Social Science
The Web of Indian Life
The Web of Indian Life, written by Sister Nivedita (Irish-born Margaret E. Noble) and published in 1904, is a collection of essays that desc…
Slave Narratives
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
A General View of Positivism
Auguste Comte was from France and published this book in French in 1844. He made a very great impact on the sciences and claims to have “dis…
The Business of Being a Woman
How were women's roles changing in the 1900's? Ida Tarbell explores this in a well written, witty and insightful series of essays. "T…
Following the Color Line
Subtitled "An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy", we are presented an in-depth and essentially non-opinionate…
Genetic Studies of Genius
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…
Why We Love Music
Psychologists have not explained why we love music. A technical psychologist indulges in generalizations and predictions in a practical and …
The Sins of Hollywood
Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable ho…
What Dress Makes of Us
What Dress Makes of Us is a sharp and humorous exploration of women's fashion and its social implications, penned by Dorothy Quigley in 1897…
The Sexes in Science and History
In this revised second edition of her first book "The evolution of woman" (1894), subtitled "An inquiry into the dogma of wom…
Neighbors
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…
Neighbourhood
If you love the quiet of the country - the real quiet which is not silence at all, but the blending of a myriad scarce-perceptible sounds yo…
A Voice from the South
Published in 1892, this is the author's first work. Its eight essays are considered a seminal text of Black feminism. Its theme is that thro…
The Nether World
This sad social novel revolves around the problematic issue of money. Michael returns from Australia to London a rich man. However, he hides…
In Indian Mexico
In this work, Starr delves into the anthropological side of Mexico's Natives ("Indians") at the end of the XIX century. Researche…
Dark Princess
This story begins as Matthew Towns, a brilliant young Black medical student, is dismissed from medical school because the white board has de…
Underground Man
This post-apocalyptic novella tells the story of the downfall of civilisation and mankind following a solar cataclysm in the late 20th centu…
Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty
Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral…
The Indian To-day
Based in part upon the author's own observations and personal knowledge, it was the aim of the book to set forth the status and outlook of t…
Porto Rico
Puerto Rico was acquired by the United States in 1898 following the Spanish-American War. This volume was written in 1903 as Book XII in the…