Family & Relationships - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
Japanese Girls and Women - Alice Bacon
Japanese Girls and Women - Alice Bacon
- Author: Alice Bacon
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Travel & Geography
A clear and delightful peek into the world of Japanese girls and women of the late 1800s: their childhood, education, marriage and intimate family life. And it is done by someone who admires the immense resources, abilities and strength shown by all...
In Times Like These - Nellie McClung
In Times Like These - Nellie McClung
- Author: Nellie McClung
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
" Believing that the woman's claim to a common humanity is not an unreasonable one, and that the successful issue of such claim rests primarily upon the sense of fair play which people have or have not according to how they were born, andTherefore...
Sex: Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English (version 2) - Henry Stanton
Sex: Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English (version 2) - Henry Stanton
- Author: Henry Stanton
- Genre: Family & Relationships
Henry Stanton was appalled at the shocking lack of information given to young people about sex and reproduction in his time. He felt this was a crime that needed to be fixed and so he wrote this book explaining sex for young and old. Ignorance of...
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters - Laurence Housman
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters - Laurence Housman
- Author: Laurence Housman
- Genre: Family & Relationships
It need hardly be said that the woman by whom these letter were written had no thought that they would be read by anyone but the person to whom they were addressed. But a request, conveyed under circumstances which the writer herself would have...
The Art of Kissing - Will Rossiter
The Art of Kissing - Will Rossiter
- Author: Will Rossiter
- Genre: Family & Relationships
The Art of Kissing is both a history of and a manual for the probably most widely practised enjoyment on the planet. (Summary by Availle )...
What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know - John Dutton Wright
What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know - John Dutton Wright
- Author: John Dutton Wright
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Wright, a pioneer in the education of the deaf, was a strong advocate for acoustic and auricular training. In this little book, he tries to advise the parents of deaf children and reassure them that there can be a successful and happy life for them....
Marriage, as it was, as it is and as it should be - Annie Besant
Marriage, as it was, as it is and as it should be - Annie Besant
- Author: Annie Besant
- Genre: Family & Relationships
In this short pamphlet, Annie Besant - a well-known British women's rights activist - lays down British marriage laws as they were at her time. She opposes the view of married women as mere property of their husbands, with virtually no rights of...
Private Sex Advice to Women - R. B. Armitage
Private Sex Advice to Women - R. B. Armitage
- Author: R. B. Armitage
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Health & Fitness
In this book the writer thereof seeks to convey to women—particularly to young wives and women expecting to be married—certain important facts of knowledge, certain necessary information, which all such women should possess, but which few are given...
Tea Drinking In 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette And Equipage - Rodris ROTH
Tea Drinking In 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette And Equipage - Rodris ROTH
- Author: Rodris ROTH
- Genre: Family & Relationships / History / Early Modern
The title of this 1961 Smithsonian Institution bulletin says it all. “In 18th-century America, the pleasant practice of taking tea at home was an established social custom with a recognized code of manners and distinctive furnishings. Pride was...
The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 6 - Max Arthur Macauliffe
The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 6 - Max Arthur Macauliffe
- Author: Max Arthur Macauliffe
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Philosophy
This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. Macauliffe had extensive access to manuscripts of the Sikh sacred writings (the Granth), as well as support from Sikh scholars...
A Son of the Middle Border - Hamlin Garland
A Son of the Middle Border - Hamlin Garland
- Author: Hamlin Garland
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Family & Relationships
In all the region of autobiography, so far as I know it, I do not know quite the like of Mr. Garland's story of his life, and I should rank it with the very greatest of that kind in literature. . . . It is the poet who sees the vast scale of human...
Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality. To Gentlemen - Mary Edwards WALKER
Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality. To Gentlemen - Mary Edwards WALKER
- Author: Mary Edwards WALKER
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Medical
Mary Edwards Walker was a physician and surgeon who served in the Civil War. An abolitionist, prohibitionist, and cross-dressing leader of the women's dress reform movement, she published this lively sex manual in 1878. It is a curious blend of...
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 - Havelock ELLIS
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 - Havelock ELLIS
- Author: Havelock ELLIS
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Psychology
The second of six volumes, this volume covers in extensive detail the topic of "Sexual Inversion", or homosexuality to give it a more current name. Written as an anthropological and psychological study from the point of view of Havelock, the famous...
Concerning Genealogies - Frank ALLABEN
Concerning Genealogies - Frank ALLABEN
- Author: Frank ALLABEN
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Reference / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Written over a century ago, this comprehensive book offers insight into the methods used (still to this day, in spite of modern computers) to research and compile a family history. As stated in the preface of the book, "Strong emphasis is laid upon...
Half a Century - Jane Grey SWISSHELM
Half a Century - Jane Grey SWISSHELM
- Author: Jane Grey SWISSHELM
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Family & Relationships
In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of that year, the outspoken abolitionist, feminist, and journalist, Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) unleashed a...
The Superstition of Divorce - G. K. Chesterton
The Superstition of Divorce - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Family & Relationships
This short book was written in 1920, and in it Chesterton, with his usual wit and incisive logic, presents a series of articles defending marriage and indicating the weaknesses in divorce. He did this 16 years before the first Christian denomination...
Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young - Jacob Abbott
Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Family & Relationships / Self-Help
Subtitled, "The principles on which a firm parental authority may be established and maintained, without violence or anger, and the right development of the moral and mental capacities be promoted by methods in harmony with the structure and the...
