Social Science

The Golden Bough

by James Frazer Read by Leon Harvey 5
The ninth book in The Golden Bough Series. With The Scapegoat the general discussion of the theory and practice of the Dying God is brought …

Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls

by Ernest A. Bell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls, the methods by which the procurers and panders lure innocent young …

Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix

by Francis Tiffany Read by PhyllisV 4.8
A biography of a woman who advocated for the humane treatment of people with mental illness. As a young woman travelling overseas, Dorothea …

Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development

by Sir Francis Galton Read by Leon Harvey 5
Francis Galton, credited with the discovery of identification by fingerprinting, also took a long term interest in the study of biometrics. …

Genetic Studies of Genius

by Lewis Terman Read by Leon Harvey 5
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…

The Jim Crow Car

by John Clay Coleman Read by Theoden Humphrey 4.5
"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …

Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases

by United States Supreme Court Read by Kelli Robinson 4.4
Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases presents a collection of pivotal United States Supreme Court decisions that shaped the landscape of …

Neighbourhood

by Tickner Edwardes Read by Steve C 4.4
If you love the quiet of the country - the real quiet which is not silence at all, but the blending of a myriad scarce-perceptible sounds yo…

Why Are So Few Men in the Churches?

by Charles N. Queen Read by Gillian Hendrie 5
The strength of the book is in its facts and suggestions considered in a matter of fact and suggestive way. It offers criticism in the spiri…

More Australian Legendary Tales

by K. Langloh Parker Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The present series of legends have all been collected by myself from the Blacks, as were the previous ones. But in this instance, I had much…

London Labour and the London Poor

by Henry Mayhew Read by Gillian Hendrie 4.7
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…

The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi

by Hattie Greene Lockett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
“By a brief survey of present day Hopi culture and an examination into the myths and traditions constituting the unwritten literature of thi…

Early Greek Philosophy

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by Jim Locke 2.8
The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragme…

Woman and the Republic

by Helen Johnson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
First published in 1897, the book is considered to be the best summary of the arguments against woman suffrage. It allows readers to underst…

A Study of British Genius

by Havelock Ellis Read by Leon Harvey 4
The psychological and anthropological character of genius in the British Isles was investigated by Ellis. Citing and collating an extensive …

An Essay on the Principle of Population

by Thomas Malthus Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.2
In this foundational work, Thomas Malthus explores the relationship between population growth and resources, presenting a stark view of huma…

The Gray Mills of Farley

by Sarah Orne Jewett Read by Bellona Times 4.4
The Gray Mills of Farley by Sarah Orne Jewett offers a keen exploration of labor relations in a small New England town during the late 19th …

Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments

by Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and Advisory Committee On Human Radiation Experiments Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and ra…

A General View of Positivism

by Auguste Comte Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Auguste Comte was from France and published this book in French in 1844. He made a very great impact on the sciences and claims to have “dis…

The Eyes of the Movie

by Harry Alan Potamkin Read by Chuck Williamson 5
"The movie was born in the laboratory and reared in the counting-house. It is a benevolent monster of four I's: Inventor, Investor, Imp…

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