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1. Tobacco, its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E.R.Billings
2. Wheat Growing In Australia By Australia Dept of External Affairs
3. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America by Fearing Burr
4. About Orchids A Chat by Frederick Boyle
5. Manual of Gardening (second edition) by L.H. Bailey
6. English Walnuts What You Need to Know About Planting, Cultivating and Harvesting This Most Delicious of Nuts by Walter Fox Allen
7. Fruits of Queensland by Albert H. Benson, M.R.A.C.
8. The Apple Tree by L.H. Bailey
9. The Natural History of Chocolate by D.de Quelus
10. The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato and How to Cook the Potato by D. H. Compton and Pierre Blot
11. Coming out of the foodshed: Change and Innovation in Rural Alaskan Food Systems (2007) By Philip A. Loring
12. Anthropology by Marett R.R. (Robert Ranulph)
13. The Prehistoric World, or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen
14. The Bronze Age in Ireland by George Coffey
15. People of Africa by Edith A. How's
16. Anthropology as a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States by Daniel Garrison Brinton
17. Hiawatha and the Iroquois Confederation- A Study in Anthropology. A Paper Read at the Cincinnati Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in August, 1881, under the Title of, "A Lawgiver of the Stone Age." By Horatio Hale
18. The Witch-cult in Western Europe- A Study in Anthropology by Margaret Alice Murray
19. Kinship Organizations and Group marriage in Australia by Northcote W. Thomas
20. Rural Architecture Being a Complex Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings by Lewis Falley Allen
21. The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama Pacific International Exposition with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decoration, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth by Berry, John D.
22. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins and Phil. M. Riley
23. A Text-Book of the History of Architecture by A.D.F. Hamlin
24. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition: A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Architectural Compositions of the Panama Pacific International Exposition by Mullgardt, Louis Christian
25. A study of Pueblo Architecture, Tusayan and Cibola: Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1886-1887), Government Printing Office Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Cosmos Mindeleff and Victor Mindeleff
26. The Poetry of Architecture or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character by John Ruskin
27. Architecture Classic and Early Christian by John Slater and T. Roger Smith
28. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople: Their History and Architecture by Walter S. George
29. The Ten books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
30. The Zij as-Sanjari of Gregory Chioniades (June 27, 2009) by Joseph Leichter
31. Publications of the Astronomical society of the Pacific Volume 1 by Astronomical Society of the Pacific
32. Great Astronomers by Sir Robert S. Ball
33. The story of the Heavens by Sir. Robert S. Ball
34. The Story of Eclipses by George F. Chambers
35. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century, Fourth Edition by Agnes M. Clerke
36. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage
37. The moon: A full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger
38. The Astronomy for Amateurs by Camille Flammarion
39. The Astronomy of the Bible: An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture by E. Walter Maunder
40. Studies in Ornamental Trees and Shrubs (January 01, 1910) by Harvey Monroe Hall
41. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A.C. Apgar
42. Studies of American Fungi, Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc by George Francis Atkinson
43. Seed Dispersal by W.J. Beal
44. Fungi Their Nature and Uses by M.C.Cooke
45. Wild Flowers: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan
46. The Natural History of Chocolate Being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-Tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Excellent Properties, and Medicinal Virtues of its Fruit by D.Quelus
47. Handbooks of the Trees of New England by Henry M. Brooks and Lorin Low Dame
48. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany for High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell
49. Wildflowers of the Farm by Arthur Owens Cooke
50. Guide to Elementary Chemistry for Beginners by Roy C. Cooley
51. The Production of Vinegar From Honey by Gerard W. Bancks
52. An Elementary study of Chemistry by Henderson and McPherson
53. Researches on cellulose 1895-1900 by E.J. Bevan and C.F.Cross
54. Organic Syntheses by James Bryant Conant
55. Experiments upon magnesia, alba, quicklime, and some other alcaline substances by Joseph Black
56. The Chemical History of a candle by Michael Faraday
57. The Sceptical chymist By Robert Boyle
58. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W.H. Simmons, B.Sc. (Lond). F.C.S. And H.A. Appleton
59. Elements of Chemistry in a New Systematic Order, Containing all the modern discoveries, illustrated with thirteen copperplates By Antoine Lavoisier
60. Remix Making Art And Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy By Lawrence Leesig
61. Morals in Trade and Commerce by Frank B. Anderson
62. The Art of Money Getting Or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P.T.Bamum
63. Success (Second Edition) by Baron Max Aitken Beaverbrook
64. A Terminal Market System: New York's Most Urgent Need, Some Observations, Some Comments, and Comparisons of European Markets by Madeleine Black
65. Acres of Diamonds: our everyday opportunities by Russell Herman Conwell
66. The Clock that had no Hands and Nineteen other essays About Advertising by Herbert Kaufman
67. Commercial Geography: A Book for High Schools, Commercial courses, and business colleges by Jacques W. Redway
68. The Business Career in its public relations by Albert Shaw
69. Outline of the development of the internal commerce of the United States by Thurman William Van Metre
70. Cooking Com Bigode: Vegetarian improvisational peasant fusion cuisine for the 22nd century by Ankur Shah
71. Mom's Best Recipes-Volume 1 (2006) by Shirley McNevich
72. Mom's Best Recipes-Volume 2 (2007) by Shirley McNevich
73. The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes by Helen Campbell
74. The Cooking Manual of Practical Directions for Economical Every Day Cookery by Juliet Corson
75. The Whitehouse Cookbook-Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving Table Etiquette, Care of the sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc by F.L.Gillette and Hugo Ziemann
76. School and Home Cooking by Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer
77. Culture and cooking Art in the Kitchen by Catherine Owen
78. Many Ways for Cooking Eggs by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer
79. The Machinery of the Universe, Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena by A.E. Dolbear
80. Aether and Gravitation by William George Hooper
81. Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol 1 by Alexander von Humboldt
82. A Pluralistic Universe: Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the present situation in Philosophy by William James
83. Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' by Sir Oliver Lodge
84. The Universe - Or Nothing by Meyer Moldeven
85. Needlework as Art by Viscountess Marianne Margaret Compton Cust Alford
86. The Art of Interior Decoration by Emily Burbank and Grace Wood
87. Chats on Household Curious by Fred W. Burgess
88. Color Value by C.R. Clifford
89. Jacobean Embroidery, Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor by Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam and A. F. Morris Hands
90. Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art by William Henry Holmes
91. Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique and Modern : A Handbook for Ready Reference by Rosa Belle Holt
92. Wood-Carving: Design and Workmanship by George Jack
93. The Imagitoons Coloring Book by Mikal Shorts
94. Crayon Portraiture: Complete Instructions for Making Crayon Portraits on Crayon Paper and on Platinum, Silver and Bromide Enlargements by Jerome Barhydt
95. The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature by Selwyn Brinton
96. A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden by Walter Crane
97. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Henry Rankin Poore
98. The Elements of Drawing in Three Letters to Beginners by John Ruskin
99. Outdoor Sketching by Francis Hopkinson Smith
100. The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed
101. Children's Books and Their Illustrators by Gleeson White

