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V — TABOOED THINGS. PART 2. 6. Hair tabooed. Hair of kings, priests, and other …

In The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 2. Taboo and the Perils o…

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James Frazer


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…

XVII. CASES RATED AT AI IQ 130 TO 140. Part 1

In Genetic Studies of Genius Volume 2: The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Ge…

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Catharine Cox Miles


The second volume in the longitudinal study of gifted children in the United States of America supervised by Lewis Terman. An extensive disc…

XXI. CONCLUSIONS AND PROBLEMS. Variability of the group studied, Representative…

In Genetic Studies of Genius, Volume 1: Mental and Physical Traits of a Thousand G…

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Lewis Terman


It should go without saying that a nation's resources of intellectual talent are among the most precious it will ever have. The study of the…

V. Practical Application to the Criticism of Criminal Law, to Expert Testimony,…

In Crime, Its Causes and Remedies

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Cesare Lombroso


Published as the third volume in the Modern Criminal Science Series, Cesare Lombroso, renowned Italian criminologist, collected a wealth of …

NOTE. The Ceremony of the Horse at Rice-harvest among the Garos.

In The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 5. Spirits Of The Corn An…

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James Frazer


The eighth volume in The Golden Bough collection, and second volume of The Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild. The investigations into the …

High-Grade Men: in College & Out (1903)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102

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Edwin Grant Dexter


"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…

Discipline

In The Montessori Method

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Maria Montessori


In the early 1900's Dr. Maria Montessori began to reform educational methods with her work the 'Case dei Bambini' in Rome, Italy. Montessori…

Demonic Spanish

In First Fifty Digits of Pi

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Scott Hemphill


56 flavors of Pi proudly produced by LibriVox volunteers to celebrate Pi Day, 2008. (3/14) Don't worry, you don't have to listen to an infin…

Non-Euclidean Geometries

In Science and Hypothesis

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Henri Poincaré


Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of scien…

Chapter XIII, Part 1

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 13)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


This chapter traces the history of the Glorious Revolution in Scotland, including the reaction of the country's religious parties, the insta…

A Mighty Fortress is Our God (translated by Frederick Henry Hedge)

In Hymns of the Christian Church

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Martin Luther


A collection of classic Christian hymns spanning the centuries. Some LibriVox volunteers read the hymns; others sung them. (Summary by Leon…

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