Social Science

The Man of Genius

Read by Leon Harvey


Cesare Lombroso



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

A Study of British Genius

Read by Leon Harvey


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…

Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America

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Herbert Spinden



The ancient cultures of Mesoamerica developed art, stone cities, and sciences (especially astronomy and mathematics), to a degree that surpa…

Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix

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Francis Tiffany



A biography of a woman who advocated for the humane treatment of people with mental illness. As a young woman travelling overseas, Dorothea …

Genetic Studies of Genius, Volume 1: Mental and Physical Traits of a Thousand G…

Read by Leon Harvey


Lewis Terman



It should go without saying that a nation's resources of intellectual talent are among the most precious it will ever have. The study of the…

A Social History of the American Negro

Read by Jim Locke


Benjamin Griffith Brawley



A comprehensive history of what experiences and influences created the Negro American citizen as we find him at the beginning of the twentie…

The Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching) or Prajna-Paramita

Read by John Greenman


Unknowntranslated Bywilliam Gemmell and Unknowntranslated By William Gemmell



The Diamond Sutra, also known as the ‘Diamond Cutter Sutra’ or ‘Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita Sutra,’ is a remarkable Buddhist text and is co…

National Gambling Impact Study Commission Final Report

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National Gambling Impact Study Commission



The National Gambling Impact Study Commission was given the task of conducting a comprehensive legal and factual study on the social and eco…

Glimpses of Italian society in the eighteenth century

Read by Barbara Baker


Hester Lynch Piozzi



Selections from the "Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany" by Hester Ly…

Uganda to the Cape

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Frank G. Carpenter



Another volume in the author's series of travelling the world and telling of its peoples, agriculture, industry, and social habits . This ti…

American Indians

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Frederick Starr



School students is Starr's intended audience of this work. The easy-to-read stories discuss and describe a wide range of topics such as food…

Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls

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Ernest A. Bell



A complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls, the methods by which the procurers and panders lure innocent young …

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