Social Science

The Nether World

by George Gissing Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This sad social novel revolves around the problematic issue of money. Michael returns from Australia to London a rich man. However, he hides…

The State of Society in France Before the Revolution

by Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville Read by Jim Locke 5
A thorough analysis of the social, religious, and political dynamics of French society which led to the French Revolution.

Among the Head-hunters of Formosa

by Janet B. Montgomery Mcgovern Read by Anonymous 4.7
"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

by William Matthew Flinders Petrie Read by Leon Harvey 3.9
British archaeologist & Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie, discusses the history of civilization in Egypt, Greece, Rome & medieval Europ…

The City of Din

by Dan McKenzie and Dan Mckenzie Read by Amelia Chesley
A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us phy…

The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…

Women of America

by John Ruse Larus Read by Linda Andrus 4.8
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…

Thoughts on South Africa

by Olive Schreiner Read by Rachel May Ferriman 3.3
'Thoughts on South Africa' is a collection of Schreiner's observations of colonial South Africa in the early 19th century, mostly regarding …

The Future of the Women's Movement

by Helena Swanwick Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
"There may seem to be a disappointing lack of prophesy in a book avowedly dealing with the future; but since I believe the women’s move…

Balder The Beautiful

by James Frazer Read by Leon Harvey
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…

The Passing of the Great Race

by Madison Grant Read by Jim Locke 3.6
The rapidly growing appreciation of the importance of race during the last few years, the study of the influence of race on nationality as s…

The Negro

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by Jim Locke 4
Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair …

Our Androcentric Culture

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Read by KHand
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…

Vindication Of The Rights Of Men

by Mary Wollstonecraft Read by David Wales 3.8
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to …

Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs

by Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Commissioner Of Indian Affairs Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Because the US Constitution gives the power of relating to (and control over) Indian tribes to the federal government, Congress requires upd…

The Great Beach

by John Hay Read by PhyllisV 3.7
Written by John Hay, a naturalist and co-founder of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, The Great Beach is an exploration into the natur…

Criminal man

by Gina Lombroso Read by Leon Harvey
This book is an English summary and paraphrase of the multi-volume Italian work of the same name compiled by Cesare Lombroso, the father of …

Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule

by Mahatma Gandhi Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
First written in Gandhi's native language Gujarati, this booklet advocates for Indian non-violent self-rule during the struggle for Indian i…

The Social Settlement Movement in Chicago

by Josephine Hunt Raymond Read by KevinS 5
This is Ms. Raymond's thesis submitted for the awarding of her master's degree from the University of Wisconsin (Madison.) Raymond clearly k…

Mother Earth

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literat…

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