Social Science
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
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Émile Durkheim
A study and analysis of religion as a social phenomenon by French sociologist Émile Durkheim. (Summary by Erin Stone)
The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race
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John Clay Coleman
"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …
The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The East
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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…
Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America
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Herbert Spinden
The ancient cultures of Mesoamerica developed art, stone cities, and sciences (especially astronomy and mathematics), to a degree that surpa…
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix
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Francis Tiffany
A biography of a woman who advocated for the humane treatment of people with mental illness. As a young woman travelling overseas, Dorothea …
Genetic Studies of Genius, Volume 1: Mental and Physical Traits of a Thousand G…
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Lewis Terman
It should go without saying that a nation's resources of intellectual talent are among the most precious it will ever have. The study of the…
A Social History of the American Negro
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Benjamin Griffith Brawley
A comprehensive history of what experiences and influences created the Negro American citizen as we find him at the beginning of the twentie…
The Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching) or Prajna-Paramita
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Unknowntranslated Bywilliam Gemmell and Unknowntranslated By William Gemmell
The Diamond Sutra, also known as the ‘Diamond Cutter Sutra’ or ‘Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita Sutra,’ is a remarkable Buddhist text and is co…
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 in the eighteenth century
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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…
Uganda to the Cape
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Frank G. Carpenter
Another volume in the author's series of travelling the world and telling of its peoples, agriculture, industry, and social habits . This ti…
American Indians
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Frederick Starr
School students is Starr's intended audience of this work. The easy-to-read stories discuss and describe a wide range of topics such as food…
Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls
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Ernest A. Bell
A complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls, the methods by which the procurers and panders lure innocent young …
Supersticiones y Leyendas Mayas
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Manuel Rejón García
Compendio de leyendas cortas de los Mayas, con unos pasajes en maya. La antigua importancia de este pueblo es bien conocida; habían h…
Porto Rico: The Land of the Rich Port
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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…
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 Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism
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Harriet Beecher Stowe and Samuel Robert Wells
The object in reprinting this most interesting review is simply to show the progress made in moral, intellectual, and physical science. The …
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…
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…