Manners for Men - Mrs. HUMPHRY
Manners for Men - Mrs. HUMPHRY
- Author: Mrs. HUMPHRY
- Genre: Family & Relationships
Many men who go out into the world while still very young to earn their living have few opportunities of acquiring a knowledge of social observances. Should this little manual of manners be of use to any such in enabling them to master the theory,...
Christmas Under Three Flags - Mary Emily Donelson WILCOX
Christmas Under Three Flags - Mary Emily Donelson WILCOX
- Author: Mary Emily Donelson WILCOX
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Memoirs
This work details personal memories of Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox, adopted granddaughter (acutally grand niece) of Rachel Donelson Jackson, wife of President Andrew Jackson, and assumed to be the first baby born in the White House. The book focuses...
Bringing up the Boy - Carl WERNER
Bringing up the Boy - Carl WERNER
- Author: Carl WERNER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Family & Relationships
''Bringing up the Boy'' is, according to its subtitle, ''A Message to Fathers and Mothers from a Boy of Yesterday concerning the Men of To-morrow'' and proffers advice for parents on raising boys from infancy until adulthood, to become fine,...
Don't Marry - James W. Donovan
Don't Marry - James W. Donovan
- Author: James W. Donovan
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Family & Relationships
This book doesn't advise against marriage but just offers advice on the errors some people can make who make the wrong choice when entering into so long a contract. - Summary by Michele Eaton...
Vassar Studies - Julia Augusta Schwartz
Vassar Studies - Julia Augusta Schwartz
- Author: Julia Augusta Schwartz
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Family & Relationships
Published in 1899, Vassar Studies is a collection of twelve realistic glimpses into the character of attending students at Vassar College. It delves more with the inner workings of people rather than with dramatic incidents or what was studied in...
The Theory of Psychoanalysis - Carl Gustav Jung
The Theory of Psychoanalysis - Carl Gustav Jung
- Author: Carl Gustav Jung
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Psychology
Jung says the following in his introduction: "in these lectures I have attempted to reconcile my practical experiences in psychoanalysis with the existing theory, or rather, with the approaches to such a theory." He goes on to say, "Here is my...
The Art of Conversation: Twelve Golden Rules - Josephine Turck Baker
The Art of Conversation: Twelve Golden Rules - Josephine Turck Baker
- Author: Josephine Turck Baker
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family & Relationships / Self-Help
Many of us find it challenging to speak to other people, for various reasons. Some of us are afraid of being called a bore. Others are worried that we will be accused of hogging attention. Many of us simply don't know what to talk about. This book...
Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography - Robert R. Moton
Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography - Robert R. Moton
- Author: Robert R. Moton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Family & Relationships / History
He says about this work: "I have tried to record the events that have given character and colour to my own life, and at the same time to reflect upon the impressions made upon my mind by experiences that I could not always reconcile with what I had...
The Mob Violence and the American Negro: My Experience in the Sunny South - Velley Lester
The Mob Violence and the American Negro: My Experience in the Sunny South - Velley Lester
- Author: Velley Lester
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Family & Relationships / Law
According to the author of the Preface, "Mr. Lester is also zealous to bring about a better relation and a better understanding between the white and black races. His denunciation against mob violence is bitter, but pleads for just treatment and a...
Letters from a Prairie Garden - Edna W. Underwood
Letters from a Prairie Garden - Edna W. Underwood
- Author: Edna W. Underwood
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Gardening / Letters
The "Letters from a Prairie Garden," are genuine letters and not fiction. They went through the mail. An explanatory word about their origin may not be amiss. Some years ago a famous artist came to a certain mid-western city on business connected...
Social Life in England 1750-1850 - F. J. Foakes-Jackson
Social Life in England 1750-1850 - F. J. Foakes-Jackson
- Author: F. J. Foakes-Jackson
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Business & Economics / Family & Relationships
In 1916, the Cambridge historian, F.J. Foakes-Jackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. In these wide-ranging and engaging talks, the author describes British life between 1750-1850. There are John Wesley's...
Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in His Veins - W. L. Hunter
Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in His Veins - W. L. Hunter
- Author: W. L. Hunter
- Genre: Family & Relationships / History
This short work attempts to establish that Jesus had black ancestry dating back to Ham, the son of Noah, who had been made black-skinned as a punishment for having seen his father naked. Furthermore, Canaanites are here also identified as being...
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers - Elbert Hubbard
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers - Elbert Hubbard
- Author: Elbert Hubbard
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Family & Relationships
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part pontification of Hubbard's opinion of...
Love's Coming-of-Age: A Series of Papers on the Relations of the Sexes - Edward CARPENTER
Love's Coming-of-Age: A Series of Papers on the Relations of the Sexes - Edward CARPENTER
- Author: Edward CARPENTER
- Genre: Family & Relationships
"The little god of Love is generally represented as a child; and rightly, perhaps, considering the erratic character of his ways among the human race. There are signs, however, of a new order in the relations of the Sexes; and the following papers...
Lives of Two Cats - Pierre Loti
Lives of Two Cats - Pierre Loti
- Author: Pierre Loti
- Genre: Animals / Family & Relationships / House & Home
An English translation of Pierre Loti's charming 19th century memoir of his cats. - Summary by S Caulkins...