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Philosophy, society and educationP / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedBagehot, Walter, 1826-1877
Explore Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society through a foc...
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Sixth form / teacher-selectedPater, Walter, 1839-1894
Explore Plato and Platonism through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Plato”. Begin wit...
Philosophy, society and educationP / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedAristotle, 385 BCE-323 BCE; Ellis, William, 1730-1801 [Translator]
Explore Politics: A Treatise on Government through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Po...
Philosophy, society and educationP / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedJames, William, 1842-1910
Explore Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language...
Philosophy, society and educationP / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedShaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
Explore Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language editi...
Philosophy, society and educationP / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedHerschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), 1792-1871
Explore Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-lang...
Philosophy, society and educationP / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedMorris, William O'Connor, 1824-1904
Explore Present Irish Questions through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Ireland -- Po...
Philosophy, society and educationP / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedPlato, 428? BCE-348? BCE; Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893 [Translator]
Explore Protagoras through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Classical literature”. Beg...
Philosophy, society and educationP / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedDewey, John, 1859-1952
Explore Psychology and Social Practice through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Sociol...
Philosophy, society and educationQ / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedRousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778; Widger, David, 1932-2021 [Editor]
Explore Quotes and Images From The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this Engli...
Philosophy, society and educationR / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedDewey, John, 1859-1952
Explore Reconstruction in Philosophy through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Philosop...
German language discoveryR / RCReading & discovery
Research discovery / preview requiredFichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1762-1814
Reden an die deutsche Nation — German source edition. Subject: National characteristics, German.
Ideas and society discoveryR / RCReading & discovery
Research discovery / preview requiredHarris, William Torrey, 1835-1909; Draper, A. S. (Andrew Sloan), 1848-1913; Tarbell, H. S. (Horace Sumner), 1838-1904
Report of the Committee of Fifteen Read at the Cleveland Meeting of the Department of Superintendence, February 19-21, 1884, with the Debate — English sour...
Philosophy, society and educationR / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedEmerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Explore Representative Men: Seven Lectures through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Na...
Philosophy, society and educationR / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedDickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Explore Reprinted Pieces through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Fiction”. Begin with...
Philosophy, society and educationR / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedWilde, Oscar, 1854-1900; Ross, Robert Baldwin, 1869-1918 [Editor]
Explore Reviews through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Books -- Reviews”. Begin with...
Philosophy, society and educationR / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedMacDonald, George, 1824-1905
Explore Robert Falconer through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Scotland -- Fiction”....
Philosophy, society and educationS / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedRuskin, John, 1819-1900
Explore Saint Ursula: I. The Story of St. Ursula. II. The Dream of St. Ursula. through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records thi...
Philosophy, society and educationS / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedNightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
Explore Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-...
Philosophy, society and educationS / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedCarlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
Explore Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records th...
Philosophy, society and educationS / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedCarlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
Explore Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-...
Philosophy, society and educationS / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedDewey, John, 1859-1952; Dewey, Evelyn, 1889-1965
Explore Schools of to-morrow through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Education -- Uni...
Philosophy, society and educationS / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedDefoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Explore Second Thoughts are Best: Or a Further Improvement of a Late Scheme to Prevent Street Robberies through a focused reading session. Project Gutenber...
Philosophy, society and educationS / RCReading & discovery
Sixth form / teacher-selectedLocke, John, 1632-1704
Explore Second Treatise of Government through a focused reading session. Project Gutenberg’s catalogue records this English-language edition under “Politic...
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