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• Ethical Implications of Unity and the Divine in Nicholas of Cusa (1998), by David J. De Leonardis (PDF at crvp.org)

• Mind as a Cause and Cure of Disease, Presented From a Medical, Scientific and Religious Point of View (Chicago: The author, 1914), by Eli Beers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Aesculapian Register (full serial archives)

• Smart Health Choices: Making Sense of Health Advice (London: Hammersmith Press, 2008), by Les Irwig, Judy Irwig, Lyndal Trevena, and Melissa Sweet (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• Fourteen Fountains of Youth (Sepulveda, CA: Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Administration Medical Center, ca. 1990), by Arthur Cherkin and John E. Morley, illust. by Hermine Kavanau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches (4 volumes; 2008), ed. by Kerm Henriksen, James Bruce Battles, Margaret A. Keyes, and Mary L. Grady
  • Volume 1 (Assessment): HTML at NIH
  • Volume 2 (Culture and Redesign): HTML at NIH
  • Volume 3 (Performance and Tools): HTML at NIH
  • Volume 4 (Technology and Medication Safety): HTML at NIH
• Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation (4 volumes; 2005), ed. by Kerm Henriksen, James Bruce Battles, Eric S. Marks, and David I. Lewin
  • Volume 1 (Research Findings): HTML at NIH
  • Volume 2 (Concepts and Methodology): HTML at NIH
  • Volume 3 (Implementation Issues): HTML at NIH
  • Volume 4 (Programs, Tools, and Products): HTML at NIH

• The Primary Synopsis of Universology and Alwato: The New Scientific Universal Language (New York: D. Thomas, 1871), by Stephen Pearl Andrews (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (4th edition), by George Berkeley (HTML at York)
• An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision (1732 and 1709 editions), by George Berkeley (multiple formats in Ireland)
• An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, by George Berkeley (Gutenberg text)
• The Theory of Vision, Vindicated and Explained (Cambridge and London: Macmillan, 1860), by George Berkeley, ed. by H. V. H. Cowell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Erkennen und Wissen nach Gregor von Rimini: Ein Beitrag Zur Geschichte der Erkenntnistheorie des Nominalismus (in German; Münster: Aschendorff, 1917), by Joseph Würsdörfer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Philosophy of Science and Education: Chinese and European Views (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1995), ed. by Shen Qingsong, Tran Van Doan, and Fritz Wallner (multiple formats at Google)
• Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2013), by Timothy Morton (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• A Defence of Idealism: Some Questions and Conclusions (London: Macmillan and Co., 1917), by May Sinclair (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essays in Experimental Logic (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1916), by John Dewey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Speculations (2010-) (full serial archives)

• Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Gregory Crane (HTML at UC Press)

• The Thirteen Pragmatisms and Other Essays (originally published 1963; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Pragmatism and the Crisis of Democracy (Public policy pamphlet #12; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934), by Charles W. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Metaphysics of Pragmatism (Chicago and London: Open Court Pub. Co., 1927), by Sidney Hook, contrib. by John Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pragmatism and Theory in English Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #39; London: Stevens and Sons, 1987), by P. S. Atiyah (PDF in the UK)
• Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1923), by Charles S. Peirce, ed. by Morris R. Cohen, contrib. by John Dewey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Pragmatism, by D. L. Murray, contrib. by F. C. S. Schiller (Gutenberg text)
• Pragmatism: A New Name For Some Old Ways of Thinking, by William James (Gutenberg text)
• Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1917), by John Dewey, Addison Webster Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George Herbert Mead, Boyd Henry Bode, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts, and Horace Meyer Kallen (Gutenberg text)
• Die Philosophie des Als Ob: System der Theoretischen, Praktischen und Religiösen Fiktionen der Menschheit auf Grund eines Idealistischen Positivismus, Mit Einem Anhang Über Kant und Nietzsche (7th and 8th edition, in German; Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1922), by Hans Vaihinger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dogmatism and Evolution: Studies in Modern Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 1910), by Theodore De Laguna and Grace Andrus De Laguna (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essays in Radical Empiricism, by William James (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Meaning of Truth, by William James (Gutenberg text)
• The Philosophy of William James, Drawn From His Own Works (New York: Modern Library, c1925), by William James, ed. by Horace Meyer Kallen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vital Lies: Studies of Some Varieties of Recent Obscurantism (2 volumes; London: J. Lane; et al., 1912), by Vernon Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Last Stand of Dialectic Materialism: A Study of Sidney Hook's Marxism (New York: Polemic Publishers, 1934), by Max Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Art in History, History in Art: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1991), ed. by David Freedberg and Jan De Vries (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• American Impressionist and Realist Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz, Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19 April through 3 June 1973 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1973), by Dianne H. Pilgrim, contrib. by John K. Howat (multiple formats with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Geoffrey Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• For Love or For Money: Balzac's Rhetorical Realism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Armine Kotin Mortimer (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dickens's Hyperrealism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by John Robert Reed (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Limits of Realism: Chinese Fiction in the Revolutionary Period (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Marston Anderson (HTML at UC Press)
• The Novel-Machine: The Theory and Fiction of Anthony Trollope (originally published 1980; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Walter M. Kendrick (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• A Superficial Reading of Henry James: Preoccupations with the Material World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Thomas J. Otten (PDF at Ohio State)
• On Howells: The Best From American Literature (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), ed. by Edwin Harrison Cady and Louis J. Budd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Primitive Minds: Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Anna Neill (PDF at Ohio State)
• Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siècle: The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Molly Youngkin (PDF at Ohio State)
• After the Vows Were Spoken: Marriage in American Literary Realism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Allen F. Stein (PDF at Ohio State)
• Literature and Reality (New York: International Publishers, c1950), by Howard Fast (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chinese Film: Realism and Convention From the Silent Era to the Digital Age (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2022), by Jason McGrath (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Cinema is the Strongest Weapon: Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2023), by Lorenzo Fabbri (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007), by Kurt Koenigsberger (PDF at Ohio State)

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