Social Science
The Sexes in Science and History
In this revised second edition of her first book "The evolution of woman" (1894), subtitled "An inquiry into the dogma of wom…
Early Greek Philosophy
The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragme…
The Sins of Hollywood
Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable ho…
The Negro
Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair …
Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing
In light of recent events that have exposed rifts in the relationships between local police and the communities they protect and serve, on D…
What Prohibition Has Done to America
In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…
Among the Head-hunters of Formosa
"Among the Head-hunters of Formosa contains the substance of observations made during a two-years' stay in Formosa — from September 191…
The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong
The industrial revolution led to the rise of manufacture and, thus, the cotton mill factories. This important novel tells about the plight o…
Notes On Democracy
American journalist H.L. Mencken’s Notes On Democracy was originally published in 1926, yet is still relevant almost 100 years later.Mencken…
The Curious Lore of Precious Stones
Full title is "The Curious Lore of Precious Stones, being a description of their sentiments and folklore, superstitions, symbolism, mys…
With Poor Immigrants to America
Stephen Graham, a Brit with Russian language skills, traveled by sea in 1913 with a group of poor Russian and other Slavic immigrants to New…
Hollywood
Serialized in Shadowland from November 1921 to February 1922, Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners is Theodore Dreiser's shocking four part exp…
Your United States
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…
The Indian To-day
Based in part upon the author's own observations and personal knowledge, it was the aim of the book to set forth the status and outlook of t…
The Web of Indian Life
The Web of Indian Life, written by Sister Nivedita (Irish-born Margaret E. Noble) and published in 1904, is a collection of essays that desc…
Why We Love Music
Psychologists have not explained why we love music. A technical psychologist indulges in generalizations and predictions in a practical and …
Slave Narratives
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
What Dress Makes of Us
What Dress Makes of Us is a sharp and humorous exploration of women's fashion and its social implications, penned by Dorothy Quigley in 1897…
Twilight in Italy
This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…
The Science - History of the Universe
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The seventh volume is on Anthropology written by the editor himself and on Medi…