Social Science
Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America
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Herbert Spinden
The ancient cultures of Mesoamerica developed art, stone cities, and sciences (especially astronomy and mathematics), to a degree that surpa…
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix
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Francis Tiffany
A biography of a woman who advocated for the humane treatment of people with mental illness. As a young woman travelling overseas, Dorothea …
Bushido: el alma del Japón
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Inazō Nitobe
Inazō Nitobé, plasmó el código de los samuráis, guerreros japoneses, para dar a conocer y difundir los valores y…
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…
National Gambling Impact Study Commission Final Report
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National Gambling Impact Study Commission
The National Gambling Impact Study Commission was given the task of conducting a comprehensive legal and factual study on the social and eco…
A Social History of the American Negro
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Benjamin Griffith Brawley
A comprehensive history of what experiences and influences created the Negro American citizen as we find him at the beginning of the twentie…
Glimpses of Italian society in the eighteenth century
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Hester Lynch Piozzi
Selections from the "Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany" by Hester Ly…
Porto Rico: The Land of the Rich Port
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Joseph B. Seabury
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…
American Indians
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Frederick Starr
School students is Starr's intended audience of this work. The easy-to-read stories discuss and describe a wide range of topics such as food…
Malaria: A Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome
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William Henry Samuel Jones
This short book has the objective of showing how important it is to stamp out malaria as soon as possible. Unlike a plague that suddenly tak…
Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls
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Ernest A. Bell
A complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls, the methods by which the procurers and panders lure innocent young …
The Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching) or Prajna-Paramita
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Unknowntranslated Bywilliam Gemmell
The Diamond Sutra, also known as the ‘Diamond Cutter Sutra’ or ‘Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita Sutra,’ is a remarkable Buddhist text and is co…
Women of America
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John Ruse Larus
The present volume completes the story of woman as told in the series of which it forms part. The history of nations is, in its ultimate ana…
The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism
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Harriet Beecher Stowe and Samuel Robert Wells
The object in reprinting this most interesting review is simply to show the progress made in moral, intellectual, and physical science. The …
The Religious Experience of the Roman People
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W. Warde Fowler
A series of lectures delivered by Professor Fowler at Edinburgh University for a public audience, concerning the development and decay of t…
The Passing of the Great Race
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Madison Grant
The rapidly growing appreciation of the importance of race during the last few years, the study of the influence of race on nationality as s…
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang is a book mainly focused on the stories of ghosts and other mystical phenomenon. With frequent …
Uganda to the Cape
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Frank G. Carpenter
Another volume in the author's series of travelling the world and telling of its peoples, agriculture, industry, and social habits . This ti…
Herein is Love
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Reuel Howe
Prescient look at the church, its message and role in society, both perceived and true, focused through the lens of the biblical doctrine of…
A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman from the South
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Anna J. Cooper
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…