Speech is a great asset to those who can use it well. One can please or hurt another person with language. A word can heal a broken house, or it ca...

This book chronicles a Lebanese immigrant experience -- based on a cache of more than 200 letters discovered after the death of the author's mother...

Rosamond Kent Sprague's translations of the Laches and Charmides are highly regarded, and relied on, for their lucidity and philosophical acuity. T...

This is the first literary book to emerge from bike-punk subculture. Author Ethan Clark -- who has passed the time riding bikes, drinking too much,...

You will follow Jack Clifford from humble beginnings in Michigan on a nation-wide odyssey. Cook with Emeril, go out to dinner with Robin Leach, wal...

This book is divided into "an examination of the several ways of communicating our thoughts by speech" and "an attention to the principles of those...

"Oh Christ, a bloody-witted student, for purposes of an essay, has just come in to ask me what I and Baxter write verse for, and if we mean what we...

Burckhardt was the most renowned of the historians of the nineteenth century to predict, with astonishing accuracy, the totalitarian direction that...

Burckhardt was the most renowned of the historians of the nineteenth century to predict, with astonishing accuracy, the totalitarian direction that...

"Ma'am, you sound like a very reasonable person. Can I advise you to just move?" Carissa Halton and her young family move into a neighbourhood with...

The time for autobiographies has arrived. Interest in authentic life stories seems greater than ever, even greater than well written works of ficti...

You never know what you will encounter in a lost-and-found box -- random items, lost histories, and left-behind fragments of very different lives. ...

This English translation of Aristophanes' most popular comedy will appeal to the modern reader because of its lively and imaginative plot, memorabl...

It is impossible to fully understand the American experience apart from Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Moreover, it is impossible fu...

It is impossible to fully understand the American experience apart from Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Moreover, it is impossible fu...

A reprint of the 1972 Doubleday edition. Contains the most helpful version of Hobbes's political and moral philosophy available in English. Include...

This volume contains the four essays that Spencer published as The Man Versus the State in 1884 as well as five essays added by later publishers. I...

To live in Central Otago is to come to terms with the dominance of nature. Writer Jillian Sullivan set out to walk the hills and mountains of the I...

This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Medea based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and her revenge against her husband Jason. Focus ...

Christine Lavant (1915-1973), one of Austria's most famous yet obscure 20th century poets, wrote these memoirs during a voluntary six-week stay in ...

About G.M.A Grube's translations of Plato: "Unmistakably superior: more lucid, more accurate, more readable. Above all, they're lucidly adorned, un...

Third in the series of texts of the The Carlsberg Papyri. It contains a series of contributions on a variety of Demotic subjects including a new ve...

This first book from Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach is an intimate, personal collection of essays, remembrances, and columns that follow in ...

A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the...