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Drugging a Nation - Samuel Merwin
Drugging a Nation - Samuel Merwin
- Author: Samuel Merwin
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
Drugging a Nation is a journalistic reveal of the extent to which the British Empire was culpable in the dissemination and subsequent near total addiction to opium of the Chinese people in the nineteenth century. So weak did it make China, that is...
Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments - Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments - Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
- Author: Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
- Genre: Medical / Philosophy / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and radioactive contamination on the human body. Most of these tests were performed, funded, or supervised by the...
The Book of the Dead - E. A. Wallis Budge
The Book of the Dead - E. A. Wallis Budge
- Author: E. A. Wallis Budge
- Genre: History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Other religions
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 soul on its journey to Duat, or Afterlife....
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...
The People of the Abyss - Jack London
The People of the Abyss - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Business & Economics / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly enough on which to survive. Even if they were able to work, they were paid only enough to allow them a...
The Chronicles of Newgate Vol 1 - Arthur Griffiths
The Chronicles of Newgate Vol 1 - Arthur Griffiths
- Author: Arthur Griffiths
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / True Crime
Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the lines are blurred as the 'good' punish the 'bad' - the warriors against crime have resorted not only to killing...
Anarchism and Other Essays - Emma Goldman
Anarchism and Other Essays - Emma Goldman
- Author: Emma Goldman
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century....
Walden, Version 2 - Henry David Thoreau
Walden, Version 2 - Henry David Thoreau
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- Genre: Nature / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence,...
An Enquiry Into The Causes Of The Late Increase Of Robbers - Henry Fielding
An Enquiry Into The Causes Of The Late Increase Of Robbers - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Early eighteenth century England saw the criminal element bargaining with magistrates and lawyers to be released or receive lenient sentences. Neither party could be trusted and the situation grew worse. Enter famed author Henry Fielding, who had a...
Six Months In Mexico - Nellie Bly
Six Months In Mexico - Nellie Bly
- Author: Nellie Bly
- Genre: Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Travel & Geography
This is an account of Nellie Bly's travels through Mexico in 1885. The book was originally a series of individual articles that she submitted to the Pittsburgh Dispatch newspaper for publication. In them she described the conditions of the people...
The Child in the Midst: A Comparative Study of Child Welfare in Christian and Non-Christian Lands - Mary Shauffler Labaree
The Child in the Midst: A Comparative Study of Child Welfare in Christian and Non-Christian Lands - Mary Shauffler Labaree
- Author: Mary Shauffler Labaree
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Chapters follow the progression of a child from birth through working years.Thus, Chapter 1 traces the child from newborn to toddler stage in the home. It includes assumed rights of children and mothers, superstitions, diseases and treatments, and...
An Address to Free Colored Americans - An Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
An Address to Free Colored Americans - An Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
- Author: An Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
- Genre: History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women met in New York City in May, 1837. Members at the Convention came from all walks of life and included such prominent women as Mary Parker, Lucretia Mott, the Grimke sisters, and Lydia Maria Child....
Following the Color Line - Ray Stannard Baker
Following the Color Line - Ray Stannard Baker
- Author: Ray Stannard Baker
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Subtitled "An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy", we are presented an in-depth and essentially non-opinionated open view of race relations as they existed in the U.S. in 1908, more than 40 years following the end of the Civil...
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....
Woman in the Nineteenth Century - Margaret Fuller
Woman in the Nineteenth Century - Margaret Fuller
- Author: Margaret Fuller
- Genre: Literary Collections / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. Her life was short...
The Humbugs of the World - P. T. Barnum
The Humbugs of the World - P. T. Barnum
- Author: P. T. Barnum
- Genre: Performing Arts / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witchcraft, religious humbugs, money manias, adventurers, personal reminiscences, and much more. (Summary by...
Lessons on Manners for Home and School Use - Edith E. Wiggin
Lessons on Manners for Home and School Use - Edith E. Wiggin
- Author: Edith E. Wiggin
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
It is true that good manners, like good morals, are best taught by the teacher's example. It is also true that definite lessons, in which the subject can be considered in its appropriate divisions, are of no little value if we would have our...
Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years' of Recollections of P.T. Barnum, written by Himself - P. T. Barnum
Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years' of Recollections of P.T. Barnum, written by Himself - P. T. Barnum
- Author: P. T. Barnum
- Genre: Performing Arts / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The 1873 edition of the autobiography of the founding genius of the "Greatest Show on Earth," P.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum. It details his life and business struggles up to the year 1872. Not only a showman and a museum operator, but an antislavery...
The Sexes in Science and History - Eliza Burt Gamble
The Sexes in Science and History - Eliza Burt Gamble
- Author: Eliza Burt Gamble
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
In this revised second edition of her first book "The evolution of woman" (1894), subtitled "An inquiry into the dogma of woman's inferiority to man", Eliza Burt Gamble uses Darwin's theory of evolution and other scientific information to compare...
Washington Irving's Visit to England - Washington Irving
Washington Irving's Visit to England - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Humor / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
Famed American humorist Washington Irving published a series of short stories telling of his adventures traveling from America to England. This volume contains some of his observations about that trip, including his impressions of the English...
Stories of the Cave People - Mary Marcy
Stories of the Cave People - Mary Marcy
- Author: Mary Marcy
- Genre: Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
"In this little book I have sought, in a series of stories or sketches, to present only the first steps in human progress. Man has risen from a stage of lowest savagery, little higher than the apes, buffeted by the hand of Nature, dependent upon the...
