Johannes Kepler: Life and Letters was written as a biography of Johannes Kepler using his own letters. The letters extend over a period of time from 1596 to 1631 bringing to the reader Keplers’ per...więcej »
Winner of the 1949 Language Association Oxford Award, Literature through Art, first published in 1952, sketches the history of French literature in terms of its relations to the fine arts, u...więcej »
The many ramifications of Bach's comprehensive essay have been neatly explained and annotated in a manner that makes the Essay a valuable reference work and an interesting venture in musical...więcej »
The Anabaptist Vision, given as a presidential address before the American Society of Church History in 1943, has become a classic essay. In it, Harold S. Bender defines the spirit and purposes of ...więcej »
It may be an overstatement to say that this book changed the face of American agriculture, but it comes very close to the truth. In the third of a century since its original publication the disk ha...więcej »
Alexandra David-Neel was among the first Westerners to extensively explore Tibet. In these memoirs she tells of her encounters there; the people and their culture, and fervently Buddhist...więcej »
In this insightful study, Frank Boas connects aspects of human history with their manifestation in the modern world, describing such topics as race relations, nationalism and education.<...więcej »
Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer whose team were the first to reach the South Pole – this is his astonishing story, in his own words.Amundsen begins by expla...więcej »
The Book of the Cave of Treasures is a translation of a history in the Syriac language, stretching from the dawn of the Creation to the birth and crucifixion of Jesus Christ.więcej »
The Kabbalah’s history and esoteric qualities are demystified and explained by Adolph Franck, a philosopher and scholar of ancient Jewish texts.With origins dating ...więcej »
Unabridged reproduction of the 1926 The Cocktail Book, by The St. Botolph SocietyThis book, also known as A Sideboard Manual for Gentlemen, was published in Lond...więcej »
The Kebra Nagast is an ancient text, detailing the relationship between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba; this work examines these legends, and how they correspond with Ethio...więcej »