Social Science Books

The story of my childhood

Clara Barton

There can be no doubt that my advent into the family was at least a novelty, as the last before me was a beautiful blue-eyed, curly-haired little girl of a dozen summers. That the event was probably l..

A brief guide to the Food Collection

Henry Cole

There are many methods by which such a Collection might be arranged; but the Chemical Composition of Food has recently been discovered to have so close a connexion with its action on the system, that ..

Adam Smith

Francis W. Hirst

Adam Smith was born on June 5, 1723, in the “lang toun” of Kirkcaldy. It was one of the “mony royal boroughs yoked on end to end like ropes of ingans, with their hie-streets and their booths, and thei..

Practicable Socialism, New Series

S. A. Barnett

The book begins with The Religion of the People and Cathedral Reform, for Canon Barnett held with unvarying certainty that—to quote his own words—“there is no other end worth reaching than the knowled..

Riches and Poverty

L. G. Chiozza Money

While since 1900 nominal or money wages have been at a standstill, the cost of living has continued to rise. The retail cost of food in London rose 9 per cent. in 1900-1908. Therefore British real or ..

Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal Vol. 10

Various Authors

Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal  Vol. 10..

Clara Barton - A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian

Charles Sumner Young

Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest HumanitarianFounder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, F..

A lecture

Victoria Claflin Woodhull

A lecture by Victoria Claflin Woodhull: In the Boston Theater, Boston, U.S.A. October 22, 1876, before 3,000 people. The review of a century; or, the fruit of five thousand years.A hundred years ago, ..