Social Science

A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Inv…

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United States House Of Representatives



In September 2005, the House of Representatives created the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to H…

Society as I Have Found It

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Ward Mcallister



Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McA…

Legends of Old Honolulu

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William Drake Westervelt



Hawai'i: land of wonder and beauty and a culture rich in history and mythology. Dr. Westervelt settled in Hawai'i as a young man and collect…

Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village (version 2)

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Tickner Edwardes



Tickner Edwardes (properly Edward Tickner Edwardes) served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and later became the vicar of the West…

Your United States: Impressions Of A First Visit

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Arnold Bennett



Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journal…

Man and His Ancestor: A Study in Evolution

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Charles Morris



An examination of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and subsequent texts, written for the general public at the turn of the twentieth cen…

Thoughts on South Africa

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Olive Schreiner



'Thoughts on South Africa' is a collection of Schreiner's observations of colonial South Africa in the early 19th century, mostly regarding …

A Gringo In Mañana-Land

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Harry La Tourette Foster



Foster was a World War I veteran, world wanderer, journalist, embassy attaché, stoker on ships, miner, stowaway, bandit’s prisoner in…

Wonderful London

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William James McGlothlin



"Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essay…

Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village

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Tickner Edwardes



If you love the quiet of the country - the real quiet which is not silence at all, but the blending of a myriad scarce-perceptible sounds yo…

The Man of Genius

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Cesare Lombroso



Famous criminologist, anthropologist, and psychiatrist, Dr Lombroso, investigated the memetic anecdotal belief that genius is associated wit…

A Study of British Genius

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Havelock Ellis



The psychological and anthropological character of genius in the British Isles was investigated by Ellis. Citing and collating an extensive …

My Monks of Vagabondia

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Andress Small Floyd



Before welfare or rehab, what happened to those unfortunates who lost their way, fell through the cracks, were cast off by society? Men such…

Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups

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House Un-American Activities Committee



A preliminary report to the U. S. Congress on a portion of the subversive activities conducted by two specific Neo-Fascist organizations tha…

Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life

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Lyman Abbott, Thomas Byrnes, Helen S. Campbell and Thomas Wallace Knox



A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis, with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, ske…

The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement

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E. Sylvia Pankhurst



This history of the Women's Suffrage agitation is written at a time when the question is in the very forefront of British politics. What the…

Lancashire Characters and Places

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Thomas Newbigging



An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and E…

The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

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Émile Durkheim



A study and analysis of religion as a social phenomenon by French sociologist Émile Durkheim. (Summary by Erin Stone)

The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race

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John Clay Coleman



"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …

The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The East

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Walter A. Wyckoff



A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…

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