Social Science
More Australian Legendary Tales
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 Book of the Dead
The Egyptian Book of the Dead, or the Book of Coming Forth by Day, is an Ancient Egyptian funerary text consisting of spells to protect the …
London Labour and the London Poor
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases
Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases presents a collection of pivotal United States Supreme Court decisions that shaped the landscape of …
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
“By a brief survey of present day Hopi culture and an examination into the myths and traditions constituting the unwritten literature of thi…
A General View of Positivism
Auguste Comte was from France and published this book in French in 1844. He made a very great impact on the sciences and claims to have “dis…
A Social History of the American Negro
A comprehensive history of what experiences and influences created the Negro American citizen as we find him at the beginning of the twentie…
Early Greek Philosophy
The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragme…
Women's Wild Oats
A resounding and, for the times, outrageous look at restructuring British society using the first world war as trigger for changing the plac…
The Web of Indian Life
The Web of Indian Life, written by Sister Nivedita (Irish-born Margaret E. Noble) and published in 1904, is a collection of essays that desc…
Your United States
Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journal…
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion
The second volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. The superstition and magical purpose …
The Gray Mills of Farley
The Gray Mills of Farley by Sarah Orne Jewett offers a keen exploration of labor relations in a small New England town during the late 19th …
The Golden Bough
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 …
Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development
Francis Galton, credited with the discovery of identification by fingerprinting, also took a long term interest in the study of biometrics. …
Hollywood
Serialized in Shadowland from November 1921 to February 1922, Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners is Theodore Dreiser's shocking four part exp…
The Eyes of the Movie
"The movie was born in the laboratory and reared in the counting-house. It is a benevolent monster of four I's: Inventor, Investor, Imp…
The Jim Crow Car
"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …
A Voice from the South
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…
An Essay on the Principle of Population
In this foundational work, Thomas Malthus explores the relationship between population growth and resources, presenting a stark view of huma…