Edmund D. Pellegrino has played a central role in shaping the fields of bioethics and the philosophy of medicine. His writings encompass original explorations of the healing relationship, the need ...
In 21 case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twentieth century.
This is the history of the 5th Northern General Hospital and its satellites during the Great War. Mobilised in 1914, this unit of the RAMC took over an old asylum (now Leicester University) but ...
Charles Lindbergh, the most famous person in the world after his 1927 transatlantic flight and a legendary flier to this day, made a lasting impact on Montana. He first came to the Treasure Stat...
“This book should come with a warning label: ‘Be ready, you are going to have to go deeper than you ever imagined.’” Dorothy Allison Author of Bastard Out of Ca...
The Agoge was the name of the school mandated for all Spartan males beginning at the age of seven and ending at age twenty-one. "Agoge" literally means 'guidance' or 'training.' This training re...
Jamil Elabed, the author of this 8thGolden Copy edition of the translation into Arabic of Khalil Gibran’sThe Prophet, spent twenty years and eight ed...
What lies beneath the ground? Our poor eyesight cannot penetrate even an inch into the soil, so for centuries, fortune-seekers have tried every way imaginable to see below the surface. Whether s...
Those Devils in Baggy Pants was originally published in 1951 by Ross S. Carter, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division during WWII. Carter, one of the three surviving m...
Swindon, one of the largest towns in southern England, has a long, diverse and fascinating past, beginning with prehistoric and Roman settlers, and continuing as a medieval market and small town...
Do you know what's the biggest obstacle preventing many from learning German to fluency?
It's a lack of vocabulary!
Reading in German is perhaps the most effect...
Written during the worst years of the Second World War, The Peace is Ernst Jünger's noble attempt to see a way forward for Europe and Western Civilization after decades of civil war and...
'p'From the Preface:'/p''p'"Most Americans who have studied Latin, with our priests and seminarians included, have employed this method, which they thought was 'traditional'. But as somet...
Between 2000 and 2010, many contemporary US-American women writers were returning to the private space of the kitchen, writing about their experiences in that space and then publishing their memoir...
This is a much acclaimed text that is now available in the English language known in Farsi as 'Tarhe Kulliye Andisheye Islami Dar Quran'.This book presents the theological thoughts of a y...
George Catlin wrote this travelogue in old age, intending it to be his final, passionate celebration of Native American culture and living.Above all, the author wanted yo...