Je forme une entreprise qui n'eut jamais d'exemple, et dont l'execution n'aura point d'imitateur. Je veux montrer a mes semblables un homme dans toute la verite de la nature; et ce
From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China.In the summer of
Curious Facts in the History of Insects by Frank Cowan is a fascinating compendium of entomological lore, collecting unusual observations about insects, spiders, and scorpions thro
Dante and the Early Astronomers by M.A. Orr explores the astronomical knowledge embedded in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, revealing the medieval poet's sophisticated understandi
Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching), attributed to the sage Laozi (6th century BCE), is the foundational text of Daoism and one of the most translated works in world literature. Its 81 shor
As a person with so few living relatives, Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse really hated to lose one. But she never guessed that it would be her cousin Hadley—a consort
A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist.
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat
Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway is a comprehensive comparative study of beliefs about demons and evil spirits across world cultures and religious traditions.
Domesday Book and Beyond is F.W. Maitland's seminal work of English legal history, examining the Domesday Book and the evolution of English land law and society in the early mediev
Einstein's Theories of Relativity and Gravitation by J. Malcolm Bird is an early popular exposition of Einstein's revolutionary theories, written for the general reader in the wake
A historical study of the relationship between England and the Orleans branch of the French royal family during the 17th and 18th centuries. Hall examines the complex diplomatic an
Active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Errico Malatesta was a leader in the Italian anarchist movement. A prolific theoretician and propagandist, Malatesta outlined his
Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally r
William H. C. Folsom's account of fifty years in the Northwest, covering pioneer life, settlement, and development of the American Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region during the 1
A collection of folk tales, proverbs, and cultural traditions from the Gujarat region of western India. Jackson documents the oral traditions of Gujarat during the British colonial
The first volume of Abraham Fornander's monumental collection of Hawaiian oral traditions, folklore, and antiquities. Fornander, a Swedish ethnologist who settled in Hawaii, preser
A concise history of Frederick the Great's reign and Prussia's emergence as a major European power. Fiddian Reddaway traces the military campaigns, administrative reforms, and dipl
G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831), the influential German philosopher, believed that human history was advancing spiritually and morally according to God's purpose.
An illustrated historical guide to Paris, covering the city's architecture, monuments, and urban development from Roman times through the late 19th century. Wolff provides detailed
Albert C. Whitaker's critical examination of the labor theory of value in economic thought. Whitaker traces the development and critiques of this foundational concept in classical