Cosimo Classics

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...

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

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

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...

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. 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. 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. ``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...

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

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

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

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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...

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

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. 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...

Meister Eckhart's Sermons, Paperback

Reducere. This edition of The Popol Vuh is the first English translation of the mythic Guatemalan work, which consists of mythical historical narratives 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...

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

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. Abandon the notion of subject-matter as something fixed and ready-made in itself, outside the child's experience; cease thinking of the child's exp...

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

A Dweller on Two Planets was "channeled" to FREDERICK SPENSER OLIVER (1866-1899) at his Northern California home near Mount Shasta over a period of...

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. The Columbian Orator, an instruction book on public speaking and a collection of political dialogues, essays, and speeches, was first published in ...

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...

Based on the Harvard thesis of DuBois-one of the great black intellectuals of American history-and incorporating analyses of national, state, and c...

Reducere. The first play published by an African-American, this comic 1858 melodrama about two slaves who secretly marry explores the racial tensions between...

Reducere. Khrisna of India. Thammuz of Syria. Esus of the Celtic Druids. Mithra of Persia. Quexalcoati of Mexico. All were crucified gods, and all met their ...

Reducere. These are no ordinary reminiscences a Wall Street broker--these are, according to many readers, the personal tales of legendary trader Jesse Liverm...

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...

Reducere. The actual beginnings of astrology are unknown and unknowable. The science emerges already highly refined from the utter obscurity of the pre-histo...

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. Discusses calculating with natural numbers, the first extension of the notion of number, special properties of integers, and complex numbers; algeb...

Reducere. The Reverend Clarence Larkin was one of the most widely influential pop theologians of the early twentieth century: his works are the source of man...

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...

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. "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 ...

Reducere. Part philosophical ponderings on humanity's relationship to the universe, part scientific extrapolation on what technological advancement might bri...

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

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...

Reducere. "In the preparation of this book I have neither spared time or money, since I became satisfied that John Wilkes Booth was not killed, as has been s...

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

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

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...

Reducere. "During the past three centuries the spread of the English-speaking peoples over the world's waste spaces has been not only the most striking featu...

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

Reducere. "During the past three centuries the spread of the English-speaking peoples over the world's waste spaces has been not only the most striking featu...

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...

Reducere. From its early stories of gods, monsters, and mischievous mythical creatures to its more grounded recountings of historical events, this classic co...

Reducere. From its early stories of gods, monsters, and mischievous mythical creatures to its more grounded recountings of historical events, this classic co...

Reducere. "During the past three centuries the spread of the English-speaking peoples over the world's waste spaces has been not only the most striking featu...

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 ...