Social Science

The Man of Genius

by Cesare Lombroso Read by Leon Harvey 2
Famous criminologist, anthropologist, and psychiatrist, Dr Lombroso, investigated the memetic anecdotal belief that genius is associated wit…

Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs

by Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Commissioner Of Indian Affairs Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Because the US Constitution gives the power of relating to (and control over) Indian tribes to the federal government, Congress requires upd…

The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion

by James Frazer Read by Leon Harvey 5
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…

Popular Superstitions

by Herbert Mayo Read by LibriVox Volunteers 0.5
"In the following Letters I have endeavoured to exhibit in their true light the singular natural phenomena of which old superstition an…

Revolted Woman

by Charles George Harper Read by Bev J Stevens 4
One man's opinion of woman in 1894. Charles Harper believes in the superiority of the male sex and the subordination of the female. He pai…

Current Superstitions

by Fanny Dickerson Bergen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.3
No matter how enlightened, chances are you've been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one o…

The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…

A Failure of Initiative

by United States House Of Representatives Read by LibriVox Volunteers
A Failure of Initiative is a critical examination of the governmental response to Hurricane Katrina, as conducted by the Select Bipartisan C…

Herein is Love

by Reuel Howe and Reuel L. Howe Read by Bill Mosley 3.5
Prescient look at the church, its message and role in society, both perceived and true, focused through the lens of the biblical doctrine of…

The Crisis

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…

Towards Democracy

by Edward Carpenter Read by Sue Anderson 3.8
“Civilization sinks and swims, but the old facts remain—the sun smiles, knowing well its strength.” Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) wrote his …

The Sturdy Oak

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreed that fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely gener…

The Workers

by Walter A. Wyckoff Read by PhyllisV 4
A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…

The Crisis

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerc…

My Monks of Vagabondia

by Andress Small Floyd Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Before welfare or rehab, what happened to those unfortunates who lost their way, fell through the cracks, were cast off by society? Men such…

The Last Harbinger

by Roger Gregg 5
The Last Harbinger, an elegy in five episodes, shines a bright light on our own world as Roger Gregg tells the story of the doomed people of…

Concerning Genealogies

by Frank Allaben Read by Roger Melin 3.2
Written over a century ago, this comprehensive book offers insight into the methods used (still to this day, in spite of modern computers) t…

Researches into the Physical History of Man

by James Cowles Prichard Read by John Greenman 3
Prichard’s Researches into the Physical History of Man has been called the most important pre-Darwinian anthropological work in English of t…

Sprouts

by Dori Smith 5
In this poignant episode of Sprouts, 14-year-old Nour Kharma from Gaza reaches out to President Barack Obama for help after experiencing the…

They Who Knock at Our Gates

by Mary Antin Read by Maria Kasper 3.2
In 1914, over one million immigrants arrived in the United States, following in the footsteps of approximately ten million others who had ar…

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