Social Science
Damn! A Book of Calumny
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H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (1880 – 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of Ameri…
What Dress Makes of Us
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Dorothy Quigley
A wickedly funny book of advice on women's dress. However old, fat or plain you are, Dorothy Quigley will tell you what not to wear. (Summar…
The Curious Lore of Precious Stones
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George Frederick Kunz
Full title is "The Curious Lore of Precious Stones, being a description of their sentiments and folklore, superstitions, symbolism, mys…
Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago
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Hannah Trager
Hannah Trager published Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago in 1926, so the book is a portrait of day to day life for a Jewish fami…
The Sexes in Science and History
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Eliza Burt Gamble
In this revised second edition of her first book "The evolution of woman" (1894), subtitled "An inquiry into the dogma of wom…
The Chronicles of Newgate Vol 1
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Arthur Griffiths
Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the line…
Human Nature and Conduct - Part 3, The Place of Intelligence In Conduct
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John Dewey
John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist, saw Social Psychology as much a physical science…
Feminism in Greek Literature
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Frederick Adam Wright
This study, published in 1923, examines the views regarding women's place in Ancient Greek society based especially on the writings of Homer…
Six Months In Mexico
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Nellie Bly
This is an account of Nellie Bly's travels through Mexico in 1885. The book was originally a series of individual articles that she submitte…
Tea: Its Mystery and History
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Samuel Phillips Day
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 B…
The Convivio
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Dante Alighieri
Convivio (The Banquet) is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. This unfinished work of Dante consists of four tr…
The Night Side of New York
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Various
This nonfiction collection of sketches, by "members of the New York press," takes the reader on a tour of 1866 New York City after…
The Soul of London
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Ford Madox Ford
'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 ar…
Recollections of Imperial Russia
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Meriel Buchanan
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…
The Business of Being a Woman
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Ida M. Tarbell
How were women's roles changing in the 1900's? Ida Tarbell explores this in a well written, witty and insightful series of essays. "T…
Supreme Cases from 1803-2018
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United States Supreme Court
These cases involved questions that came before the Supreme Court that needed answers. The questions in order of appearance in this project …
Following the Color Line
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Ray Stannard Baker
Subtitled "An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy", we are presented an in-depth and essentially non-opinionate…
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III
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John Locke
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 Idea…
Prejudices, First Series
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H. L. Mencken
Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets…
The Cruise of the Falcon - A Voyage to South America in a 30-Ton Yacht
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Edward Frederick Knight
In this fine sailing and exploring yarn, Edward Frederick Knight (1852-1925), sometime English barrister, journalist, sportsman, and amateur…