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Human beings

Here are entered works, primarily of an anthropological nature, on humanity in the collective sense, as well as biological works on human beings as a species. General works on human beings as individuals are entered under Persons.

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• Hominids

• Anthropology
• Persons

• Human beings -- Animal nature
• Human beings -- Congresses
• Human beings -- Constitution
• Human beings -- Effect of climate on
• Human beings -- Effect of environment on
• Human beings -- Extinction
• Human beings -- Fiction
• Human beings -- Migrations
• Human beings -- Miscellanea
• Human beings -- Origin
• Human beings -- Poetry
• Diseases
• Economic man
• Ethnology
• Food habits
• Human behavior
• Human body
• Human capital
• Human cloning
• Human ecology
• Human skin color
• Human-plant relationships
• Medical parasitology
• Men
• Nature -- Effect of human beings on
• Prehistoric peoples
• Sex
• Sex customs
• Wounds and injuries

• Homo sapiens
• Humanity (Human beings)
• Humankind
• Human race
• Humans
• Man
• Mankind
• People

• Debating Humanity: Towards a Philosophical Sociology (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017), by Daniel Chernilo (PDF and HTML with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Motive and Intention: An Essay in the Appreciation of Action (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1972), by Roy Lawrence (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Now Men and Tomorrow Men (1964), by G. M. Mes (PDF at rhodesia.nl)
• The Nature of Man and the Meaning of Existence (Springfield, IL: C. C. Thomas, 1962), by Harold Saxton Burr (page images at HathiTrust)
• By the Late John Brockman, by John Brockman (HTML at edge.org)
• The Hero in Man (Orpheus series #1; Hale, Cheshire: D. N. Dunlop; London: C. Bax, n.d.), by George William Russell, contrib. by Clifford Bax (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Hero in Man (Orpheus series #1; London: Orpheus Press, 1910), by George William Russell, contrib. by Clifford Bax (Gutenberg text)
• Human, All Too Human (parts 1 and 2), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Helen Zimmern and Paul V. Cohn
  • Part 1: HTML at holtof.com
  • Part 2: Gutenberg text
• Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (English translation of first part published; Chicago: C. H. Kerr and Co., 1908), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Alexander Harvey
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
• I Learn, by Gora (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man, by Henry Drummond (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Man: Fragments of a Forgotten History (third edition; London: Reeves and Turner, 1893), by Mohini M. Chatterji and Laura C. Holloway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Man Into Superman, by R. C. W. Ettinger (PDF with commentary at cryonics.org)
• Manhood of Humanity (ESGS electronic edition), by Alfred Korzybski (frame-dependent HTML at esgs.org)
• Manhood of Humanity (IGS online edition), by Alfred Korzybski (HTML at general-semantics.org)
• Oration on the Dignity of Man, by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (HTML at bactra.org)
• The Origin and Destiny of Man, Volume I: The Origin of Man; Evolution From a New Angle (appears to be the only volume published; Los Angeles: Times Mirror Press, 1923), by René Ravenel Snowden (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Seven Principles of Man: An Ancient Basis for a New Psychology, by Leoline L. Wright (HTML at TUP)
• The Study of Man (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Bliss, Sands, and Co., 1898), by Alfred C. Haddon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries, by William Godwin
  • HTML at pitzer.edu
  • Gutenberg text
• What is Man? (New York: Printed at the De Vinne Press, 1906), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Philosophy of Human Nature (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, c1953), by George P. Klubertanz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Man the Measure: A New Approach to History (New York: Pantheon Books Inc., c1943), by Erich Kahler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fate of Man (c1939), by H. G. Wells (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Nature of Civilization: A Psychological Analysis (1977), by Paul Rosenfels (HTML with commentary at rosenfels.org)
• Characteristics, by Thomas Carlyle (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Constitution of Man (8th edition, 1847), by George Combe (HTML with commentary in the UK)
• The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin (9th edition; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1886), by John Fiske
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Origin (20th edition; Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893), by John Fiske (Gutenberg text)
• Psychology, or, A View of the Human Soul, by Friedrich August Rauch (page images at MOA)
• The Riddle of Humanity: The Spiritual Background of Human History, by Rudolf Steiner, trans. by John F. Logan (HTML at elib.com)
• Antient Metaphysics: or, The Science of Universals (6 volumes; Edinburgh: Printed for J. Balfour and Co.; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1779-1799), by James Burnett Monboddo (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Margot Norris (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Man and Nature: The Chinese Tradition and the Future (Lanham, MD et al: University Press of America; Washington: Council for Values in Research and Philosophy, c1989), ed. by Tang Yi-Jie, Li Zhen, and George Mclean (multiple formats at Google)
• Person and Nature, ed. by George F. McLean and Hugo Meynell (PDF at crvp.org)

• Stolen Future, Broken Present: The Human Significance of Climate Change (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), by David Collings (HTML and PDF at Open Humanities Press)
• A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2002), by William H. Calvin (illustrated HTML at williamcalvin.com)
• Fourth National Climate Assessment (2 volumes, 2017-2018), by U.S. Global Change Research Program (2009- )
  • Volume I (Climate Science Special Report): illustrated HTML at globalchange.gov
  • Volume II (Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States): illustrated HTML and PDF files at globalchange.gov
• The Climate Crisis: South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, c2018), ed. by Vishwas Satgar (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• The Man of the North and the Man of the South: or, The Influence of Climate (New York: F. W. Christern; et al., 1864), by Charles Victor de Bonstetten
  • page images at MOA
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Weaving a Way Home: A Personal Journey Exploring Place and Story (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Leslie Van Gelder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018), by Joanna Zylinska (HTML and video with commentary at umn.edu)
• Principles of Human Geography (New York: H. Holt and Co., c1926), by Paul Vidal de La Blache, ed. by Emmanuel de Martonne, trans. by Millicent Todd Bingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Influences of Geographic Environment on the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography (ca. 1911), by Ellen Churchill Semple (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Theory of Environment in the Novels of Balzac (University of California masters thesis typescript, 1914), by Kathleen Minerva Kerr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twins: Heredity and Environment (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1930), by Nathaniel D. Mttron Hirsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Antiquities of America (New York: J. C. Colt.; et al., 1839), by John Delafield, contrib. by James Lakey and Charles Pettit McIlvaine, illust. by James A. Cleveland
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Antiquities of America (Cincinnati: N. G. Burgess and Co., 1839), by John Delafield, contrib. by James Lakey and Charles Pettit McIlvaine, illust. by James A. Cleveland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Workers' Emotions in Shop and Home: A Study of Individual Workers From the Psychological and Physiological Standpoint (Wharton Industrial Research Department research study #18; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932), by Rexford B. Hersey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Calamity Theory: Three Critiques of Existential Risk (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2021), by Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods
  • HTML with commentary at umn.edu
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE

• Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (c1930), by Olaf Stapledon (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

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