Cosimo Classics

Reducere. In Mazzaroth; or The constellations, originally published in 1862, 19th-century English linguist and scholar FRANCES ROLLESTON (1781-1864) presents...

Reducere. French political libertarian and economist CLAUDE FR D RIC BASTIAT (1801-1850) was one of the most eloquent champions of the concept that property ...

Reducere. American advertising pioneer CLAUDE C. HOPKINS (1866-1932) is still renowned today for developing such marketing innovations as coded coupons that ...

Austrian philosopher LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN (1889-1951) was hugely influential on 20th-century philosophy, and here, he constructs a series of careful...

Reducere. At the time when southern Italy was an isolated and underdeveloped region, Douglas wrote this 1915 travel guide to bring the beauty that he found i...

Reducere. DescriptionIt was perhaps the first book to achieve best-seller status before the invention of the printing press-it was certainly the most controv...

Reducere. Individuality in house-furnishing has seldom been more harped upon than at the present time. The cheap originality which finds expression in puttin...

Reducere. "Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes, And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills, Brings for...

Destruction and violence How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that it's power of destruction is t...

Reducere. In its time, it was considered the most significant work of American natural history. Coleridge, Emerson, and Wordsworth were fans, and drew from i...

Erasmus wrote In Praise of Folly, his masterpiece of ironic literature, in less than a week while en route to England from Italy to visit his good ...

Reducere. One of the cornerstones of New Thought, the precursor to New Age thinking, is the marriage of mind and spirit, of science and religion. Another fou...

Reducere. It is perhaps one of the best known and most influential novels in all of literature: 1897's Dracula didn't merely inspire countless adaptations fo...

Reducere. In this 1710 treatise, Gottfried Liebniz's only book-length work, he applies the idea of philosophical "optimism"-that we live in the best of all p...

Reducere. Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, originally titled Geographia and written in the second century, is a depiction of the geography of the Roman Empire ...

Reducere. He journeyed farther than his near contemporary Marco Polo, though Muslim scholar Ibn Battuta (1304-c. 1377) is barely remembered at all compared t...

Reducere. DescriptionIn a personal, no-nonsense style, Keyhoe in "The Flying Saucers Are Real" provides the details of his investigation: he talks with the w...

Reducere. Also known as "The Witch Hammer, " The Malleus Maleficarum was a handbook for hunting and punishing witches-written by Inquisitors HEINRICH KRAMER ...

Reducere. "The Christian concept of a god-the god as the patron of the sick, the god as a spinner of cobwebs, the god as a spirit-is one of the most corrupt ...

Meister Eckhart's Sermons, Paperback

Reducere. The Story of My Life may be the most extraordinary autobiography ever written. Its author was only 22 when it was published, in 1903, but her life ...

Description"There is something in the man who succeeds, which enables him to use his faculties successfully, and this something must be cultivated ...

Reducere. Everyone has the right to be rich The author of this rediscovered classic asserts that life's direction is a self-fulfilling prophecy, and his advi...

Reducere. Where is God today? How can he allow evil and suffering in the world? Have miracles ceased? Sir Robert Anderson, one of the most popular lay preach...

Reducere. Gray's Anatomy, published in the UK in 1858 under the original title Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical, is a detailed English textbook on human ana...

Egyptologist Gerald Massey challenged readers in A Book of the Beginnings to consider the argument that Egypt was the birthplace of civilization an...

Reducere. Completed just days before his death and hailed by Mark Twain as "the most remarkable work of its kind since the Commentaries of Julius Caesar, " t...

DescriptionIn its time, it was considered the most significant work of American natural history. Coleridge, Emerson, and Wordsworth were fans, and ...

DescriptionOriginally published in 1899, The Philadelphia Negro is a sociological study of the blacks living in Philadelphia in 1896-7. DuBois was ...

Reducere. When two "grave and serious" spirits began speaking to a French academic through two young mediums and "completely revolutionized his] ideas and co...

Reducere. An invaluable relic of early-19th-century Americana, this collection of spells, incantations, and remedies is an example of that fascinating blend ...

Reducere. Originally a pamphlet published in 1853, The Two Babylons is Hislop's most famous work. In this book he argues that the Roman Catholic Church is no...

Reducere. THE TWO BABYLONS is the great work that shows and explains the un-Biblical theological errors in Catholicism. It has been a classic among evangelic...

Reducere. DescriptionEnglish scientist, naturalist, and geologist CHARLES DARWIN (1809-1882) transformed our understanding of the planet and our place on it ...

