Psychology
The Psychology of Peoples: Its Influence on Their Evolution
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Gustave Le Bon
"It is barely a century and a half ago that certain philosophers, who, it should be remarked, were very ignorant of the primitive histo…
Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers a…
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Hans Gross
Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on …
American Psychology, 1900-1922
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Various
This is the first of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an academ…
A Hero of Our Time
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Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
A Hero of Our Time is indeed a portrait, but not of one man. It is a portrait built up of all our generation's vices in full bloom. You will…
The Greatest Thing in the World and Other Addresses
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Henry Drummond
The spiritual classic The Greatest Thing In the World is a trenchant and tender analysis of Christian love as set forth in the thirteenth ch…
Has a Frog a Soul?
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biolog…
Diary of a Suicide
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Wallace E. Baker
“Mr. B. Russell Herts, c/o International Magazine, New York City.Under separate cover I am sending you a record of a young man who is about …
Human Nature And Conduct - Part 1, The Place of Habit in Conduct
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John Dewey
John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist saw Social Psychology as much a physical science …
The Outline of Science, Vol 2
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J. Arthur Thomson
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects rang…
The Bostonians, Vol. 1 & 2
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Henry James
This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chance…
Six Characters in Search of an Author
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Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) is the most famous and celebrated play by the Italian writer Luigi …
The Psychology of Alcoholism
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George Barton Cutten
After presenting an overview of alcoholism and its affect on society, Dr. Cutten dives into the effects of chronic alcoholism on physiology,…
The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 3
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Robert Burton
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burto…
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II
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John Locke
John Locke wrote four essays on human (or humane) understanding. Here are a few quotes from the book: "I see no reason to believe, that…
Good Sense
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Baron Paul Henri Thiry D' Holbach and Paul Henri Thiry, Baron D'Holbach
In 1770, Baron D'Holbach published his masterpiece, "Systeme de la Nature", which for a long time passed as the posthumous work of…
The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 2
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Robert Burton
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burto…
Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half
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Jacob A. Riis
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…
Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum
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Hiram Chase
Hiram Chase is a well liked Reverend in a small ministry in Utica. When his mental and physical health deteriorates, he is taken to Utica lu…
Some Haunted Houses of England and Wales
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Elliott O'Donnell
Old buildings necessarily have a history. It is not always a happy history and folklore abounds. Sometimes unhappy souls come back to haunt …
In Vino Veritas, from Stages on Life’s Way
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Soren Kierkegaard
In Vino Veritas is one section of Kierkegaard's Stages on Life's Way, originally published in 1845. In a conscious reference to Plato's Symp…