Social Science
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer
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Dexter C. Bloomer
As Mrs. Bloomer was one of the pioneers in what is sometimes called the “Woman’s Movement,” it seems right that a record of her work should …
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1827
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Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Commissioner Of Indian Affairs
Because the US Constitution gives the power of relating to (and control over) Indian tribes to the federal government, Congress requires upd…
Comentarios reales de los incas (primera parte)
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Inca Garcilaso De La Vega
El Inca Garcilaso esta considerado el primer autor mestizo de latinoamerica (era hijo de padre nacido en España, y de madre inca amer…
The Great Beach
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John Hay
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…
Holidays and Happy Days
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Hamish Hendry
A playful description of the most notable days of the year in British culture. - Summary by Rapunzelina
Why Are So Few Men in the Churches? And Remedies
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Charles N. Queen
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…
The Golden Bough. Part VII. Balder The Beautiful. Volume II
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James Frazer
The eleventh volume of The Golden Bough series. Fire festivals in exotic nations, magical properties of flowers, the concept of the external…
Galateo
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Giovanni della Casa and Giovanni Della Casa
A book on the practice of mannerly behaviour at Court, originally written in Italian but translated into English for the Elizabethan court. …
Special Report on Negro Domestic Service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia
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Isabel Eaton
This paper is an attempt to give the most accurate facts obtainable bearing upon the question of colored domestic service in Philadelphia. (…
Droll Stories of Isthmian Life
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Evelyn Saxton
Enjoy these stories compiled from the travels and customs of life from the Isthmus! Our author takes us along a journey and tells the tales …
Yanks - A.E.F. (American Expeditionary Forces) Verse from WWI
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Various
Introduced by Stars and Stripes editor, John T. Winterich (1891-1970) this is a compilation of poetry by members of the American Expeditiona…
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 5
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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…
A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
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Robert Louis Stevenson
CONTENT WARNING: THIS WORK INCORPORATES QUOTATIONS CONTAINING RACIST SLURS. IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A BOWDLERIZED COPY, SEE BETWEEN ABOUT 07.…
Brazil. Stray notes from Bahia
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James Wetherell
Observations and reflections from James Wetherell who was Britain's Vice-Consul of Bahia and prior, Vice-Consul of Paraiba, during a period …