Social Science
Walden, Version 2
Read by Nick Bulka
Henry David Thoreau
Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a refl…
The Book of Hallowe'en
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Ruth Edna Kelley
This book is intended to give the reader an account of the origin and history of Hallowe'en, how it absorbed some customs belonging to other…
The Sins of Hollywood
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Ed Roberts
Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable ho…
Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2)
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman, the most famous anarchist in American history, shows the whole range of her iconoclastic thought in this collection of essays.…
Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young
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Jacob Abbott
Subtitled, "The principles on which a firm parental authority may be established and maintained, without violence or anger, and the rig…
The Religion of Ancient Egypt
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William Matthew Flinders Petrie
William Matthew Flinders Petrie – the father of Egyptian Archaeology – developed and applied statistical analysis to pottery from prehistori…
Traité de la vie élégante suivi de la Théorie de la démarche
Read by Christiane Jehanne
Honoré de Balzac
L’homme intérieur, principe du pouvoir et de la longévité, et l’homme extérieur arpentant, avec la même &e…
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
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Peter Kropotkin
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England…
The Humbugs of the World
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P. T. Barnum
P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…
The Negro Problem
Read by James K. White
Various
This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as "racial uplift …
Home Life in Colonial Days
Read by Susan Morin
Alice Morse Earle
CHAPTER IHOMES OF THE COLONISTSWhen the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have se…
The Problem of China
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Bertrand Russell
In 1920-21 Bertrand Russell lived and taught in Peking (Beijing), publishing this book on his return to England. In 1920 he had visited Bols…
A Young Girl's Diary
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Anonymoustranslated Bycedar Paul and William James Mcglothlin
The diary of an upper middle class Austrian girl, this book describes her life between the ages of eleven and fourteen. It's a coming of age…
The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1
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Various
This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, an…
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1
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Charles Mackay
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philoso…
The History of Prostitution
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William Sanger
Common sense asks for a full investigation of all the evils attending prostitution. In the every-day affairs of life, any man who feels the …
The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment
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Élisabeth Celnart
A mid-nineteenth century book of etiquette. (Summary by Libby Gohn)
Woman and the New Race
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Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one poin…
Army Life in a Black Regiment
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the …
Lessons on Manners for Home and School Use
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Edith E. Wiggin
It is true that good manners, like good morals, are best taught by the teacher's example. It is also true that definite lessons, in which th…