Social Science Books

Highways and Highway Transportation

George R. Chatburn

The primary objects have therefore been, to sketch briefly and simply the development of the transportation systems of the United States, to indicate their importance and mutual relations, to present ..

Tolstoy's interpretation of money and property

Milivoy Stoyan Stanoyevich

First, money is sometimes used to describe all media of exchange—gold, silver, paper, checks, bank drafts or the deposits which they represent, commercial bills of exchange, and even corporation stock..

Child Life and Sex Hygiene - A Remarkable Message

Otterbein O. Smith

This word hygiene has its root in the word Hygeia. Hygeia was the daughter of one of the gods of the Classic Mythology, and was the goddess of health. Sex hygiene is then, sex health, or sex normality..

Early Carriages and Roads

Sir Walter Gilbey

Only some three hundred and fifty years have elapsed since wheeled conveyances for passengers came into use in England; but, once introduced, they rapidly found favour with all classes of society, mor..

The Tunnel Under the Channel

Thomas Whiteside

In the social history of England, the English Channel, that proud sea passage some three hundred and fifty miles long, has separated that country from the Continent as by a great gulf or a bottomless ..

An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy - (Vol. 1 of 2)

Sir James Steuart

An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy (Vol. 1 of 2)Being an essay on the science of domestic policy in free nations. In which are particularly considered population, agriculture, trade,..

An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy - (Vol. 2 of 2)

Sir James Steuart

An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy (Vol. 2 of 2)Being an essay on the science of domestic policy in free nations. In which are particularly considered population, agriculture, trade,..

The History of Trade Unionism

Sidney Webb

The reader must not expect to find, in this historical volume, either an analysis of Trade Union organisation, policy, and methods, or any judgement upon the validity of its assumptions, its economic ..