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• Beyond Modernization: Chinese Roots for Global Awareness (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1997), ed. by Wang Miaoyang, Yu Xuanmeng, and George F. McLean (multiple formats at Google)
• Lies! (New York: G. H. Doran Co., ca. 1921), by Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Salvaging of Civilization (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1921), by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• The New Dark Ages Conspiracy: Britain's Plot to Destroy Civilization, by Carol Schitzner White (PDF with rotated pages at wlym.com)
• Civilisation, its cause and cure, and other essays (Scribner, 1921), by Edward Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Devant les idoles. (Librairie académique Perrin, 1921), by Robert Vallery-Padot (page images at HathiTrust)
• What the Ford five-day week really means (Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1927), by E. Haldeman-Julius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ideas that have helped mankind : a philosopher looks at man's long history, points to the things that moved him forward, and shows what we must do in the future if civilization is to continue to grow (E. Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1946), by Bertrand Russell, E. Haldeman-Julius, and Haldeman-Julius Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moral und Gesellschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts (E. Reinhardt, 1914), by Fritz Berolzheimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The salvaging of civilization (Cassell and Company, 1921), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The doom of Western civilization (W. H. & L. Collingridge, 1907), by James Stanley Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brevier für Weltleute : Essays über Gesellschaft, Mode, Frauen, Reisen, Lebenskunst, Kunst, Philosophie (G. Müller, 1911), by Oscar A. H. Schmitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das neue Geschlecht : Programmschrift gegen die Metapher (Heinrich Hochstim, 1917), by Ferdinand Bruckner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Polen lírico : conferencias. (R. Sopena, 1920), by José María Vargas Vila (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anticipations of the reaction of mechanical and scientific progress upon human life and thought (B. Tauchnitz, 1902), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jikyoku ni kansuru kyōiku shiryō. (Mombushō, 1915), by Japan. Monbushō. Futsū Gakumukyoku and Japan Department of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ta enklemata tou politismou. (Saloniki Print. & Pub. Co., 1922), by Georgios Katsioles (page images at HathiTrust)
• What is happening to our traditions the opening address to the University of Manitoba, September 27, 1916 (s.n., 1916), by Chester Martin and University of Manitoba (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crisis del pensamiento : conferencia (Impr. "El Siglo Ilustrado," de G. Mariño, 1920), by Blas S. Genovese (page images at HathiTrust)
• La angustia contemporánea (Editora Coni, 1928), by Gustavo Juan Franceschi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aus der Philosophen-Ecke : kritische Glossen zu den geistigen Strömungen unserer Zeit (Frankfurter Societäts-Druckerei, Abteilung Buchverlag, 1923), by Robert Drill (page images at HathiTrust)
• A world morally out of joint (New York : American Ethical Union, 1923., 1923), by Felix Adler (page images at HathiTrust)
• From warfare to welfare : essays in social reconstruction (London : Cecil Palmer & Hayward, [between 1920 and 1929?], 1920), by R. Dimsdale Stocker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imperium; the philosophy of history and politics. (The Truth seeker, 1962), by Francis Parker Yockey (page images at HathiTrust)
• El renacimiento místico ante la tragedia europea (Buenos Aires : Balder Moen, librero editor, 1916., 1916), by Julio Navarro Monzó and John A. Mackay Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A year of prophesying, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg ebook)

• The XXth Century (1941-1945), ed. by Klaus Mehnert (full serial archives)
• Cosmos. (Typographia Adolpho de Mendonça, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Origin and Its Meaning, by Roger Ellman (PDF files at the-origin.org)

