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Thoughts on the Death Penalty - Charles C. BURLEIGH
Thoughts on the Death Penalty - Charles C. BURLEIGH
- Author: Charles C. BURLEIGH
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This 1845 publication, written by a prominent reformer of the day, argues against capital punishment from several perspectives, including historical, philosophical and biblical arguments. It is broken into 3 chapters: Expediency, Justice, and Sacred...
The Future of the Women's Movement - Helena SWANWICK
The Future of the Women's Movement - Helena SWANWICK
- Author: Helena SWANWICK
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
"There may seem to be a disappointing lack of prophesy in a book avowedly dealing with the future; but since I believe the womenβs movement to be a seeking for knowledge and good, to show what is reasonable and good in the movement is to show what...
Revolted Woman - Charles George HARPER
Revolted Woman - Charles George HARPER
- Author: Charles George HARPER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
One man's opinion of woman in 1894. Charles Harper believes in the superiority of the male sex and the subordination of the female. He paints an entire gender with the same brush. He believes all women to be identical in mind (illogical) and body...
Twentieth Century Negro Literature or A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro - Daniel Wallace CULP
Twentieth Century Negro Literature or A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro - Daniel Wallace CULP
- Author: Daniel Wallace CULP
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The object of this book is... (1) To enlighten the uninformed white people on the intellectual ability of the Negro. (2) To give to those, who are interested in the Negro race, a better idea of the extent to which he contributed to the promotion of...
The Curious Lore of Precious Stones - George Frederick KUNZ
The Curious Lore of Precious Stones - George Frederick KUNZ
- Author: George Frederick KUNZ
- Genre: Religion / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Full title is "The Curious Lore of Precious Stones, being a description of their sentiments and folklore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination, crystal gazing, birthstones, lucky...
Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing - PRESIDENT'S TASK FORCE ON 21ST CENTURY POLICING
Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing - PRESIDENT'S TASK FORCE ON 21ST CENTURY POLICING
- Author: PRESIDENT'S TASK FORCE ON 21ST CENTURY POLICING
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
In light of recent events that have exposed rifts in the relationships between local police and the communities they protect and serve, on December 18, 2014, President Barack Obama signed an executive order establishing the Task Force on 21st...
They Who Knock at Our Gates - Mary ANTIN
They Who Knock at Our Gates - Mary ANTIN
- Author: Mary ANTIN
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
In 1914, over one million immigrants arrived in the United States, following in the footsteps of approximately ten million others who had arrived in the preceding decade. Faced with so many newcomers, many of them from backgrounds new to the...
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...
The Soul of London - Ford Madox Ford
The Soul of London - Ford Madox Ford
- Author: Ford Madox Ford
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who are Londoners, paying visits of greater or less duration to a Personality that, whether we love it or very...
Home Life in Colonial Days - Alice Morse EARLE
Home Life in Colonial Days - Alice Morse EARLE
- Author: Alice Morse EARLE
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Early Modern
CHAPTER IHOMES OF THE COLONISTSWhen the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable. The colonists found a land magnificent with forest trees of every...
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume II - Albert Bigelow Paine
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume II - 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 β April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. This recording of Paine's exhaustive...
Towards Democracy - Edward CARPENTER
Towards Democracy - Edward CARPENTER
- Author: Edward CARPENTER
- Genre: Poetry / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
βCivilization sinks and swims, but the old facts remainβthe sun smiles, knowing well its strength.β Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) wrote his prose poem, Towards Democracy, styled after Walt Whitmanβs Leaves of Grass, in a summer burst of creativity....
Baltimore Hats - William T. BRIGHAM
Baltimore Hats - William T. BRIGHAM
- Author: William T. BRIGHAM
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Technology & Engineering
It is not impossible that some useful information may be conveyed by this book. Should these pages prove of such service, their cost in labor is most cheerfully donated. This volume is composed of a series of articles which appeared in a Trade...
Save the Girls - Mason LONG
Save the Girls - Mason LONG
- Author: Mason LONG
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Save the Girls is an 1880 American anti-white-slavery book by reformed gambler Mason Long. In it, the author crusades against the social evil of prostitution by presenting a series of pathetic portraits of young women from various social classes who...
