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...
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known as the "father of psychoanalysis" and his ideas, however controversial, were fundamental in shaping how the human mind has been studied. The Interpretation of Dr...
The traditional Catholics' Bible.The Douay-Rheims Bible, predating the King James Bible, is traditional English-speaking Catholics' Bible of choice. This edit...
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 ...
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...
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...
"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...
'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...
Paley's work, and "Natural Theology: or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity" in particular, is admired for its rigorous and logical treatment of evidence. He examines the natu...
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, ...
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...
"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...