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• Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• From Joseph Bensman: Essays on Modern Society (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by Joseph Bensman, ed. by Robert Jackall and Duffy Graham (PDF at Tennessee)
• Social Change and Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by Hans Haferkamp and Neil J. Smelser (HTML at UC Press)
• Rosenberg's Nazi Myth (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1945), by Albert Richard Chandler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Protestantism and Progress: A Historical Study of the Relation of Protestantism to the Modern World (London: Williams and Norgate; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912), by Ernst Troeltsch, trans. by W. Montgomery (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A living universe; three lectures (George H. Doran Company, 1924), by L. P. Jacks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christianity and the cultural crisis (Association press, 1945), by Charles Duell Kean and Young Men's Christian Associations. International Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Problematic rebel, an image of modern man. (Random House, 1963), by Maurice S. Friedman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The salvaging of civilization; the probable future of mankind (The Macmillan Company, 1921), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die kultur der Renaissance; gesittung, forschung, dichtung (W. de Gruyter & Co., 1920), by Robert Franz Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Process versus power; studies in modern culture. (The University, 1952), by Eugene Newton Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern temper; a study and a confession. (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929), by Joseph Wood Krutch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderful century (880-02 Shanghai : Society for the diffusion of Christian and general knowledge, 1904., 1904), by Alfred Russel Wallace, Jiaxing Xu, and Lanxun Liang (page images at HathiTrust)
• The feast of the cannibals ([The Author], 1927), by Barukh Jonas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christian future; or The modern mind outrun. (C. Scribner's sons, 1946), by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Man on a rock (University of North Carolina Press, 1946), by Richard Hertz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die neue Technik (K. Siegismund, 1921), by A. Riedler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern man's conflicts, the creative challenge of a global society. (Philosophical Library, 1948), by Dane Rudhyar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The return from Babel. (Philosophical Library, 1951), by Gerald Max Spring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mid-century appraisal of civilization; measure of decline and method of restoration. (Philosophical Library, 1951), by Willis D. P. Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Andeutungen über die künstigen Fortschritte und die Grenzen der Civilisation (Duncker, 1855), by Marieluise von Prittwitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petit voyage autour du monde; ouvrage amusant, propre a préparer les enfans a l'étude de la géographie. (P. Blanchard, 1826), by Pierre Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• La civilisation moderne; cours professé à l'académie de Lausanne (Didier et Cie., 1867), by Louis Jousserandot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der deutsche Januskopf (Bruno Cassirer, 1921), by Karl Scheffler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Herkunft des Menschengeschlechtes in den Anschauungen verschiedener Zeiten (E. Reinhardt, 1911), by Hans Bluntschli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le modernisme sociologique : décadence ou régénération?. (P. Lethielleux, 1909), by Julien Fontaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• La civilisation moderne : cours professé à l'Académie de Lausanne (Didier, 1866), by Louis Jousserandot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Zukunft des Menschengeschlechtes im Lichte der Wissenschaft; naturwissenschaftlich-philosophische Studie. (E. Beyer, 1912), by Eugen Freund (page images at HathiTrust)
• The salvaging of civilization; the probable future of mankind (The Macmillan Company, 1922), by H. G. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wings of the dawn; a study of air power as a contribution to civilization. ([Hartford?, 1955), by Eugene Edward Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• This perverse generation (Sheed & Ward, 1949), by Peter Michaels (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of mediaeval civilization, and of modern to the end of the seventeenth century (T. Fisher Unwin, 1908), by Charles Seignobos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Grundzüge des gegenwärtigen Zeitalters. (F. Meiner, 1922), by Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Fritz Medicus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zeiten, Völker und Menschen (R. Oppenheim, 1879), by Karl Hillebrand (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of modern civilization : a handbook based upon M. Gustave Ducoudray's Histoire sommaire de la civilisation, with illustrations. (Chapman and Hall, 1891), by John Stuart Verschoyle and Gustave Ducoudray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short studies on great subjects : [first-fourth series] (Longmans, Green. ;, 1894), by James Anthony Froude (page images at HathiTrust)
• The century of hope a sketch of western progress from 1815 to the Great War (Clarendon Press ;, 1919), by F. S. Marvin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bourgeois and bolshevist (s.n., 1918), by James Cappon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire universelle (F. Didot, 1855), by Cesare Cantù (page images at HathiTrust)
• Filosofia, vita e modernità. (tipografia "La speranza", 1906), by Erminio Troilo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dokąd nam iść wypada? (Nakładem Księgarni Feliksa Westa, 1910), by Wojciech Dzieduszycki (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aufgaben und Masssta be einer allgemeinen Geschichtsschreibung : Ziele der Forschung, Umrisse einer historischen Staats- und Gesellschafts-, Kunst- und Wissenschaftslehre (G. Bondi, 1900), by Kurt Breysig (page images at HathiTrust)
• The two horizons, a report on the race with catastrophe. (Extension Division, Univ. of Utah, 1948), by Edwin Roosa Clapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das XIX. Jahrhundert in Wort und Bild Politische und Kultur-Geschichte (Deutsches Verlagshaus Bong, 1898), by Hans Kraemer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakai no dōyō to seishinteki kakusei (Hakubunkan, 1920), by Masaharu Anesaki (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flugblätter für künstlerische Kultur. (Stuttgart., 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notre temps (Editions du Siécle, 1925), by Gonzague Truc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des Volkes Erbe (Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1874), by Karl Friedrich Umpfenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• "The true picture." (Oakland? Calif., 1955), by B. Herrod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mitteleuropa als Kulturbegriff (Orion-Verlag, 1916), by Karl Camillo Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saggio svlla modernità : con fregi di dvilio cambellotti. (Roma : Sindacato italiano arti grafiche, [1929?], 1929), by Filippo Francesco di Castel Lentini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Psychologie und Soziologie der modernen Kunst. (C. Marhold, 1926), by Richard Müller-Freienfels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du succès des nations (Ernest Flammarion, 1904), by Emil Reich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moderne Kultur; ein Handbuch der Lebensbildung und des guten Geschmacks. (Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1907), by Eduard Heyck and Marie Diers (page images at HathiTrust)

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