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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
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Hester Lynch Piozzi
Selections from the "Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany" by Hester Ly…
Porto Rico
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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 Rise of the Saracens and the Foundation of the Western Empire
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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 Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion
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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…
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…
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…
A Voice 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 Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion.
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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 …
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…
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 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 …
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…
Mississippi Narratives
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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…
Herein is Love
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Reuel Howe and Reuel L. 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…
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…
Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty
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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…
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…
The Woman Movement
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Ellen Key
Ellen Key's 'The Woman movement' follows the development of the feminist movement striving towards a greater emancipation of women in the pu…