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The Great Illusion

Norman Angell

• Hardcover | Engels
• First published in 1909, The Great Illusion sets out to answer one of the greatest questions in human history: Why is there war? Specifically, Angell ... Lees meer

Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry

Felix Klein

• Paperback | Engels
• "This short book, first published in 1897, addresses three geometry puzzles that have been passed down from ancient times. Written for high school stu... Lees meer

The Storm of Steel

Ernst Jünger

• Hardcover | Engels
• "Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all... Of all the war's exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two storm tr... Lees meer

The Early Development of Mohammedanism

David S Margoliouth

• Paperback | Engels
• Adapted from a series of lectures delivered at the University of London in 1913, this is a strikingly clearheaded and articulate discussion of one of ... Lees meer

Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

Galileo Galilei

• Paperback | Engels
• This title includes an introduction by Antonio Favaro. Italian astronomer and philosopher GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642) is unquestionably one of the mos... Lees meer

Summa Theologica, Volume 5 (Part III, Second Section & Supplement)

St Thomas Aquinas

• Hardcover | Engels
• "The Summa Theologica is the best-known work of Italian philosopher, scholar, and Dominican friar SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (1225¿1274), widely considered ... Lees meer

Laws

Plato

• Paperback | Engels
• A sharp contrast to the Utopian nature of The Republic, Laws sets out in practical form the structure of actual society, and how, realistically, human... Lees meer

The Complete Poems of John Milton

John Milton

• Hardcover | Engels
• Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from... Lees meer

The Koran

• Paperback | Engels
• "The Koran" is the holy book of Islam, considered by Muslims to be the divine word of God and a spiritual guide for living. It is said that God reveal... Lees meer

The Warden

Anthony Trollope

• Paperback | Engels
• One of the most enduringly popular novelists of the Victorian era, English writer ANTHONY TROLLOPE (1815-1882) created entertainingly rambling fiction... Lees meer

The Complete Works of Charles Dickens (in 30 Volumes, Illustrated)

Charles Dickens

• Paperback | Engels
• It is impossible to overstate the importance of British novelist CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) not only to literature in the English language, but to We... Lees meer

Oddities

Rupert T Gould

• Paperback | Engels
• Published in 1928 by Rupert Gould, the first of two books featuring strange facts about natural history, animals, and lore, Oddities: A Book of Unexpl... Lees meer

The Rise of the Dutch Republic - Volume 1

John Lothrop Motley

• Paperback | Engels
• To the Dutch Republic, even more than to Florence at an earlier day, is the world indebted for practical instruction in that great science of politica... Lees meer

The American Commonwealth - Volume 1

Viscount James Bryce

• Paperback | Engels
• First published in 1888, The American Commonwealth was an instant classic, a three-volume set discussing the political structure of American society, ... Lees meer

Essays

David Hume

• Paperback | Engels
• As part of the tried and true model of informal essay writing, Hume began publishing his Essays: Moral, Political and Literary in 1741. The majority o... Lees meer

The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

• Hardcover | Engels
• Most famously known for writing the Declaration of Independence at age 33, Thomas Jefferson was one of the most influential politicians in American hi... Lees meer

A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLI (Forty-Five Volumes); Songs, Hymns, Lyrics

Charles Dudley Warner

• Paperback | Engels
• Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which e... Lees meer

The Idea of Progress

J B Bury

• Paperback | Engels
• The truth is that Nature has in her hands a certain paste which is always the same, which she is ever turning over and over again in a thousand ways, ... Lees meer

Proposed Roads to Freedom

Bertrand Russell

• Paperback | Engels
• Completed in April 1918, "in the last days before a period of imprisonment," 'The Proposed Roads to Freedom' contains Bertrand Russell's astute politi... Lees meer

Woman and the New Race

Margaret Sanger

• Paperback | Engels
• Are overburdened mothers justified in their appeals for contraceptives or abortions?... Will anyone... dare to say to these women that they should go ... Lees meer

The Works of John Locke, in Ten Volumes - Vol. X

John Locke

• Paperback | Engels
• From the American and French revolutions to modern theories of consciousness to contemporary entertainment (the hit TV series Lost features a characte... Lees meer

Capital

Karl Marx

• Paperback | Engels
• First published in 1867, Capital, or Das Kapital, is the infamous treatise on economics and capitalism by Prussian revolutionary KARL MARX (1818-1883)... Lees meer

Perpetual Peace

Immanuel Kant

• Paperback | Engels
• Between states... no punitive war is thinkable because between them a relation of superior and inferior does not exist. Whence it follows that a war o... Lees meer

Tarzan the Untamed

Edgar Rice Burroughs

• Hardcover | Engels
• Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influen... Lees meer