Social Science
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…
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…
Porto Rico: The Land of the Rich Port
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Joseph B. Seabury
Puerto Rico was acquired by the United States in 1898 following the Spanish-American War. This volume was written in 1903 as Book XII in the…
The Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching) or Prajna-Paramita
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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…
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…
Women of America
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John Ruse Larus
The present volume completes the story of woman as told in the series of which it forms part. The history of nations is, in its ultimate ana…
The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism
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Harriet Beecher Stowe and Samuel Robert Wells
The object in reprinting this most interesting review is simply to show the progress made in moral, intellectual, and physical science. The …
The Passing of the Great Race
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Madison Grant
The rapidly growing appreciation of the importance of race during the last few years, the study of the influence of race on nationality as s…
The Religious Experience of the Roman People
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W. Warde Fowler
A series of lectures delivered by Professor Fowler at Edinburgh University for a public audience, concerning the development and decay of t…
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…
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang is a book mainly focused on the stories of ghosts and other mystical phenomenon. With frequent …
A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman from the South
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Anna J. Cooper
Published in 1892, this is the author's first work. Its eight essays are considered a seminal text of Black feminism. Its theme is that thro…
Strange Peoples
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Frederick Starr
Starr presents a compendium of descriptions from several peoples (races) around the world as it was in the late XIX century. - Summary by Ma…
The Negro
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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 …
Herein is Love
Read by Bill Mosley
Reuel Howe
Prescient look at the church, its message and role in society, both perceived and true, focused through the lens of the biblical doctrine of…
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
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Various
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Baltimore Hats
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William T. Brigham
It is not impossible that some useful information may be conveyed by this book. Should these pages prove of such service, their cost in labo…
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…
More Australian Legendary Tales
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K. Langloh Parker
The present series of legends have all been collected by myself from the Blacks, as were the previous ones. But in this instance, I had much…
Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico
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Julian Corbett and John M. Corbett
This U.S. National Park Service historical handbook from 1962 introduces the reader to the history, geography, and archaeology of the Aztec …