The Indian To-day - Charles Alexander Eastman
The Indian To-day - Charles Alexander Eastman
- Author: Charles Alexander Eastman
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Based in part upon the author's own observations and personal knowledge, it was the aim of the book to set forth the status and outlook of the North American Indian. He addressed issues such as Indian schools, health, government policy and agencies,...
Feminism in Greek Literature - Frederick Adam WRIGHT
Feminism in Greek Literature - Frederick Adam WRIGHT
- Author: Frederick Adam WRIGHT
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This study, published in 1923, examines the views regarding women's place in Ancient Greek society based especially on the writings of Homer, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Socrates and Aristotle. As the author offers his opinion and judgement,...
The Soul or Rational Psychology - Emanuel SWEDENBORG
The Soul or Rational Psychology - Emanuel SWEDENBORG
- Author: Emanuel SWEDENBORG
- Genre: Psychology / Religion / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772, was born in Stockholm, Sweden and died in London, England. He was a voluminous writer of scientific treatises as well as prophetic works such as Archana Caelestia and The Divine Providence. He said he had encountered...
Glimpses of Italian society in the eighteenth century - Hester Lynch PIOZZI
Glimpses of Italian society in the eighteenth century - Hester Lynch PIOZZI
- Author: Hester Lynch PIOZZI
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Travel & Geography
Selections from the "Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany" by Hester Lynch Piozzi who, during her first marriage to Henry Thrale, was the hostess and friend of many of her famous...
My Monks of Vagabondia - Andress Small FLOYD
My Monks of Vagabondia - Andress Small FLOYD
- Author: Andress Small FLOYD
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Before welfare or rehab, what happened to those unfortunates who lost their way, fell through the cracks, were cast off by society? Men such as Andress Floyd and his wife Lillian stepped up. In 1908, the philanthropists converted a mansion in New...
Woman and War - Olive Schreiner
Woman and War - Olive Schreiner
- Author: Olive Schreiner
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Internationally famous South African Novelist. She was an extraordinary person and was one of the earliest...
The Business of Being a Woman - Ida M. TARBELL
The Business of Being a Woman - Ida M. TARBELL
- Author: Ida M. TARBELL
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
How were women's roles changing in the 1900's? Ida Tarbell explores this in a well written, witty and insightful series of essays. "The object of this little volume is to call attention to a certain distrust, which the author feels in the modern...
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III - Albert Bigelow Paine
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Humor / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 β April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. These recordings of Paine's...
Supreme Cases from 1803-2018 - United States Supreme Court
Supreme Cases from 1803-2018 - United States Supreme Court
- Author: United States Supreme Court
- Genre: Law / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
These cases involved questions that came before the Supreme Court that needed answers. The questions in order of appearance in this project are as follows.Does Congress have the power to pass laws that override the Constitution? What shall we do...
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 2 - Arthur L. Hayward
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 2 - Arthur L. Hayward
- Author: Arthur L. Hayward
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This is the second volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled by prison inspector Arthur Hayward from original sources originally published in 1735.Please note that some...
Damn! A Book of Calumny - H. L. Mencken
Damn! A Book of Calumny - H. L. Mencken
- Author: H. L. Mencken
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (1880 β 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the...
Tea: Its Mystery and History - Samuel Phillips DAY
Tea: Its Mystery and History - Samuel Phillips DAY
- Author: Samuel Phillips DAY
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Samuel Phillips Day traces the history of tea from Asia to England, exploring some of the romance of this treasured drink and its place in British culture. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
Shadowings - Lafcadio HEARN
Shadowings - Lafcadio HEARN
- Author: Lafcadio HEARN
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This is another of the popular books that Lafcadio Hearn wrote on various Japanese subjects. The first part "Stories From Strange Books" is a collection of Japanese tales about ghosts and strange occurrences. In the second part "Japanese Studies",...
