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...
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 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 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...