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In Nerves, physician and psychoanalytic writer Alfred B. Kuttner examines the psychological tensions he believed were shaping American life in the early twentieth century. Kuttner challenges the familiar explanation that modern nervous disorders are simply the result of business pressure...

In Radicalism, journalist and economist George Soule examines the political, economic, and psychological roots of American radical thought in the years following World War I. Soule argues that genuine radicalism is not simply a demand for greater material wealth. At its core lies a deeper desire...

In Woman’s Sexual Life, writer and sex educator William J. Fielding examines female sexuality through the biological, psychological, and social theories available in the 1920s. Moving across puberty, sexual desire, menstruation, marriage, pregnancy, motherhood, menopause, and mental health...

In Education, scholar and reformer Robert Morss Lovett delivers a provocative critique of the American school system in the early twentieth century. Lovett argues that education has become a kind of national “superstition”—an institution assumed to produce social progress merely because...

In Poetry, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and critic Conrad Aiken surveys the remarkable transformation of American verse in the early twentieth century. Writing during the rise of modernism, Aiken rejects attempts to define American poetry through one movement, region, influence, or aesthetic...

In Art, painter, critic, and modern-art advocate Walter Pach examines the uneasy state of American visual culture in the early twentieth century. Pach argues that wealthy collectors and museums too often treat art as a prestige commodity, pouring money into established European masterpieces...

In The Alien, reformer and former U.S. immigration official Frederic C. Howe challenges the fear, prejudice, and economic exploitation surrounding immigration in early twentieth-century America. Howe argues that the so-called “immigration problem” is fundamentally economic rather than racial...

In Racial Minorities, historian Geroid Tanquary Robinson examines race relations in the United States through the experiences of Black Americans, Native Americans, Jewish Americans, and Asian Americans. Writing in 1922, Robinson challenges the then-common claim that racial prejudice can be...

In The Literary Life, critic Van Wyck Brooks delivers a sharp examination of the conditions facing American writers in the early twentieth century. Brooks argues that the United States possesses abundant talent but too often fails to nurture it. Writers are pushed toward popularity, commercial...

In Sex, sociologist and anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons examines American attitudes toward intimacy, marriage, gender, and sexual convention in the early twentieth century. Parsons argues that American culture treats sexuality less as a natural part of human life than as a subject to be...

Discover how more than 25,000 patients who underwent water-only fasting at TrueNorth Health Center experienced results that were nothing short of phenomenal. Detailed explanations are presented about the different types of intermittent and prolonged fasts available along with how water-only fasting reverses metabolic disorders, hypertension, and obesity. Also addressed is the connection between eating highly processed foods and visceral fat to chronic disease and the importance of improving diet and lifestyle choices in order to maintain the benefits gained from fasting.

When wealthy Josiah Crowley dies, his entire fortune is left to the cold and calculating Topham family—despite rumors that he intended to change his will. Sixteen-year-old Nancy Drew isn’t convinced the truth has been told. Driven by a sharp mind and an unshakable sense of justice, she sets out to uncover what really happened.

On a stormy Christmas Eve, an unexpected delay leads one lonely traveler to the holiday celebration she never knew she needed. Known affectionately as “the Princess,” a wealthy young woman is traveling by carriage when a wheel becomes hopelessly trapped in the mud. While her driver searches...

From sorrow grows a tree of wonder—and the promise of a new life. A young girl’s peaceful home is destroyed when a cruel witch transforms her mother into a sheep, steals her identity, and takes her place within the family. Before the enchanted mother is killed, she gives her daughter one...

A ruthless pursuit of profit. A deadly winter storm. One final choice between self-preservation and sacrifice. Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov is a prosperous merchant who measures life through possessions, influence, and financial gain. When an opportunity arises to purchase a valuable forest grove...

A son searching for answers. Two legendary kings. The first true hope that Odysseus may still live. In Books 3 and 4 of Homer’s The Odyssey, Telemachus continues the dangerous search for news of his missing father. Guided by Athena, he arrives at Pylos and is welcomed by the aged King Nestor...

A moment in music… suspended in time. In The Fermata, E. T. A. Hoffmann—master of Romantic-era storytelling—blends music, imagination, and narrative charm into a uniquely expressive tale. Centered around the concept of the fermata—a pause that lingers beyond expectation—this story...

A legendary voyage across storm-torn seas begins. In The Odyssey — Books 1 & 2, Homer introduces one of the greatest epic journeys ever told. Filled with gods, fate, danger, and the longing for home, this timeless classic follows the aftermath of the Trojan War as the story of Odysseus and his...

When Robinson Crusoe defies his family’s wishes and sets out to sea, he has no idea that his journey will lead him into one of the most enduring survival stories ever told. After a violent shipwreck leaves him stranded on a remote tropical island, Crusoe must rely on his ingenuity, resilience, and sheer will to stay alive.

"The New Atlantis" by Francis Bacon is a utopian novel published posthumously in 1626. A European crew loses their way in the Pacific and discovers Bensalem, a mythical island where Christian piety meets scientific ambition. At its heart stands Salomon's House, a state-sponsored research...