The Anatomy of Melancholy is, quite self-consciously, the book to end all books. The immensely widely read Robert Burton compiled it from the books that existed in a 17th-century librar...więcej »
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles: the axioms of geometry. The choice of axioms and their relations to one anoth...więcej »
Oscar Wilde, arguably the wittiest writer in English, was at the height of this powers when he wrote The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde wrote it quickly, but then extens...więcej »
Edward Lear's delightful nonsense verse is as fresh and fun now as it has always been. This brilliant collection from 1900 is illustrated by the peerless L. Leslie Brooke...więcej »
"The Prince" shocked Europe in the sixteenth century-clearly describing and analyzing the tactics used haphazardly by rulers of the day. His advice has been studied and heeded ever since, and is s...więcej »
The Prose Edda is our richest treasure trove of Germanic and Norse mythology--starting with a creation myth, passing through the struggle of the gods, giants, dwarves, ...więcej »
'The Republic', Plato's best-known work, is one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory. 'Apology' is Plato's record of Socrates' final speech. (Also available in...więcej »
"The Seven Ecumenical Councils
Of The Undivided Church:
Their Canons And Dogmatic Decrees
Together With The Canons Of All The Local synods Which Have Received Ecumenical Acceptance.
Edited With Not...więcej »
"The book has a bright and joyous atmosphere and does not dwell upon killing and deeds of violence. Enough stirring adventure enters into it, however, to f...więcej »
Three Translations of the Koran (Al-Qu'ran) side-by-side with each verse not split across pages. This book compiles three English translations of the Koran, by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Picktha...więcej »
Thoreau's "Walden" is an American Classic. E. B. White writes, "Henry went forth to battle when he took to the woods, and Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives-the ...więcej »