Social Science
The City of Din
A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us phy…
The Gray Mills of Farley
The Gray Mills of Farley by Sarah Orne Jewett offers a keen exploration of labor relations in a small New England town during the late 19th …
Woman and the Republic
First published in 1897, the book is considered to be the best summary of the arguments against woman suffrage. It allows readers to underst…
A Study of British Genius
The psychological and anthropological character of genius in the British Isles was investigated by Ellis. Citing and collating an extensive …
What Dress Makes of Us
What Dress Makes of Us is a sharp and humorous exploration of women's fashion and its social implications, penned by Dorothy Quigley in 1897…
The Nether World
This sad social novel revolves around the problematic issue of money. Michael returns from Australia to London a rich man. However, he hides…
The Eyes of the Movie
"The movie was born in the laboratory and reared in the counting-house. It is a benevolent monster of four I's: Inventor, Investor, Imp…
Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and ra…
Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing
In light of recent events that have exposed rifts in the relationships between local police and the communities they protect and serve, on D…
Why We Love Music
Psychologists have not explained why we love music. A technical psychologist indulges in generalizations and predictions in a practical and …
A Voice from the South
Published in 1892, this is the author's first work. Its eight essays are considered a seminal text of Black feminism. Its theme is that thro…
Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty
Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral…
Among the Head-hunters of Formosa
"Among the Head-hunters of Formosa contains the substance of observations made during a two-years' stay in Formosa — from September 191…
Balder The Beautiful
The tenth volume in The Golden Bough series. Frazer discusses the problem which gives its title to the whole work. If right, the Golden Boug…
Our Androcentric Culture
This is a book about men—as such. It differentiates between the human nature and the sex nature. It will not go so far as to allege man's ma…
Woman and War
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Inte…
Women of America
The present volume completes the story of woman as told in the series of which it forms part. The history of nations is, in its ultimate ana…
The Long Road of Woman's Memory
In this book, Jane Addams tells of a strange rumor involving Hull House, the famed settlement house founded by her in Chicago in 1889. The r…
Vindication Of The Rights Of Men
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to …
The Social Settlement Movement in Chicago
This is Ms. Raymond's thesis submitted for the awarding of her master's degree from the University of Wisconsin (Madison.) Raymond clearly k…