Social Science Books

The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets

Jane Addams

The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets is a non-fiction writing by Jane Addams, an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator and author. She is al..

Broken Homes - A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment

Joanna C. Colcord

No less thoughtful a critic of men and manners than Joseph Conrad has remarked recently that a universal experience "is exactly the sort of thing which is most difficult to appraise justly in the indi..

Sex and Common-Sense

A. Maude Royden

Of all the problems which the alert and curious mind of modern man is considering, none occupies him more than that of the relations of the sexes. This is natural. It touches us all and we have made r..

Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand

David G. McMillan

Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand is a non-fiction work on abortions in New Zealand written by various authors including David G. Mc..

On the uncertainty of the signs of murder in the case of bastard children

William Hunter

On the uncertainty of the signs of murder in the case of bastard children is a social pathology work on Illegitimacy written by William Hunter, a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler..

Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible?

Isaac Allen

Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? is a biblical argument against slavery write by Isaac Allen during the year 1860.Excerpts:If there is one subject which, above all others, may be regarded as o..

The Wedding Ring

T. De Witt Talmage

The Wedding Ring is a series of discourses for husbands and wives and those contemplating matrimony, written by Thomas De Witt Talmage, a preacher, clergyman and divine in the United States who held p..

Love affairs of the Courts of Europe

Thornton Hall

Love affairs of the Courts of Europe is a book on aristocratic marriages and separation written by Thornton Hall. the author of "Love romancies of the Aristocracy", "Love intrigues of Royal Court..