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Hereditary Genius

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Sir Francis Galton


A biographical summary of the pre-eminent men of Britain grouped by profession. The extensive survey draws from information including colleg…

The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 3. The Dying God

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James Frazer


The fourth volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. With this third part of The Golden Bo…

The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 4. Adonis Attis Osiris. V…

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James Frazer


The fifth volume and the first of two in the fourth part of Frazer's seminal work on the evolution of belief deals with the semi mythologica…

English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture

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Sir Francis Galton


The results of a survey undertaken by Galton to learn more about individual differences and similarities between the "pre-eminent"…

Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development

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Sir Francis Galton


Francis Galton, credited with the discovery of identification by fingerprinting, also took a long term interest in the study of biometrics. …

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…

The Influence of Monarchs

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Frederick Adams Woods


Frederick Adams Woods presents compelling evidence to support the great man theory of history and his own category scientific inquiry known …

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 …

New Lamps

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Robert Moore Williams


Ronson came to the Red Planet on the strangest mission of all ... he only knew he wanted to see Les Ro, but he didn't know exactly why. It w…

The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 4. Adonis Attis Osiris. V…

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James Frazer


The sixth volume in the Golden Bough. Frazer continues into the second part of the compilation of analogies dealing with the recurring theme…

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

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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…

Malaria: A Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome

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William Henry Samuel Jones


This short book has the objective of showing how important it is to stamp out malaria as soon as possible. Unlike a plague that suddenly tak…

Malaria in Greek History

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William Henry Samuel Jones


This book is an attempt to correct and develop the theory proposed tentatively in the little work Malaria. Put briefly, this theory is as fo…

The psychic life of micro-organisms : a study in experimental psychology

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Alfred Binet


Described by Binet as a branch of psychology little known, he endeavoured in the following essay upon Micro-organisms, to show that psycholo…

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

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James Frazer


The seventh volume in The Golden Bough series by Sir James George Frazer. The figure of the dying and reviving god in Oriental religions of …

Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psycho…

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Frederick Adams Woods


Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral…

The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 2. Taboo and the Perils o…

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James Frazer


The third volume of The Golden Bough. The term Taboo is one of the very few words which the English language has borrowed from the speech of…

The Revolutions of Civilization

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William Matthew Flinders Petrie


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

Civilization and Climate

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Ellsworth Huntington


This book presents the science of geography one step further than just the physical features of the earth's surface. The relationship betwee…

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

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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 …

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