Psychology
The psychic life of micro-organisms : a study in experimental psychology
Read by Leon Harvey
Alfred Binet
Described by Binet as a branch of psychology little known, he endeavoured in the following essay upon Micro-organisms, to show that psycholo…
The Emotions
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James McCosh and James Mccosh
I am not satisfied with the account which has been given of the feelings and emotions in our books of mental science, and thence transferred…
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 Dry Dock of a Thousand Wrecks
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Philip Ilott Roberts
After an introduction to the Ole Jerry McAuley Mission in the year 1912, many wonderful stories of destitute alcoholics and addicts making a…
Practical Mysticism (Version 2)
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Evelyn Underhill
I write only for the larger class which, repelled by the formidable appearance of more elaborate works on the subject, would yet like to kno…
The Kallikak Family
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Henry H. Goddard
The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, written by famous American psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard, …
Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity
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Richard Alfred Davenport
This book contains many brief tales from history of commoners pretending to be kings and kings pretending to be commoners. Learn the fate of…
On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime
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Hugo Münsterberg
Eight sketches by one of the pioneers of applied psychology, which highlight the mind of the witness on the witness stand, and how one can b…
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3
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Havelock Ellis
Volume 3: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and PainIn the study of Love and Pain I have discussed the sources of those aberrations which…
Nerves and Common Sense
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Annie Payson Call
This is a collection of 30 articles on mental health, stress reducing and general advice on how to deal with everday problems at work or at …
Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein
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Herbert Mayo
"In the following Letters I have endeavoured to exhibit in their true light the singular natural phenomena of which old superstition an…
Mental Fatigue
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Tsuru Arai
Published as a doctoral thesis, the human capacity for sustained effort in mental work and the occurrence of exhaustion has been examined in…
Abraham Lincoln: The Practical Mystic
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Francis Grierson
A knowledge of the influences which ruled the life of Lincoln, the greatest of practical mystics, is essential now that a new form of pagani…
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…
The Long Road of Woman's Memory
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Jane Addams
In this book, Jane Addams tells of a strange rumor involving Hull House, the famed settlement house founded by her in Chicago in 1889. The r…
Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten)
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Oskar Pfungst
Oskar Pfungst book is a detailed piece of investigative journalism looking into Clever Hans, an Orlov Trotter horse that was claimed to have…
Genetic Studies of Genius Volume 2: The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Ge…
Read by Leon Harvey
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…
Psychological Examining in the United States Army
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Robert Mearns Yerkes
When, on April 6, 1917, the Nation was called to war a group of experimental psychologists promptly assembled to consider means of psycholog…
Mythology
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Jane Ellen Harrison
Jane Ellen Harrison was an English classical scholar whose work had a particular focus on the earliest origins of Greek religion. Her Mythol…
Home Education: a Course of Lectures to Ladies
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Charlotte Mason
In proposing these lectures, my original notion was to popularize and amplify the valuable educational hints contained in some two or three …