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• Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy (Cambridge, UK et al: Cambridge University Press, c2018), by James Williams (PDF and HTML with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• The Power of Concentration, by Theron Q. Dumont (Gutenberg text)
• The Psychology of Attention (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 1890), by Th. Ribot (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Totally Bored Boris!, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Compassionate Listening: An Exploratory Sourcebook About Conflict Transformation, by Gene Knudsen-Hoffman, Leah Green, and Cynthia Monroe, ed. by Dennis Rivers (HTML and PDF at coopcomm.org)

• Privacy and Human Rights, by Privacy International and Electronic Privacy Information Center (full serial archives)

• Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (second edition; Fort George G. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005), by Robert J. Hanyok (PDF at nsa.gov)

• Summary of Task Force Report on Inquiry into CIA-Related Electronic Surveillance Activities Disclosed in Rockefeller Commission Report (redacted draft; originally top secret; 1977), contrib. by George W. Calhoun and United States Department of Justice (PDF at gwu.edu)
• Report on Inquiry into CIA-Related Electronic Surveillance Activities (redacted copy; originally top secret; 1976), by United States Department of Justice (PDF at documentcloud.org)

• Surveillance and Society (2002-) (full serial archives)

• Surveillance and Society (2002-) (full serial archives)

• Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (second edition; Fort George G. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005), by Robert J. Hanyok (PDF at nsa.gov)

• Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption (updated and expanded edition; Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2007), by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Eva Landau (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Warrantless Wiretapping: Hearings Before the Subcommitee on Administrative Practive and Procedure of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Second Congress, Second Session, on Practices and Procedures of the Department of Justice for Warrantless Wiretapping and Other Electronic Surveillance, June 29, 1972. (Washington: GPO, 1973), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics and Chip Design (1998), by Electronic Frontier Foundation (HTML at cryptome.org and other sites)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy (Cambridge, UK et al: Cambridge University Press, c2018), by James Williams (PDF and HTML with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• A Remedy for Wandering Thoughts in the Worship of God (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1835), by Richard Steele (page images at HathiTrust)

• Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy (Cambridge, UK et al: Cambridge University Press, c2018), by James Williams (PDF and HTML with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• A Puzzling Pair (New York et al.: F. H. Revell Co., 1898), by Amy Le Feuvre, illust. by Eveline Lance
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google

• A New History of Blue Beard (adapted from Perrault's 'Barbe Bleue'; Philadelphia: Printed by J. Adams, 1804), by Gaffer Black Beard, contrib. by Charles Perrault
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Blue Beard, or, Fatal Curiosity: A Tale of the Olden Time, Intended for the Amusement of All Good Children (Derby, England, and London: John and Charles Mozley, ca. 1832), by Charles Perrault (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Human and Machine Consciousness (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018), by David Gamez (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Organic Creativity and the Physics Within (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2013), by Mea M. M. Lowcre, ed. by Johan Hoorn (Javascript-dependent PDF at benjamins.com)
• Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by David Ray Griffin (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Ultimate Computing: Biomolecular Consciousness and Nanotechnology (1987), by Stuart R. Hameroff (HTML and PDF with commentary at quantumconsciousness.org)
• The Cerebral Symphony: Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousness, by William H. Calvin (HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind (based on the 1901 edition), ed. by Richard Maurice Bucke (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind (Philadelphia: Innes and Sons, 1905), ed. by Richard Maurice Bucke
  • PDF at djm.cc
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Science of Consciousness, by Dr. Jagadishomritunjay (frame-dependent HTML at archive.org)
• States of Consciousness, by Charles T. Tart (HTML at druglibrary.org)
• Study in Consciousness: A Contribution to the Science of Psychology (second edition, 1915), by Annie Besant (HTML at anandgholap.net)
• Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, by Henri Bergson, trans. by Frank Lubecki Pogson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tertium Organum, The Third Canon of Thought: A Key to the Enigmas of the World (second American edition; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922), by P. D. Uspenskii, trans. by Nicholas Bessaraboff and Claude Fayette Bragdon (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language, by William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann (HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• Metaphysics: or, The Philosophy of Consciousness, Phenomenal and Real (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1860), by Henry Longueville Mansel (page images at Google)
• The Phenomenology of Mind (2 volumes; London: S. Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: Macmillan, 1910), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, trans. by J. B. Baillie
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Subject of Consciousness, by Cedric Oliver Evans (HTML at mentalstates.net)
• The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence, by William H. Calvin (HTML at williamcalvin.com)

• Foundation for a New Consciousness: An Essay on Art, Science and Religion, by John Caris (illustrated HTML at Westgate House)

• The Epic of Consciousness, by Swami Krishnananda (HTML at Divine Life Society)
• From Science to God: The Mystery of Consciousness and the Meaning of Light, by Peter Russell (HTML with commentary at peterrussell.com)

• Human and Machine Consciousness (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018), by David Gamez (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Psychography: A Treatise on One of the Objective Forms of Psychic or Spiritual Phenomena, by William Stainton Moses (PDF at meilach.com)
• The Gospel of Philip the Deacon (complete edition, 1932 (Smith died in 1949)), by Frederick Bligh Bond and Hester Travers Smith (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• Belief in God (second edition; Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1888), by Alfred Williams Momerie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Excellent Religion: An Essay on the Relations Existing Between Agnosticism, the Polar Theory of Being, and the Higher Theism (London: Watts and Co., ca. 1890), by George Chetwynd Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Psychology of Confidence: An Experimental Inquiry (Archives of Psychology #67, 1923), by William Clark Trow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On Causation, With a Chapter on Belief (London: Longman's Green and Co., 1916), by Charles Arthur Mercier (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Number Concept: Its Origin and Development, by Levi L. Conant (page images at Cornell)
• Elementary Arithmetic: Its Meaning and Practice (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1947), by B. R. Buckingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chinese Reader's Manual: A Handbook of Biographical, Historical, Mythological, and General Literary Reference (reprinted from the edition of 1874; London: Probsthain and Co.; Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1910), by William Frederick Mayers (page images at HathiTrust)

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