Known to be a masterpiece of freethought literature. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors has been out of print but sought after for many years. A small part of it was reprinted in The Book Your C...więcej »
From the "father of modern witchcraft" comes his best known work, Witchcraft Today. It is the first book to reveal the true origins of witchcraft and how it became what it is today. According to...więcej »
This obscure and ancient religion is receiving more and more attention in modern times due to its claimed influence by scholars upon Christianity. This particular author, however, focuses upon t...więcej »
Compiled by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers, this is a fascinating collection of recollections from primary sources reflecting often overlooked aspects of the Great War. The...więcej »
'Many changes of battery positions were made, and we burrowed down into the ground, as the enemy's heavy pieces were out after our blood.'
The artillery was the war winning element which shaped th...więcej »
"The right flank of the 13th has been badly turned. Most of our officers have been killed. Some companies of the K.O.S.B. are endeavouring to cover our retreat."
Despatch, Battle of Mons
W.H.L. Wa...więcej »
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important sets of historical documents concerning the history of the British Isles. Without these vital accounts we would have virtually no knowledge of...więcej »
This short volume forms part of an occasional series entitled 'Military History From Contemporary Sources'. The idea behind the series is to provide the modern reader with a flavour of how these ac...więcej »
The global conflict of WWII, the bloodiest yet in human history, was as much a clash of cultures as it was a clash of arms. Different world visions collided as fiercely as the great armies which...więcej »
"The end of penance is God, not more penances. Thus the approach to penance has to be by way of love, not by way of steeling the will to toughness. Penance...więcej »
Dom Columba Marmion's classic work Christ the Life of the Soul aims at showing forth "the fundamental character of the Christian life, according to the Gospel, the Epistles of St Paul, and the c...więcej »
"Every vocation, even the simple Christian vocation, comes from God. Our Lord Himself says 'No man can come to Me, except the Father draw him.' But it is God's love for us-and as we are bor...więcej »
"One of the vital concerns for Fr Willie Doyle in his life as a Christian and a priest was holiness, not only seeking it for himself, but encouraging it and supporting it in those he served", wr...więcej »
"If personal holiness is thought of as being a name at the top of a list it is understood wrong. If it is thought of as something which merits a feast in the Church's calendar it is understood w...więcej »
"In a word, the service of God is meant to be beautiful, because a true instinct of man makes him realize, even when he is in a state of retrogression an...więcej »
"Miscellaneous Records of a Female Doctor written by Tan Yunxian and translated by Lorraine Wilcox with Yue Lu, is the earliest known writings by a female doctor in China. It consists of one volume...więcej »
Raising the Dead and Returning Life: Emergency Medicine of the Qing Dynasty is essentially a first aid manual based on the practices of the common people of Southern China during the mid-nineteenth...więcej »
There's a crisis of meaning in the modern world. How many of us yearn for something, without knowing exactly what? We've lost something, straying in a world of distractions. Society's increasing...więcej »
The New Wonder of the World. Buffalo: The Electric City. This public domain work is a republishing of A. E. Richmond's 1892 book explaining the evolution of Buffalo - from the Queen City ...więcej »