TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword to the Second Edition. I. THE MAN AND HIS WRITINGS: How Augustine Came to the Episcopacy (Sermon 355, 2); Augustine ...

Here, in a single volume, is a selection of the classic critiques of the new Constitution penned by such ardent defenders of states' rights and per...

Finocchiaro's new and revised translations have done what the Inquisition could not: they have captured an exceptional range of Galileo's career wh...

Finocchiaro's new and revised translations have done what the Inquisition could not: they have captured an exceptional range of Galileo's career wh...

Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey , made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.

Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey , made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.

While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad , this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological conten...

Through substantial selections from Jefferson's writings--including his earliest writings, Notes on Virginia , and key public papers and personal c...

Through substantial selections from Jefferson's writings--including his earliest writings, Notes on Virginia , and key public papers and personal c...

This edition of Leviathan is intended to provide the reader with a modestly abridged text that is straightforward and accessible, while preserving ...

This edition of Leviathan is intended to provide the reader with a modestly abridged text that is straightforward and accessible, while preserving ...

The Essential Mengzi offers a representative selection from Bryan Van Norden's acclaimed translation of the full work, including the most frequentl...

The Essential Mengzi offers a representative selection from Bryan Van Norden's acclaimed translation of the full work, including the most frequentl...

Designed to facilitate a thoughtful and informed reading of Spinoza's Ethics , this anthology provides the Ethics , related writings, and two valua...

Designed to facilitate a thoughtful and informed reading of Spinoza's Ethics , this anthology provides the Ethics , related writings, and two valua...

This edition includes, in addition to the most pertinent sections of The Fable's two volumes, a selection from Mandeville's An Enquiry into the Ori...

No competing edition of The Federalist offers nearly as much help in grasping Publius' arguments in defense of the new but unratified United States...

Gomez-Lobo argues that behind the facade of Socratic irony lies a strictly deductive system of ethics suspended from two axioms--one governing prac...