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• Simoniacal Entry into Religious Life from 1000 to 1260: A Social, Economic, and Legal Study (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by Joseph H. Lynch
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

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• The First and Second Books of Discipline, by Church of Scotland (HTML at Still Waters)

• A (Pretended) Visitor Visited, For Not Visiting According to His Bounden Duty Required by Ancient and Modern Canons. (also has Hebrew title; London: Printed by H. Clark for the author, 1690) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reflection, in Vindication of One Arch-Deacon (and Consequently of All) from the Scurrilous and Groundless Invectives Against Him (Besides Several Other More Eminent Persons) in a Late Scandalous Pamplet, Intituled, A Pretended Visitor Visited (London: Printed for A. Churchil, 1690) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• On Modesty, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

• English Penitential Discipline and Anglo-Saxon Law in Their Joint Influence (Columbia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law v107 #2 (whole #242); 1923), by Thomas Pollock Oakley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• English Penitential Discipline and Anglo-Saxon Law in Their Joint Influence (Columbia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law v107 #2 (whole #242); 1923), by Thomas Pollock Oakley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events (London: Methuen and Co., 1891), by S. Baring-Gould
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Confessions: The Philosophy of Transparency (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2012), by Thomas Docherty (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury)
• The Priest, the Woman, and the Confessional (Chicago: A. Craig and Co., 1880), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (illustrated HTML at jesus-is-lord.com)
• The Priest, the Woman, and the Confessional (Chicago: A. Craig and Co., 1887), by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Confessional: A View of Romanism in its Actual Principles, Aims, and Workings, Drawn up Chiefly from Authoritative Papal Sources, and Earnestly Recommended to the Dispassionate Consideration of Christendom (London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., ca. 1859), by J. R. Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Startling Facts: or, Deeds of Darkness Disclosed Relative to Auricular Confession, and its Relations to Sacerdotal Celibacy, Convents, Monasteries, Morality, and Civil and Religious Liberty (Cincinnati: Pub. by the author, 1875), by J. G. White
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Confessional Imagination: A Reading of Wordsworth's Prelude (originally published 1974; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Frank D. McConnell (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• In the Grip of Minos: Confessional Discourse in Dante, Corneille, and Racine, by Matthew Senior
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

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

• The Future of Financial Privacy: Private Choices versus Political Rules (2000), by Competitive Enterprise Institute (PDF files at cei.org)

• The Hypocritical Hegemon: How the United States Shapes Global Rules Against Tax Evasion and Avoidance (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2020), by Lukas Hakelberg (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• 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)

• Health Data in the Information Age: Use, Disclosure, and Privacy (1994), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Health Data in the Information Age: Use, Disclosure, and Privacy (1994), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Protecting Privacy in Computerized Medical Information (OTA-TCT-576; 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patient's Guide to HIPAA: How to Use the Law to Guard Your Health Privacy (version 2.0; Lake Oswego, OR: World Privacy Forum, c2019), by Robert Gellman, contrib. by Pam Dixon (HTML with commentary at worldprivacyforum.org)
• For the Record: Protecting Electronic Health Information, by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML and page images at NAP)

• With Liberty to Monitor All: How Large-Scale US Surveillance is Harming Journalism, Law, and American Democracy (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2014), by G. Alex Sinha (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, Pursuant to Public Law 236, 103rd Congress (1997), by United States Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (PDF files at govinfo.gov)
• Criminal Prohibitions on Leaks and Other Disclosures of Classified Defense Information (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2017), by Stephen P. Mulligan and Jennifer Elsea (PDF at fas.org)

• Criminal Prohibitions on Leaks and Other Disclosures of Classified Defense Information (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2017), by Stephen P. Mulligan and Jennifer Elsea (PDF at fas.org)

• Transforming the Security Classification System: Report to the President (2012), by United States Public Interest Declassification Board (PDF at archives.gov)
• A Review of the Department of Energy Classification Policy and Practice (1995), by National Research Council Board on Radioactive Waste Management (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, Pursuant to Public Law 236, 103rd Congress (1997), by United States Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy (PDF files at govinfo.gov)

• The Fall of Spydom (c1992), by Alfred De Grazia (HTML at grazian-archive.com)

• Finding a Balance: Computer Software, Intellectual Property, and the Challenge of Technological Change (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• The Order of Excommunication and of Public Repentance, by John Knox (HTML at Still Waters)

• Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (also known as the 95 theses), by Martin Luther
  • HTML at Project Wittenberg
  • HTML at Bartleby
• Romish Indulgences of To-Day, or, Is Tetzel Dead? An Exposure: Being the Record and Result of a Correspondence With an English Roman Catholic anent Rome's Present-Day Traffic in Bulls (London: Imperial Protestant Federation, ca. 1902), by Fulano (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Treatise on Indulgences (London: J. Burns, 1848), by J. B. Bouvier, contrib. by Frederick Oakeley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Codex Documentorum Sacratissimarum Indulgentiarum Neerlandicarum: Verzameling van Stukken Betreffende de Pauselijke Aflaten in de Nederlanden (1300-1600) (in Latin; The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1922), by Paul Frédéricq
  • page images at Huygens Institute of Netherlands History
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Treatise on Indulgences (London: J. Burns, 1848), by J. B. Bouvier, contrib. by Frederick Oakeley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1857), by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, illust. by Edward Henry Wehnert, Myles Birket Foster, and Edward Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Devotion to Nutrition (New York: Vantage Press, c1954), by Frederick Hoelzel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fasting Cure (New York and London: Mitchell Kennerley, 1911), by Upton Sinclair
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at soilandhealth.org

• The Spirituality of Fasting (revised 1997), by Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria Shanūdah III, illust. by Sister Sawsan (illustrated HTML at tasbeha.org)

• A Hunger for God: Desiring God Through Fasting and Prayer, by John Piper (PDF with commentary at desiringgod.org)
• On Fasting, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

• The Spirituality of Fasting (revised 1997), by Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria Shanūdah III, illust. by Sister Sawsan (illustrated HTML at tasbeha.org)

• Fast (revised edition, 1974), by Akhtar Rizvi (frame-dependent HTML at al-islam.org)

• Pagan Holidays, or God's Holy Days: Which?, by Herbert W. Armstrong (multiple formats with commentary at thetrumpet.com)
• The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals (Los Angeles et al.: St. Alban Press, 1920), by C. W. Leadbeater
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Festival of the Dead (reprinted as New Materials for the History of Man #1; Toronto: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1920), by R. G. Haliburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pilgrimage of Etheria (1919 SPCK edition of all extant portions of this work), by Egeria, trans. by M. L. McClure and Charles Lett Feltoe (HTML at CCEL)
• The Pilgrimage of S. Silvia of Aquitania to the Holy Places (Circ. 385 A.D.) (in English only (Latin text omitted); London: Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, 1896), by Egeria, ed. by J. H. Bernard, contrib. by Charles William Wilson (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

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