Select Rare Books
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The Women of Florida, Volume One
Lucy Worthington Blackman
This book uses outdated and derogatory terminology to refer to indigenous peoples. See Volume Two here.
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How to Acquire Good Taste: What is Culture?
Isaac Goldberg
"This booklet is far from being a complete course in Esthetics; it is simply a modest suggestion as to how to approach the pleasures of the arts."
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Are We Civilized? Human Cultures in Perspective
Robert Harry Lowie
This book uses outdated and derogatory terminology to refer to Indigenous peoples, in particular the Inuit peoples.
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How to Be a Gate-Crasher
Samuel Marx
"Gate-crashing is undeniably an art, and it demands an alert, clever brain to consistently perform its artistry."
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Life and Labor in the Old South
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
"Original in both material and method of approach, this classic work deals with the social and economic history of the South up to 1861. Immigration, the influence of climate and soil, of religion, of race, of the rise of cotton as a staple, of transportation, of the opening the Southwest, and other elements are traced in a style that is clear, vigorous and engaging.
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Smuggling Days and Smuggling Ways
Henry N. Shore
"In the following pages it has been the writer's aim to gather up the most interesting facts connected with the history" of smuggling.
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Why Wives Leave Home
Betty Van Deventer
"The press and pulpit cry loudly about the tremendous increase in divorces in every state of the Union. Even the sociologist takes his turn in trying to explain why more and more wives are leaving home. …The legal reason given for divorce is seldom the true, underlying cause of the dissolution of the marriage relationship. One must study the emotional lives of our men and women to discover why they cannot live together in more harmony."
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A Mirror for Witches
Esther Forbes and Robert Gibbings
"A Mirror for Witches in which is reflected the Life, Machinations, and Death of Famous DOLL BILBY, who, with a more than feminine perversity, preferred a Demon to a Mortal Lover. Here is also how and why a Righteous and Most Awfull JUDGEMENT befell her, destroying both Corporeal Body and Immortal Soul."
![A Series of Eleven Lessons in Karma Yoga (The Yogi Philosophy of Thought-Use) and the Yogin Doctrine of Work by Bhikshu [pseud.]](https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/rare_book_collection/1006/thumbnail.jpg "A Series of Eleven Lessons in Karma Yoga (The Yogi Philosophy of Thought-Use) and the Yogin Doctrine of Work by Bhikshu [pseud.]")
