans/Google books

Heroes of Progress: Stories of Successful Americans
By Eva March Tappan
Published by Houghton Mifflin company, 1921
263 pages

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CONTENTS

John James Audubon, Lover and Student of Birds i

Mark Hopkins, President of Williams College . . . .11

Cyrus H. McCoRM1CK, Inventor of the Reaper .... 20

Charles Goodyear, a Man who Persevered .... 30

William T. G.morton, Master of Pain 39

Elias Howe, Inventor of the Sewing-Machine .... 47

Maria Mitchell, Astronomer and Teacher 54

Henry Oscar Houghton, Printer and Publisher . . .61

Cyrus W. Field, the Manwho Laid the Atlantic Cable. . .71

Jean Lou1s Rodolphe Agassiz, Beloved Teacher of Science . 79

Julia Ward Howe, Author of the "Battle Hymn of the Repub-

lic" 91

George Thorndike Angell, Knight of Kindness to Animals 97

Luther Burbank, Plant-Breeder 106

Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the Telephone . .115

John Wanamaker, Founder of the Departme.nl Store . . .122

Frances E. Willard, Temperance Reformer 132

Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross . . . 140

Booker T. Washington, Founder of Tuskegee Institute . . 147

Augustus Saint-gaudens, Greatest American Sculptor . .157

James Jerome Hill, Builder of Railroads 168

John Muir, the Man who Loved Trees and Mountains . .179

Theodore Thomas, the Man who Taught us to Love Music . 189

Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor 199

Edwin Austin Abbey, Illustrator and Painter .... 208

Samuel Pierpont Langley, Inventor of the First Heavier-than-

Air Flying Machine 217

Andrew Carnegie, the Man who Would not Die Rich . . 228

William Crawford Gorgas, who Made the Canal Zone

Safe 237

Robert E. Peary, Discoverer of the North Pole .... 245

George Washington Goethals, Builder of the Panama Canal 254

Monday, June 1, 2009

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Thursday, May 28, 2009

The Butterfly Vivarium; or, Insect Home/Google books


The butterfly vivarium; or, insect home: or, insect home
By Henry Noel Humphreys
Published 1858
Original from Oxford University
Digitized Sep 8, 2006Main page.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Learning to Read; a Manual for Teachers Using the Aldine Readers: A Manual and Readers/Google Books

Teacher's guide for Aldine Readers Primer through Book Two:

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Learning to Read; a Manual for Teachers Using the Aldine Readers: A Manual for Teachers Using The Aldine Readers
By Frank Ellsworth Spaulding, Catherine Turner Bryce
Edition: revised
Published by Newson & company, 1918
243 pages

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Aldine Readers:

The Aldine Readers Primer(Internet Archives)

The Aldine Readers: Book One

The Aldine Readers: Book Two

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Rollo's Experiments/Google Books


Rollo's Experiments
By Jacob Abbott, William Jay Baker, Sheldon & Company (New York, N.Y.)
Illustrated by Frederick M. Coffin
Contributor William Jay Baker, John Andrew, Sheldon & Company, Phillips, Sampson & Company
Published by Sheldon, 1862
180 pages

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About third - fourth grade level.

Friday, May 22, 2009

The New Century Third Reader/Google Books

The New Century Third Reader
By Henry S. Tibbits
Edition: revised
Published by Rand, McNally, 1899
238 pages

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Stories of Patriotism: A Patriotic Reader for the Intermediate Grades

Stories of patriotism: a patriotic reader for the intermediate grades
By Norma Helen Deming, Katharine Isabel Bemis
Published by Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918
190 pages


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