Non-fiction Books

The Life of That Wonderful and Extraordinarily Heavy Man, Daniel Lambert

Anonymous

Daniel Lambert was born on the 13 of March, 1770, in the Parish of St. Margaret, at Leicester. From the extraordinary bulk to which he attained, the reader may be naturally disposed to inquire, whethe..

Psychopathology of Everyday Life

Sigmund Freud

Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called border-line cases of mental diseases, such as hysteria and compulsion neurosis.  It was while tracing back..

The Native Races of British North America

Wilfrid D. Hambly

Although Eskimo tribes are to be found from Behring Strait to Greenland, and Indians anywhere between Vancouver Island and Newfoundland, the appearance of peoples in widely separated tribes is very mu..

The County

Henry S. Gilbertson

This is not a hand-book or a treatise on counties. Such a work cannot be successfully carried through without a much wider and more thorough research into the subject than has as yet been attempted. T..

The Negro Migrant in Pittsburgh

Abraham Epstein

The main purpose of this study was not merely the attempt at a piece of research. The writer undertook it originally in the early spring as a student volunteer with the sole aim of doing his share in ..

The Thousand Buddhas

Sir Aurel Stein

In Mr. Binyon’s Introductory Essay there will be found a lucid exposition, by the hand of a competent expert, of the reasons which invest those paintings with special interest for the study of Buddhis..

The United Empire Loyalists

W. Stewart Wallace

Within recent years, however, there has been a change. American historians of a new school have revised the history of the Revolution, and a tardy reparation has been made to the memory of the Tories ..

The Importance of Marking Historic Spots

Henry W. Shoemaker

The hieroglyphics are crude affairs, but the painting on the “Picture Rocks” were said to be of rare beauty and marvelous coloration. The rocks of the Allegheny River will defy time, but the rapacious..