On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara - Samuel Gamble Bayne
On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara - Samuel Gamble Bayne
- Author: Samuel Gamble Bayne
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Travel & Geography / Memoirs
This book gives a brief glimpse into the social history of Ireland in the early part of the 20th Century. During his 1902 tour through the north, west and south of Ireland the author provides entertaining insights into how those parts of Ireland...
Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases 1950-1960 - United States Supreme Court
Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases 1950-1960 - United States Supreme Court
- Author: United States Supreme Court
- Genre: Law / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Landmark United States Supreme Court decisions focusing on civil rights and equal protection between 1950 and 1960. (summary by Kelli Robinson)...
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes - Rupert H. WHELDON
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes - Rupert H. WHELDON
- Author: Rupert H. WHELDON
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Cooking
Though little is known about its author, this is considered the first vegan cookbook ever written. At the time of its composition, the Vegetarian Society and other advocates of vegetarian diets were engaged in a debate about the inclusion of dairy...
Army Life in a Black Regiment - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Army Life in a Black Regiment - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Genre: War & Military / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, the first colored regiment of any kind so mustered,...
What the White Race May Learn from the Indian - George Wharton JAMES
What the White Race May Learn from the Indian - George Wharton JAMES
- Author: George Wharton JAMES
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
People learn from other people, and races have forever learned from other races. Herein we are treated to an in-depth understanding of categorized social characteristics of the Native American peoples, primarily those of the western U.S. as they...
A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina - UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina - UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- Author: UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (20th C)
In September 2005, the House of Representatives created the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina. The Committee was charged with conducting "a full and complete investigation and study and...
Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times - Frederick Edward MANING
Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times - Frederick Edward MANING
- Author: Frederick Edward MANING
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Introduction to Old New ZealandPhilip SteerVictoria University February 2004Frederick Edward Maning is best known as an author, but he was also at times a trader and a judge of the Native Land Court. He was born in Dublin, Ireland on 5 July 1811 or...
Carpenter's World Travels - Alaska Our Northern Wonderland - Frank G. Carpenter
Carpenter's World Travels - Alaska Our Northern Wonderland - Frank G. Carpenter
- Author: Frank G. Carpenter
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Travel & Geography
Early twentieth century travel book about Alaska with stories of major cities, Indian tribes, customs and geography of what would become our 49th state. - Summary by BettyB....
My Chinese Marriage - Mae FRANKING
My Chinese Marriage - Mae FRANKING
- Author: Mae FRANKING
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Mae Watkins, a University of Michigan student, unexpectedly falls in love with a Chinese international law student in the midst of World War I. Despite the socially unacceptable pairing the couple decide to tie the knot and forge ahead with an...
Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2) - Emma Goldman
Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2) - Emma Goldman
- Author: Emma Goldman
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Emma Goldman, the most famous anarchist in American history, shows the whole range of her iconoclastic thought in this collection of essays. Drawing from a wealth of illustrative material, including the examples of fellow anarchists and radicals of...
The Measurement of Intelligence - Lewis TERMAN
The Measurement of Intelligence - Lewis TERMAN
- Author: Lewis TERMAN
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
An explanation of and a completed guide for the use of the Stanford revision and the Simon Binford intelligence test - Summary by the soloist...
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume 1 - Albert Bigelow Paine
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume 1 - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Humor / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Until recently, this work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. This recording of Paine's exhaustive...
Poor Richard's Almanack - Benjamin FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack - Benjamin FRANKLIN
- Author: Benjamin FRANKLIN
- Genre: Philosophy / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
A brief biographical sketch of Franklin's life, followed by a collection (published in 1899) of 670 aphorisms, apothegms, or proverbs - short, pithy, instructive sayings - that were scattered throughout the pages of his Poor Richard's Almanack over...
Woman and the New Race - Margaret SANGER
Woman and the New Race - Margaret SANGER
- Author: Margaret SANGER
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one point, even served jail time for importing birth control pills, then illegal, into the United States. Woman and...
Immortality and the Unseen World - W. O. E. OESTERLEY
Immortality and the Unseen World - W. O. E. OESTERLEY
- Author: W. O. E. OESTERLEY
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Antiquity / Other religions
The full title of this book is Immortality and the Unseen World - A Study in Old Testament Religion. Oesterley describes the beliefs that pre-Christian Hebrews and Semites held regarding the afterlife and the immortal nature of humans. The nature,...
The Problem of China - Bertrand Russell
The Problem of China - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
In 1920-21 Bertrand Russell lived and taught in Peking (Beijing), publishing this book on his return to England. In 1920 he had visited Bolshevik Russia, talked to Lenin, and was unimpressed by what he had seen. China, however, was another matter....
The Colored People of Chicago - Louise DeKoven BOWEN
The Colored People of Chicago - Louise DeKoven BOWEN
- Author: Louise DeKoven BOWEN
- Genre: Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This book presents a summary of the findings conducted by the the Juvenile Protective Association in Chicago before the changes brought on by the war-time economy. The study's researchers were A. P. Drucker, Sophia Boaz, A. L. Harris, and Miriam...
London Labour and the London Poor Volume II - Henry MAYHEW
London Labour and the London Poor Volume II - Henry MAYHEW
- Author: Henry MAYHEW
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.""The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves .. their labour, earnings, trials and sufferings,...
A Young Girl's Diary - Anonymous
A Young Girl's Diary - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The diary of an upper middle class Austrian girl, this book describes her life between the ages of eleven and fourteen. It's a coming of age story full of angst, boys, and questions. (Summary by KHand)...