"Mythology, or the history of fable, is necessary to be known, because it explains many books, statues, and pictures, and enables us to comprehend the value of our own simple...

*** Premium Ebook ***Veblen was a sociologist as much as he was an economist. "The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions" is a treatise on...

A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis Stevenson.Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.

"Snobs are to be studied like other objects of Natural Science, and are a part of the Beautiful (with a large B). They pervade all classes".William Makepeace...

Often revealingly autobiographical, DuBois explores topics as diverse as the death of his infant son and the politics of Booker T. Washington. In every essay, he shows the...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Covenant with Black America and The Covenant In Action... Tavis Smiley offers a powerful, prescriptive successor to his...

"A Silent Spring for our time."-T.C. Boyle

The lives of the Carusi, the slave miners of SicilyFrom “The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in Europe”, 1912"The Negro is not the man...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the 18th-century British proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the...

This classic study of the Hula is a gold-mine of information for explorers of Hawaiian language, music, dance and culture. Gives the full annotated Hawaiian text of the songs,...