Social Science

Chinese Sketches

by Herbert Allen Giles Read by MaryAnn 4.8
Herbert Giles was in the diplomatic service in China from 1867 to 1893. His frank observations on Chinese culture and people form the basis…

Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young

by Jacob Abbott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Subtitled, "The principles on which a firm parental authority may be established and maintained, without violence or anger, and the rig…

Mary Barton

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester du…

What the White Race May Learn from the Indian

by George Wharton James Read by Roger Melin 4.6
People learn from other people, and races have forever learned from other races. Herein we are treated to an in-depth understanding of categ…

The Ladies' Book of Etiquette

by Florence Hartley Read by Christine Lamberton 4.5
A guide for ladies, written in 1860, on what is accepted as correct behavior in polite society. The advice covers dress, travelling, staying…

The Symbolism of Freemasonry

by Albert Mackey Read by Brother Michael 5
Illustrating and explaining the science and philosophy, the legends, myths and symbols of the fraternity of Freemasons.(Summary by Brother M…

The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong

by Frances Milton Trollope Read by Celine Major 4.8
The industrial revolution led to the rise of manufacture and, thus, the cotton mill factories. This important novel tells about the plight o…

London Labour and the London Poor

by Henry Mayhew Read by Peter Yearsley 4.5
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…

Social Statics

by Herbert Spencer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Social Statics, or The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed is an 1851 book by the British polymath …

When Knights Were Bold

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This book is in no degree an attempt to relate the involved and intricate history of the Middle Ages. Its plan is, rather, to present pictur…

Drugging a Nation

by Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr. Read by Edmund Bloxam 4.5
Drugging a Nation is a journalistic reveal of the extent to which the British Empire was culpable in the dissemination and subsequent near t…

Americans All, Immigrants All

by U. S. Department Of The Interior Office Of Education Read by Mark F. Smith 4.9
The United States Department of the Interior, Office of Education partnered with the Columbia Broadcasting System to present a series of 26 …

What Prohibition Has Done to America

by Fabian Franklin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…

Notes On Democracy

by H. L. Mencken Read by Lisa Reichert 5
American journalist H.L. Mencken’s Notes On Democracy was originally published in 1926, yet is still relevant almost 100 years later.Mencken…

American Indians

by Frederick Starr Read by mpinedag 4.9
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…

My Chinese Marriage

by Mae Franking Read by Danielle Cartwright 4.7
Mae Watkins, a University of Michigan student, unexpectedly falls in love with a Chinese international law student in the midst of World War…

The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion

by James Frazer Read by Leon Harvey 4.3
The first volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. Topics covered include extensive discu…

Twilight in Italy

by D. H. Lawrence Read by Peter Tucker 4.3
This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…

The Alps, the Danube and the Near East

by Frank G. Carpenter Read by BettyB 5
Journeying through many countries including Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Switzerland and Greece, the author gives an in-depth account of many …

Supreme Cases

by United States Supreme Court Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
These cases involved questions that came before the Supreme Court that needed answers. The questions in order of appearance in this project …

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