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• Premature Death in the New Independent States, ed. by Jose Luis Bobadilla, Christine A. Costello, and Faith Mitchell (page images with commentary at NAP)

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• Psychology: A Class Manual in the Philosophy of Organic and Rational Life (originally published 1936; reprinted St. Louis and London: B. Herder Book Co., 1957), by Paul J. Glenn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and Habit (London: Jonathan Cape, 1910), by Samuel Butler, contrib. by R. A. Streatfeild (Gutenberg text)
• The World of Life: A Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose (London: Chapman and Hall, 1910), by Alfred Russel Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• The World of Life: A Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1911), by Alfred Russel Wallace (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Historie of Life and Death, With Observations Naturall and Experimentall For the Prolonging of Life (London: Printed by I. Okes for H. Mosley, 1638), by Francis Bacon
  • page images at Google
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• The Historie of Life and Death, With Observations Naturall and Experimentall For the Prolonging of Life (London: Printed by I. Okes for H. Mosley, 1638), by Francis Bacon
  • page images at Google
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• Man a Machine, by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, trans. by Gertrude Carman Bussey (HTML with notes at bactra.org)
• Man a Machine (with Frederick the Great's eulogy of the author; Chicago: Open Court Pub. Co., 1912), by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, trans. by Gertrude Carman Bussey and Mary Whiton Calkins, contrib. by King of Prussia Frederick II
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Aristotle's Compleat Master-Piece, in Three Parts (17th edition, 1728), by Pseudo Aristotele (page images at NIH)
• The Works of Aristotle, the Famous Philosopher (the 1735 canon of this pseudonymous work), by Pseudo Aristotele (HTML with commentary at exclassics.com)

• Lucina Sine Concubitu: A Letter Humbly Address'd to the Royal Society (second edition; London: M. Cooper, 1750), by John Hill (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Aristotle's Compleat And Experienc'd Midwife (8th edition; London: Printed and sold by the booksellers, ca. 1740), by Pseudo Aristotele, ed. by William Salmon (page images at NIH)

• A Letter to a Lady on the Mode of Conducting Herself During Pregnancy; Also on the Management of the Infant (London: Printed by Baker and Galabin, 1777), by Sarah Brown (HTML at ECCO TCP)

• A Letter to a Lady on the Mode of Conducting Herself During Pregnancy; Also on the Management of the Infant (London: Printed by Baker and Galabin, 1777), by Sarah Brown (HTML at ECCO TCP)

• The Individual in the Animal Kingdom (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1912), by Julian Huxley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Controversies in the Determination of Death: A White Paper of the President's Council on Bioethics (2008), by President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.) (HTML and PDF at Georgetown)

• Observation Intéressante et Mémoire a Consulter Sur la Maladie d'une Petite Fille et l'État de Son Cadavre: Où L'on Invite les Habiles Médecins du Royaume À Prononcer Sur la Cause de Sa Mort (in French; 1778), by Gabriel-Hubert Retz (page images at NIH)

• Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die (2010), ed. by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki ! (PDF files with commentary at machineofdeath.net)

• The Counterfeiters (Les Faux-Monnayeurs) (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1927), by André Gide, trans. by Dorothy Bussy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 2 B R 0 2 B (as published in Worlds of If Science Fiction, 1962), by Kurt Vonnegut (Gutenberg text and page images)

• Messiah (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1954), by Gore Vidal (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Squaw Man: A Novel (based on play by Royle; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1906), by Julie Opp, contrib. by Edwin Milton Royle
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Squaw Man: A Novel (based on play by Royle; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1906), by Julie Opp, contrib. by Edwin Milton Royle (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dödsorsaker (in Swedish) (partial serial archives)

• An Essay on Suspended Animation (Philadelphia: E. Parker, 1823), by Samuel Colhoun
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Inert Gases in the Control of Museum Insect Pests (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1998), by Charles Selwitz and Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Diary of a Suicide (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1913), by Wallace E. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Suicide: Étude de Sociologie (in French; Paris; F. Alcan, 1897), by Émile Durkheim (Gutenberg text)
• Suicide and Its Antidotes: A Series of Anecdotes and Actual Narratives, With Suggestions on Mental Distress (London: J. Robins and Co., 1824), by Solomon Piggott
  • PDF at Stanford
  • Javascript-dependent page images at wellcomelibrary.org

• Biathanatos: A Modern-Spelling Edition, With Introduction and Commentary (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1982), by John Donne, ed. by Michael Rudick and M. Pabst Battin (PDF files at Wayback Machine)
• Biathanatos: A Declaration of That Paradoxe Or Thesis, That Selfe-Homicide Is Not So Naturally Sinne, That It May Never Be Otherwise, Wherein the Nature and the Extent of All Those Lawes, Which Seeme To Be Violated by This Act, Are Diligently Surveyed (London: Printed by J. Dawson, ca. 1644), by John Donne, ed. by John Donne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Biathanatos: Reproduced from the First Edition, With a Bibliographical Note (New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1930), by John Donne, contrib. by J. William Hebel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories (1988), by Barbara T. Gates (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Biathanatos: Reproduced from the First Edition, With a Bibliographical Note (New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1930), by John Donne, contrib. by J. William Hebel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biathanatos: A Declaration of That Paradoxe Or Thesis, That Selfe-Homicide Is Not So Naturally Sinne, That It May Never Be Otherwise, Wherein the Nature and the Extent of All Those Lawes, Which Seeme To Be Violated by This Act, Are Diligently Surveyed (London: Printed by J. Dawson, ca. 1644), by John Donne, ed. by John Donne (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Guilt, Folly, and Sources of Suicide, by Samuel Miller (HTML at Still Waters)

• Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative (2002), ed. by Sara K. Goldsmith, Terry C. Pellmar, Arthur M. Kleinman, and William E. Bunney (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories (1988), by Barbara T. Gates (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin (Washington: Joseph Henry Press, 2005), by Robert M. Hazen (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Search for Life's Origins: Progress and Future Directions in Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution (1990), by National Research Council Space Studies Board (page images at NAP)
• The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1905), by Ernst Haeckel, trans. by Joseph McCabe
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• Life and Matter: A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the Universe" (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905), by Oliver Lodge (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Natural Philosophy of Love (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922), by Remy de Gourmont, trans. by Ezra Pound (Gutenberg text)
• Physique de l'Amour: Essai sur l'Instinct Sexuel (in French; Paris: Société du Mercure de France, 1903), by Remy de Gourmont (Gutenberg text)
• Das Liebesleben in der Natur: Eine Entwickelungsgeschichte der Liebe (in German; Jena: E. Diederichs, 1921), by Wilhelm Bölsche (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Intracellular Pangenesis, Including a Paper on Fertilization and Hybridization (Chicago, The Open Court Publishing Co., 1910), by Hugo de Vries, trans. by C. Stuart Gager (PDF files at esp.org)
• Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems, by August Weismann, ed. by Edward B. Poulton, Selmar Schonland, and Arthur E. Shipley (PDF files at esp.org)

• Geschichte der Lehre von den Keimkräften, von der Stoa bis zum Ausgang der Patristik, nach den Quellen Dargestellt (in German; Bonn : Peter Hansteins Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1914), by Hans Meyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vital Energetics: A Study in Comparative Basal Metabolism (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #503; 1938), by Francis Gano Benedict (page images at HathiTrust)

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