Social Science
A Study of British Genius
Read by Leon Harvey
Havelock Ellis
The psychological and anthropological character of genius in the British Isles was investigated by Ellis. Citing and collating an extensive …
The Man of Genius
Read by Leon Harvey
Cesare Lombroso
Famous criminologist, anthropologist, and psychiatrist, Dr Lombroso, investigated the memetic anecdotal belief that genius is associated wit…
Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups
Read by KevinS
House Un-American Activities Committee
A preliminary report to the U. S. Congress on a portion of the subversive activities conducted by two specific Neo-Fascist organizations tha…
My Monks of Vagabondia
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Andress Small Floyd
Before welfare or rehab, what happened to those unfortunates who lost their way, fell through the cracks, were cast off by society? Men such…
Darkness and Daylight
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Lyman Abbott, Thomas Byrnes, Helen S. Campbell and Thomas Wallace Knox
A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis, with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, ske…
The Suffragette
Read by Celine Major
E. Sylvia Pankhurst
This history of the Women's Suffrage agitation is written at a time when the question is in the very forefront of British politics. What the…
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…
Lancashire Characters and Places
Read by Phil Benson
Thomas Newbigging
An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and E…
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
Read by Theoden Humphrey
John Clay Coleman
"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …
The Workers
Read by PhyllisV
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…
American Indians
Read by mpinedag
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…
Genetic Studies of Genius
Read by Leon Harvey
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…
The Diamond Sutra
Read by John Greenman
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…
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 …
A Social History of the American Negro
Read by Jim Locke
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…
Uganda to the Cape
Read by BettyB
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…
The Negro
Read by Jim Locke
W. E. B. Du Bois
Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair …
The Salem Witchcraft
Read by Nichole Di Dio
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 …
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 …