Social Science

The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits

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William Hazlitt


William Hazlitt was a keen observer of his time and the people populating the literary landscape. He presents short monographs on such illus…

The Indians in Wisconsin's History

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John M. Douglass


Pre-European arrival history of Wisconsin's Native American tribes, with discussions of their way of life, crafts, clothing, shelter, huntin…

Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village

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Tickner Edwardes


If you love the quiet of the country - the real quiet which is not silence at all, but the blending of a myriad scarce-perceptible sounds yo…

A Gringo In Mañana-Land

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Harry La Tourette Foster


Foster was a World War I veteran, world wanderer, journalist, embassy attaché, stoker on ships, miner, stowaway, bandit’s prisoner in…

Notes On Democracy

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H. L. Mencken


American journalist H.L. Mencken’s Notes On Democracy was originally published in 1926, yet is still relevant almost 100 years later.Mencken…

Legends of Old Honolulu

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William Drake Westervelt


Hawai'i: land of wonder and beauty and a culture rich in history and mythology. Dr. Westervelt settled in Hawai'i as a young man and collect…

Lancashire Characters and Places

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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 Man of Genius

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Cesare Lombroso


Famous criminologist, anthropologist, and psychiatrist, Dr Lombroso, investigated the memetic anecdotal belief that genius is associated wit…

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…

Вехи-Сборник статей о русской интеллигенции (Vekhi)

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Nikolai Berdyaev, Sergei Bulgakov, Semyon Frank, Mikhail Gershenzon, Bogdan Kistyakovski, Aron Lande and Peter Struve


Сборник «Вехи» объединяет философские эссе, посвященные русской интеллигенции и её исторической роли. Появление сборника в 1909-…

A Study of British Genius

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Havelock Ellis


The psychological and anthropological character of genius in the British Isles was investigated by Ellis. Citing and collating an extensive …

The Chinese Dragon

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Luther Newton Hayes


The subject of this little book [1923] is of general interest to people who are acquainted with things Chinese. The dragon has played a larg…

Your United States: Impressions Of A First Visit

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Arnold Bennett


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…

Man and His Ancestor: A Study in Evolution

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Charles Morris


An examination of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and subsequent texts, written for the general public at the turn of the twentieth cen…

The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement

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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…

Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups

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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…

Thoughts on South Africa

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Olive Schreiner


'Thoughts on South Africa' is a collection of Schreiner's observations of colonial South Africa in the early 19th century, mostly regarding …

The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study

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W. E. B. Du Bois


In November, 1897, I submitted to the American Academy of Political and Social Science a plan for the study of Negro problems. This work is …

Invisible Helpers

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C. W. Leadbeater


Even in this incredulous age, and amidst the full whirl of our nineteenth-century civilization, in spite of the dogmatism of our science and…

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…

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