Kristen Nicole Reid / Author
Smarter Communities:How The CDC&SmartGrowth Policy Offer a Better Quality of Urban Life
Housing is a central component of any debate concerning the welfare of society. My exploration begins with the assumption that where you live is the largest factor to lifestyle and quality; housing...
My Choice to Abuse Drugs
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A Treatise of Human Nature
This FREE eBook is Scottish philosopher David Hume's attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning. Download it today!
Principles of Economics
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The psychology of Nations
The simplest possible interpretation of the causes of war that might be offered is that war is a natural relation between original herds or groups of men, inspired by the predatory instinct or...
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
The slave narrative is a literary form which grew out of the written accounts of enslaved Africans in Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada and Caribbean nations. Some...
Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation: The Robbers Cave Experiment
In 1954, Muzafer Sherif and Carolyn Sherif studied the origin of prejudice in social groups in a classic study called the Robbers Cave Experiment. They conducted their research in a 200 acres (08...
Two Treatises of Government
The Two Treatises of Government (or "Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, And His Followers, are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter...
The psychology of socialism
SOCIALISM consists of a synthesis of beliefs, aspirations, and ideas of reform which appeals profoundly to the mind. Governments fear it, legislators manipulate it, nations behold in it the dawn of...
The Communist Manifesto
The original Communist Manifesto
Marriage and love
THE popular notion about marriage and love is that they are synonymous, that they spring from the same motives, and cover the same human needs. Like most popular notions this also rests not on...
How is society possible?
Georg Simmel (1858-1918, Germany) was born in Berlin and received his doctorate in 1881. He was of Jewish ancestry and was marginalized within the German academic system. Only in 1914 did Simmel...
Friday the Thirteen
Lawson wrote the novel Friday the Thirteenth in which a broker picks that day on which to bring down Wall Street.The Wall Street Crash of 1929 (October 1929), also known as the Great Crash, and the...
Eugenics and other evils
G. K. Chesterton was an early critic of the philosophy of eugenics, expressing this opinion in his book, Eugenics and Other Evils. Its advocates regarded eugenics as a social philosophy for the...
Death of a salesman
Arthur Miller has emerged as one of the most successful and enduring playwrights of the postwar era in America, no doubt because his focusing on middle-class anxieties brought on by a society that...
Villette
Charlotte Bronte's final masterpiece powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence. Having fled a harrowing past in England, Lucy Snowe...
The pathology of everyday life
One of Freud's seminal and most important works.
The origin and development of psychoanaysis
Freud's original lectures when visiting the United States.
The nature of love
During the first half of the 20th century, many psychologists believed that showing affection towards children was merely a sentimental gesture that served no real purpose. Behaviorist John B...
The homosexual neurosis
Austrian physician and psychologist, who became one of Sigmund Freud's earliest followers, and was once described as "Freud's most distinguished pupil. He contrasted what he called "normal fetishes"...
How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis
Find out what personality type you are and how to use these categories to understand yourself and others.
Freud and cocaine
"Desiring early fame and material success, Freud" "looked for a key in medicine and thought he had found it in" "cocaine. Freud championed the drug in glowing terms; he called" "it, Stanley Edgar...
Civilization and its Discontents
In this seminal book, Sigmund Freud enumerates what he sees as the fundamental tensions between civilization and the individual. The primary friction, he asserts, stems from the individual's quest...