The American Crisis was a series of pamphlets published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution by eighteenth century Enlightenment philosopher and author ...
Continue Reading → Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not ...
Continue Reading →De Monarchia is a Latin treatise on secular and religious power by Dante Alighieri, who wrote it between 1312 and 1313. With this text, the ...
Continue Reading → Laugier is best known for his Essay on Architecture published in 1753. In 1755 he published the second edition with a famous, often reproduced ...
Continue Reading → Few subjects in medicine are so intimately connected with the history and philosophy of the human mind as insanity. Derangement of the understanding is ...
Continue Reading → In 1876, Louis Pasteur published his ground-breaking volume, Etudes sur la Biere, soon translated into English as Studies On Fermentation. The book changed the ...
Continue Reading →Mary Wollstonecraft’s visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women’s rights as an issue of universal human rights. Ideal for ...
Continue Reading → English writer, philosopher and pioneering advocate of women’s rights, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution and ...
Continue Reading → This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask’s Anvising till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket (1818). ...
Continue Reading →This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask’s Anvising till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket (1818). This ...
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