Social Science
Whom We Shall Welcome: Report of the President's Commission on Immigration and …
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The President'S Commission On Immigration And Naturalizatio
In 1952, Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which had many provisions objectionable to many Americans. President T…
The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The West
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Walter A. Wyckoff
A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…
The Long Road of Woman's Memory
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Jane Addams
In this book, Jane Addams tells of a strange rumor involving Hull House, the famed settlement house founded by her in Chicago in 1889. The r…
The Golden Bough. Part VI. The Scapegoat
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James Frazer
The ninth book in The Golden Bough Series. With The Scapegoat the general discussion of the theory and practice of the Dying God is brought …
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
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Hattie Greene Lockett
“By a brief survey of present day Hopi culture and an examination into the myths and traditions constituting the unwritten literature of thi…
The Complete Bachelor
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Walter Germain Robinson
This volume was written by the author to help people with proper etiquette for certain social dilemma issues.i.e. male manners while being s…
Five Stages of Greek Religion
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Gilbert Murray
A historical account written in the early 20th century The work explores the evolution and various phases of Greek religion focusing on the …
Lamp of Wisdom
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William H. Councill
William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural…
Charles Sumner, The Scholar in Politics
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Archibald Grimké
In the two volumes assigned to him in the American Reformer Series, viz., the "Life of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist," …
The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries
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Edward J. Wood
The Wedding-day in all Ages and Countries is the title of a new work from the press of Harper & Brothers. In this book we find an exhaus…
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 3
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…
In Indian Mexico
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Frederick Starr
In this work, Starr delves into the anthropological side of Mexico's Natives ("Indians") at the end of the XIX century. Researche…
Criminal man: according to the classification of Cesare Lombroso
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Gina Lombroso
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 …
History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays
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Randolph Silliman Bourne
A posthumous collection of Bourne's writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long…
Why We Love Music
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Carl Emil Seashore
Psychologists have not explained why we love music. A technical psychologist indulges in generalizations and predictions in a practical and …
Catastrophe and Social Change, Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax D…
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Samuel Henry Prince
The Halifax Disaster in 1917 was the greatest man-made explosion prior to the atomic bomb."The following pages [are] the result of an o…
The Golden Bough. Part VII. Balder The Beautiful. Volume I
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James Frazer
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 State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789
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Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville
A thorough analysis of the social, religious, and political dynamics of French society which led to the French Revolution.
Researches into the Physical History of Man
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James Cowles Prichard
Prichard’s Researches into the Physical History of Man has been called the most important pre-Darwinian anthropological work in English of t…
The Story of Santa Klaus
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William S. Walsh
Who was Santa Klaus? Did he exist? In this study of custom and folklore, the author looks at the real and the legendary man, according to va…