The Convivio - Dante ALIGHIERI
The Convivio - Dante ALIGHIERI
- Author: Dante ALIGHIERI
- Genre: Lyric / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Medieval
Convivio (The Banquet) is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. This unfinished work of Dante consists of four trattati, or "books": a prefatory one, plus three books that each include a canzone (long lyrical poem) and a...
Christmastide - William SANDYS
Christmastide - William SANDYS
- Author: William SANDYS
- Genre: House & Home / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Christmastide: Its History, Festivities and Carols, With Their Music is a collection of essays detailing the early traditions of Christmas in England. This recording includes the prose portions of the book only (The Vignettes). The earliest...
Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development - Sir Francis GALTON
Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development - Sir Francis GALTON
- Author: Sir Francis GALTON
- Genre: Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Francis Galton, credited with the discovery of identification by fingerprinting, also took a long term interest in the study of biometrics. In this book, many different faculties, both observable and measurable are discussed in length and methods of...
The Deportation Cases of 1919-1920 - Constantine PANUNZIO
The Deportation Cases of 1919-1920 - Constantine PANUNZIO
- Author: Constantine PANUNZIO
- Genre: Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
"The study here presented embodies the findings of an investigation into the recent [1919-1920] deportations of persons deemed to be unlawfully in the country. . . Its purpose is to call public attention to practices that are inconsistent with the...
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III - John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III - John Locke
- Author: John Locke
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Writing & Linguistics / Modern
This is the third book of John Locke's Essay on Human Understanding. Book I was Neither Principles Nor Ideas Are Innate. Book II was Of Ideas and Book III is Of Words. Locke is writing about the ideas we have in our minds and the things they are to...
The Real Latin Quarter - Frank Berkeley SMITH
The Real Latin Quarter - Frank Berkeley SMITH
- Author: Frank Berkeley SMITH
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
"Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière"--this in my best restaurant French. The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulders, and raised his eyebrows in doubt. He evidently had never heard of the rue Falguière. "Yes, rue Falguière, the old rue des...
Underground Man - Gabriel TARDE
Underground Man - Gabriel TARDE
- Author: Gabriel TARDE
- Genre: Science Fiction / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This post-apocalyptic novella tells the story of the downfall of civilisation and mankind following a solar cataclysm in the late 20th century. To survive, the remnants of humanity had to build a new civilization underground in the complete absence...
Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV - Frantz FUNCK-BRENTANO
Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV - Frantz FUNCK-BRENTANO
- Author: Frantz FUNCK-BRENTANO
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The court of French King Louis XIV was not a safe place to be. It was filled with plots and intrigues, leaving observers and commentators with more questions than answers among speculation and innuendo. Funck-Brentano was a scholar, librarian and...
Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Author: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Genre: Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
First written in Gandhi's native language Gujarati, this booklet advocates for Indian non-violent self-rule during the struggle for Indian independence against the British Empire. It is written as a dialogue between two characters. In it, the...
Recollections of Imperial Russia - Meriel BUCHANAN
Recollections of Imperial Russia - Meriel BUCHANAN
- Author: Meriel BUCHANAN
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
In this memoir, Meriel Buchanan (9-5-1886 to 2-6-1959) links the history of Russia to powerful, lingering memories of her years living there. She was the daughter of the man who turned out to be the last British ambassador to Imperial Russia. As a...
Deportation: Its Meaning and Menace. Last Message to the People of America - Emma Goldman
Deportation: Its Meaning and Menace. Last Message to the People of America - Emma Goldman
- Author: Emma Goldman
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
A pamphlet written by Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman shortly before their deportation from the US in 1919. - Summary by Krzysztof RowiΕski...
The Night Side of New York - Various
The Night Side of New York - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This nonfiction collection of sketches, by "members of the New York press," takes the reader on a tour of 1866 New York City after dark, with stops along the way to vividly depict scenes ranging from the splendid to the squalid - but focusing...
The History of Prostitution - William Sanger
The History of Prostitution - William Sanger
- Author: William Sanger
- Genre: History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Common sense asks for a full investigation of all the evils attending prostitution. In the every-day affairs of life, any man who feels the pressure of a particular evil looks at once for its cause. He may be neither a philosopher nor a logician,...