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World-Power and Evolution
Every important aspect of human knowledge must be considered in its relation to both space and time. In "Civilization and Climate"…
Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development
Francis Galton, credited with the discovery of identification by fingerprinting, also took a long term interest in the study of biometrics. …
Crime, Its Causes and Remedies
Published as the third volume in the Modern Criminal Science Series, Cesare Lombroso, renowned Italian criminologist, collected a wealth of …
Army Mental Tests
Prepared in cooperation with the staff of the surgeon general's office as a source of information and printed materials concerning psycholog…
The Measurement of Intelligence
An explanation of and a completed guide for the use of the Stanford revision and the Simon Binford intelligence test - Summary by the solois…
The Flexner Report
The Flexner Report is a book-length review and investigation into medical education in the United States and Canada, written by Abraham Flex…
Weather Influences
An empirical study of the mental and physiological effects of definite meteorological conditions. The seasonal and daily climatic changes th…
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion
The third volume of The Golden Bough. The term Taboo is one of the very few words which the English language has borrowed from the speech of…
Earth and Sun
This book was published as a companion text to 'Climatic Changes' by the same author. The affect of the solar neighbourhood on the atmospher…
English Men of Science
The results of a survey undertaken by Galton to learn more about individual differences and similarities between the "pre-eminent"…
Rural Improvement
The principles of civic art applied to rural conditions including village improvement and the betterment of the open country. Big issues are…
Civilization and Climate
This book presents the science of geography one step further than just the physical features of the earth's surface. The relationship betwee…
Genetic Studies of Genius
The second volume in the longitudinal study of gifted children in the United States of America supervised by Lewis Terman. An extensive disc…
Balder The Beautiful
The tenth volume in The Golden Bough series. Frazer discusses the problem which gives its title to the whole work. If right, the Golden Boug…
The Man of Genius
Famous criminologist, anthropologist, and psychiatrist, Dr Lombroso, investigated the memetic anecdotal belief that genius is associated wit…
Mental Fatigue
Published as a doctoral thesis, the human capacity for sustained effort in mental work and the occurrence of exhaustion has been examined in…
Criminal man
This book is an English summary and paraphrase of the multi-volume Italian work of the same name compiled by Cesare Lombroso, the father of …
The Beggars of Paris
Here, as in France, begging is made a profession. And it is very important that the public should realize the fact, that ' thoughtless almsg…
Hereditary Genius
A biographical summary of the pre-eminent men of Britain grouped by profession. The extensive survey draws from information including colleg…
Psychological Examining in the United States Army
When, on April 6, 1917, the Nation was called to war a group of experimental psychologists promptly assembled to consider means of psycholog…