Social Science

Japanese Girls and Women

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Alice Bacon


A clear and delightful peek into the world of Japanese girls and women of the late 1800s: their childhood, education, marriage and intimate …

Poor Richard's Almanack

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Benjamin Franklin


A brief biographical sketch of Franklin's life, followed by a collection (published in 1899) of 670 aphorisms, apothegms, or proverbs - shor…

No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes

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Rupert H. Wheldon


>Though little is known about its author, this is considered the first vegan cookbook ever written. At the time of its composition, the V…

Rights Of Man

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Thomas Paine


A book in 2 Parts, published in 1791 and 1792. Part First denounces Edmund Burke’s defense of monarchy and his attacks against the French Re…

The Book of the Dead

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E. A. Wallis Budge


The Egyptian Book of the Dead, or the Book of Coming Forth by Day, is an Ancient Egyptian funerary text consisting of spells to protect the …

Psychology of the Unconscious

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Carl Gustav Jung


Jung says in his subtitle that this work is a study of the transformations and symbolisms of the libido and a contribution to the history of…

The Book of Hallowe'en

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Ruth Edna Kelley


This book is intended to give the reader an account of the origin and history of Hallowe'en, how it absorbed some customs belonging to other…

Walden, Version 2

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Henry David Thoreau


Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a refl…

The Sins of Hollywood

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Ed Roberts


Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable ho…

Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2)

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Emma Goldman


Emma Goldman, the most famous anarchist in American history, shows the whole range of her iconoclastic thought in this collection of essays.…

Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young

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Jacob Abbott


Subtitled, "The principles on which a firm parental authority may be established and maintained, without violence or anger, and the rig…

The Religion of Ancient Egypt

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William Matthew Flinders Petrie


William Matthew Flinders Petrie – the father of Egyptian Archaeology – developed and applied statistical analysis to pottery from prehistori…

Traité de la vie élégante suivi de la Théorie de la démarche

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Honoré de Balzac


L’homme intérieur, principe du pouvoir et de la longévité, et l’homme extérieur arpentant, avec la même &e…

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

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Peter Kropotkin


Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England…

The Humbugs of the World

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P. T. Barnum


P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…

The Negro Problem

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Various


This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as "racial uplift …

Home Life in Colonial Days

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Alice Morse Earle


CHAPTER IHOMES OF THE COLONISTSWhen the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have se…

The Problem of China

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Bertrand Russell


In 1920-21 Bertrand Russell lived and taught in Peking (Beijing), publishing this book on his return to England. In 1920 he had visited Bols…

A Young Girl's Diary

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Anonymoustranslated Bycedar Paul and William James Mcglothlin


The diary of an upper middle class Austrian girl, this book describes her life between the ages of eleven and fourteen. It's a coming of age…

The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1

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Various


This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, an…

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