Explore books related to science, engineering, technology, the natural world, and ways of understanding how things work. This collection currently contains 13 titles in Literra’s catalogue.
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Joseph Planta's Account of the Romansh Language is an early scholarly description of a Romance language spoken in the Swiss Alps, presented through the careful observation of vocabulary, forms, and linguistic relationships. The work is important because Romansh occupies a distinctive position
A technical policy report surveying emerging automotive technologies, their engineering characteristics, economic implications, and potential effects on transportation
Ancient and Modern Physics places different eras of physical thought side by side, using their contrast to show how ideas about matter, motion, force, nature, and the universe change over time. The “ancient” side points toward the philosophical physics of Greece and earlier traditions, where
This U.S. Council of Economic Advisers report examines how AI and automation could affect productivity, jobs, wages, skills, and public policy
A NASA educational guide introducing the fundamentals of space missions, including orbits, spacecraft motion, propulsion, navigation, communications, and the constraints engineers work with
Book About Animals is an educational reader designed to introduce younger readers to the animal kingdom through accessible descriptions, observations, and stories. Works of this kind belong to the tradition of nineteenth-century natural-history books that tried to make scientific curiosity part
This French abolitionist discourse argues that slavery in the colonies should be destroyed and considers the means by which emancipation could be achieved. Presented to a learned society, the work reflects the eighteenth-century debate over whether slavery could be reconciled with morality
A specialist study of names, terminology, and linguistic or cultural nomenclature associated with the Maya, aimed at readers interested in Mesoamerican history and scholarship
NASA's handbook explains systems-engineering practice across a mission lifecycle, including requirements, architecture, design, verification, validation, risk, technical management, and integration
The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science presents Thomas Troward’s attempt to explain human consciousness, thought, spiritual principles, and the relationship between mind and reality. Writing from a New Thought perspective, Troward argues that the mind is not merely a passive receiver of
Darwin presents the theory of evolution by natural selection, using evidence from variation, breeding, geography, fossils, and adaptation to explain biological diversity
Town Geology is Charles Kingsley’s attempt to teach readers how to see geological evidence in the places where they already live. Instead of sending the reader to remote mountains or quarries, Kingsley looks at roads, buildings, stones, walls, excavations, and other ordinary features of towns
Within the Deep is an illustrated natural-history work concerned with the underwater world and the forms of life hidden beneath the surface. The companion phrases ‘Eyes and No Eyes’ suggest a theme that runs through popular science writing: learning to see what ordinary human perception overlooks
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