Below Given are the top 40 books. You can read book reviews and can download those books from the given download links. Enjoy reading.

1. How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict
2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci
5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
6. The Art of War by Sunzi
7. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
8. Ulysses by James Joyce
9. Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville
10. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
11. Dracula by Bram Stoker
12. Chess Fundamentals by Jose Raul Capablanca
13. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
14. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
15. War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
16. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
17. Secret Adversary by Agastha Christie
18. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens
19. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
20. Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
21. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
22. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
23. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
24. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
25. The Wave by Algernon Blackwood
26. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas pere
27. Second Variety by Philip K. Dick
28. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
29. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
30. The Dead Lake and Other Tales by Paul Heyse
31. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
32. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
33. Emma by Jane Austen
34. The mysterious affair at styles by Agatha Christie
35. Household organization by Mrs. Caddy
36. The Republic by Plato
37. The war of the worlds by H.G.Wells
38. The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde
39. Leaves of grass By Walt Whitman
40. Gulliver’s travels into several remote nations of world by Jonathan Swift D.D

This is an interesting book and it deals with the newly coined concept of peer production. This mode of production is applied in respect of information technology and internet products. Christian Sietkes tries to apply this concept to production of other commercial goods. The objective of the book is to discuss the qualities and criteria needed to transform to Peer economy. This work is very concrete and systematic. The author has beautifully dealt the subject that the average reader without much background of economics will be able to follow it. By the time reader reach the end of the book his knowledge and ideas regarding peer production and its social and economical impact will be much clear.

The first two chapters discuss the main characteristics of peer production and its possible application to production of other products. The author makes a study of the problems faced in this method of production when applied to products other than information products and the solutions to overcome these obstacles in the following chapters. Then comes the turn of most significant chapters which discuss the characteristics of society where peer production is the primary mode of production. The eighth chapter of the book is very interesting as it discusses the lives of people in such societies where peer economy is in existence. The author’s extensive analysis and comparison of peer production will give a strong foundation for the reader to go further with this subject.

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