Social Science

Why Are So Few Men in the Churches?

by Charles N. Queen Read by Gillian Hendrie 5
The strength of the book is in its facts and suggestions considered in a matter of fact and suggestive way. It offers criticism in the spiri…

Underground Man

by Gabriel Tarde Read by Ruth Golding 3.8
This post-apocalyptic novella tells the story of the downfall of civilisation and mankind following a solar cataclysm in the late 20th centu…

Woman and War

by Olive Schreiner Read by NoelBadrian 4.5
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Inte…

Among the Head-hunters of Formosa

by Janet B. Montgomery Mcgovern Read by Anonymous 4.7
"Among the Head-hunters of Formosa contains the substance of observations made during a two-years' stay in Formosa — from September 191…

The Real Latin Quarter

by Frank Berkeley Smith Read by Bill Boerst 5
"Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French.The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulde…

The State of Society in France Before the Revolution

by Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville Read by Jim Locke 5
A thorough analysis of the social, religious, and political dynamics of French society which led to the French Revolution.

The City of Din

by Dan McKenzie and Dan Mckenzie Read by Amelia Chesley
A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us phy…

The Nether World

by George Gissing Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This sad social novel revolves around the problematic issue of money. Michael returns from Australia to London a rich man. However, he hides…

Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

by Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and Advisory Committee On Human Radiation Experiments Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and ra…

The Negro

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by Jim Locke 4
Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair …

A Study of British Genius

by Havelock Ellis Read by Leon Harvey 4
The psychological and anthropological character of genius in the British Isles was investigated by Ellis. Citing and collating an extensive …

Balder The Beautiful

by James Frazer Read by Leon Harvey
The tenth volume in The Golden Bough series. Frazer discusses the problem which gives its title to the whole work. If right, the Golden Boug…

The Passing of the Great Race

by Madison Grant Read by Jim Locke 3.6
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…

Vindication Of The Rights Of Men

by Mary Wollstonecraft Read by David Wales 3.8
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to …

Woman and the Republic

by Helen Johnson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
First published in 1897, the book is considered to be the best summary of the arguments against woman suffrage. It allows readers to underst…

Our Androcentric Culture

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Read by KHand
This is a book about men—as such. It differentiates between the human nature and the sex nature. It will not go so far as to allege man's ma…

The Great Beach

by John Hay Read by PhyllisV 3.7
Written by John Hay, a naturalist and co-founder of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, The Great Beach is an exploration into the natur…

Criminal man

by Gina Lombroso Read by Leon Harvey
This book is an English summary and paraphrase of the multi-volume Italian work of the same name compiled by Cesare Lombroso, the father of …

Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule

by Mahatma Gandhi Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
First written in Gandhi's native language Gujarati, this booklet advocates for Indian non-violent self-rule during the struggle for Indian i…

What Dress Makes of Us

by Dorothy Quigley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
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…

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