Editions Le Mono: 218 books

The origin of the seven-day week is one of the great mysteries in the human history. Many of us don’t know which process had determined this seven-day week that rules our life and activities. The English names of the seven days derived from the Saxon. The ancient Saxons had borrowed the week...

“It has been by imitating nature's methods and by augmentation of the natural forces of defense, that good has been achieved..." - Common observations early indicated that individuals of all animal species, and of the human species especially, were very unequally subject to disease....

Alcohol is an important factor in modern civilizations, the source of great revenues to states, and of immense wealth to those who deal in products containing it. While wine, beer, hydromel, etc., have been in use from prehistoric times, the active principle common to them which produces the pleasant...

The fungi as a class may hardly be called popular. For various reasons they are, so to speak, under a cloud. They are little known, and so in lieu of better information the legend "poison" seems to run for all the finer and more showy species. If not held absolutely poisonous, most are at...

With the exception of the banana, the cultivated plants which were shared with America by the natives of the islands of the Pacific and of the old world tropics appear to be of American origin, and the wide distribution of these plants in the east and the relatively recent domestication of the old...

Based on the studies of great authors, this book deals with the origin of right or left handedness. "The question "why are we right or left handed?" has exercised the speculative ingenuity of many men. It has come to the front anew in recent years in view of the advances made in the...

De façon générale, l’habitude est un penchant acquis par l’exercice des mêmes sentiments, ou par la répétition fréquente des mêmes actions. Elle éduque la nature et la change ; elle donne de l’énergie aux sens, de la facilité et de la force aux mouvements du corps et aux facultés...

This book presents the history of the automobile and its evolution. The 19th century is marked by unparalleled advances in science and its applications to the industrial arts. The automobile is looked upon as an ultra progressive idea. The records, however, show that the subject engrossed the attention...