Reducere. Description"...The entire East Side of New York City is in a state of uproar. Mobs of vast size are organizing under the lead of anarchists and soc...

Reducere. "With the clarity and brilliance of genius, this work outlines the new world outlook, consistent materialism, which also embraces the real of socia...

Even the gods of old, in the wildest imaginings of their worshipers, never undertook such gigantic tasks of world-wide dimension as those which Tes...

Reducere. He was an American Founding Father and the new nation's first president, but before that, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1732-1799) was an excruciatingly corre...

Reducere. As part of the Christian Science and New Thought movements, Holmes believed in the transformative power of positive thinking and the innate ability...

DescriptionNo one can be a great thinker who does not recognise, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclus...

Reducere. The Souls of Black Folk, originally published in 1903, contains a number of groundbreaking essays on race and race relations by scholar and activis...

Reducere. DescriptionThorstein Veblen was once described by Fortune magazine as "America's most brilliant and influential critic of modern business and the v...

The Christian concept of a god-the god as the patron of the sick, the god as a spinner of cobwebs, the god as a spirit-is one of the most corrupt c...

The impact of the work of German mathematician GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ (1646-1716) on modern science and technology is all but incalculable, but ...

Reducere. "Is geography one, or is it several subjects? More precisely, are physical and political geography two stages of one investigation, or are they sep...

Reducere. "The ideas which go to form a nation, as opposed to a mere crowd of human animals have usually been accepted under the pressure of a common tribula...

Reducere. "In hunting, the finding and killing of the game is after all but a part of the whole. Thefree, self-reliant, adventurous life, with its rugged and...

Reducere. There is no death in the Osirian religion, only decay and change, and periodic renewal; only evolution and transformation in the domain of matter a...

Reducere. ``Now, `` said he, ``if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a s...

DescriptionA Grammar of the Arabic Language is a detailed Arabic grammar tutorial, originally written in German by Carl Caspari and translated by B...

Reducere. The early Christian Fathers such as Jude respected The Book of Enoch, as did the Essenes of Qumran. However, by the fourth century AD the text was ...

Reducere. But in the latter days of Methuselah, the sons of men turned from the Lord, they corrupted the earth, they robbed and plundered each other, and the...

Reducere. In 1865, English author CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastical adventure story for the young daughters of a f...

Reducere. "The Sages of Old Live Again in Us." With the aim of making the philosophy of Marcus Aurelius approachable for a contemporary reader, author M ric ...

Reducere. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki's "The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk" invites you to step inside the mysterious world of the Zendo, where monks live the...

Reducere. Gray's Anatomy, published in the UK in 1858 under the original title Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical, is a detailed English textbook on human ana...

Reducere. A]s long as the past is principally used as a model for imitation, it is always in danger of being a little altered and touched up and brought near...

Reducere. Yoshida Kenko (c. 1283-1352) was a Buddhist priest, a reclusive scholar and poet who had ties to the aristocracy of medieval Japan. Despite his lin...

Literally a blueprint on living, this little gem serves as a course of action for approaching life in a meaningful manner. His practical philosophy...

Reducere. As Tarzan walked down the wild canon beneath the brilliant African moon the call of the jungle was strong upon him. The solitude and the savage fre...

Reducere. " 'There are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them...' (I accept this ...

Reducere. Followers of the New Thought movement of the early 20th century vehemently believed in the concept of mind over matter, and one of the most influen...

Reducere. First published in 1920, The Mysterious Affair at Styles was Agatha Christie's first novel. It introduced the world to Hercule Poirot, Christie's B...

Reducere. The Secrets of the Self is a book-length, philosophical poem rooted in metaphysical thought and ideology, as well as Islamic theology. Originally p...

Reducere. Printer, author, philanthropist, abolitionist, scientist, librarian, diplomat, inventor, philosopher, self-aggrandizer, and social wag, Benjamin Fr...

Reducere. Printer, author, philanthropist, abolitionist, scientist, librarian, diplomat, inventor, philosopher, self-aggrandizer, and social wag, Benjamin Fr...

Reducere. As modern-day muckraker Danny Schechter writes in his new introduction, exclusive to this Cosimo Classics edition: "In this era of financial crisis...

Reducere. Gretel looked at her mother] in troubled silence, wondering whether it were very wicked to care more for one parent than for the other-and sure, ye...

Originally published in 1647, Christian Astrology is a guide to horary astrology, in which astrological charts are created to answer specific quest...

Reducere. "I arrived at the conclusion in the latter part of 1848, that cholera is communicated by the evacuations from the alimentary canal."--John Snow, On...