Dreams for Dead Bodies : Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction /

Robinson argues that the detective genre’s lineage lies in experimental works on the margins of what we recognize as classical detective fiction today. Authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Rudolph Fisher drew on detective fiction’s puzzle-elements to wrestle with complicated questions about race and labor in the U.S.

An inquiry concerning the lawfulness of marriage between parties previously related by consanguinity or affinity. Also, a short history of opinions in different ages and countries, and of the action of ecclesiastical bodies on that subject. Microform

Mode of access: Internet.

On the motions of the earth and heavenly bodies, as explainable by electro-magnetic attraction and repulsion, and on the conception, growth, and decay of man, and cause and treatment of his diseases, as referable to galvanic action.

Mode of access: Internet.

An experimental inquiry into the cause of the changes of colours in opake and coloured bodies. With an historical preface relative to the parts of philosophy therein examined, and to the several arts and manufactures dependent upon them.

The last section, p. [95]-138, is entitled: "A letter to the right honorable the Earl of Morton, president of the Royal Society, containing experiments and observations on the agreement between the specific gravities of the several metals, and their colours when united to glass, as well as those of their other preparations. With additions. By Edward Delaval, F. R. S. Read at the Royal Society, Jan. 24, 1765."

Essays and observations on the construction and graduation of thermometers, and on the heating and cooling of bodies.

Mode of access: Internet.

A return of departed spirits of the highest characters of distinction as well as the indiscriminate of all nations, into the bodies of the "Shakers," or "United society of believers in the second advent of the Messiah."

Mode of access: Internet.

A system of chemistry of inorganic bodies.

Mode of access: Internet.

The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation : in two parts. Viz. The heavenly bodies, elements, meteors, fossils, vegetables, animals (beasts, birds, fishes, and insects), more particularly in the body of the earth, its figure, motion, and consistency, and in the admirable structure of the bodies of man and other animals, as also in their generation, &c. : with answers to some objections /

First published: 1691.

A general chronological history of the air, weather, seasons, meteors, &c. in sundry places and different times : more particularly for the space of 250 years : together with some of their most remarkable effects on animal (especially human) bodies and vegetables.

Includes index.

The world unmask'd : or, The philosopher the greatest cheat. In twenty-four dialogues between Crito a philosopher, Philo a lawyer, and Erastus a merchant. To which is added The state of souls separated from their bodies. In answer to a treatise entitled An enquiry into Origenism /

Translation of Le monde fou préféré au monde sage, en vingt-quatre promenades, ascribed to B. L. de Muralt.

The Sumner line of position furnished ready to lay down upon the chart by means of tables of simultaneous hour angle and azimuth of celestial bodies. Latitude 60æ N. to 60æ S.--declination 27æ N. to 27æ S.

"The plan of arrangement and scope of these tables, as well as the method of using them in navigation, were conceived by Mr. G.W. Littehales, C.E. Hydrographic office, Washington D.C."--Pref., p.iii.

Pastor Blumhardt : a record of the wonderful spiritual and physical manifestations of God's power in healing souls and bodies, through the prayers of His servant, Christoph Blumhardt / by R. Kelso Carter.

Mode of access: Internet.

The hundred Boston orators appointed by the municipal authorities and other public bodies, from 1770 to 1852 : comprising historical gleanings illustrating the principles and progress of our republican institutions /

Includes index.

Mechanics of internal work (or work of deformation) in elastic bodies and systems in equilibrium, including the method of least work,

Mode of access: Internet.

Physiology for the young. Our bodies; or, How we live. An elementary text-book of physiology and hygiene for use in the common schools, with special reference to the effects of stimulants and narcotics on the human system,

Published also under title: Our bodies and how we live.