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Underground Man

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Gabriel Tarde


This post-apocalyptic novella tells the story of the downfall of civilisation and mankind following a solar cataclysm in the late 20th centu…

What Prohibition Has Done to America

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Fabian Franklin


In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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Margaret Fuller


Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nin…

The Psychology of Peoples: Its Influence on Their Evolution

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Gustave Le Bon


"It is barely a century and a half ago that certain philosophers, who, it should be remarked, were very ignorant of the primitive histo…

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

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Gustave Le Bon


"Civilisations as yet have only been created and directed by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds. Crowds are only powerfu…

Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases 1950-1960

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United States Supreme Court


Landmark United States Supreme Court decisions focusing on civil rights and equal protection between 1950 and 1960. (summary by Kelli Robins…

Drugging a Nation

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Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr.


Drugging a Nation is a journalistic reveal of the extent to which the British Empire was culpable in the dissemination and subsequent near t…

Deportation: Its Meaning and Menace. Last Message to the People of America

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Emma Goldman


A pamphlet written by Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman shortly before their deportation from the US in 1919. - Summary by Krzysztof Rowińs…

Human Nature And Conduct - Part 1, The Place of Habit 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 …

What the White Race May Learn from the Indian

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George Wharton James


People learn from other people, and races have forever learned from other races. Herein we are treated to an in-depth understanding of categ…

Culture and Anarchy

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Matthew Arnold


Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book…

Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half

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Jacob A. Riis


These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…

The Lepers of Molokai

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Charles Warren Stoddard


This is the story of the lepers of Molokai and of the Roman Catholic missionary, Father Damien, who ministered to those who languished in th…

The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism (Version 2)

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Friedrich Nietzsche


This is one of Nietzsche's early academic writings - a scholarly theory about Ancient Greek theatre, specifically tragedies. In a nutshell, …

Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners

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Theodore Dreiser


Serialized in Shadowland from November 1921 to February 1922, Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners is Theodore Dreiser's shocking four part exp…

Chinese Sketches

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Herbert Allen Giles


Herbert Giles was in the diplomatic service in China from 1867 to 1893. His frank observations on Chinese culture and people form the basis…

A Cursory History of Swearing

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Julian Sharman


This is a very readable scientific account of Swearing and Cursing in the English Language. Not only is an enlightening historical account g…

Early Greek Philosophy and Other Essays

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Friedrich Nietzsche


The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragme…

The Spinster Book

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Myrtle Reed


A cross between guidebook and social commentary, The Spinster Book gives clever and humorous insights on topics such as courting, handling m…

When Knights Were Bold

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Eva March Tappan


This book is in no degree an attempt to relate the involved and intricate history of the Middle Ages. Its plan is, rather, to present pictur…

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