Social Science
In Indian Mexico
In this work, Starr delves into the anthropological side of Mexico's Natives ("Indians") at the end of the XIX century. Researche…
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…
The Web of Indian Life
The Web of Indian Life, written by Sister Nivedita (Irish-born Margaret E. Noble) and published in 1904, is a collection of essays that desc…
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…
Your United States
Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journal…
Women's Wild Oats
A resounding and, for the times, outrageous look at restructuring British society using the first world war as trigger for changing the plac…
Why We Love Music
Psychologists have not explained why we love music. A technical psychologist indulges in generalizations and predictions in a practical and …
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…
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…
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…
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…
Illustrations of Political Economy
Hugely popular at their time of publication, Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy sought to turn the abstract principles o…
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…
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…
Mobilizing Woman-Power
Harriot Stanton Blatch, a suffragist in her own right, was the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton who was one of the champions of women’s ri…
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion
The third volume of The Golden Bough. The term Taboo is one of the very few words which the English language has borrowed from the speech of…
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…
The Revolutions of Civilization
British archaeologist & Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie, discusses the history of civilization in Egypt, Greece, Rome & medieval Europ…
Hollywood
Serialized in Shadowland from November 1921 to February 1922, Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners is Theodore Dreiser's shocking four part exp…