Social Science

The Book of the Dead

by E. A. Wallis Budge Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
The Egyptian Book of the Dead, or the Book of Coming Forth by Day, is an Ancient Egyptian funerary text consisting of spells to protect the …

The Idea of Progress

by John Bagnell Bury Read by Barry Ganong 5
John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he…

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 …

Industrial Conspiracies

by Clarence Darrow Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
Industrial Conspiracies is a powerful address by renowned lawyer Clarence Darrow, delivered shortly after his notable acquittal in the McNam…

Uganda to the Cape

by Frank G. Carpenter Read by BettyB 4.8
Another volume in the author's series of travelling the world and telling of its peoples, agriculture, industry, and social habits . This ti…

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 …

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…

Culture and Anarchy

by Matthew Arnold Read by Nicole Lee 4.6
Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book…

The Sins of Hollywood

by Ed Roberts and Edward Roberts Read by Chuck Williamson 4.2
Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable ho…

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 …

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.…

The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong

by Frances Milton Trollope Read by Celine Major 4.7
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 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 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…

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 Curious Lore of Precious Stones

by George Frederick Kunz Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Full title is "The Curious Lore of Precious Stones, being a description of their sentiments and folklore, superstitions, symbolism, mys…

With Poor Immigrants to America

by Stephen Graham Read by Ted Lienhart 5
Stephen Graham, a Brit with Russian language skills, traveled by sea in 1913 with a group of poor Russian and other Slavic immigrants to New…

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…

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…

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