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The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 5. The Spirits Of The Cor…

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James Frazer


The seventh volume in The Golden Bough series by Sir James George Frazer. The figure of the dying and reviving god in Oriental religions of …

Army Mental Tests

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Robert Mearns Yerkes and Clarence Stone Yoakum


Prepared in cooperation with the staff of the surgeon general's office as a source of information and printed materials concerning psycholog…

Hereditary Genius

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Sir Francis Galton


A biographical summary of the pre-eminent men of Britain grouped by profession. The extensive survey draws from information including colleg…

The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 2

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James Frazer


The second volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. The superstition and magical purpose …

The Intelligence of School Children

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Lewis Terman


This book has been written for the rank and file of teachers, school supervisors, and normal-school students. Its purpose is to illustrate t…

The Boise Survey

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Jesse Brundage Sears


A complete survey of the Independent Boise School District, Boise, Idaho was conducted over two weeks, with the purpose to study and observe…

The Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 1

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James Frazer


The first volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. Topics covered include extensive discu…

Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psycho…

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Frederick Adams Woods


Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral…

Is War Diminishing?

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Frederick Adams Woods


A study In the prevalence of war in Europe from 1400 to the present day. This small book summarises historical periods of peace compared to …

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 …

The Revolutions of Civilization

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William Matthew Flinders Petrie


British archaeologist & Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie, discusses the history of civilization in Egypt, Greece, Rome & medieval Europ…

The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 3. The Dying God

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James Frazer


The fourth volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. With this third part of The Golden Bo…

The Influence of Monarchs

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Frederick Adams Woods


Frederick Adams Woods presents compelling evidence to support the great man theory of history and his own category scientific inquiry known …

The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 4. Adonis Attis Osiris. V…

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James Frazer


The sixth volume in the Golden Bough. Frazer continues into the second part of the compilation of analogies dealing with the recurring theme…

Civilization and Climate

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Ellsworth Huntington


This book presents the science of geography one step further than just the physical features of the earth's surface. The relationship betwee…

A Study of British Genius

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Havelock Ellis


The psychological and anthropological character of genius in the British Isles was investigated by Ellis. Citing and collating an extensive …

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…

Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development

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Sir Francis Galton


Francis Galton, credited with the discovery of identification by fingerprinting, also took a long term interest in the study of biometrics. …

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…

Weather Influences

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Edwin Grant Dexter


An empirical study of the mental and physiological effects of definite meteorological conditions. The seasonal and daily climatic changes th…

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