Social Science

Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life

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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: 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…

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 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; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race

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John Clay Coleman



"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …

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…

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…

Genetic Studies of Genius, Volume 1: Mental and Physical Traits of a Thousand Gifted Children

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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…

A Social History of the American Negro

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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…

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 …

American Indians

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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…

Uganda to the Cape

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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 Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching) or Prajna-Paramita

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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…

National Gambling Impact Study Commission Final Report

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National Gambling Impact Study Commission



The National Gambling Impact Study Commission was given the task of conducting a comprehensive legal and factual study on the social and eco…

Glimpses of Italian society in the eighteenth century

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Hester Lynch Piozzi



Selections from the "Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany" by Hester Ly…

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 …

The Negro

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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 …

Malaria: A Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome

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William Henry Samuel Jones



This short book has the objective of showing how important it is to stamp out malaria as soon as possible. Unlike a plague that suddenly tak…

Porto Rico: The Land of the Rich Port

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Joseph B. Seabury



Puerto Rico was acquired by the United States in 1898 following the Spanish-American War. This volume was written in 1903 as Book XII in the…

The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism

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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 …

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