Social Science

The Workers

by Walter A. Wyckoff Read by PhyllisV 4.6
A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…

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 …

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 …

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. …

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…

Five Stages of Greek Religion

by Gilbert Murray Read by ChristineB 5
A historical account written in the early 20th century The work explores the evolution and various phases of Greek religion focusing on the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 Philadelphia Negro

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by Jim Locke 3.9
In November, 1897, I submitted to the American Academy of Political and Social Science a plan for the study of Negro problems. This work is …

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…

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…

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…

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…

In Indian Mexico

by Frederick Starr Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
In this work, Starr delves into the anthropological side of Mexico's Natives ("Indians") at the end of the XIX century. Researche…

Hollywood

by Theodore Dreiser Read by Chuck Williamson 4.1
Serialized in Shadowland from November 1921 to February 1922, Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners is Theodore Dreiser's shocking four part exp…

The Web of Indian Life

by Sister Nivedita Read by Anonymous
The Web of Indian Life, written by Sister Nivedita (Irish-born Margaret E. Noble) and published in 1904, is a collection of essays that desc…

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 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 …

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