Social Science

The Revolutions of Civilization

Read by Leon Harvey


William Matthew Flinders Petrie


British archaeologist & Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie, discusses the history of civilization in Egypt, Greece, Rome & medieval Europ…

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

Read by John Greenman


Unknowntranslated Bywilliam Gemmell


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

The Negro

Read by Jim Locke


W. E. B. Du Bois


Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair …

Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Catherine Gasquoine Hartley


A resounding and, for the times, outrageous look at restructuring British society using the first world war as trigger for changing the plac…

Among the Head-hunters of Formosa

Read by Anonymous


Janet B. Montgomery Mcgovern


"Among the Head-hunters of Formosa contains the substance of observations made during a two-years' stay in Formosa — from September 191…

The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 5. Spirits Of The Corn An…

Read by Leon Harvey


James Frazer


The eighth volume in The Golden Bough collection, and second volume of The Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild. The investigations into the …

Practical Etiquette

Read by Cathy Howell


Cora C. Klein


Good manners for social situations. (Summary by Cathy Howell)

Mark Twain's Partner

Read by John Greenman


Michael J. Phillips


In 1861, a 26-year-old Sam Clemens "went west" with his older brother Orion. By that time he'd had some experience with publishing…

Far Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early Life (Version 2)

Read by John Greenman


William Henry Hudson


A boy (between the ages of 4 and 12) discovers the natural world around him in his home in the Argentine Pampas and in Buenos Aires. Author …

Whom We Shall Welcome: Report of the President's Commission on Immigration and …

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


The President'S Commission On Immigration And Naturalizatio


In 1952, Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which had many provisions objectionable to many Americans. President T…

Mobilizing Woman-Power

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Harriot Stanton Blatch


Harriot Stanton Blatch, a suffragist in her own right, was the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton who was one of the champions of women’s ri…

Our Southern Highlanders

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Horace Kephart


Our Southern Highlanders is a memoir of the Pennsylvania-born writer and librarian Horace Kephart, documenting his experiences and cultural …

The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 02, The Rise of the Saracens and the Fou…

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


P. A. Connolly


The present work is intended as a comprehensive account of medieval times, drawn up on the same lines as The Cambridge Modern History but wi…

The Long Road of Woman's Memory

Read by Ciufi Galeazzi


Jane Addams


In this book, Jane Addams tells of a strange rumor involving Hull House, the famed settlement house founded by her in Chicago in 1889. The r…

The Social Settlement Movement in Chicago

Read by KevinS


Josephine Hunt Raymond


This is Ms. Raymond's thesis submitted for the awarding of her master's degree from the University of Wisconsin (Madison.) Raymond clearly k…

The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The West

Read by PhyllisV


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…

The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. 1, No. 1

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


W. E. B. Du Bois


The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerc…

The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 2

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


W. E. B. Du Bois


The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…

Charles Sumner, The Scholar in Politics

Read by Jim Locke


Archibald Grimké


In the two volumes assigned to him in the American Reformer Series, viz., the "Life of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist," …

Tradiciones Argentinas

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


Pastor Servando Obligado


Recopilación de tradiciones, usos, costumbres, expresiones y anécdotas de la vida en la Argentina de principios del siglo XX. …

< 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 >