Editions Le Mono: 218 books

This book presents the history of Royal Children of Kingdom of England. - Alfred the Great - Prince Arthur - Henry the Third - The First Prince of Wales - Edward the Black Prince - Henry the Fifth and the Baby King

Jeanne d’Arc (Joan the Arc) is a national heroine of France who asserted that she had visions from God which instructed her to recover her homeland France from English domination. She led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years’s War. "Since the writing of...

« I also know of something strange, so strange that it has haunted me all my life. It is now fifty-six years since the incident occurred, and yet not a month passes that I do not see it again in a dream, so great is the impression of fear it has left on my mind. For ten minutes I experienced such...

Paul Heyse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1910. "On a still spring night, that had followed on a stormy day, a young woman sat alone by her little lamp, watching and wakeful, although in every other room of that old house, the lights had been put out above an hour before....

John Dalton was an English scientist known for his famous work in the development of modern atomic theory; and his research on color-blindness (daltonism), in which the affected person is unable to distinguish between red and green.

The San Francisco earthquake of 1906, was one of several large earthquakes recorded. What were the causes and the impacts on the region? "Whatever the earthquake danger may be, it is a thing to be dealt with on the ground by skillful engineering, not avoided by flight: and the proper basis for...

When the white man landed on these shores he found them covered with a dense forest, the home of the bear, the elk, the lynx, and the other wild animals indigenous to this country. The only human inhabitants were the red Indians, who roved the forest, "the children of the shade"—the chase...

This book gathered works to understand slavery from a study of the behavior of the workers of ants. The bearing on the origin of slavery of the obvious and fundamental fact that there is a double ontogeny and phylogeny in social organisms, namely, one of the colony as well as one of the individual,...

This Historical Essay is published by "History and Civilization Collection". "Of all the wonderful operations accomplished by the aid of electricity, none so completely mystifies the beholder as the action of the trolley car..."

History of New York Island and Harbor: - New York in Ancient Geological Times. - New York in the Ice Period. - Why New York is the Commercial Metropolis of the United States.

This book presents the development of Wool and Textile industry in America. "Until the year 1840 the wool manufacture of the United States was exclusively confined to the woolen form. In that year the first delaines made in this country were manufactured at a mill in Ballardvale, Mass. All the...

Sea-Sickness symptoms are experienced by many persons when they are subjected to the pitching and rolling motion of a vessel at sea. Plutarch was, perhaps, the first theorist on the subject. He thought that sea-sickness was caused by the smell of the salt-water; and, following him, men have propounded...

This book relates the evolution of dancing, with illustrations of dancers and style of dance. Dancing, as an art, has been of gradual growth, and subject to the law of evolution. ... Folk-dancing was the first to rise into finished art. It has been rightly called "the eldest of the arts,"...

The Zuni Indians are Native Americans; a Pueblo tribe residing at Zuni on the bank of the Rio Zuni near the boundary of New Mexico, and in the adjoining villages of Nutria, Ojo Caliente, and Pescado. They were discovered by Fray Marcos de Niza, a Franciscan missionary in 1539. Fray Marcos accompanied...